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Blaenau Gwent REACH
History & The Arts

Blaenau Gwent REACH

...history of their local area. This exhibition is a celebration of Blaenau Gwent’s heritage expressed through the talents of the people who live there. Hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg | Also available in Welsh In this short film, members of Aberbeeg Community Group and residents of Llys Glyncoed in Ebbw Vale share their experiences of taking part in the BG REACH project, and...
Hospital: Dementia patients
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: Dementia patients

...families. The Hospital team follow staff at St Marys as they respond health care needs - which might not be best suited to time spent at A&E...Carl & Patricia 75-year-old Carl's dementia has dramatically worsened and his family take him to A&E after he becomes aggressive at home. Patricia, his wife of 25 years, looks after him without the help of carers, but is reaching...
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...history the two wars will count as one war, and that we shall be squashed out of it altogether, and people will forget we ever existed. (Mitford, 1949 [1945], pp. 186–7) So said Linda, chief protagonist in Nancy Mitford’s bestselling and semi-autobiographical novel The Pursuit of Love, published at the end of the Second World War in 1945. It is likely that Linda’s...
Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...families within and across national and international contexts, are not a homogenous group in terms of demographics, motivations and practices. Rather, home education encompasses a broad spectrum of educational philosophies, methods, curricula, styles and approaches (Fensham-Smith, 2020). For these reasons, it is not possible to determine whether home-schooling is either...
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...History courses and qualifications and Early Years courses and qualifications. [Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between). Even in a...
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...history in the arts and humanities: Introduction - You’ll now focus on the discipline of art history. I will use contemporary visual art and culture to introduce you to skills and strategies that can help you gain a better understanding of the approach to learning in HE art history studies. As with poetry, I will start with initial reactions and move on to a more...
Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?

...families. Ultimately, is this not what all humans want: safety and security in which to raise a family and prosper? The rise of radicalism Europe has lived through the devastating consequences of a rise in political radicalism. Underemployment, poverty and a general sense of hopelessness drove many to support radical and extremist parties that saw the rise of fascist...
A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...history and culture make this an attractive destination, which depends on visitors who are increasingly attracted through marketing on Facebook, Twitter and Tripadvisor. In 1983 the dilemma of undertaking development in order to retain population in the area, was recognised as risking eroding the local culture and language. In 'The dilemma of tourism and the Irish...