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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...educated and skilled, were motivated in their migration to the UK by factors such as joining an existing ethnic community or family members, the relative ease of self employment in the UK, as well as what they perceived to be a more multiculturalist society where ethnic differences were more welcomed than they felt in their European home countries. However, as we spoke...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...Education and Science. London, HMSO. Chester N. (1983) Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Structure and Finance. Lytham St. Anne’s, Football League. Companies House (n.d.) www.companieshouse.gov.uk. Franck, E. (2013) ‘Financial Fair Play in European club Football – What is it all about?’ No. 328, UZH Business Paper Working Series, University of Zurich. Hoehn,...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...openings to the sky, that let in the colored evening light. You could not get lost in it, for it was so free of all such architectural undergrowth as cumbers the perspectives of some cathedrals; besides, the afternoon of our visit there were so many other Americans that you could easily have asked your way in your own dialect. We loitered over its lengths and breadths,...
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Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...Open University course A275 Reading Classical Greek: language and literature...Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why Greek and Latin are referred to as classical languages understand some of the distinctive features of Greek and Latin and some features they share in common with other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...Open the image bank. You will find that there are 38 images divided into three sub-sections, corresponding to the major sections of this course. The contents of each sub-section is given here. You can use the search tab in the image bank to find the sub-sections. Clicking on a thumbnail gives you a larger image; to get back to the search results, use your web browser's...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...educational work of small Marxist revolutionary parties such as the British Socialist Party (BSP) and the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) (Duncan LR, D.ii see section 6). The 40 hours strike, the context for ‘Bloody Friday’ (the riot in George Square, Glasgow, January 31, 1919), was in many ways the culmination of this process of socialist radicalisation and...
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Article 20 mins
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...Open University Figure 2 The Sahara desert near Erfoud, Morocco [Figure 3] Science Photo Library Figure 3 A dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) [Figure 4] David Robinson, The Open University Figure 4 Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) [Figure 5] David Robinson, The Open University Figure 5 Oryx In fact the picture is much more complex; the environment of each desert is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...opened up with Surprise Surprise (a mawkish vehicle specialising in family reunions which Victoria Wood memorably skewered in her satirical drama Pat and Margaret) and Blind Date, the win-a-person dating gameshow which could justifiably be called the defining ITV programme of its decade. Unsurprisingly it was not short of critics. In a memorably affronted appearance on...
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