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Literature : Simon’s Shakespeare & Marlowe Spring School – Week 1 : Dr Faustus

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Starts: Monday, 31 March 2025 at 2:30PM
Ends: Friday, 04 April 2025 at 3:30PM



Available spaces: 57
Host: Simon Gregor

Dive into the dramatic world of Shakespeare and Marlowe with our new "Shakespeare & Marlowe School,"Join Simon Gregor as we compare and contrast two great Elizabethan tragedies; Christopher Marlow...

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Talks : Tilo’s Talk on Galicia

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Starts: Monday, 31 March 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 31 March 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 219
Host: Tilo Flache

Galicia is a remote part in Northern Spain where Christianity took refuge when most of Spain was under Muslim control, a region influenced by Celts and Germanic tribes, where bagpipes are more common ...

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Talks : Tilo’s Talk on Shanghai

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Starts: Monday, 07 April 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 07 April 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 239
Host: Tilo Flache

Is Shanghai a historic Chinese city, a colonial-style trade centre, a post-Communist wasteland or a 21st century megacity? In reality, it’s a bit of all of the above and also much more.Zoom log in d...

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Talks : Peter’s Talk on Southwark – A Dickens of a Place

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Starts: Wednesday, 09 April 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 09 April 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 225
Host: Peter Lawrence

A Dickens of a Place: Positioned immediately south of the City of London, Southwark has a rich history as a market, place of transit and “entertainment of all kinds”. Add Chaucer, Shakespeare and ...

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Talks : Tilo’s Talk on Easter Traditions Around the World

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Starts: Monday, 14 April 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 14 April 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 233
Host: Tilo Flache

Easter celebrations around the world are varied and often differ from our egg hunts and stacks of sweet treats. Let’s take a good look at all the strange and wonderful things people get up to in ord...

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Talks : Simon’s Travels in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

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Starts: Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 1:00PM
Ends: Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 2:00PM



Available spaces: 249
Host: Simon Gregor

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is largely unspoiled wilderness, a land of forests and lakes, where you can walk for hours and not see another living soul.  Affectionately known as the UP, and its re...

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Talks : Peter’s Talk on Humphry Repton – Landscape Gardener

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Starts: Wednesday, 23 April 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 23 April 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 234
Host: Peter Lawrence

Humphry Repton - Landscape Gardener: Bringing Art and Nature together, Peter highlights this clever man’s work in East Anglia during the latter part of the Georgian period.Zoom log in details will ...

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Talks : Tilo’s Talk on Namibia

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Starts: Monday, 28 April 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 28 April 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 237
Host: Tilo Flache

Often overlooked, Namibia certainly has a lot to offer: varied glorious landscapes, a wealth of cultural diversity and a large variety of animal and plant life. Imagine anything from desert to savanna...

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Talks : Simon’s Talk on US Presidents : Harry Truman

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Starts: Wednesday, 30 April 2025 at 1:00PM
Ends: Wednesday, 30 April 2025 at 2:00PM



Available spaces: 249
Host: Simon Gregor

President Roosevelt was elected for a historic and unique fourth term in 1944, and yet even as he took up office his health was failing.  Within a few months, and before the conclusion of the Second ...

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Talks : Peter’s Talk on Once Around Trafalgar Square

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Starts: Wednesday, 14 May 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 14 May 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 244
Host: Peter Lawrence

Whilst the Square today is a magnet for tourist and demonstrator alike, it has a history quite distinctive from other parts of central London with the Saxon village of Charing at its heart.Zoom log in...

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Talk : Steve’s Art History : Russian Artist’s and Architecture

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Starts: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 4:00PM
Ends: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 5:00PM



Available spaces: 246
Host: Steve Carroll

Join Steve for this course where he explores how Russian architecture shaped visual art, from medieval icons to avant-garde movements. Through key periods and case studies, students will examine the ...

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Talks : Peter’s Talk on Fruit, Veg & Petticoats

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Starts: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 243
Host: Peter Lawrence

A History of London’s ancient markets: This talk takes us back to the origins of going to market and the ancient sites throughout London that have offered food, livestock and various commodities thr...

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Talk : Steve’s Art History : The Dutch 17th Century in Art

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Starts: Monday, 16 June 2025 at 4:00PM
Ends: Monday, 16 June 2025 at 5:00PM



Available spaces: 246
Host: Steve Carroll

Join Steve for this art history talk on The Dutch 17th Century in Art – the Quiet Revolution, where landscape, still life and the everyday were elevated as subject matter. How masters like Vermeer, ...

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Craft : Steve’s Art History : The Subject Matter of Impressionism

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Starts: Monday, 07 July 2025 at 4:00PM
Ends: Monday, 07 July 2025 at 5:00PM



Available spaces: 246
Host: Steve Carroll

Everyone recognizes the distinctive brushwork and light-filled canvases of the Impressionists, but their choice of subject matter was just as revolutionary. Rejecting traditional historical and mythol...

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