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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...English girl with long fair hair and blue eyes. But, as childhood friends do, we grew apart. Maybe we’d have grown together again if another ambulance hadn’t come and taken Jonny away. His brother told me about it afterwards. It happened at a house party. With a few drinks in him, he’d got upset, disappeared and taken another lot of tablets. By this time, his mother...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...English throne. The dominant image in these murals was of ‘King Billy’ astride his white horse crossing the River Boyne (left). The Nationalist/Republican tradition of mural paintings, on the other hand, dates only from the beginning of the 1980s, though attempts to claim territory through painting slogans, for example, pre-dated mural paintings. The late development...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...English language needs in partnership with the University of Manchester. We worked in partnership with the University of Salford by taking social work students on placements so that they gained first-hand experience of the ordeals facing families in the city and across the country. We provided a space where young mothers could learn to cook healthy and nutritious meals...
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Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...English tongue amongst the latter. One half of Scotland speaks Irish and all these as well as the Islanders … belong to the Wild Scots. In dress, in the manner of their outward life, and in good morals, .. these come behind the householding Scots.’ Ged a rinn e soilleir, mar a rinn Goill eile na latha, nach robh spèis mhòr sam bith aige do na Gàidheil, sgrìobh e...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...English in 1952. Albertini puts the main responsibility for the outbreak of war squarely on Germany’s shoulders. However, there had been little interest in his work and certainly nothing to suggest a huge debate might soon erupt on this topic. The most important challenge to the established post-war consensus that the war had been an accident came from a German...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...English visitor to Venice on Ascension Day (the Christian festival marking the day when Christ is believed to have ascended into heaven) in 1734. (Figure 1 shows the ceremony in 1730.) There are some unfamiliar words here. The Doge was the elected ruler of Venice, and the procurators were officials of the city. The Pope’s nuncio was a diplomat sent from the Vatican....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...English word ‘nostalgia’, which might quite literally mean something more like ‘homesickness’ than the idea of longing for the past which it carries today). A whole strand of the Trojan War tradition seems to have revolved around the nostoi of the Greek heroes after Troy; you may remember that the bard Phemius sings of the Greeks’ homecomings in the first book...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...English education system. Transitions happen to all of us throughout our lives. Some are common to most of us, such as starting school or becoming a parent. Major transitions such as these are like milestones in our lives – we pass through them and look back at them. When we look back at them we remember how we felt at the time and this can affect how we feel about...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs