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Remembering Gary Slapper
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Gary Slapper

...English Legal System written with David Kelly informed and educated generations of law students fast becoming a leading text on the subject and one of the books found on every law student’s bookshelf. He was always delighted to meet and spend time with students and Associate Lecturers often going the extra mile with advice and encouragement. Under Gary’s leadership...
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Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Lord Byron

...English Bards and Scotch Reviewers anonymously – to which many of my critics took offense. Following this, I took a tour to the Mediterranean and upon returning to England, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage was published in 1812. A wondrous event occurred – it sold out in three days and ‘I awoke one morning and found myself famous’! (Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,...
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Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...English literature,’ she enthused. It was starting that degree in 2024 that prompted Daisy to visit OpenLearn, and as she explains, ‘It has been invaluable to me. My favourite courses - ‘Language in the real world’ and ‘Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials’ - actually prepared me for my degree’s content!’ She even completed an...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...English polymath Thomas Young in the early 1800s: [Thomas Young wave diffraction experiment] Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction of waves, 1803 When he wasn’t busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone, investigating elasticity, describing how colour vision works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...English summer has suffered often if not severe discouragements. It has really only two months out of the year to itself, and even July and August are not always constant to it. To be sure, their defection cannot spoil it, but they dispose it to the slights of September in a dejection from which there is no rise to those coquetries with October known to our own summer....
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Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...English literature English language studies history modern languages The theme of popular protest runs throughout the module and is used to link the various subject areas. As part of your study you will learn to navigate an innovative and interactive module website; the perfect way to gain the study skills you’ll need to succeed in the next step in your studies. Find...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...English votes for English laws’! The increasing recognition of England as England, as a nation, will of course only help to further loosen the already fraught ties that bind the UK and which also plays directly into the hands of the SNP. Gordon Brown has in recent months repeatedly attacked the Conservatives for the ‘damage’ he says that this is doing to the...
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Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...everyday life. It concludes like this: Jon: … the burden is fair and square on your shoulders to explain to me the exact relevance philosophy does have to everyday life. Alan: Yes, I can do this quite easily. This morning I went into a shop, and a shop assistant was having an argument with a customer. The shop assistant said ‘yes’ – ‘yes’, you see – and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs