Degree-level part-time courses, workshops, and seminars
A 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?
This 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?
Professor Mark Freeman considers the challenges of writing an institutional history of university adult education, particularly in the recent period.
An interactive workshop during which attendees will work together to create poster manifestos on what they think adult education should do and look like.
Rhys 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.
Can 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.
Leicester 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.
Bradley Phipps discusses the history of the opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and the difficulties in researching this less-studied area of US history.
Dr Stuart Mitchell talks about the Giant Hogweed sensation of 1970
Kate Carruthers Thomas talks about her family history research and her attempt to reveal stories of those who have previously been sidelined or ignored in favour of male lines of descent.