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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
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...world of natural history and environment filmmaking, both the professionals but also those people who are using the lavish freedoms of digital media to make their own material and share it. What we realise is that we actually have an incredibly useful teaching resource here, for free, for all of those people. So if you want to be taught how to make a natural history...
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Video 12 mins
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...world that actually do matter to people. Hundreds of researchers across the world are working to find things out that will better society. When they find things out that are important, we need to know about it, and we can’t do that if it is buried by stories about chocolate helping you lose weight (it doesn’t). Second, stories like this make the news media less...
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Article 5 mins
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...World Cup currently underway, attention on women’s cricket is likely to peak again among the participating nations and beyond. The popularity of the women’s game seems to be going from strength to strength. But for every elite player, there are thousands of women and girls striving for opportunities to play the game at grassroots level. This article, originally...
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Article 10 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
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...world? It is perhaps no wonder that a past Chair of Oxfam was once overheard saying running a larger public company where he had also been Chair was a ‘doddle’ compared to chairing Oxfam. So what are some of the challenges of running a large charity like Oxfam? An important difference between a charity and a business is that whereas a business raises most of its money...
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Article 10 mins
The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...world. But he recognised that there were internal stresses and strains as working class hegemony was derailed by the Stalinist model of socialism. Even though the systemic flaws and distortions had been serious, Walter grimly predicted huge losses in East Germany’s progressive social programmes now the Wall was down. As we walked around what was East Berlin Walter, then...
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Article 5 mins
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...world more just and correct than yours? Are your beliefs a threat to my way of life? In a world in which society and culture are always evolving, these norms become the focus for debates – or, more often, all-out arguments – about the sort of society we want to live in. The dynamics which lie behind offence culture, then, are an unavoidable part of social life. In a...
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Video 30 mins