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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...work round the clock...Power cuts force us to rely on more primitive methods of illumination, such as candles, gas or oil-lamps. Candles and flame lamps were in fact the main source of illumination for millennia, up until the late Victorian era. It was many years before electricity was harnessed to provide a new form of lighting both homes and businesses. Why did it take...
Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...working in the education sector (from early years to further education) across the UK and the goal was to share key examples of external engagement and knowledge exchange work taking place at The Open University. The conference featured keynote addresses from senior leadership staff from the three nation offices and our School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport as...
Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...Work on the barracks network commenced in 1698–9, with a new bureaucracy of barrack-masters, a barrack board and barrack trustees put in place. Thereafter, the Irish barracks network expanded significantly and came to set the example for similar networks in Britain and further afield. Army barracks in Ireland: the OU research contribution The ‘Our shared built...
Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...Work Foundation, 2007). Value, in the context of culture and creativity can be understood on a variety of levels – economic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, artistic and political. Although not mutually exclusive, these levels are often in tension with each other. By taking the focus away from individual creativity and moving to a discussion of collective or social...
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...work on. The Rubber Band Technique. This method can feel a bit self-conscious at first but is one of the quickest ways to change thinking. Wear a rubber band around your wrist: tight enough to stay on and make a soft snap when pulled, but loose enough to be comfortable and not break. When you notice a negative thought, give the rubber band a ping. This works in the same...
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...worked for a while as children's TV presenter - she was the face of Sweden's local variant of Disney Club - but moved on to producing and presenting current affairs. She studied political science at Stockholm University, fitting her studies around media work and a role at Sweden's industrial giant Skandia. She also held positions of responsibility in the Church, and sat...
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...worked in the mines of South Wales in the 1860s. From it we might describe their clothing, physical stature and expressions; as well as noting indications of the conditions of work from the types of tools and implements they carry. But to say much more about the photograph, and begin to understand its significance, we must turn to secondary sources. We need to know about...
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...working-class background and have lived predominantly in Glasgow and the west of Scotland all my life. I have a strong sense of my own identity as a woman and the implications of this culturally in relation to political and social developments during the course of my life. At certain stages in my life, I can admit to ‘campaigning to overthrow capitalism’ through a...