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One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One

...geography of sugar. To explain the puzzle, I will describe the Café advert in some detail. You can watch the advert yourself online: it is available on YouTube (and other websites). Alternatively, details of the campaign can be found here (and all the films). The Sky Mobile Café advert begins cryptically. The film camera angle is low, at table height. The surroundings...
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Article 5 mins
Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...Geography Department who looked at the West of Ireland in the early 1980s for an Open University course ‘Changing Britain, Changing world: geographical perspectives’. The course was studied by Open University students between 1985 and 1995. The collection of articles uses the course materials to give an overview of issues past and present in the West of Ireland and...
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Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...geography of the area has changed, and consider how the re-telling of stories leads to the writing of history...Changing places and re-telling stories: Battle of Thermopylae In this introductory activity, we suggest you take a look at the Hestia project map to try to understand more about how we can interpret the importance of the geography and topography at Thermopylae,...
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TESSA: Active Learning
Education & Development

TESSA: Active Learning

...The Maths Game Titus, the teacher, is multiplication tables. Some children are not paying attention and fail his test. Later he sees them playing a game using multiplication and asks them to teach it to the other children. TESSA - Seven Rivers in Africa Kevwe finds geography difficult but is taught a simple song to help her remember the names of seven rivers in Africa....
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A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...geography of the chough. It seems that the chough has always been a bird of the coasts but it is clear from 19th century records that it is far less widespread now than it was and its population fell dramatically during the second half of the 19th century. As Richard Rolfe wrote in 1966: ‘Examination of old records reveals many cases of trigger-happy gunmen securing...
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Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...Geography Discipline, argues that although methodological choices are often seen as technical decisions, they can actually be key to intellectual creativity...[Hi-viz cyclists in London] Cyclists in London From an uncritical understanding of methodology, methods are the postscript to the real topic. They exist to produce data for testing theories, and their use is...
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Co-creating and mushing up identity with visitors to the New Union Flag project
Society, Politics & Law

Co-creating and mushing up identity with visitors to the New Union Flag project

...geography, history, design and art. Giota Alevizou asked students to reflect on questions of cultural heritage, identity and belonging as well as intangible ‘assets’ which reflect their living communities, such as solidarity, kindness and respect. [Children interacting with New Union Flag project] All together they then looked at the ways in which these questions and...
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From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...geography of the UK, focusing on its uneven development in a country increasingly dominated by London and the South East of England. It then considers how the divisions within the UK (within England as well as between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) were reflected in the voting patterns of the 2016 referendum. Finally, the course reflects on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs