This lecture will examine Shirley, exploring its contrasting heroines and heroes, Brontë’s treatment of gender roles, and the novel’s claim to be an early industrial novel.
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This series explores America’s War of Independence from 1775-1815, really its first Civil War. It pitched Americans against Americans: Patriots vs Loyalists. This examines perspectives from the victors and the vanquished.
This lecture will explore tradition and Modernism in the 1920s.
This lecture series will explore the art and architecture of the 1920s: the ‘Jazz Age’, which witnessed the earliest flowerings of Modernism. The ‘old’ was swept abruptly aside in favour of the ‘new’ - and the foundations were laid for the world of today.
This lecture will explore Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey, examining its place among Victorian governess novels, its portrayal of women’s economic vulnerability, and the distinctive style that has led critics to reassess Anne Brontë’s literary reputation.
This lecture will will explore how Modernism came to dominate painting, sculpture, and architecture, and its pioneering artists..
This lecture will explore The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, examining Anne Brontë’s experimental narrative structure, its portrayal of abuse and female independence, Gilbert as hero, and the novel’s possible response to Wuthering Heights.
Short enough to write in a single day, flash fiction is an agile, innovative form that brings character, mood and language to the forefront. This online workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced writers.
This course introduces you to the basic principles of Classical Latin. It provides a firm basis of grammar, sentence structure and vocabulary of the language, through which you will be able to read and translate into English Roman drama in adaptation.
The First World War was a cataclysmic event. This course examines international relations before 1914, the countries which fought the war, how it started, the expectations of the participants, and assesses the war's historical significance,
Investigate the emergence of architecture, from the earliest towns of the Neolithic to the Roman Empire. Explore urban form, construction materials and techniques, and discover how these how ancient building cultures influenced each other.
Ancient Greek is the language of Homer, Sophocles, Plato, the New Testament and many other texts. This class is for students who have either completed Ancient Greek 1 or have prior knowledge of Ancient Greek from elsewhere.