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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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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Open University's History courses and qualifications and Early Years courses and qualifications. [Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between)....
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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...open for longer, managers at some large vertical-drinking pubs were reportedly offered bonuses of up to £20,000 if they used sales techniques – upselling singles to doubles, for instance – to exceed revenue targets. All this was happening as the real cost of purchasing alcohol, allowing for inflation and changes in disposable income, fell every year from 1984 to...
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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...opened up new habitats and new sources of food that the mammals were quick to exploit. Question 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Using your general knowledge of mammals, try describing up to three biological features that mammals commonly possess. Discussion Mammals are distinguished by: the production of milk the possession of hair or similar structures, such as bristles...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...resources belonging to a business. Assets could be money in a cash register or bank account, or items such as property, fixtures and furniture, equipment, motor vehicles, and stock or goods for resale. An important asset in businesses which sell goods or services on credit is money owed to the enterprise by customers. This asset is known as debtors. Capital is the value...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to complex analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to complex analysis

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Integration: Introduction to integration - This session introduces complex integration, an important concept which gives complex analysis its special flavour. We spend most of this session setting up the complex integral, deriving its main properties, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...Soul, 1831–2. By permission of The British Library (C.43.d.25) By permission of The British Library (C.43.d.25). Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...opening words were, in Chace's free translation, ‘Accurate reckoning. The entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets’, which is interesting, but does not really clarify for us whether this kind of thing was taught to schoolchildren, or whether the Rhind Papyrus represented quite an advanced theoretical work by Egyptian standards. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs