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June 2024

  • Claire Seymour

    Other lives
    Claire Seymour obituary

    Other lives: Teacher, academic and writer with specialisms in Thomas Hardy and the operas of Benjamin Britten

April 2024

  • Gill Stoker.

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    Gill Stoker obituary

    Other lives: Teacher of English as a second language whose YouTube channel became a worldwide hit

March 2024

  • 'Baroness Jennie Lee' from the cover and Observer magazine feature 'Jennie Lee: My Life with Nye', by David Newell-Smith.Published on 3 December 1972. GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/4/1/9/12 3_12 Jennie Jennie Lee.

    ‘I could have written three plays about her’: Jennie Lee, MP and wife of Nye Bevan, is celebrated on stage

    The coal miner’s daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain’s youngest MP is the subject of two new shows

February 2024

  • Charlotte Benton collaborated on exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, V&A and the RIBA Heinz Gallery.

    Charlotte Benton obituary

    Co-creator of an Open University course that had a profound effect on the study of design history in Britain

January 2024

  • Sonia Sodha

    Vindictive, cowardly leaders bowed to the gender bullies and failed Jo Phoenix

    Sonia Sodha
    A tribunal has attacked Open University staff for waging a campaign of harassment against her
  • Prof Jo Phoenix, a criminologist at the Open University

    Open University academic wins tribunal case over gender-critical views

    Prof Jo Phoenix who was compared with ‘racist uncle at the Christmas table’ wins unfair dismissal claim
  • Keir Starmer

    Brief letters
    Labour can be green, spendy and cheerful

    Brief letters: Starmer, Galbraith and Dury | The Open University | Bookshelf arrangements | Tax us our fair share

December 2023

  • Pat Coombes in 1959 on the deck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, which brought her to the UK

    Other lives
    Pat Coombes obituary

    Other lives: Lecturer who helped to set up a controversial social sciences degree course at the Open University

October 2023

  • Caroline Gilfillan

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    Caroline Gilfillan obituary

    Other lives: Poet and writer who explored feminist themes, including with the all-female 1970s band the Stepney Sisters

September 2023

  • Sarah Guthrie

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    Sarah Guthrie obituary

  • Lorcán Mullan

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    Lorcán Mullan obituary

August 2023

  • Nick Levinson had a passion for renovating houses, collecting art, creating gardens and appreciating nature

    Other lives
    Nick Levinson obituary

    Other lives: BBC TV producer who made Open University arts programming, helping to inspire public interest in art history and architecture

July 2023

  • Hidden text in pages from William Camden's Annals is revealed by a light sheet.

    ‘Heart-stopping’: censored pages of history of Elizabeth I reappear after 400 years

  • Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a speech to unveil the party's fifth and final mission for government, at Mid Kent College on 6 July.

    Education is the key to reviving social mobility

March 2023

  • Betty Boothroyd in 2009.

    Letter: Lady Boothroyd as OU chancellor

    Gina Bridgeland writes: Betty Boothroyd brought humour and natural authority to bear as chancellor of the Open University

December 2022

  • The far side of the Moon beyond the Orion spacecraft in an image taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission in November

    Moon rivers? UK scientists at heart of mission to extract water from lunar rock

    With the success of Artemis, lunar travel is back on the agenda – and a way to produce water on moon is vital for human presence

October 2022

  • A Robin on a branch of a Hawthorn tree.

    Brief letters
    Birdsong is music to my ears again

    Brief letters: Bird encounters | Thérèse Coffey | Cop or Copout? | Open University | Boycotting Qatar

September 2022

  • Derek Goldrei

    Other lives
    Derek Goldrei obituary

    Other lives: Mathematician who had teaching and leadership positions at the Open University and several Oxford University colleges

July 2022

  • John Daly

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    John Daly obituary

    Other lives: Carpenter who showed great courage after being paralysed by a footballing accident

June 2022

  • John Richardson

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    John Richardson obituary

    Other lives: Specialist in qualitative research who helped to prepare the ground for the influential National Student Survey
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