Category: Friday Day Schools
From Ancient Mesopotamia to the James Webb Telescope: A Beginner’s Journey Through the Cosmos
Since the dawn of time, humans have regarded the night sky with awe and wonder. The science of Astronomy build...
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
This day school will explore why this seminal Nigerian novel, published in 1958, has become such a beacon for ...
“There is No Such Thing as Society: There are Individual Men and Women and There Are Families.” (Margaret Thatcher, 1987)
Has Margaret Thatcher’s dogmatic statement ever been justifiable? What do we understand by ‘societ...
The Dutch Golden Age?
The Dutch Golden Age is used to describe a period of cultural excellence and scientific progress in the emergi...
The Pill Changed Everything? Gender, Medicine and Power
Did the contraceptive pill liberate women or bind them to new forms of control? This day school explores the P...
What’s in a Name?
Our names are an integral part of our self-identity. They are our personal shadow, a constant presence in our ...
The Mysterious World of the Male Soprano and Countertenor Voices
Enjoy a day of dazzling vocal music, discovering the highest-pitched male voices from the castrati superstars ...
The Victorian Schoolmistress in Norwich
This day school will explore the lives of women who taught Elementary education to the children of parents who...
Between Two Wars: Politics in Norwich and Norfolk
We will consider the 1918 Khaki election, the end of the wartime coalition, the Flapper election and votes for...
A Taste of History: A Tudor Gentleman’s ‘Productive Garden’
This half-day school offers an insight into the reconstructed history of a Tudor gentleman’s kitchen gar...
The Wilton Diptych and the Westminster Portrait: Windows into the Reign of Richard II
In the last decade of his reign, Richard 11 commissioned two works of art that we now know as the…
