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Starts: Monday, 12 May 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 12 May 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 233
Host: Tilo Flache

The WI has an outstanding reputation for supporting members’ during times of change and uncertainty; the positive, motivational, and inspirational ways in which members support one-another, bo...

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Starts: Tuesday, 13 May 2025 at 11:00AM
Ends: Tuesday, 13 May 2025 at 12:00PM



Available spaces: 248
Host: Lynda Warren

The WI has an outstanding reputation for supporting members’ during times of change and uncertainty; the positive, motivational, and inspirational ways in which members support one-another, bo...

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Starts: Wednesday, 14 May 2025 at 1:00PM
Ends: Wednesday, 14 May 2025 at 2:00PM



Available spaces: 234
Host: Dr Simon Gregor

The WI has an outstanding reputation for supporting members’ during times of change and uncertainty; the positive, motivational, and inspirational ways in which members support one-another, bo...

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



Available spaces: 189
Host: Peter Lawrence

The WI has an outstanding reputation for supporting members’ during times of change and uncertainty; the positive, motivational, and inspirational ways in which members support one-another, bo...

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



Available spaces: 226
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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Starts: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 19 May 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 233
Host: Tilo Flache

Tuscany is dotted with charming towns and villages in a stunning landscape, each with its own unique character, some well-preserved architecture and lots of history. But there are also lovely coastal ...

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Starts: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 1:00PM
Ends: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 2:00PM



Available spaces: 236
Host: Dr Simon Gregor

Over the course of the last twelve months or so, Simon has been offering a series of talks on specific poets, from Robert Frost and Mary Oliver, to William Wordsworth and John Keats.  In this first o...

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Starts: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 6:00PM
Ends: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 7:00PM



Available spaces: 246
Host: Vicky Constantine-Foster

Welcome to the Film Club!With so many films available on platforms like iPlayer, ITVX, Netflix, Amazon, and Sky, finding a good movie can feel overwhelming. To help you skip the indecision, join us at...

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Starts: Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 1:00PM
Ends: Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 2:00PM



Available spaces: 228
Host: Dr Julia Phillips

Join Dr. Julia Phillips as she delves into the fascinating legend of "Operation Cone of Power". There is a legend that in the early days of World War II, a coven of witches gathered in the New Forest...

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Starts: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 1:00PM
Ends: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 2:00PM



Available spaces: 235
Host: Dr Simon Gregor

And so we reach president number 34 - Dwight D Eisenhower.  By the time he assumed the Presidency in 1953, he was already a global figure owing to his leading role in commanding the Normandy Landings...

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



Available spaces: 204
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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Starts: Monday, 02 June 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 02 June 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 243
Host: Tilo Flache

Oslo is not one of those cities where too many thoughts come to mind and jockey for a front seat in the mental image. You may conjure up impressions of a modern city, visions of nature, ski-jumping, o...

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



Available spaces: 223
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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Starts: Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 247
Host: Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth

Human-computer interaction originated to make it easier for people to interact with their computers and to study how humans experienced technology. But, when the computer moved off the desktop and int...

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



Available spaces: 230
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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Starts: Wednesday, 09 July 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 09 July 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 247
Host: Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth

Whilst AI advances seem new and amazing, many seem to have been inspired by the stories we have been telling well before 'moving pictures' were invented. In this talk we will take a light-hearted loo...

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Starts: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 27 August 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 247
Host: Dr Ruth Stalker-Firth

Digital journalism began in the 1990s as the WWW became a key place where people went to get their news. Over the years it seems that traditional journalism has scrambled to keep up with the other fas...