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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...history archive and ongoing collaboration for teaching, research and knowledge exchange between The Open University (Open University in Ireland, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Open University Library) and participants in the Time to Think archive. This includes Loyalist and Republican ex-prisoners who studied with The Open University in British and Irish...
Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19
Society, Politics & Law

Recording women's experiences and resilience during Covid-19

...History courses [banner of the EIS, purple background with EIS in white edged in red]Founded in 1847, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) is the oldest teaching union in the world. As the largest teaching union in Scotland, the EIS represents more than 60,000 members across all sectors of Education. The video, ‘Recording Women’s Experiences and Resilience...
What's creative about creative writing?
History & The Arts

What's creative about creative writing?

...history and historical fiction Jutta Schettler, Jaime Bulloch & Jeremy Munday on the art and craft of translation Xiaolu Guo on cultural translation and more Jonny Geller on the role of the literary agent Andrew Cowan on creativity and creative writing Andrew Cowan, novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, discusses the notion of...
Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...history of the British Modern Movement, a handful of buildings are so widely regarded as beautiful that they have become architectural icons: the De La Warr Pavilion and Highpoint One are good examples. Conversely, there is more than a handful of buildings that have achieved iconic status for all the wrong reasons: buildings which are so widely loathed that they have come...
Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation

...History (2000), The Trombone (2006), a Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013, ar y cyd â Helen Barlow); fe yw cyd-olygydd Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments (1997) a Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments (2018). Mae hefyd yn brif olygydd Cambridge History of Welsh Music (2022). Ar gael nawr A HISTORY OF WELSH MUSICCambridge...
Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 5: Legacies: Does Red Clydeside still matter today?

...history that do not refer in some way or another to the events of Red Clydeside. As highlighted in these pages, the controversy around the meaning of Red Clydeside for trade unionists, historians, academics and political activists remains a potent source of political debate. The Red Clyde has also become an important historical symbol of working-class protest, which is...
Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...history of Ireland's army barracks and maps their links to current communities...[The Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks, in Dublin was one of the first purpose-built army barracks constructed in Europe.] Figure 1 The Royal Barracks, now Collins Barracks, in Dublin was one of the first purpose-built army barracks constructed in Europe. Collins Barracks, Dublin (2023)....
Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Nature & Environment

Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place

...history of disputes over a tiny Atlantic island’, The Irish Times, June 8, 2019: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/who-owns-rockall-a-history-of-disputes-over-a-tiny-atlantic-island-1.3919668 Owen Bowcott, ‘Who owns Rockall? A history of legal and diplomatic wrangles’, The Guardian, May 30, 2013: