• The History of The Book Workshop – Jun 2019

    Leicester Adult Education College 54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Scholars joining this workshop will gain a basic understanding of descriptive bibliography so that they can consider historic books as physical objects, understanding how to find clues as to their production, and how to use this information as a basis for further research.

    £35
  • A Beginner’s Guide to World Religions

    Leicester Adult Education College 54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    A Beginner’s Guide to World Religions: Designing and Planning the Course Together Tutor: George Ballentyne Do you have questions about the different faiths and religions in Leicester? This co-design workshop will imagine a ten-week course looking at the eight major

    £35
  • Resonances and Representations: Aspects of The English Country House

    Video Confererence , United Kingdom

    Resonances And Representations: Aspects Of The English Country House is a 10 week evening course which will consider the politics of heritage, the struggle to save these houses, questions of race, imperialism and the slave trade, and the place of the servants' backbreaking work to make such splendour possible.

    £120
  • How to Write Fiction with Dr David Wharton

    Video Confererence , United Kingdom

    Suitable for those who hope to achieve publication and for those who simply enjoy writing as a leisure pursuit, How to Write Fiction is a 10-week online course covering general approaches and techniques for short stories, novellas and novels.

    £150
  • The Midas touch – be careful what you wish for

    Why are business and organisational studies so neglected by universities and other education institutions? This special Forum considers how such narrow thinking has taken over most aspects of our society.

    Free
  • Living with the Wire

    This talk will look at German and Austrian civilian internees on the Isle of Man during the First World War. How did they cope with 'living with the wire' for anything up to 5 years in captivity?

    Free
  • Gifts and Giving in the Middle Ages

    Trinity House The Newark Leicester LE2 7BY

    Dr Deirde O'Sullivan, from Archaeology at the University of Leicester, gives us insights into gifts and giving in the middle ages.

    Free
  • May Forum: The Gibberd Garden

    A talk on Modernist architecture, sculpture, and new towns in the UK during the 20th century

    Free