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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.

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  1. The many sides of London's West End
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Richard Watkins
    A course of walking tours of London’s West End showing its development from the seventeenth century, how its profile has ebbed and flowed, looking at it through specific themes.



    First meeting place: Covent Garden tube, outside exit on James Street.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
  2. A sense of place: Constable’s Hampstead
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Explore Georgian and Regency Hampstead walking in the footsteps of John Constable and seeing places he painted and quotes about his thoughts and feelings on Hampstead and his art.
    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00
  3. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  4. Looking together: art as communal space
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 14 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Sarah Jaffray
    Explore art as a communal space of conversation. Join this workshop to develop or deepen your art interpretation skills by listening and thinking about the meaning of an artwork collaboratively. This session is part of the 2023 Mental Wealth Festival hosted by City Lit and partners.
    Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00
  5. Constable and the British landscape tradition
    Course start date:  Tue 17 Oct 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Marilyn Greene
    Discover the development of the British Landscape tradition from the 18th and 19th centuries. The Victoria and Albert Museum has the largest collection of John Constable sketches in the world, and we will discuss the works on display in detail and compare with works by J.W.M Turner and other artists on display.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
  6. Islamic art at the British Museum
    Last Few Places, Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Nov 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Anita Chowdry
    Take a Sunday afternoon to explore the British Museum’s newly refurbished Islamic galleries and learn the stories behind one of the world’s great collections of Islamic art.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
  7. Renaissance art: making, locating and viewing
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Nov 2023

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    This course explores the Making, the Locating and the Viewing of Renaissance paintings in the collection of the National Gallery. This course takes place at the National Gallery.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
  8. City of words: further adventures
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Jan 2024

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Eleanor Jackson
    London luxuriates in literary references. We follow the footsteps of the authors, poets and playwrights, and some of their creations, as we walk a brand new neighbourhood each week, exploring the literary connections.



    London guide: Eleanor Jackson. First meeting point at Green Park tube station, street level, Piccadilly South side.



    London guide: Eleanor Jackson.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  9. Discover North London through walks
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 13 Jan 2024

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Diane Burstein
    Uncover the history of North London’s historic districts including Highbury , Friern Barnet and North Finchley, High Barnet, Tottenham, Muswell Hill, Wood Green, Golders Green and the Northern Heights, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Kentish Town, Camden Town and Belsize Park







    First meeting place: Saturday 13 January at 11am: Meet outside Highbury and Islington Tube Station (this could be altered if there are engineering works on the Victoria Line. The line closure list for weekend engineering work is only published six months in advance so doesn’t yet go up to January 2024!).
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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