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History: History of Ideas: The Big Questions Part 2
One of the most fascinating aspects of the history of ideas is learning how ideas have a life of their own, influencing society and culture through successive generations in different ways. In this 6-week course we’ll focus on a different important and influential question each week. We cover philosophy, literature, science and history. We’ll read and discuss selected extracts which will be circulated beforehand. The course covers a sweep of over 2000 years, from the ancient Greeks to modern times.
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Dates:Tue 22/04/2025 -
Tue 27/05/2025Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:Enfield Baptist Church (Enfield) (Enfiel
Cecil Road
Enfield
EN2 6TGTutor:Brandon RobshawCourse code:Q00017976How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £72.00
Literature: Ann Radcliffe to Jane Austen - Female Gothic and Literary Homage
This short course will provide the opportunity to study two novels by female authors that are thoughly connected in the minds of many people despite being published 26 years apart by two very different authors. Throughout Northanger Abbey Jane Austen makes many references to Ann Radcliffe’s classic gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. These two novels, then, are connected in the minds of many readers and this course will provide the opportunity of looking at these two novels side-by-side. We will begin with Radcliffe’s 1794 novel The Mysteries of Udolpho and then look at Austen’s much loved Northanger Abbey, published posthumously in 1817.
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Dates:Tue 29/04/2025 -
Tue 10/06/2025Times:2:30pm - 4:30pmDuration:7 sessionsLocation:Exeter Community Centre (Exeter)
17 St. Davids Hill
Exeter
EX4 3RGTutor:Greta DepledgeCourse code:Q00016876How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £50.40
Music Appreciation: Shakespeare and Verdi
Verdi dominated Italian opera in the 19C with a series of highly dramatic works. He was an avid reader of literature and the great playwrights; most of his operas are derived from their works. His favourite writer was Shakespeare and he took great pride in his operatic settings of Macbeth, Othello and Falstaff. If you are a lover of Shakespeare, then you will learn how an operatic setting with its dramatic music and singing can provide an enhanced experience of these great dramas.
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Dates:Sat 10/05/2025 -
Sat 10/05/2025Times:10:00am - 4:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:The Bradbury Community Centre (Wokingham
Rose Street
Rose Street
Wokingham
RG40 1XSTutor:Robin JohnCourse code:Q00017430How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £25.20
Art Appreciation: Who's the Muse? Eileen Agar, Claude Cahun and Isabel Rawsthorne
What is a muse? How and why has this convention endured for centuries? On this focused course, we explore the identity and representation of the muse through the lives and work of three female artists: Claude Cahun (1894-1954), Eileen Agar (1899-1991) and Isabel Rawsthorne (1912-1992). Each week we focus on one artist, examining their individual backgrounds, training and a range of influences that helped to shape their practice across either painting, photography or sculpture. By exploring their work and artistic intentions we will discuss how the traditional concept of the modern muse was powerfully subverted by each of the artists.
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Dates:Thu 26/06/2025 -
Thu 10/07/2025Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:3 sessionsLocation:Enfield Baptist Church (Enfield) (Enfiel
Cecil Road
Enfield
EN2 6TGTutor:Chantal CondronCourse code:Q00017374How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:9 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £36.00