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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...world, and aimed to showcase the diverse individuals and communities that make Milton Keynes their home. Those who call Milton Keynes their home The 2011 census reports that people of BAME origin (those identifying as an ethnicity other than White British) made up 26% of the population of the Borough of Milton Keynes and 18.5% of people living here were born outside of...
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Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...World War centenary period. There actually wasn’t that much First World War on my degree, but the general buzz of discussion, and a lot of well-publicised public events and projects, served to get me more interested in the conflict. I think it may have been a passing mention in a lecture about interwar popular culture – something about soldiers chewing gum and smoking...
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Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War
History & The Arts

Opening up history: anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War

...world. Most of the existing scholarship on anti-nuclear activism in the late Cold War focuses on Western Europe and the US. With this project, we explored the different forms of anti-nuclear activism beyond the North Atlantic, leading to an edited volume (which can be read open access here). Related to this, I’m just finishing writing a monograph on anti-nuclear...
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...World’ and the innovative ‘Reefwatch’, where he was one of the team that developed the first live broadcasting from beneath the sea. Alastair went on to work on the BBC1 series ‘The Trials of Life’ with Sir David Attenborough. In 1993 he produced ‘Life in the Freezer’, a six-part series for BBC1 celebrating the wildlife of the Antarctic, presented by Sir...
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The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...world seems to be able to do is to keep watching this slow-motion extinction unfold with Belushya Guba being a window into this process. Such hostility to the plight of animals at risk of starvation in some ways mirrors the well-studied tendency of how many people perceive human migrants.Taking an Aesopian view of this story, Belushya Guba may be a fable of animals...
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Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...world around us. [Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains (Free Course Trailer)]...Introduction and guidance: Introduction - This free course explores psychological theory and research on the relationships we form with fictional characters. Throughout the course you will hear from leading crime writers, who will talk about how they create...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...World (Earthscan 1996) and Rethinking Capitalism (co-edited, Wiley Blackwell 2016). Michael Jacobs Website © ​ The Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Michael Jacobs interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer MJ: = Michael Jacobs special adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004-10, participant RH: So I’m in a restaurant in Bonn and the climate change...
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60-Second Adventures in Thought
History & The Arts

60-Second Adventures in Thought

...world. Subjects as vast as time travel, infinity, quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, are squeezed into 60-second clips that will tickle your funny bone and blow your mind... Achilles and the Tortoise Ancient mathematical trickery proves that a mighty hero cannot overtake a tortoise. The Grandfather Paradox A well known story that questions the logic of time...
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