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  1. Full fee £619.00 Senior fee £495.00 Concession £402.00
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  4. Medieval London
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mike Berlin
    This course explores the forces that shaped London between the coming of the Normans and the age of



    the Tudors.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  5. Victorian Visions
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Julian Birkett
    “It was the best of times…it was the worst of times.”



    How did the Victorians see the world? They lived through one of the most dramatic periods in our history – and their literature reflects that. Victorian Visions looks at a wide variety of themes in Victorian culture: from the city to the home, from dreams to nightmares, from faith to doubt, from moralism to decadence, from ideology to empire.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  6. British Literature of the 1930s: Brits Abroad
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lewis Ward
    On this in-college literature course we will explore what some of the most significant British authors of the period did and thought on their travels, real and imagined, in the decade leading up to World War II. Authors include Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, Jean Rhys and George Orwell.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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  10. The Birth of English Tragedy
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon
    Come and explore three pioneering tragedies of the early English Renaissance commercial stage (1585-1592): The Spanish Tragedy (1586), Arden of Faversham (1588-92), and Tamburlaine Part I (1587). These plays were to become the models setting the standard and blueprint for three influential sub-genres: Revenge Tragedy, Domestic Tragedy, and Heroic Tragedy. We’ll look at their dramatic inventiveness, creativity in handling sources, and why they enthralled contemporary audiences.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  12. Lithography print workshop
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Simon Burder
    Learn how to produce work that mimics a painterly style using lithography printmaking processes. Lithography depends on the delicate balance between grease and water and can provide a broad range of outcomes. Learn how marks and brush strokes drawn and painted on the printing plate can be faithfully reproduced to create bold or subtle prints.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  13. Textiles: an international history
    Course start date:  Tue 30 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres
    As well as expressing power, prestige and fulfilling symbolic functions, textiles have been intimately linked to the everyday lives of members all societies for millennia. On this course you will study the development of woven, printed and embroidered textiles of many kinds from around the globe and explore the significant roles they have played in the world’s material culture.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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