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ARU Ideas

Get a taste of our teaching and research, engage with our live discussions and find out what it's like to study on a Humanities and Social Sciences course at ARU, with our ARU Ideas media hub.

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60 Second Seminars

Get a taste for our teaching with these short lectures

History, philosophy, and social sciences

Why they had to partition India

Was there a sexual revolution in the 1960s?

Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis

A History of the West End of London

Organ donations & emotional management

The ontological argument for God's existence

English language and literature

17th Century Voyages To Other Worlds

Exploring attitudes towards English accents

You-niversal Love

Grammars, language change and artificial language

Vague language in use

Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?

Rohan's Rebels

Professor of Modern British History Rohan McWilliam takes us on a short lecture tour of his top 10 rebels from history.

Rohan's Rebels: Mahatma Gandhi

Rohan's Rebels: Robin Hood

Rohan's Rebels: Rosa Parks

Rohan's Rebels: William Cuffay

Rohan's Rebels: Galileo Galilei

Rohan's Rebels: Toussaint L'Ouverture

Rohan's Rebels: William Wallace

Rohan's Rebels: Captain Swing

Rohan's Rebels: Margaret Thatcher

Rohan's Rebels: Martin Luther

Facebook Lives

Join in with our debates and discussions live on Facebook, and catch up on the ones you've already missed below:

Facebook live

A discussion on the history of British India

Facebook live

The causes of World War One

Listicles

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Women with ideas

that changed the world

30 Philosophy grads

who did ok

8 ideas

that changed the world

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