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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...Writing at the OU, and Chair of Y031, the Arts and Languages Access module. I’m researching the work of suffragette medics at the moment, so it’s a real pleasure to be able to focus my thoughts on a suffrage banner today as I talk about popular protest in history. When I hear the word ‘suffragette’, or come across it in print somewhere, I see visual images. The...
Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...writing of Frankenstein in the town. Plaques are frequently placed in locations where the notable person spent but the briefest of times. The Shelleys stayed only two months at the Nelson Square address and just a few weeks at Marchmont Street. If these fleeting residences can be memorialised, perhaps we could go one further and memorialise the street corner from which...
Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...writings of Herodotus. These authors and their surviving texts provide invaluable evidence concerning the culture of ancient Greece. I want to look at a topic which is of great interest to students and scholars of the classical world – namely Greek women – and to consider some of difficulties involved in reading what are essentially literary texts for historical...
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...writing, based on subject matter and linguistic register. In the ‘Introduction’ to Windrush Songs, the poet James Berry, born in Jamaica in 1924, describes the situation facing the people of the Caribbean in the late 1940s: None of us wanted to grow up poverty stricken. We didn’t want to grow up without knowledge of the world. We certainly didn’t want to grow up...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...writing in Welsh...This free course, Croeso: Beginners' Welsh, is taken from Croeso, a beginners' language module that concentrates on Welsh as a tool for communication, but it also provides some insights into Welsh societies and cultures through printed and audio materials. It will be of interest to all those who want to improve their language skills in order to...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...write up your research report. Figure 1 Stages of the research project...Understanding different research perspectives: 3 Deciding what to research - Selecting an appropriate research topic is the first step towards a satisfactory project. For some people, choosing the topic is easy because they have a very specific interest in an area. For example, you might be...
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...write r-e-n, ren and you will see the different rens that come depending on what word you want. But we want person, so we click on number 1, or you just type number 1 in your computer, and that will turn into rén. If you want to type number 1 is yī, you just type y-i, and the different characters will come up. And you note this is number 1, so you click on that, and...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Write down the important information you need to know to work out the number of rolls of wallpaper required. Remember, you can click on ‘reveal comment’ for additional help. Comment Try drawing a sketch, and think through the steps you would take to apply new wallpaper in your kitchen. Answer This is how Rebecca, a student, tackled the problem. Her notes are given...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs