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  1. Interactions between the Mediterranean world and Anglo-Saxon England
    Course start date:  Fri 5 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Stephen Pollington
    This talk will explore some of the connections which maintained the Anglo-Saxons' feeling that Rome was part of their heritage.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £19.00
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  2. Demystifying Tate Modern
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 6 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    Get an overview of Tate Modern with this straightforward and lively insight into the gallery’s current displays and the role of the gallery in the contemporary art world. #arthistory #tatemodern.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  3. In Scrooge's Footsteps: A Christmas Carol & Dickens Walk
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Eleanor Jackson

    Join us for a festive walk in the footsteps of Scrooge, looking at the locations and impact of Dickens’s most famous work. We will also examine how Dickens’s story has influenced our ideas of Christmas.

    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  4. Spanish 3 upper taster
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Come and discover what an intermediate Spanish class feels like.



    This course is suitable if you have studied Spanish for about 4/5 years recently.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  5. Adoring the Christ Child in art: images of the very generous Magi
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    The images of the Adoration of the Magi will be taken from medieval illuminated manuscripts, as well as panel paintings done for churches and chapels and fresco cycles. Artists covered include Italian artists such as Duccio, Giotto, Botticelli, Fra Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Gentile da Fabriano, and northern Renaissance artists including Gossaert and Breughel.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  6. Music history bookclub: The Great Passion
    Course start date:  Fri 12 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Edward Breen

    The music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme. 

    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  7. History of ideas: the invention of Christmas
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 13 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Angela Platt
    Beginning around the middle of the 19th century, a ‘new Christmas’ came into the fore; a reinvented Christmas, if you will. Why did this Christmas shift as it did – to produce the modern celebration many people still enjoy today? In this course, the stories of those groups and individuals who impacted this ‘reinvention of Christmas’ will be shared.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  8. Lamplit Hampstead
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Discover the mysterious atmosphere to Hampstead on a tour after-dark where the streets are lit by old-fashioned lamps. We will wind through the narrow back streets and catch glimpses of its fascinating history from the glow of lamps and lit buildings. This tour is particularly stunning over the Festive season where subtle Christmas lights add to the effect. We will end at the historic Holly Bush Tavern where we can warm up with a drink!



    Tour starts outside Wagamama 58-62 Heath Street, NW3 1EN Ends Hampstead Tube Station.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00
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  9. Hindi through Bollywood singing
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Roopam Aggarwal
    Learn to speak Hindi and develop your listening and speaking skills in this communicative class which emphasizes the practical use of the language via singing. Suitable for complete beginners.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  10. Art and Ideas: Identity and the self
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 8 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    This course is for students and creative practitioners interested in identity as a creative and conceptual theme. Explore and discuss ideas, theories and work by significant artists and writers to enhance and inspire the development of creative work.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00
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  11. Music theory: counterpoint 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 13 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Selena Kay
    Explore the art of counterpoint, a musical technique in which two or more melodies are combined to create a highly engaging musical texture. Through analysis and practical exercises, you'll learn to write effective counterpoint in the tonal style, focusing on the Baroque period. Leads to part 3 next term. Scheduled break week: 17 Feb 2026.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £174.00
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  12. Beethoven's Vienna
    Course start date:  Wed 14 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Katy Hamilton

    Ludwig van Beethoven’s music has come to stand for the greatest and best-known aspects of the Western classical tradition. But who was he? And what exactly did he do? Come and discover more about this most famous Viennese composer.

    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  13. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  14. Grammar in practice: upper intermediate (level 1-2)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 9 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Unsure when to use present perfect or past perfect? Is reported speech still causing you problems? Do you need to practise your conditionals? Join this course and put your grammar into practice in speaking, writing, reading and listening. Gain confidence in using grammar effectively through high level and engaging tasks



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00
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  15. Use your voice assertively (online)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 17 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Allis Moss
    Do you want to sound more confident, grounded, self-assured and assertive? Improve your vocal skills through a series of exercises that will support you to become more vocally confident, expressive and dynamic without appearing arrogant. This course will be delivered online.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00
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