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Event Category: History

More Trolloping – Orley Farm

05/06/2026 am – 19/06/2026 am
  • Tutor: Greta Depledge
  • Venue: Clevedon Community Centre
  • Categories: Literature, Social History

This stand-alone novel, Orley Farm, by prolific nineteenth-century novelist Anthony Trollope is a tale of family relationships, inheritance and suspected property fraud. It provides us with a window into Victorian society and the ideas that underpinned it.

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Diego and Frida

13/06/2026 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Tutor: Paul Chapman
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Art History, Day course

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the iconic Mexican artists whose passionate, volatile yet enduring relationship created numerous great works of art. They shared a deep artistic and political bond which helped create some of the most iconic paintings of the … More details …

Neo-classicism: Art in the age of revolution & Napoleon

17/06/2026 am – 01/07/2026 am
  • Venue: Clevedon Community Centre
  • Categories: Architecture, Art History, Day course, History

This short course uses paintings, prints and architecture to shed light on the exciting and colourful period around the time of the French revolution. At the time of the French revolution and Napoleon there was also a revolution in the … More details …

Making Paradise on the French Riviera

18/06/2026 am – 02/07/2026 am
  • Tutor: Jan Cox
  • Venue: Friends Meeting House
  • Categories: Art History, Social History

“The French Riviera is the playground of the rich, the famous, and those who appreciate the finer things in life.” Monet, Renoir, and Cézanne were attracted from the 1870s onwards by the scenery and the light of the French Riviera. … More details …

Why do we never have time?

04/07/2026 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Tutor: Christophe Fricker
  • Venue: Clevedon Community Centre
  • Categories: Day course, Science and Philosophy, Social History

We constantly save time but never have any. We’re the masters of our destiny yet strangely powerless. We live an era of connection, but we’re lonely. Why? A sociological deep-dive into the world’s biggest questions. This is going to be … More details …

Still Rocking After All These Years: The Music That Shaped a Generation

18/07/2026 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
  • Tutor: Ben England
  • Venue: Clevedon Community Centre
  • Categories: Day course, Music, Social History

Join acclaimed music leader Ben England BEM for a rich and engaging day exploring the rise of rock music and its extraordinary cultural impact.  Still Rocking After All These Years: The Music That Shaped a Generation traces the journey from the … More details …

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