Course Title: Hyenas in Petticoats
Course Description: "Well behaved women don't make history". This course concerns ten women, some more famous than others, whose activities shocked and rocked the accepted conventions of their times. All have left their permanent mark on history.
Tutor: Valerie Morse
Venue: Writtle Village Hall, The Green, CM1 3DU
Day of Week: Tuesdays Time: 10:00 Duration: 1.5 hrs
Start Date: 20/09/2011 No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £45
Contact Name: Grace Bevan Telephone: 01245 421112
Course Title: Journey Through Ancient Egypt
Course Description: Ancient Egypt could not have been built and not flourished without the ordinary people who farmed, fished and built all those monuments. They, too, have left us records and tombs that give us a glimpse of what it was like to be a working man or woman 5000 years ago.
Tutor: Frances Boardman
Venue: Writtle Village Hall, The Green, CM1 3DU
Day of Week: Tuesdays Time: 13:30 Duration: 1.5 hrs
Start Date: 20/09/2011 No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £45
Contact Name: Grace Bevan Telephone: 01245 421112
Course Title: Whistler and his Contemporaries
Course Description: James Whistler (1834-1903) was an American artist who worked in London and Paris. We examine Whistler's art and how it developed. Contemporary friends and enemies including Rossetti, Singer Sargent and Oscar Wilde will also be studied.
Tutor: Suzanne Bode
Venue: Writtle Village Hall, The Green, CM1 3DU
Day of Week: Wednesdays Time: 19:30 Duration: 1.5 hrs
Start Date: 21/09/2011 No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £45
Contact Name: Grace Bevan Telephone: 01245 421112
Course Title: Hidden Treasures
Course Description: An introduction to places you might not have thought of visiting; indicating something of the range and variety of unusual and sometimes off the beaten track places of interest; and to explore the variety of different ways in which collections of art originated.
Tutor: Graham Slimming
Venue: Writtle Village Hall, The Green, CM1 3DU
Day of Week: Tuesdays Time: 10:00 Duration: 1.5 hrs
Start Date: 10/01/2012 No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £45
Contact Name: Grace Bevan Telephone: 01245 421112
Course Title: British Society and the Great War 1914-18
Course Description: A survey of how changing fortunes in the conflict of 1914-18 impacted on the lives of ordinary people at home e.g. the changing role of women, the issue of industrial relations and conscientious objection.
Tutor: Ted Woodgate
Venue: Writtle Village Hall, The Green, CM1 3DU
Day of Week: Tuesdays Time: 13:30 Duration: 1.5 hrs
Start Date: 10/01/2012 No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £45
Contact Name: Grace Bevan Telephone: 01245 421112
Course Title: The Essex Coastal Trade from 1800
Course Description: This course takes an overview of the coastal trade into and out of Essex ports in the nineteenth century and examines the role of the different types of sailing craft found on the Essex Coast.
Tutor: Roger Beckett
Venue: Writtle Village Hall, The Green, CM1 3DU
Day of Week: Wednesdays Time: 19:30 Duration: 1.5 hrs
Start Date: 11/01/2012 No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £45
Contact Name: Grace Bevan Telephone: 01245 421112
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