{"id":661,"date":"2010-11-16T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T08:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=661"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T14:37:10","slug":"conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m contributing a paper about the history of the OU at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssha.org\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.ssha.org');\">conference <\/a>this week.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SSHA.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-662\" title=\"SSHA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SSHA-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0There are a number of relevant strands and papers.\u00a0\u00a0In addition to being the location for the social sciences history conference Chicago is where Al Capone committed crimes and where the adventures of the 1990s science fiction animation series\u00a0 &#8216;Biker Mice from Mars&#8217;\u00a0 occured.<\/p>\n<p>However, my research will be centred on archives where papers relating to Harold Wilson and the ideas of a &#8216;University of the Air&#8217; are lodged.\u00a0 It should be a fascinating and useful experience\u00a0 even if this focus fails to\u00a0impress my nephew,\u00a0a Biker Mice fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m contributing a paper about the history of the OU at this conference this week.\u00a0There are a number of relevant strands and papers.\u00a0\u00a0In addition to being the location for the social sciences history conference Chicago is where Al Capone committed crimes and where the adventures of the 1990s science fiction animation series\u00a0 &#8216;Biker Mice from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}