Asteroids: To Avoid, or to Exploit?
Dave Rothery considers our choices - to deflect asteroids before they harm us - or to mine them for all they're worth Professor David Rothery. Professor David Rothery is a volcanologist and planetary...
View ArticleFilm as a Historical Source
Alan Sennet explains why even though film is a valuable primary source, historians must subject it to rigorous interrogation. Dr Alan Sennett.First published on Fri, 07 Jan 2005 as Film as a Historical...
View ArticleLighting the Industrial Revolution
Dr Peter Lewis sheds light on some illuminating aspects of the industrial revolution - new developments in lighting that made mines safer and enabled Victorian factories to work round the clock. Dr...
View ArticleHeritage Centres - Scotland
Find heritage centres in Scotland. The OpenLearn team.First published on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 as Heritage Centres - Scotland. To find out more visit The Open University's Openlearn website. Creative...
View ArticleRough Science 6 Colorado: Mine Video Diaries: Ellen McCallie
Exclusive video extra in which Ellen McCallie talks about the challenge for the Mine programme, from the sixth BBC/OU TV series Rough Science, based in Colorado Ellen McCallie.First published on Thu,...
View ArticleRough Science 6 Colorado - Mine challenge
A summary of the Mine challenge, part of the fifth BBC/OU TV series Rough Science, based in Zanzibar The OpenLearn team.First published on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 as Rough Science 6 Colorado - Mine challenge....
View ArticleRough Science 6 Colorado: Mine Video Diaries: Mike Bullivant
Exclusive video extra in which Mike Bullivant talks about the challenge for the Mine programme, from the sixth BBC/OU TV series Rough Science, based in Colorado Dr Mike Bullivant.First published on...
View ArticleRough Science 6 Colorado: Mine Video Diaries: Hermione Cockburn
Exclusive video extra in which Hermione Cockburn talks about the challenge for the Mine programme, from the sixth BBC/OU TV series Rough Science, based in Colorado Hermione Cockburn.First published on...
View ArticleHeritage Centres - N. England and N. Wales
Find heritage centres in Northern England and North Wales. The OpenLearn team.First published on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 as Heritage Centres - N. England and N. Wales. To find out more visit The Open...
View ArticleHeritage Centres - SW England, West Midlands & S Wales
Find heritage centres in Cornwall, South West England, the West Midlands and South Wales. The OpenLearn team.First published on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 as Heritage Centres - SW England, West Midlands & S...
View ArticleA reader's guide to Germinal
Emile Zola's novel Germinal, set in 1866-67, follows a community of coal miners and looks at the need for social change in the years following the French Revolution. Dr Stephanie Forward.First...
View ArticleFeeding the Chilean miners
What would the Chilean miners have been given to eat when they were trapped? Audrey Brown, a science tutor at the Open University, provides an insight. Audrey Brown .First published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010...
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