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

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

...change in both Ireland and the United States, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to outnumber their Protestant counterparts by the early 1830s...Social and economic changes in both Ireland and the United States can be used to explain shifting patterns of Irish emigration in the nineteenth century. By the early 1830s, Irish Catholic migrants to America began to...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...change in the data provider a good idea? [The Met Office, Exeter] Sunny for now... The Met Office HQ in Exeter The Met Office has its origins in a service for mariners, set up in 1854 under the leadership of Robert FitzRoy, who had previously captained HMS Beagle on Darwin’s famous voyage. The organisation developed as part of the Ministry of Defence, with an important...
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Download your free booklet 'Young People: Changing times'
Education & Development

Download your free booklet 'Young People: Changing times'

...People: Changing times' to accompany the 'Child of Our Time 16' series. ...To download your free booklet, please click here. Download this free, 28 page booklet produced by The Open University, covering a wide range of topics relating to young people, including: The history of youth Changing bodies Young people: what's the problem? Thinking about social media Futures...
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Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...changed? Peter Keogh explores...[Charlie Sheen 2012] Charlie Sheen’s disclosure that he is HIV positive echoes a similar announcement made by another movie star, Rock Hudson 30 years earlier – and it’s interesting to compare the two cases. Both tried unsuccessfully to conceal their HIV status. Hudson was betrayed by his appearance: he was visibly unwell and his...
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...change issues? Joe Smith shares his journey through the archives in a two part podcast series...[BBC broadcast from the 60s] Press play to hear Joe’s thoughts, or read the transcript below. Transcript I’m Joe Smith, and for the last two years I’ve been one of a team of Open University environment researchers that have been working with a rare and precious resource....
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...changes. This question of scaling-up is crucial. While ‘capacity’ is a slippery thing to nail down, one core facet is education and knowledge exchange. It is here that open and distance learning has a powerful role to play. The UN’s high-level forum on monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals recently spoke of e-learning as a powerful tool...
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Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...changing and evolving. Cities are a focal point for migration, they are the places which have the highest rates of migration and also seem to have the strongest capacity to manage this change. However, UK cities have not traditionally had a strong voice in migration debates and migration has not always figured strongly in discussions around how to shape the future of...
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Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...changes since then. It’s nonetheless become central to the British parliamentary tradition, and also enjoys something of a cult status abroad, where the sight of grown men and women goading, braying, and heckling one another is greeted with a mixture of puzzlement and wonder. At its most volatile, PMQs is a bear pit. As the Guardian journalist Michael White pointed out...
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