Explore History, Culture & Writing

Find out more about epistolography (letter writing) as a literary genre in the Roman world.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Become familiar with some grammar terminology and concepts that will enhance your knowledge of English and the learning of other languages.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

In the last decade, authoritarian populism and extremism has swept much of Europe and the world. What are its roots and why does it persist? Join Dr. Angelos Sepos to begin to explore the issue.



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What is memory? How does memory impact our sense of self and time? Why does memory often go wrong? If our memory is unreliable, can it provide knowledge of our personal past? What is collective memory? This course explores memory from philosophical and psychological perspectives.



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The history of the cinema is a rich, rewarding and dynamic area of study. Cinema, because it is both an art form and an industrial product, can be studied from several different historical perspectives. These have included investigations into the history of technological development associated with cinema’s origins and its subsequent development, but historians have also explored its evolution into an art form. They have written about important individual figures or influential groups and have examined specific films in great detail. Historians have also examined the national, cultural, political and social contexts that might offer insight into the cinema at a given historical moment. They have examined the changing demographic and viewing habits of spectators and explored the mutability of cinemas themselves. With so much to consider and so many different approaches to take, the history of cinema continues to evolve. As such this advanced level film studies course will explore what it means to study film history, examine the various methodologies that one might take, while at the same time looking at relevant filmic and cinematic examples.

This course will provide an exploration of 300 years of Jewish life, culture and history in London from the small scale resettlement in the 1650s through to the 1950s when the borough of Hackney was home to London’s largest and most diverse Jewish community.

Always wanted to write a children's book? This practical course will develop your ability to write for different age groups and genres of contemporary children's fiction.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.