Art of the Early Renaissance
Schedule of Sessions:
10 Sessions in total at £52. Venue: The Social Room at Guppy’s Enterprise Club
More Classics!
Schedule of Sessions:
Venue: The Social Room, Guppy’s Enterprise Club
Price: £52
The Classics:
An Introduction to the Literature of Greece and Rome
Schedule of Sessions:
Week 1. Homer: The Iliad
Week 2. Homer: The Odyssey
Week 3. Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days
Week 4. Apollonius: Argonautica
Week 5. Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Week 6. Euripides and Aristophanes
Week 7. Virgil: The Aeneid
Week 8. Catullus and Lucretius
Week 9. Horace and Ovid
Week 10. Juvenal and Martial
Sessions will be held 2.00 – 4.00 on Thursdays in the Social Room at Guppy’s Enterprise Club. Course Price: £52
An Age of Improvement:
Industry and Society 1750 – 1900
Schedule of Sessions:
Week 1: Early Industry
Week 2: Wedgwood and the Pottery Business
Week 3: The Railway Revolution
Week 4: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Week 5: Politics and Poverty
Week 6: The Arts and Crafts Movement
Week 7: The Great Gun-Maker: Lord Armstrong
Week 8: American Pioneers
Week 9: Joseph Paxton and the Great Exhibition
Week 10: Mid-Victorianism
10 Sessions. Thursdays 2.00 – 4.00, The Social Room, Guppy’s Enterprise Club
Price: £52
In Search of England: The Making of the English Landscape
Schedule
Session 1 After the Ice
Session 2 Bronze Age Britain
Session 3 Roman and Iron Age Britain
Session 4 Anglo-Saxon Settlement
Session 5 1066 and All That
Session 6 Tudor to Georgian
Session 8 The Enclosures
Session 9 Industrial Landscapes
Session 10 New Towns
Thursday afternoons 2.00 – 4.00; The Social Room, Guppy’s Enterprise Club
Price: £52
Saints, Demons, and Heretics:
The Early Christian World
Saturday Day School 18th August, 10.00am – 3.30pm
The Social Room, Guppy’s Enterprise Club
Tutor: Dr Robert Wright. Price £15
Great Cities of the World
Explore the History, Art and Culture of 10 the World’s Greatest Cities
Schedule of Sessions:
24 May: Istanbul
7 June: Vienna
14 June: Paris
21 June: Athens
28 June: Beijing
5 July: Moscow
12 July: New York
19 July: Delhi
26 July: Prague
2 August: Rome
Location: Guppy’s Enterprise Club, Nunnery Lane. The Social Room
Cost: £50
The Birth of Europe
Explore Europe’s Stone Age and Bronze Age Cultures
Session Titles:
Week 1: The First Europeans
Week 2: Western Prehistory to the rise of the Beaker Folk
Week 3: The Ancient Aegean
Week 4: The Urnfield Culture
Week 5: From the Terramare Culture to Etruscan Italy
Week 6: Bronze Age Britain
Week 7: Prehistoric Iberia and the Atlantic Bronze Age
Week 8: The Nordic Bronze Age
Week 9: The Greek Bronze Age
Week 10: The Coming of the Iron Age
There will be a half-term break, the date of which will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Further details:
A 10 week course beginning Thursday 21st September, 2.00 – 4.00
Location: The Social Room, Guppy’s Enterprise Club; Price: £50
Students may find the following texts useful:
Chris Scarre (ed.), The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies, (London, 2005)
Timothy Darvill, Prehistoric Britain, (London, 1987)
Barry Cunliffe, Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
The Prime Ministers
Thursday afternoons 2.00 – 4.00; Venue – The Social Room, Guppy’s Enterprise Club; Price £50
Schedule of Sessions:
27 April – Walpole and the Whig Supremacy
4 May – Lord North and the loss of the American Colonies
11 May – Pitt the Younger and the War with France
18 May – The Liverpool Administration
25 May – Earl Grey and the Reform Bill
8 June – Early Victorian Prime Ministers
15 June – The Era of Palmerston
22 June – Gladstone and Disraeli
29 June – Lord Salisbury and the Age of Empire
6 July – Liberal Britain
The Jazz Age:
Arts and Culture in the 20s and 30s
Schedule:
12th January – Art Deco
19th January – Haute Couture
26th January – Avant Garde
2nd February – The Spirit of Brooklands
9th February – The Jazz Age
16th February – New Architecture
2nd March – The Aviators
9th March – Dada and Surrealism
16th March – The ‘IT’ Girls
23rd March – 20th Century Realism
Sessions are held on Thursdays 2.00 – 4.00. There will be 10 sessions in total. Venue is the Social Room at Guppy’s Enterprise Club, Nunnery Lane. Cost: £50 (plus £4 club membership for 2017/18. Neal will explain about this at the start of the course).
