- Sexuality, Colonialism and Law: Is there a better way of achieving safety for gay men internationally?
Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joshua HeppleNearly seventy countries still criminalise gay sex. Is the West on the right path to universal decriminalisation of same-sex activity?
Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00 - Christopher and his Kind: Christopher Isherwood in Berlin Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jake PollerThe experience of living in Berlin in the early 1930s had a transformative effect on the life and work of Christopher Isherwood. In this course, we will discuss Isherwood’s masterpiece, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), and his autobiography Christopher and His Kind (1976), which reveals the real people behind the characters of Sally Bowles and Otto Nowak, and shines a light on the queer culture of Berlin Isherwood was unable to write about in the 1930s.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Museum and Repatriation Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Olivia DurandExplore the challenges of decolonising museums, focusing on repatriation, reparations, and ethical dilemmas, with part of the course inside the British Museum.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Elena Ferrante Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Elena Ferrante is the author of the Neapolitan novel series, whose global success has established her as one of the most powerful voices of contemporary world literature. Her identity, however, is still one of the greatest mysteries in modern literature. In this workshop we will explore why the novels have attracted such interest and passion and we will look at the various hypotheses advanced in the Italian and foreign press as to her real identity.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Art history taster Course start date: Tue 1 Jul 2025 (and 12 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayCurious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories from the ancient to the contemporary.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Refugee philosophers or philosopher refugeesCourse start date: Fri 4 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Daniel WeizmanIn a time of deepening displacement and border anxiety, the figure of the refugee haunts the contemporary political imagination. This session explores how Jacques Derrida’s reflections on hospitality can reframe our understanding of the stranger, not as a threat to the social order, but as a condition of its ethical renewal.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - In conversation with Jacqui Ramrayka Course start date: Fri 11 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as ceramicist Jacqui Ramrayka introduces the topic of her recent V & A residency during which her practice explored giving form to the intangible through porcelain vessels, particularly in relation to the Indo-Caribbean diaspora’s experience, memory and grief.Full fee £0.00 - German 3: revive your GermanCourse start date: Fri 18 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Barbara PölletRevive your German in the heart of London. Did you study German some time ago? This is the ideal course if you have studied German for at least 2 years (3 hours/ week ) or 3 years (1.5 hours /week) recently or want to pick up studying German again.This course is also suitable as a revison course.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - German 2: revive your GermanCourse start date: Fri 18 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Friederike SchroederRevise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have studied German for at least two years. Based on the tutor's own materials.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00 - Basic DS skills for deaf people: Getting started with online learning (pre-entry)Course start date: Fri 12 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This complete course for beginners will help to become a confident user of your computer from setting it up to understanding and using basic digital skills functions.
This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Digital skills for deaf people: Introduction to MS Office 365 (entry 2 - entry 3) - part 1Course start date: Fri 12 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Microsoft Office 365 is a valuable tool for work, study, and those who require flexible ways to collaborate and communicate. You will learn the basic functions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - A taste of physics Course start date: Fri 12 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicGet a taste of the fundamental aspects of physics such as the nature of light, matter and energy and the physical laws governing the world around us and our universe. - BSL level 1 for Deaf peopleCourse start date: Tue 23 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Peter BrownThis course is for Deaf learners who already use sign language in their everyday lives and want to further develop their skills in British Sign Language at level 1.
You will be able to communicate in BSL in a range of everyday topics and achieve a level 1 qualification, accredited by Signature.
This course is FREE if you are a resident in London and your preferred language is BSL
Full fee £0.00 - Fatimid Egypt, 909-1171 with BM visit Course start date: Fri 10 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberta MarinJoin us for this introductory course to discover the history of the Fatimids, from the establishment of the empire in Tunisia to the foundation of Cairo, their new capital. Includes an afternoon visit to the British Museum.
Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - History, memory and mental wealth: why we need to talk about empire Course start date: Fri 17 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Martin JorgensenFormally, European imperialism ended decades ago. Yet, the different legacies still affect the world and many societies today. Join us for a discussion on why we need to talk about empire and mental wealth.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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