• Bodice-rippers and Chained Books: The History of the Book

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

    Bodice-rippers and Chained Books: The History of the Book You might think of libraries being rather quiet demure places, filled with dead trees rotting slowly, but print history takes us to some quite risqué places. Think about those second-hand copies of

  • Counselling Accreditation Reflective Workshop for BACP Practitioners

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

    CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 Sadly, we are unable to run this session due to social distancing measures currently in place. Please sign up for our newsletter if you would like to be notified of new dates when they are decided.

    £35
  • The Lost Ideas of 19th-Century Radical Socialist Education

    Video Confererence , United Kingdom

    The Lost Ideas of 19th-Century Radical Socialist Education: From "Human Nature" to Culture-Building Due to social distancing measures, this session will take place via video conference. The video conference will run from 6 pm - 7:30 pm. Details will be

  • Higher Education Policy and the Robbins Report (1961-1963)

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

    Due to social distancing measures, this session will take place via video conference. The video conference will run from 6 pm – 7:30 pm. Details will be sent on the day to people who have registered via Eventbrite.  Download Supporting Materials

  • Adult Education in the 1919 Centenary and the Time of Pandemic

    Video Confererence , United Kingdom

    The 2019 Centenary Commission Report restated the aims for the 21st century – but it did not foresee that within three months Coronavirus would have locked the country down, reducing lawful human interaction to Zoom.

  • Poetry and the Adult Student

    Video Confererence , United Kingdom

    In this forum we will look at approaches to teaching poetry to adult learners. What makes for a fulfilling learning experience? Is poetry ‘wasted on the young’?

  • 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
  • Medieval Towns in the Modern Age

    Video Confererence , United Kingdom

    Due to social distancing measures, this session will take place via video conference. The video conference will run from 6 pm – 7:30 pm. Details will be sent on the day to people who have registered via Eventbrite.  About the December