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History
Explore key events and figures in history with our History course. Learn about different periods, cultures, and significant historical developments. Ideal for history enthusiasts and anyone interested in learning about the past.
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Dates:Tue 21/01/2025 -
Tue 18/03/2025Location:Peterhouse Community Centre
122 Forest Rise
Walthamstow
London
E17 3PWCourse code:Q00017606How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £80.00
History: 20th Century
Take a journey through the pivotal events and transformations of the 20th century in our engaging history course. This class explores the key political, social, and cultural shifts that defined the century, from world wars to civil rights movements and technological revolutions. Delve into the stories, people, and ideas that shaped modern society, examining how the past influences our world today. Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the forces that have impacted every corner of the globe and laid the groundwork for the 21st century.
This course is funded by the Education Skills and Funding Agency.
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Dates:Tue 21/01/2025 -
Tue 04/03/2025Times:1:30pm - 3:30pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:Women's Institute Hall (Nottingham)
1 Main Street
Lowdham
Nottingham
NG14 7ABTutor:Mark BarnardCourse code:Q00019913How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £50.40
History: Malory’s Morte d’Arthur
In this short course, learners will focus on the final tales in the most famous and complete literary work in English on the Matter of Britain, Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. We will study Malory’s characterisation, the development of his narrative, and discuss the causes and events leading up to the fall of the Round Table. We will also explore Malory’s prose style and one of his major English sources. No prior knowledge of Middle English is required, and the course is suitable for beginners and improvers. It is also very suitable for those who have taken the autumn taster course on Malory.
This course is funded by the Education Skills and Funding Agency.
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Dates:Wed 22/01/2025 -
Wed 05/02/2025Times:9:15am - 11:15amDuration:3 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Roberta DewaCourse code:Q00019870How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:6 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £22.20
History: Murder Most Horrid: The Rise of Crime as Entertainment in the 19th Century Day School
The nineteenth century saw an explosion in interest in ‘Sensational Crimes’ which gripped the nation and dominated the press. These crimes soon became the inspiration for popular entertainment, and a visit to the theatre to enjoy a retelling of a bloodcurdling murder or curling up with a fictionalised account of a real-life serial killer’s deeds were the favourite pastimes of many people.
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Dates:Sat 25/01/2025 -
Sat 25/01/2025Times:10:30am - 4:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:Quaker Friends Meeting House (Chesterfie
27 Ashgate Road
Chesterfield
S40 4AGTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00019923How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £23.10
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
History: How the Vote was Won - Campaigns for Democracy in Britain
An opportunity to explore the fascinating stories of movements and individuals who worked to achieve the right to vote in Britian. Our subjects range from Puritan soldiers in the 17th century to Welsh republicans in the 19th and women mill workers in the early 20th. We will meet Levellers, Chartists, Suffragists and Suffragettes as well as lesser-known groups. As we encounter campaigners divided over tactics, politics and ethics, we will see how the right to vote overlapped with other controversies and ask why advances and setbacks happened when they did.
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Dates:Mon 27/01/2025 -
Mon 24/03/2025Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:8 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Symon HillCourse code:Q00018050How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £59.20
History: Highlights Of British Archaeology: Viking (800 AD) To High Middle Ages
Recent fieldwork allows us to define three distinct phases of Anglo-Scandinavian occupation: raiding, conquest and settlement. Sites at Repton and Torksey provide evidence of Viking Age winter camps from the Conquest Period, whereas spatial analysis of both artefact scatters and place names vividly demonstrate the areas of Norse settlement.
We shall be looking at major developments in shipping technology from the Saxon through to the High Middle Ages, without which none of these invasions, including 1066, would have been possible.
As part of our Medieval studies we shall examine the eclectic Medieval “Voynich Manuscript”. Using the illustrations we shall try to make some sense of it.
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Dates:Mon 27/01/2025 -
Mon 31/03/2025Times:1:45pm - 3:45pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Grimsby Central Hall & Arts Community Ce
Duncombe Street
Grimsby
DN32 7EGTutor:Simon TomsonCourse code:Q00018374How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
History: Country life 1700 to 1900
This course provides an insight into East Anglian life, from the great house to the labourer’s cottage, during a period of great economic and social change, with reference to changes in the landscape, farming practices, and social structures, and the poverty that led to unrest and migration.
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Dates:Tue 28/01/2025 -
Tue 11/02/2025Times:10:00am - 11:00amDuration:3 sessionsLocation:Blofield Court House (BLOFIELD)
28 Yarmouth Road
BLOFIELD
NR13 4JUTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00019922How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £25.20
A Face to the World: Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery
Discover selected paintings, sculptures, works on paper and new media works from the National Portrait Gallery in London. Marking the relaunch in summer 2023 of this national collection after a three-year refurbishment, this course offers an opportunity to discover new or less well-known artworks; and to re-visit familiar portraits that epitomise aspects of British history. We explore ideas around the function of portraiture; and the range of approaches and styles that artists have employed through history to express individual and national identity. Artists featured include Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Joshua Reynolds, Angelica Kauffmann, Pauline Boty, Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake.
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Dates:Thu 30/01/2025 -
Thu 13/03/2025Times:2:00pm - 4:00pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:Wesley Hall (Barnet)
High Barnet Methodist Church
9 Stapylton Road
Barnet
EN5 4JJTutor:Chantal CondronCourse code:Q00017379How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:7 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £60.00
Art Appreciation: The Art of Diplomacy: Behind the Doors of the Government Art Collection
Go behind the scenes of the Government Art Collection, a less well-known national art collection, with Chantal Condron, a former curator at the Collection. Discover the fascinating origins of its history, and the people and events that have shaped its past. Explore how and why artworks are acquired or commissioned and discover some of the locations where they have been displayed. We explore works across a range of media from paintings to film, by artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries, including Marcus Gheerhaerts the Younger, Thomas Phillips, Bridget Riley, Michael Armitage and recent Turner Prize winner, Jesse Darling.
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Dates:Sat 01/02/2025 -
Sat 01/02/2025Times:2:00pm - 4:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:St John's United Reform Church Orpington
Lynwood Grove
Orpington
BR6 0BGTutor:Chantal CondronCourse code:Q00017572How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £10.00
History: Understanding the Holocaust
The course will examine the background to one of the defining events of the C20th. How and why did the German people come to perpetrate arguably the largest crime of a troubled century? Was this the actions of a relatively small number of antisemitic zealots or did the responsibility go much wider within German society? How far were the populations in the countries where the Holocaust took place active participants in mass murder.
As we pause to remember on each Holocaust memorial day, to what extent is our perception and remembrance partial and distorted?
These are some of the questions this course will address. The subject matter is inevitably difficult but it remains important to understand how these events came to pass.
This course is funded by Greater London Combined Authority.
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Dates:Tue 04/02/2025 -
Wed 05/02/2025Times:5:00pm - 7:00pmDuration:2 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Julian RobertsCourse code:Q00019820How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £14.80