Lancastrians and Yorkists: Instability, chaos and the outbreak of the ‘Wars of the Roses’
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on a waiting list in case of any cancellations. Over six weeks, we will discover 15th century England and the roots of instability which … More details …
Venice: history, art & architecture
A little history of Venice through its art and architecture. This study day begins with a survey of Venetian history from its beginnings to the present day. We will then move on to examine Venetian painting from the 1300s to … More details …
Empires: Part 2 – the Post-Classical Age
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on a waiting list in case of any cancellations. This day school will explore the history of Empire in the Post-Classical Age from about … More details …
Art Nouveau: a modern style for a new millennium
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list in case of any cancellations. Although going by various names, Art Nouveau in France and Belgium, Jugendstil in Germany … More details …
A view of the 40s: Green, Euphan Todd & Taylor. Comedies of manners?
Henry Green’s Loving was published in 1945; for 1946 we have Miss Ranskill comes Home, by an author who most people probably think of as a children’s author, Barbara Euphon Todd. Elizabeth Taylor’s A View of the Harbour was published … More details …
“I paint life”: Laura Knight, 1877 -1970
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list in case of any cancellations. The life and work of artist Laura Knight. Associated with art colonies on the Yorkshire … More details …
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list in case of any cancellations. The German Expressionists brought dazzling colours to the art world in the years surrounding the … More details …
National Treasures: Iconic paintings from the National Gallery
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list in case of any cancellations. In this study day we will investigate some of the greatest paintings in our national … More details …
The ‘Wars of the Roses’: civil war in England and the ascent of the Tudors
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be placed on the waiting list in case of any cancellations. Over six weeks, we will explore the exciting and chaotic world of Fifteenth century England … More details …
From the Bayeux Tapestry to the Wilton Diptych
After a brief survey of the period from the eleventh century to the fifteenth, we will focus firstly on the Bayeux Tapestry – “one of the most enchanting pieces of narrative art in existence” ( Talbot Rice). It is a … More details …
Against the Odds: how women writers found their voices and got published
Virginia Woolf said that ‘Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.’ We shall explore this concept as it applies to women writers in Britain from the 17th to the early 19th century. Using a mix of literary texts we shall focus … More details …
Introduction to Greek Theatre
This one-day course is designed as an entertaining introduction to the subject, rather than a heavy-weight academic course for experts. Students who have no knowledge whatsoever of the ancient world will be made just as welcome as those with previous … More details …
‘Moon Tiger’ by Penelope Lively – the shaping of history in fictional worlds
Penelope Lively’s seventh novel was published in 1987. Ostensibly a novel about one woman’s extraordinary life, the story is complex, playing with time and view-points. It raises questions about history that provide us with a starting point for exploring our … More details …
Caspar David Friedrich – Humanity and Nature
2024 sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich, the father of German Romanticism. He transformed landscape painting into ‘art for a new age’, examining the relationship between man and the natural world. Key pictures by Friedrich … More details …
Better than Nothing
We find it so easy to write down any number using our ten digit system that we do not realise how long it took to invent or appreciate how difficult it was. In this day school we shall look at … More details …