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Explore our extraordinary range of History, Culture and Writing courses and lectures. We offer both introductory and specialist in-depth courses to suit all levels of interest and experience, from ‘How to read a film’ and World literature, to Creative non-fiction writing courses and American history and Politics courses.

Our tutors are experts in their fields and experienced educators; many have published, teach in universities or share their expertise in the media. Tutors share their knowledge and passion through presentations, readings, interactive discussion and exercises, analysis, and other activities.

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  3. Ways into Advanced Literature: 20th century readings
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    Course start date:  Wed 29 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Patricia Sweeney
    Explore the rewards of close reading analysis, focusing on the literary genres of fiction and drama. Read, analyse and debate seminal 20th century works, including Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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  4. Homes, houses and art in Britain 1900-1960
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Mar 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Knock on the door of artists’ houses and studios from 1900-1960 to experience exciting and visually dazzling spaces created over the course of their careers. At a time when artists were beginning to forge their own brave new visual worlds, this course considers what the homes might tell us about the artists and how they wanted their homes to be seen.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  5. The essentials of British politics
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Mar 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ian McGarvie
    The aim of this course is to bring to the forefront those, in British politics and society, who may have been confined to the fringes of history, simply been forgotten about or had their stories altered to fit a certain narrative.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  6. Art and imagination: from the Enlightenment to the Victorian age
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Study the art of the period from c.1750-1880 considering Romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelites. We look at ‘romantic’ landscape, the modern moral subject and the depiction of women. Explore the art of women artists who struggled to survive as artists in the tightly controlled world of the art academy where the woman was encouraged to be muse and model rather than creator and thinker.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  7. A history of global capitalism
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Vina Theodorakopoulou
    Want to understand the history of global capitalism? Join Vina Theodorakopoulou to learn about the historical transitions towards what we know as capitalism today – evolution of capital, the role of the state, labour, competition, race, and innovation-automation.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  8. Henry Kissinger’s foreign policy
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Alexandre Dab
    Join us to discover the history and diplomacy of one of the most controversial statesmen of the 20th century – Henry Kissinger.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  9. Modern Women Playwrights
    Course start date:  Wed 21 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Laura Baggaley
    Explore seminal modern plays by three leading women playwrights – Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Moira Buffini – who are all known for groundbreaking and innovative dramatic work.



    In the company of an experienced theatre director, examine the different theatrical visions of three exciting plays.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  10. Art and empire: in the early modern era
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Jan 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Study the art of the Dutch Golden Age from 1600 to 1750 looking at the luxurious, tactile paintings of domestic life and landscape of this gloriously rich period in art. Consider the role that commerce, travel and trade played in how these paintings were made and through critical analysis of texts, try and evaluate the validity of the term ‘Golden Age’.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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