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- Writing about food
Course start date: Mon 17 Apr 2023Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Laura SilvermanLove food and want to write about it? Whether you’re keen to review dishes, interview chefs or write about sustainable eating, now is your chance. This course will cover writing for established publications as well as personal blogs.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £90.00 - Picture book writing: advancedCourse start date: Wed 22 Feb 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare Helen WelshWould you like to workshop, edit and polish your picture book texts for young children? This course is designed for advanced picture book writers wishing to hone their skills and improve their own stories.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - From the 1880s to the 1930s: how the new East End was bornCourse start date: Tue 25 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: David RosenbergIn an area branded 'the hell of poverty', libraries, theatres, art galleries and social housing were established. Workers went on strike and activists campaigned for better lives. Discover this history by taking actual, guided walks through six tumultuous decades of change. First and last session delivered on Zoom. Other sessions are guided walks. Full details of the meeting places for each walk will be given at the 1st session. 6 guided walks with 2 Zoom sessions.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £85.00 - The Black Atlantic: Enslavement and Resistance, Rebellions & RevolutionsCourse start date: Tue 25 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellen CarpenterWithin the broader rich past of the Black Atlantic, we will explore the ways in which Africans fought the system of enslavement known as chattel slavery, from their coercive enslavement in Africa and on slave ships, to everyday acts of resistance, large-scale organized rebellions, and guerrilla-style wars in the Caribbean colonies.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £85.00 - Village LondonCourse start date: Wed 26 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Paul SinclairLondon is made up of a series of villages, each with its own individual characteristics. Explore Shoreditch, Mayfair, Bermondsey, Notting Hill, Clerkenwell, Islington, Harrow on the Hill and Wapping,in 8 guided walks.
First meeting place:meet at Shoreditch High Street station.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £85.00 - The emergence of modern America: the United States from 1865 to 1900Course start date: Wed 26 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Dafydd TownleyWant to explore the history of the United States in the years after the Civil War? In this course to we will discuss the the years from 1865 to 1900 in American history. Why not join us?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £85.00 - Art and melancholy: from the Enlightenment to the Victorian ageCourse start date: Wed 26 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberStudy 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 £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Isis, Mithras and Christ: iconography and mythologyCourse start date: Wed 26 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael BloomfieldAn introduction to the history, essential beliefs, mythology, and iconography, of three influential religions
of the Graeco-Roman world: Isis, the mystery cult devoted to Mithras and Christ.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Exploring European cinemaCourse start date: Wed 26 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyThis class introduces you to a range of themes and issues in European cinema, including art cinema, national cinema, movements, 'moments' and new waves, authorship, popular cinema and genre, along with key developments in European film history from the silent era to the present day, key films, directors and the canon of European cinema, and a range of critical accounts of European cinema.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - The Coming of the Sea Peoples: The Trojan War in the context of Mycenaean Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze AgeCourse start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbThe Late Bronze Age is a story of collapse, from New Kingdom Egyptian to Hittite Anatolia, from the Assyrian Empire to Babylonian turmoil. Mycenaean Greece is a part of this and the Coming of the Sea Peoples is a terror that echoes through the pages of history. Come learn about how the world as we knew it ended!
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Homes, houses and art in Britain 1900-1960Course start date: Thu 27 Apr 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberKnock 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 £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Life in Anglo-Saxon EnglandCourse start date: Thu 2 Feb 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Stephen PollingtonWhat was daily life like for people in England a thousand years ago? What clothes did they wear, what food did they eat, what were their houses like? What language did they speak and how was it written? What medical knowledge did they have, and who practised it? What were their religious beliefs, and what were their superstitions? The course will take a look at ordinary life in Anglo-Saxon England using evidence from archaeology, literature, iconography, place-names and other sources.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Rising powers: IndiaCourse start date: Tue 2 May 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sebastien ArdouinWithin a few decades, India has become a key global actor. What explains this rise and what does it mean for the “world’s largest democracy” and the world?Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £85.00 - Politics, society and culture in Weimar Germany (1918-1933)Course start date: Wed 3 May 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rudolf MuhsThis course looks at the Weimar republic established in Germany in 1918, its achievements, the problems it faced and why these led to the rise of the Nazis and end of democracy in inter-war Germany.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £85.00 - 'The Noise of Time': Russian poetry and society from Mayakovsky and Pasternak to Brodsky and StepanovaCourse start date: Thu 4 May 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephen WinfieldExplore the ways in which the leading Russian poets of two contrasting periods – the early 20th century, from the Silver Age to the Revolution, and the late 20th – 21st centuries, from the end of the Soviet era up until our own time - responded and are still responding to the pressures of a society in the grip of profound political change.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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