Thinking about Medieval Murals
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What can surviving murals tell us about their original contexts? What are the limits of our powers of interpretation and reconstruction?
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November Forum: Interpreting Iron Age transitioning landscapes
FeaturedA forum on the landscape of the Catuvellauni tribe, a late Iron Age tribe whose territory was located between modern day Essex, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. How can we reconstruct this landscape?
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December Forum: An open discussion on what the future holds for in-person learning
FeaturedThis is an interactive forum which invites both learners and teachers to discuss their experiences of face-to-face learning. We will consider what, in a period when digital learning is expanding, can in-person education still offer?
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January Forum: Researching and writing adult education history
FeaturedLeicester Adult Education College 54 Belvoir Street, Leicester, LeicsProfessor Mark Freeman considers the challenges of writing an institutional history of university adult education, particularly in the recent period.
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March Forum: Making manifestos for adult education
FeaturedAn interactive workshop during which attendees will work together to create poster manifestos on what they think adult education should do and look like.
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April Forum: The Great Central Gazette and the crisis in local journalism
FeaturedRhys Everquill, Managing Editor at Leicester's new independent newspaper, The Great Central Gazette, will discuss why he helped set up the co-operative and the challenges facing local media.
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May Forum: Repairing things to help with grieving
FeaturedCan the journey of a grieving person be helped by the creativity and physicality of the visible repair of objects that have emotional significance? Vicky Cutler talks about the restorative power of visible mending.
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November Forum: ‘Caught short’
FeaturedLeicester Adult Education College, Belvoir Street, LE1 6QL 'Caught short’: London’s loos since the 1960s In ’Caught short’: London’s loos since the 1960s’ Simon Fowler and Dan Weinbren look at the impact of toilets on public life over the past sixty years.
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December Forum: Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement
FeaturedBradley Phipps discusses the history of the opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and the difficulties in researching this less-studied area of US history.
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February Forum: The Giant Hogweed Caper
FeaturedDr Stuart Mitchell talks about the Giant Hogweed sensation of 1970