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Why do England fail in international football competitions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do England fail in international football competitions?

...account for this underachievement and one is the "big structure" one – this is the establishment of the Football League in 1888. How did the consequences of this move interfere with England’s possible progress in international football? Anthony King: Well I think the key point here is to not blame the FA in an individualised way, blaming their secretaries, and the...
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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...account of the Ryedale Strike of 1912 has been drawn from a much longer article which appeared in the Scottish Labour History, journal of the Scottish Labour History Society, volume 55, 2020 (see below), and which was constructed primarily from reports of the strike in the two early C20 Dumfries newspapers: the Dumfries Standard & Advertiser and the Dumfries Courier &...
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The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...account of the strike can be found in The Singer Strike Clydebank, 1911, (1989) Glasgow Labour History Workshop, Clydebank District Libraries. Glasgow Digital Library, Red Clydeside, Timeline of events, The Singer strike 1911. Primary Sources used in the preparation of this part of the publication were; Clydebank and Renfrew Press Engineering Forward Glasgow evening News...
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Article 10 mins
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...accounts such as Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and Dunkirk (1958). Working at Ealing, Basil Dearden developed the ‘social problem film’ within a fictional format, such as The Blue Lamp (1950) dealing with juvenile delinquency, reflecting a contemporary moral panic, and later Sapphire (1959) which dealt with issues of race and immigration following the Notting Hill...
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Article 10 mins
Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...accountable to those being researched (Barnes, 2003). Nor, perhaps is it surprising if such research seeks to involve diverse voices from the outset and as key participants throughout. But what about a less obviously participatory approach, such as a quantitative study of earring wearing in North London (I made that up)? What has that got to do with equality, diversity...
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Article 15 mins
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...accounts of brutal murders or assaults I wonder how anyone can do such things to another human being. Then again I think some people know exactly how the other feels and that is why they do unspeakable things. One only has to look at crimes against humanity on the wider scale to realise that some people just enjoy killing and maiming others. It is comforting for us to...
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...account about ‘the environment’ that is raised by the images in Figure 1. They are a particular view of a particular environment from a particular perspective: mostly a western and northern hemisphere perspective. Do they convey your understanding of what is an environment? If you live in a desert landscape or in a highly polluted, highly urbanised city, you may not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...accounts of current solutions. The aims of this unit are to describe some factors that affect the security of networks and data communications, and their implications for users; and to introduce some basic types of security service and their components, and indicate how these are applied in networks. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing &...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs