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What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...world. As polls tighten those views could turn into actual policy towards a president many in Britain would feel deeply uneasy about. British views of Trump can be a mix of selective praise and widespread horror. He has been criticised and attacked by British political leaders from the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson through to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. A petition...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...world’s dyestuffs industry produces around 500,000 tonnes of synthetic dye each year. It’s come a long way since William Henry Perkins discovered mauve...[castaway flag] As our castaway flag testifies, natural dyes offer a fairly limited range of colours. Until the discovery of synthetic alternatives, most natural dyes were derived from plants, and, to a much smaller...
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Article 10 mins
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...world. The term discipline implies both this idea of a subject which has disciples or followers and a discipline which forces a particular way of seeing the world and behaving in it. Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures...
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Article 15 mins
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in Ireland. You will be looking specifically at two examples of this writing: the short story ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945) by...
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Article 45 mins
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...world. It will explore some religious places and practices and will give more confidence to interact with contemporary religious diversity in an informed way...Religion is not necessarily what you think it is! This free course, Religious diversity: rethinking religion, introduces you to a selection of the vast variety of religious beliefs and practices in Britain today....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...world. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the terminology associated with the culture, identity and power relevant to the Roman Empire, as treated both in ancient sources and modern scholarship and...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...world phenomenon creating a mathematical model of the physical-world phenomenon and then analysing the abstraction doing some manipulations of the abstraction and in fact automating the abstraction, which then tells us more about the physical-world phenomenon that we are actually modelling. When I talk about automation and this is the whole of the talk that I am going to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Festival fever
History & The Arts

Festival fever

...world) is in full swing at the moment! To celebrate we've gathered a collection of relevant material to do with the arts. So whether you enjoy a side-splitting comedy performance or fancy performing in a play one day, there's something for everyone. Choose from the following: comedy plays poetry performance music festivals Make 'em laugh - learn more about comedy Unleash...
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Article 30 mins