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Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...course of generations, there was the creativity with which, gradually, the black communities of the Americas developed new identities, drawing on a combination of African tradition, encounters with European culture, and experiences in the New World. This would prove to be a great enrichment of cultural life and would contribute to the global culture of modern times. The...
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A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...course of nature can expect to see ALL the pantomimes in one season, but I hope to the end of my life I shall never forego reading about them in that delicious sheet of The Times which appears on the morning after Boxing-day. Perhaps reading is even better than seeing. The best way, I think, is to say you are ill, lie in bed, and have the paper for two hours, reading all...
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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...courses. Episode 1: The role of the Arts in a post-conflict society Episode 1 host and guests [Photograph of our host, Jordan Keeny.] Host: Jordan Kenny, BBC Radio 1 Jordan Kenny’s a TV and radio presenter/reporter, normally heard on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. Originally from Dromore in County Down, he worked for BBC Northern Ireland for four years before...
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...course, article pages). We have conducted a manual survey of the site for video transcripts and set up a system report for alternative text for images. We have also conducted an automated preliminary sample audit of 23 popular and important pages of the site. The latest testing of this website involved using the Accessibility Compliance Toolkit (ACT) which is an internal...
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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...course took an interdisciplinary approach to integrate multiple disciplines and expose students to the Project Based Learning (PBL) approach with hands-on, project-based learning sessions conducted at FabLab Nepal. The goal was to expose children that had only experienced a traditional, theoretical and text-based way of learning to playfulness and experiential learning,...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...course the very concept of ‘public health’ has multiple meanings. A relatively uncontroversial starting definition is that public health is: …the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society This definition contains the idea of collective efforts furthering the health of a population and that...
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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...course, be about enjoyment and celebration and it affords many opportunities for the playful use of language whether in conversation, in a song or chant, or on a banner. It has the potential to create and foster bonds between people and within communities – or to claim particular identities, as in this example: [Liverpool banner reading 'We are not English, we are...
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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift, significant changes to our...
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