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Selling Empire: Film
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Film

...Family One Family (1930) was one of the Empire Marketing Board (EMB) Film Unit’s first feature-length productions. Its central character is an ordinary London schoolboy, who dreams that he travels to the Dominions to collect ingredients for the King’s Christmas pudding. [EMB The Empire Christmas Pudding] 'The Empire Christmas Pudding', by F.C. Harrison; 25 ins x 40...
Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...history? ...[Profile of Albert Einstein] Albert Einstein Likes : maths, travel, music, civil rights Dislikes: injustice, rote learning Age: 146 Personality traits: extremely intelligent, motivated and logical A bit about me: I have always been an inquisitive person – I remember when my father gifted me a compass as a boy, and I marvelled at what must be moving the...
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...family, signalled to me and everyone else on the ward that my grandfather had been identified by the medical personnel as someone who they were not willing to ‘work on’ anymore. From that moment on it appeared that the clinical staff's behaviour around my grandfather changed, as if he was doomed in some way. Although a ‘do not resuscitate’ form – also known as a...
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...History Month, Charles Barthold explores the connections between the management curriculum and coloniality...As part of The Open University’s events marking Black History Month, I was invited to give a presentation on the connection between the management curriculum and our colonial heritage. In particular, I tried to problematise the ways in which a...
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...family, and spent most of her formative years at the seventeenth-century mansion, Earlham Hall, in Norfolk. Although raised as a Quaker in ‘name only’, in 1798 a young Elizabeth decided to fully embrace the Quaker faith and traditions. Just two years later, she married tea merchant Joseph Fry, and the couple moved to London. In the intervals between child-bearing,...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...family ger, their dome-tented dwelling. A few lambs – almost fully grown, too late to be sold – huddle together in a wooden pen nearby, the remnants of a once 100-strong flock. As his aunt and two doctors come into the yard, 18-year-old Dorj Tumurbat stands by the gate, foot up on a kennel. The dog jumps for the visitors, held back by its chain. But Dorj stays put,...
FREE Mental Health Tips and Resources
Health, Sports & Psychology

FREE Mental Health Tips and Resources

...family, finance, careers and education have affected us all in one way or another, so it's vital we all take the time to consider our own mental health and wellbeing, as well as those around us. Here are some FREE resources to do just that...Find out about The Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications Discover ways to alleviate stress and some of the...
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...families. While my research focus was to understand how an informal economy like this one persists when confronted with formal government-backed services, I also learned how the exchange of cash between buyers and collectors of scrap helped structure community life by creating durable social bonds that functioned like contracts. Over 20 months from 2013 to 2015, I...