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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...history filmmaking because you capture your image with an optical device, a pair of binoculars, you arrange the image with an editing device or tweezers and then you display your image in a jam jar or perhaps through a television screen. And that early experience of seeing those wild animals when I was a boy of eight or nine, I think, pretty much set my course. What films...
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Video 30 mins
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...history, this construction has real consequences. From enslavement and colonisation to resistance and revolution, the stories of people of colour are often left untold in accounts of the past. This free course, Historical perspectives on race, will introduce you to ideas and scholarship dealing with the construction of race, and help you to start exploring people’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...family and friends, neighbours, wider communities and those people have with social institutions such as governments, schools or universities. But what happens when things go wrong in social relationships – how do societies deal with that? When social relationships rupture, the forms of formal repair that many Western societies rely on tend to be facilitated through...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
The stories behind our streets
Society, Politics & Law

The stories behind our streets

...History of Our Streets: London first broadcast on BBC Two, 6th June 2012 and The Secret History of Our Streets: Scotland first broadcast on BBC Two, 25th July 2014. To coincide with the final programme of the first series, Arnold Circus, London, we published some stories behind the streets in Dublin, Ireland alongside Manchester and Sheffield in England, Cardiff in Wales...
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Activity 5 mins
The Wizard of Oz: From Fractions to Formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

The Wizard of Oz: From Fractions to Formulas

...History of Numbers Starting in Africa 20,000 years ago, trace the history of numbers through time, including Egyptian use of fractions and the problems of Roman numerals. Complex Numbers Computer generated animations looking at 'Complex Numbers'. Rational and Irrational Numbers Using tally sticks, a cake, a thermometer, a number line and graphics boards, David Brannan and...
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Earth and Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth and Life

...history A look at the geological history of Tibet and the Raymo Ruddiman hypothesis; that chemical weathering increased as the temperature dropped due to the rise in the plateau. Raymo and Ruddiman believed that the uplift of the Himalayas caused global cooling. Tibet: The signifiicance of the strontium ratio The importance of strontium isotopes in chemical weathering, a...
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Audio 1 hr 8 mins
Imperial Rome and Ostia
History & The Arts

Imperial Rome and Ostia

...history. Aqueducts in Rome A look at how aqueducts were a great engineering achievement in Imperial Rome. The Aurelianic wall The renewed threat of barbarian invasion led to the construction of the Aurelianic wall - the second fortification in the history of Imperial Rome. Feeding the Roman Empire This track looks at how grain - a staple part of the Roman diet - was...
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Audio 57 mins
Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...family had done and maintain traditional practices - but earn their living in nearby towns and cities. To find out more about voluntary grave digging, I conducted separate interviews with 26 men who were involved with voluntary grave digging in 2018-2019. I wanted to understand what happens when they dig a neighbour’s grave and why they do it. I also witnessed three...
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Article 5 mins