Degree-level part-time courses, workshops, and seminars
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The Vaughan Forum is a series of talks, workshops and discussions which are for anyone who is curious and wants to find out more.
We are a cooperative community benefit society set up to provide university-level education dedicated to the needs of part-time learners and to those wanting ‘a second chance’ to study.
Vaughan College Discovery Circles are member-led learning communities.
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?
LVC member Alison Coates talks about her re-enactment experiences at Kentwell Manor, Long Melford, Suffolk and her knowledge of everyday life in the Tudor period.
A new Archaeology Discovery Circle as part of the Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology.
A talk about the works of art by Lakeland and Liverpool artists which are in the Lakeland Arts, the National Trust and Liverpool Record Office collections.
Miriam Gill shares how fragmentary stained glass may develop our understanding of the spectacular finale of Coventry’s missing Mystery Plays, the Drapers’ play of the Last Judgement.
We will be having our AGM on Thursday 29 January at 7.30-8.30pm via Zoom. This meeting is open to anyone who is a Member of LVC. We are looking for new people for our board of directors. 2026 promises to be
A Forum about how Leicester has been promoted to visitors and residents since the City Council established its Publicity and Development Committee in the 1930s.
A talk by Sophie Michell about how the inquest worked in the nineteenth century. The talk is illustrated with examples from Leicester.
Chris Williams explains about the history of police control rooms and how the 999 emergency telephone system came into operation
Dr Denise McHugh explains how returning British colonisers tried to find a ‘place in the sun’ when they returned to Britain from India. She explores the households and habits of self-identifying ‘Anglo-Indians’.
A talk by Dr Ann Stones which considers contemporary medieval perceptions of Charnwood using maps, place-names, landscape and archaeological evidence.