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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...Open University module A111, Discovering the arts and humanities. Many of the owners of such houses also maintained estates in England and in other parts of the British Empire. The management of an Irish estate was frequently left in the hands of middlemen, often Catholic, who focused their attention on maximising rents from tenant farmers rather than on agricultural...
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On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...Open University academics Sara de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz. Olga: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? Alia: I had been asked by Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab to respond to John Berger’s book A Seventh Man, which is a portrait of guest workers in the European Union in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. There is a point in the book where Berger describes...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...open competition. The role of social critics Nevertheless, much as Huskisson and Baines celebrated the advance of manufactures, perceptions were also being shaped by social critics of the new industrial era. Against Baines’s book one might set Peter Gaskell’s The Manufacturing Population of England (1833), an indictment of a factory-based existence. There were...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...how the environment is entangled with the cultural, the economic, the social, and the political. They also discuss how the new course draws upon cutting-edge research being carried out by the Open University’s academics. Environment and Society (DD213) will be a level two course and available for study from Autumn 2018. For more details visit the Online Prospectus....
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...Open University. Further reading and references Caprara, G., Francescato, D., Mebane, M., Sorace, R., & Vecchione, M. (2010). Personality foundations of ideological divide: A comparison of women members of parliament and women voters in Italy. Political Psychology, 31(5), 739-762. Silvester, J., Wyatt, M., & Randall, R. (2014). Politician personality, Machiavellianism,...
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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...Open University co-production Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was a socialist feminist. She played an important part in the women’s suffrage movement, in socialist and revolutionary politics and was a pioneering force in developing an understanding of imperialism, racism and fascism. During the suffrage campaign she not only braved the horrors of hunger striking and...
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Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...Open Quran with pots of tea during Ramadan.] So, when is Ramadan? In 2026, Ramadan begins on 17th February. Muslims follow the lunar calendar so the exact start and end dates depend on the sighting of the moon. The festival of Eid-ul-Fitr follows Ramadan and will take place around 19th March. What is Ramadan? Ramadan is the name of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar....
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The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Herring women and girls in inter-war Scotland During the 1930s and 1940s a transient group of Scottish women travelled to Great Yarmouth, East Anglia, following the migration of herring shoals down the North Sea. In many of the documents and photographs that are available from the time, these herring women are...
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