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Women driving the OU
Google Jennie Lee or Baroness Boothroyd and you'd be hard pushed not to notice the OU. But there are some unsung heroines behind the OU's success today.Anne Drake, the OU's first occupational health...
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Help us tell the untold story of the Open University
Do you have a story to tell about the Open University? Were you a student on the very early courses? Or has the OU changed your life? Forty years after its first students began studying in 1971, the...
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OU celebrates its first ever students
The Open University has come a long way since home experiment kits included sheep’s brains and postal strikes spelled chaos for students desperate for their course materials. Forty years later and it’s...
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Public Record Office and OU Ireland launch 'exploring local history' lecture...
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in conjunction with the Open University Ireland is hosting a lecture series for members of the community to delve into the history of family, poverty,...
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History of Higher Education forum: registration open
Registration is open for What have we learnt? Transmitting knowledge, facilitating learning c1960-2010 on 29 November, 10.30-15.30.Location: The Open University Campus, Library Seminar Rooms 1 and 2,...
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The story of Indians in Britain returns to India
An exhibition marking the south Asian presence and influence on life in Britain is taking that story ‘home’ to India.Beyond the Frame: India in Britain 1858-1950 began a tour of India on November 25...
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OU opens eyes in India with exhibition
A touring exhibition led by The Open University is opening the eyes of India to the contribution its people made to Britain’s history.The reversal of the traditional telling of the British presence in...
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Aye think, therefore I am
[[[image-0 left medium]]] Nigel Warburton heads over the border for Glasgow’s ‘Aye Write’ Book Festival on Wednesday, March 14 and A Little History of Philosophy. The Open University Senior Lecturer’s...
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Is this the real Robin Hood?
The real Robin Hood lived near Tunbridge Wells and robbed the French rather than the rich, according to Sean McGlynn, an OU tutor on A200 Exploring history: medieval to modern 1400-1900.Sean’s...
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