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Endgame - Regicide
History & The Arts

Endgame - Regicide

...write, Cromwell grabbed his hand and forced him to sign his name. Bowing to the inevitable, Charles met his end with great fortitude. On 30th January 1649, he climbed the specially - erected scaffold outside Banqueting House to face execution. Re-affirming his allegiance to Anglicanism and his innocence of the charges, executioner Brandon then severed his head with one...
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This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...writes extensively on political issues, including the political and social significance of sport and critical debates about the governance of sport. Academic Perspective Course chair, Professor Kath Woodward, discusses her interest in sport and talks us through the content of the course and this album. Academic Perspective 2 Course chair, Professor Kath Woodward, talks...
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Audio 1 hr 29 mins
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...writing and the publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to sue her friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister. While the jury disregarded the claim, Caroline was unable to divorce her husband and banned form seeing her...
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Article 15 mins
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...write down the prices you hear, as in the example. Escucha y escribe. Here’s someone asking about the price of fruit and vegetables. —¿Cuánto valen los plátanos? —Uno cincuenta el kilo. —¿A cuánto están los limones? —Los limones a uno veinte el kilo. —¿Cuánto vale el kilo de patatas? —Setenta céntimos. —¿A cuánto está el kilo de tomates? —A...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...creative commons licence say. But I want to take it and have a more general view about this. So for me it’s about your practice as an educator or researcher or practitioner. That might involve sharing content, might involve engaging with networks online or involve using variety of resources like going to blogs. The key is taking on board the open possibilities offered...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image Lauren in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...write up your research report. Figure 1 Stages of the research project...Understanding different research perspectives: 3 Deciding what to research - Selecting an appropriate research topic is the first step towards a satisfactory project. For some people, choosing the topic is easy because they have a very specific interest in an area. For example, you might be...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...writing French, and that’s partly laziness, but I also sometimes wonder, is it because I have oral Bengali? And perhaps I’m quite good at communicating, but not actually particularly good at writing. Interviewer: They say language learning opens doors to cultures, have you found that the languages you speak helped you get to know other cultures or people better? Reeta...
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