Area of Interest Humanities

Our continuing exploration of Greek Myth will, in this series, focus on ‘Revenge.’ Topics: The Flood Tereus, Procne and Philomela Arachne Niobe Clytemnestra New starters to this ongoing course are welcome.

Our continuing exploration of Greek Myth will, in this series, focus on ‘Lust’. Topics: The problematic nature of lust in Myth Apollo and Daphne Hades and Persephone Myrrha Zeus and Semele New starters to this ongoing course are welcome.

“Unlike anything else in modern English literature,” according to D.J. Taylor, this tender, elegant novella tells the story of a damaged survivor of the First World War who spends a summer restoring a medieval wall-painting in a village church in…

Philip Larkin was an important figure in the poetry of the second half of the twentieth century. His work explores the human condition in an occasionally bleak, often witty and invariably interesting way. We will look at his last two…