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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...social transition. It was a European phenomenon, and had an impact upon many spheres of thought and activity. Advocating freedom and independence, many artists and philosophers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries challenged the way people looked at the world, emphasizing the integrity of the individual and refusing to bow to convention. Blake, Coleridge,...
How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...works so well? If we begin by looking back at Raducanu’s childhood, her parents provided the opportunity for her to try lots of different sports in addition to tennis, including ballet, swimming, horse riding, golf, skiing, and even motocross. Sampling a range of sports throughout childhood is argued to provide the best grounding both for progressing to a higher level...
Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...social and working relationships between eighteenth-century free Black men in England, English scholars, and clergymen. The significance of this is their active involvement or connection with the transatlantic slave trade and enslavers. Carol’s goal is to inspire the academic and public community to increase their knowledge and explore past events in history. Transcript...
Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...social views regarding this new inward migration trend including a focus on refugees, asylum seekers and those from Ukraine. This period in time is not aligned with a wealthy prosperous Ireland like the Celtic Tiger years were, where there was plenty to go around for all, with deepening economic tensions, and many Irish living pay cheque to pay cheque and struggling to...
How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...social message was his greatest claim to radicalism...[Martin Luther King Jr in 1964] Martin Luther King in 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States. His birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. Tributes are paid to him on his death anniversary each April, and his legacy is...
Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...work, 42-year-old black seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She went to the back and took a seat in the section designated for black ('coloured') people. Rosa’s subsequent refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, as demanded by the white bus driver, resulted in her being arrested, tried and convicted for civil disobedience. That was...
Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...Work theme in our Applying Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you make sense of change. ...Anxiety and change Since the start of 2020, every individual in the world has been impacted by change to some extent. For many people the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it a different way of doing things, whether that was simply by washing your hands...
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...Social Responsibility – all the vogue now; do businesses really have an obligation – as opposed to a profit motive - to care about the environment, the communities in which they operate, and so on? Questions to which Alex Oliver should know the answers: he runs The Forum for Philosophy in Business at Cambridge University. Audio Text David Edmonds: This is Ethics...