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Katherine Alcock

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Katherine is a historian and London Blue Badge Tourist Guide who lectures on a wide variety of topics, in particular the history and architecture of London. She graduated from Queens’ College, Cambridge University, in 2011, before turning her back on…

Collette Hoefkens

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Collette is a professional artist and gallery proprietor. She was taught Fine Art to Foundation level and qualified from the Hertfordshire college of Art and Design in 1985. She later qualified as a Further Education Tutor at North Herts College.…

Tim Parrott

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Tim Parrott took his degree at Cambridge then worked as a schoolteacher before specialising in explaining Popular Science to general audiences. In addition to Cosmology, Physics and Evolutionary Biology, he also teaches courses on architectural structure, always with a view…

Adrian Poynton

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Adrian Poynton is an award-winning writer. His work has covered all mediums from fiction and non-fiction, television, theatre, radio and live performance and his passion to transfer his knowledge of storytelling to new writers is unmatched. Much of Adrian’s work…

Derek Blyth

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Derek was born near Edinburgh and was educated there and at the Universities of Aberdeen and Durham. As well as teaching music, he is also a performer, lecturer and keen audience member of a wide range of musical styles. He…

Sue Woollard

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Sue studied Psychology at Swansea University and went on to gain an MSc in Psychology. For over 35 years Sue has been teaching Psychology in colleges and schools. Sue started work in the further education sector but joined St Christopher…

Sarah Neale

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Sarah is a Yoga Teacher, Personal Trainer, Massage Therapist and a Group Fitness Instructor, teaching classes at various gyms in the north Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area and online. She combines these skills in addition to a wealth of life experience…

Komathy Cumarasamy

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Komathy is Sri Lankan born and studied art up to degree level in my Jaffna, Sri Lanka.  She now specialises in portraiture, figures, and modern/contemporary styles. She loves experimenting and is experienced at handling a variety of mediums, having formally…

Chantelle Stephenson

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Chantelle is a practising artist and educator that graduated from the Cambridge School of Art in 2007. Since then she has tutored Fine Art on the Foundation Art and Design course at Hitchin College, Hertfordshire. In 2016 she was invited…

Jane Ducarreaux

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Jane’s passion for glass has been a lifelong one, having been surrounded by glass since birth. Both parents worked in the glass industry – her father as a master glass blower, her mother as a glass finisher. Having tried many…

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