Ukraine: understanding the country and its people
This short course will focus on the way that history, social history and geography have determined the Ukrainian experience. The 2 half days will look at the constituent parts of today’s Ukraine, their different histories and how this complicates the … More details …
Everyone can draw
Learn to draw with line and shading to capture form and texture. Get depth into your drawings by using perspective and a range of different marks and materials. Build your confidence and develop drawing skills in a relaxed and supportive … More details …
David Copperfield – The Personal History of…..by Charles Dickens
This five week course will study Dickens’s most autobiographical novel – The Personal History of David Copperfield. Serialised between 1849 – 1850, it only emerged much later that so much of David’s life has its roots in Dickens’s own early … More details …
From Kaiser to Führer
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be put on the waiting list in case of any cancellations. An exploration of the history and politics surrounding the creation of the Weimar Republic, the … More details …
Music from the Movies
This course is now fully booked. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waiting list for any cancellations. Join Ben England, award-winning conductor and educator for a day exploring the origins of film music, presented … More details …
Poetry and the Passage of Time
The passage of time is a theme explored by many poets. In this three-week course we’ll read and discuss poems from the Bloodaxe anthology, Being Human (2011), which includes a wide variety of poetry from this and the previous century, … More details …
Brahms: Inspiration or perspiration?
Poor old Brahms sometimes finds himself facing undue criticism. Despite being widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in history, some people encounter challenges when trying to connect with his music. Is it due to its complexity? Or perhaps … More details …
When England had barely begun
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. Sutton Hoo and the Lindisfarne Gospels provide remarkable insights into the England of the 7th century. Early … More details …
Marsden Hartley and Robert Indiana, a conversation through time
There will be three sessions making up this slightly shorter day course 1 In the first session we will study the life and work of Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Hartley was an American Modernist, a painter, a poet and essayist. After … More details …
Written out of history? Women artists, 1400-1900
This course aims to introduce you to some of the many women who enjoyed successful careers as painters and sculptors in countries across Europe down the centuries. We will begin in the early Renaissance and will consider some of the … More details …
Baubles and beads for Christmas
Make some unique decorations to hang on the tree or to give as gifts. No stitching required and there will be lots of ribbons, threads, beads and wire to choose from. See below for examples of what you could make. … More details …
Three Comedy of Manners novels from the early Twentieth Century
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. EM Forster’s, A Room with a View provides a glimpse into Edwardian times. Jump forward … More details …
The colourful life of Cleopatra and her times
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. As with all the best stories, the truth is stranger than fiction, so come along … More details …
‘The World’s Wife’: Carol Ann Duffy
‘The World’s Wife’ is a collection of 30 dramatic monologues in which Carol Ann Duffy pursues one of her major concerns: to give voice to those in society who are not usually heard. Many of the wives portrayed may be … More details …
Empires: Part 1 – The Classical Era
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. This day school will explore the history of Eurasian Empires up to the end of … More details …