Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn

[AnneMc]

purplekat

I have a friend who did both of those courses and she really enjoyed them. 

cheers

anne

[purplekat]

We'll have to do Richard together!

Yes we will sustev 

Thanks anne, they sound really good 

[cjl]

I have also signed up to do this course and am really looking forward to it starting.  Like others I would highly recommend the Richard the third course and also the Hadrian's wall course.  Another course which I would recommend is the Agincourt 1415 course and the course which I am currently doing the Exploring English:  Magna Carta. 

CJL

[GfL]

Just signed up 

[groom]

I've also done a couple of World War 1 courses with them and they were a bit of an eyeopener.

World War 1: Trauma and Memory
World War 1: Changing Faces of Heroism

I also did another one, World War 1: A History in 100 Stories. That was run by Monash University and was Australian and NZ focused as it dealt with stories about Anzacs. It was very interesting but I wasn't keen on the way it was presented as I found it a bit slow.

[Maggie.]

Just another to add to the pot ........ The Archaeology of Portus - the lost harbour of Ancient Rome.  The course is not dissimilar to the Hadrian's Wall one but filmed in glorious sunshine - you feel as though your are there on the dig and it links well with 'Hadrian'.  There is a great deal of content offered on the course and some wonderful computer generated videos, also examples of laser scanning used to create fascinating animations of the buildings.

[Greensleeves]

I agree, Maggie: those animations showing how the buildings looked were absolutely stunning.  Another stunning animation I fell in love with was from the Hadrian's Wall course.  This  showed an animated timeline of one end of the wall from before construction up to the present day.

[Stuart273]

I'll be up for doing the Richard III and Hadrian's Wall ones later in the year, assuming I enjoy the two I'm signed up for of course. Also, completely differently, contemplating the songwriting one which starts in January. 

[Greensleeves]

Aren't they a wonderful resource, these  online courses!  I think it's amazing that they are  totally free of charge and  available world-wide.