Humanities Course
Events
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Get Writing for All with Elizabeth Barber – Monday Morning
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Writing your Memoirs with Sharon Priestley
Have you thought about writing your life story but are concerned that you will not know how? If so, this course is for you. In a supportive atmosphere, you will be offered suggestions designed to give you confidence in writing even if you have never done anything like this before. You may find that this […]
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Get Writing for All with Elizabeth Barber – Tuesday Morning
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Tai Chi & Qigong
This course will continue to cover the basic principles and practical movements of both Tai Chi and Qigong (Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong). Exercise involves: Physical Movement, Breathing, Mental understanding and attention.
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Get Writing for All with Adrian Poynton – Tuesday Evening
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Get Writing for All with Elizabeth Barber – Wednesday Morning
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Country Houses and Gardens to Visit with Adam Smith
Many of us will be planning to visit houses and gardens this summer and this course will give some background to some well known sites (like the National Trust’s Claydon House) as well as those which take a little more planning to see (like the gardens at Stoke Bruerne). 1. Audley End (Essex); a Jacobean […]
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Yoga
This yoga class will serve as an introduction, each week building on what is learned. Sessions will consider the underlying philosophy for up to 15 minutes, continue with an exploration of poses and flow, and end with a relaxation. Please bring your own mat/blocks/bands.
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Pilates – All Levels including Beginners
Pilates is an anti-aging, lifespan-enhancing method of safe and effective body conditioning, developed by Joseph Pilates, where exercise is simplified as required, according to ability. Pilates himself declared "...in ten sessions you feel the progress, in twenty sessions you see the progress, in thirty sessions, it will change your life." However, learners will need to […]
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Get Writing for All with Adrian Poynton – Wednesday Evening
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Classical Studies with Paul Drew
Classical studies involves looking at the ancient Greek and Roman world from the perspective of many different disciplines, including architecture, archaeology, art, drama, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, social history and much more.
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Myth in Greek Tragedy with Paul Drew -The Odyssey
In advance of the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie of The Odyssey, we will join the Greek hero Odysseus on his decade-long journey home from Troy in Homer’s famous epic. In a work that has influenced and inspired many different genres through the ages, including science fiction, fantasy, and even travel literature, we will […]
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Humphrey Jennings: Britain’s greatest documentary maker with Stephen Barnard
Having spent the 1930s as a poet, surrealist painter and co-founder of the Mass Observation research project, Humphrey Jennings found his true niche during the Second World War as one of the finest documentary film makers that Britain has ever produced. Rejecting a hectoring, propagandist tone in favour of a quieter, more reflective depiction of […]
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Get Writing for All with Elizabeth Barber – Monday Morning
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Writing your Memoirs with Sharon Priestley
Have you thought about writing your life story but are concerned that you will not know how? If so, this course is for you. In a supportive atmosphere, you will be offered suggestions designed to give you confidence in writing even if you have never done anything like this before. You may find that this […]
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Get Writing for All with Elizabeth Barber – Tuesday Morning
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald with Margaret Norwich
A love story, a ghost story, a glorious comedy set in Edwardian Cambridge, beautifully evocative of place and time, this novel is also a philosophical enquiry into the body/mind controversy much discussed at Cambridge in 1912, but never with such style and humour. Please join us to explore the ways in which this slender novel […]
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Get Writing for All with Adrian Poynton – Tuesday Evening
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Get Writing for All with Elizabeth Barber – Wednesday Morning
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Get Writing for All with Adrian Poynton – Wednesday Evening
These classes are ideal for anyone who enjoys writing or would like to start. No experience is necessary. The emphasis is on having fun and through a combination of reference to published texts, writing and listening, confidence is built in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional homework exercises are set weekly with supportive feedback from […]
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Topics in Psychology with Lesley Ayres
Why do different individuals see things differently? What influences what we see and how our memory works? Are we reliable witnesses? Some topics that be considered in this course: - Cognitive Psychology – how do we learn things? - Memory – how it works (or not in some cases) - Perception – do we all […]