History and politics courses
Discover ancient civilisations, explore the medieval times to the modern age, or find out the history of London on one of our range of daytime, evening and weekend courses in History and politics."The teacher was plainly in love with his subject, and we benefitted."
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- A history of animals in Britain 1800-1900
- A history of animals in Britain 1900-2000
- A history of London: 1880-1914
- A history of North Africa: Arab invasions to Arab Spring
- Africa today: policies and visions for the future
- Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh
- America: The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance
- American Naturalism: the novels of Dreiser and Crane
- American presidents in the gilded age
- An introduction to family history
- Anglo-Saxon literature in translation
- Armageddon
- Ballet in Western culture: a brief introduction
- British foreign policy in the 21st century
- British-American relations: a special relationship
- Cinema and the First World War
- Cultural history: an introduction
- Dance in musical theatre: from Astaire to Bob Fosse
- Dance in popular culture: from Tango to Hip-hop
- Down the tube: exploring London`s underground lines
- Dresden: a musical paradise
- Edith Wharton and the age of innocence
- Eisenhower: the 1950s and the forgotten President
- EU enlargement: do we need more members
- Family history: thinking and writing your histories imaginatively
- Four famous excavations in Ancient Nubia
- How the ancients ate: a practical guide
- Human rights and refugees in a global context
- Inspiration and learning: an introduction to museum studies
- Introduction to battlefield guiding
- Introduction to classical studies: poetry and visual arts
- Introduction to Greek myth: ancient truths, modern mystery
- Isaac Rosenberg: Londoner and war poet
- London at war
- London at war: recruitment and memorialisation
- London in the swinging sixties
- London in the time of Edward I
- Love and poetry in the time of the troubadours
- Madame Tussaud's waxworks: murderers and monarchs
- Medieval England: the Black Death
- Medieval England: the calamitous 14th century
- Medieval England: the Hundred Years' War
- Medieval England: the Knights Templar and the Temple Church
- Medieval England: the reign of Richard II
- Medieval pilgrimage
- More current affairs
- New movement in the visual arts
- Other peoples in ancient Greece and Rome
- Pompeii: the lives of the people
- Radical responses to the Gilded Age: Jack London
- Samuel Pepys: life and times
- Slavery in modern history
- Storytelling: why stories matter and how to tell them
- The 20th century: the end of the world as we knew it
- The American Impressionists in the Gilded Age
- The Battle of Gettysburg 1863: 'This hallowed ground'
- The Battle of Sadowa 1866 and the rise of Prussia
- The Battle of Sedan and the fall of Napoleon III
- The Battles of Isandlwana and Maiwand: two imperial defeats
- The battles of the Waterloo campaign: the imperial sunset
- The context: the path to war
- The country house in English history
- The French Revolution: 1789
- The Gilded Age: Mark Twain the inventor
- The great kings: Assyria, Babylon and Persia
- The Greek classics: how Plato uses drama to teach
- The Greek classics: Odyssey & Iliad - two famous 'meetings'
- The Greek classics: Sophocles' Oedipus the King
- The legacy of Greece in the ancient World
- The Medieval churches of London: an archaeological approach
- The modern age: 20th century music
- The music of war
- The nation state and the visual arts
- The Odyssey in translation: a City Lit study group
- The politics of the environment: introducing green economics
- The robber barons: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie and Frick
- The Spanish civil war and the arts: Lorca, Bunuel and Dali
- The story of Berlin
- The swinging sixties in film and TV
- The Third French Republic: 1871-1940
- The war and medical history
- The world's first underground: the Metropolitan line jubilee
- The `Arab Spring`
- Understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict
- Upside down world - who are the one percent
- War artists
- Was World War I good for medical advances
- What's in the news: debating current issues
- Whitehall and the Jews: British Government policy 1933-1951
- Whitehall walk
- Women's lives in the Ancient World
- World War I and the cartoonists
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