history
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50 years of the OU Students Association exhibition goes live!
The OU Students Association, in partnership with the University Archive team, is proud to launch a new digital exhibition.
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Taking a look back at our fight for funding
As part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations, throughout August we will be looking back at the Association's history.
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The first student address to Council
The Open University’s governing body is known as Council, which has ultimate authority within the OU.
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It’s Never Too Late To Start Studying
Would I recommend studying with the Open University as a mature (mature!) student? Absolutely. Go for it. The OU also offers excellent support to study.
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The discovery of an 18th Century tomb at the Walton Hall campus
The University Archive has been doing some digging recently and has unearthed something particularly exciting within the campus grounds...
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LGBT History Month Spotlight: Elisabeth Winterhalter
Wrapping up OU Pride's celebration of important figures in the LGBTQIA+ community for LGBT History Month, today we consider Elisabeth Winterhalter.
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LGBT History Month 2022
Lyndsay Thomson, chair of the OU Student's Association Pride Group, looks back on some key dates in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Door 7: Looking back on OU history
Advent is a good time of year to remember the ambitions and aspirations of the OU’s founding mothers and fathers, and all the lives the...
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History of Valentine’s Day
It's world-renowned as the day of love and all things soppy. But where did it come from?
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Scaly Lizard or Feathered Forebear? Untangling Conceptions of Dinosaur Pigmentation
The question of what colour the dinosaurs were may appear a simple one...