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Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...centre of Highways of Empire, and let loose his artistry and playfulness. He even misplaced polar bears in the Antarctic, with a speech bubble that asks: ‘Why are we here?’ How should we read the poster? Empire is depicted as the very model of modernity, with global transport creating one system of trade. Routes are shown, with ships and even an aircraft. The latter...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures at the University of Leicester. Workers paying the price The report, which investigated the working conditions and business models of clothing manufacturers in Leicester and the East Midlands, found that the majority of the workforce earns around £3 per hour (compared to a National Minimum Wage rate of £6.50). Workers...
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...centres, often never to return, while also increasing potential access to, and participation in, higher education. Despite the many challenges presented, the demise of rural Ireland is exaggerated, though the challenges of peripherality remain. The uniqueness of each place yields certain opportunities to be harnessed, as Father McDyer recognised in the past, such as the...
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Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology
Science, Maths & Technology

Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology

...research and engagement work around the current COVID-19 pandemic. Transcript The panel consisted of: Dr. Jon Golding - a senior lecturer in health sciences, who discussed the articles he and his colleagues wrote on OpenLearn to aid a general understanding of the underlying biology of viral infections. For example, what is a virus? How does the human body fight a viral...
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At a crossroads: navigating work and/or family alongside study
Health, Sports & Psychology

At a crossroads: navigating work and/or family alongside study

...Research with students. Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. [Jaya is studying on laptop stressed at university] Click on the image above, or click here to start your interactive experience. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free...
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Noise Pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Noise Pollution

...Research Laboratory analyses tyre noise on road surfaces in order to create a definitive report on the state of Britain's roads. This material forms part of T308 Environmental monitoring, modelling and control... Noise Pollution A short introduction to this album. Noise Levels A fun, easy introduction to the scale of noise pollution and what kind of exposure leaves the...
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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...Centre(based at the University of Sussex in the UK) and was funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of where we might look”, as the authors put it. One story describes the New Deal in 1930s America, which, the study...
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Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...centres for Spiritualism’, and Stoke-on-Trent is still home to three highly active Spiritualist churches enjoying healthy congregations and playing a significant role in their local communities. Dearly departed Most religious traditions have a view on what happens to us after death, but Spiritualism is unique in that it is based around the belief that the human soul,...
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