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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...English industrial revolution’ published in the journal Past and Present David Cannadine demonstrated how historical accounts of the industrial revolution have been influenced by the political, social and economic climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...English mother and a Singaporean father. They grew up on opposite sides of the world and have both emigrated for the other over their time together. They have experienced two different cultures and in many ways are polar opposites – mum is loud and extroverted, dad is quieter and reflective, mum never went to university and doesn’t see herself as academic, dad studied...
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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...English mathematical physicist Roger Penrose. Penrose based his set of tiles on Pentagons, which are difficult to tile, even with other shapes. Penrose incorporated the same disruptive properties of the pentagon to create two tiles that form an aperiodic set. This set of Penrose tiles uses a thin rhombus and a fat rhombus. Ordinarily, rhombus-shaped tiles can be used to...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...English properly – they should be doing more of that instead of leisure subjects like art.’ Both of these are, as you may appreciate, instrumental – or means–end – statements. In their various ways they place art, and by implication other humanities subjects, unfavourably on a spectrum according to their perceived ‘usefulness’ or applicability. These and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...English and Scottish Parliaments. He had no time for romantic views of Scotland’s Celtic past: for him, the Highland clans represented a past not far removed from barbarism, which he identified with violence, poverty and arbitrary power. Conversely, he saw England as a beacon of progress and civilisation – a much wealthier country with a powerful elected Parliament...
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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...English and Maths, for girls and for boys. Start by reading the title: it says these are results for 16-year-olds showing the percentage of girls and the percentage of boys achieving GCSE results A*–C. Figure 8 Bar chart of girls' and boys' GCSE results. Source: The Observer, 4 January 1998 Now look at the axes, that is, the horizontal line across the bottom and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...English prompts in this audio clip and responding in Welsh. A. Ask, “Who are you?” * B. Pwy dych chi? A. Say that it’s good to meet you. * B. Braf cwrdd â chi. A. Say: Good morning. * B. Bore da. A. Say that you’re tired. * B. Wedi blino. A. Ask: How are you? * B. Sut dych chi? A. Say: Very well, thanks. * B. Da iawn, diolch. B. Da iawn. Ceisiwch gyfarch rhywun...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...English writers in popularity in the 1790s. Literary historian Christina Morin has made a case for the importance of first-wave Gothic writers such as Regina Maria Roche, Thomas Leland and Elizabeth Griffith, who used Gothic fiction as a vehicle for drawing attention to specifically Irish themes and concerns. The nineteenth century saw a fuller flowering of distinctive...
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Article 45 mins