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Starts: Monday, 08 December 2025 at 4:00PM
Ends: Monday, 08 December 2025 at 4:00PM



Available spaces: 231
Host: Steve Carroll

Join Steve for an insightful exploration of two strikingly different modern artists – David Bomberg and Tamara de Lempicka. In this session, you’ll discover how Bomberg’s bold, expressive approa...

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Starts: Monday, 08 December 2025 at 6:00PM
Ends: Monday, 08 December 2025 at 7:00PM



Available spaces: 231
Host: Lynda Warren

In 1905, George Bernard Shaw said, “A child who has never seen a pantomime is a public danger”.  My fascination with panto began at the age of 4 when I was taken to my first panto at Broadway, no...

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Starts: Monday, 08 December 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 08 December 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 223
Host: Tilo Flache

A group of islands that are imbued with English and French elements, a language apart, a remnant of Norman culture and an apple of discord during the Second World War, the Channel Islands are a place ...

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Starts: Tuesday, 09 December 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Tuesday, 09 December 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 232
Host: Jo Richardson

In this talk we discover the experience of working on the high seas as an astronomer and follow in Jo and Pete's journey across the Arctic Circle with Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. Hear about the fun they ...

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Starts: Wednesday, 10 December 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Wednesday, 10 December 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 203
Host: Peter Lawrence

Bomb Sites to the Beatles – Peter invites you to share memories of growing up in the 1950s and 60s. Archive illustrations will journey you back in the time that took us from post war austerity and r...

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Starts: Monday, 15 December 2025 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 15 December 2025 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 236
Host: Tilo Flache

There are thousands of castles in Germany, ranging lesser known mediaeval fortresses to the poster child of castles everywhere - Neuschwanstein, and they are so plentiful that this talk can only inclu...

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Starts: Monday, 05 January 2026 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 05 January 2026 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 244
Host: Tilo Flache

Tilo was fascinated by family history from an early age: ever since he was shown a strange old document when he was still in primary school, he was hooked. As a young adult, Tilo started his own resea...

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Starts: Monday, 12 January 2026 at 7:30PM
Ends: Monday, 12 January 2026 at 8:30PM



Available spaces: 244
Host: Tilo Flache

Greatest seaport in Scotland, hub of the transatlantic trade, one of the world’s important centres of shipbuilding and industrial engineering, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s design work and lots of i...