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Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital

...family and friends when called in to visit someone they know. It can be a time of heightened emotions and confusion. ...This content is associated with The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. In this interactive, you will explore two people’s experiences of visiting a hospital in these circumstances. You will find out how the hospital...
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Activity 15 mins
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...family is staying for safety during the Blitz. Here she finds a mysterious letter waiting on the hall table for her, despite the fact that the property has been sealed up. Few details are provided but it’s clear that the letter links her back to her youth and to promises she made to a former lover, a soldier in the Great War who was reported missing and presumed dead....
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Article 45 mins
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...family members within the home and worked as nurses, healers and midwives within the community. In the eighteenth century, a few women worked as ‘doctresses’ and ‘surgeonesses’, having received some form of training similar to male practitioners. However, when formal medical training began to be developed in hospitals and medical schools in the early nineteenth...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...families. Unlike primary schools, attendance in an early years setting is not compulsory and is a parental choice. Throughout the UK there are over 20,000 primary schools (Statista, no date). Every primary school is different depending on where it is located and who attends. The smallest primary schools may have fewer than 10 pupils, and the largest providing education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...family, and the connections and allegiances I have with close friends. I’ll even use it in relation to our cheeky dog Daisy, the music of Tom Waits, Sunday morning lie ins and many other things. Clearly, whatever love is, it spans a great deal of emotional and experiential territory. Needless to say, I’m not the first to notice this. For instance, in the 1970s, the...
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Article 5 mins
The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...family, his rustic summer holidays in Norway, and his chocolate testing, reveal how happy a child Dahl was – though he grew up without a father, who died when he was only four. Dark chapter But from Patricia Neal, the American actress who was married to Dahl for 30 years, quite a different picture of the man is portrayed. In her autobiography As I Am, written four years...
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Article 10 mins
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...families who would have been £1,300 a year worse off next April. Yet, while the announcement is to be welcomed, the longer term outlook for low income families is worrying. The reversal does not extend to the new system of Universal Credit (UC), which by 2018 will have replaced tax credits for most. And cuts to UC have not attracted the same level of opposition. As...
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Article 5 mins
Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...families made homeless when the slum was destroyed. It reveals how they circled around the Boundary, but ultimately stayed in the miserable streets outside it. Not a single former slum dweller moved into Arnold Circus. The first council estate was built to improve the lives of the most miserable in the Victorian city. The poorest didn't benefit at all. The clip is...
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Activity 15 mins