Category: Norwich Courses
Writing for Pleasure
Many of us write thousands of words during our careers — emails, letters, reports, notes, minutes — but in...
Woven Masterpieces: The Magnificent Art of Tapestry
This course explores the art of tapestry with a focus on examples in East Anglian collections. What is meant b...
The Great Bardfield Artists and Associates
In 1934, Great Barfield, Essex, became a centre of English painting when Edward Bawden and Eric Ravillious mov...
The Cinema of Quentin Tarantino
From his explosive debut with Reservoir Dogs in 1992, Quentin Tarantino has been regarded as one of the most i...
The 1960s Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard
Between Breathless in 1960 and 1967’s Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard made a series of films which revolutionised t...
Securing Our Future Food Supplies
We depend on only a few crops as the main sources of our nutrition. Currently, there are major challenges in&#...
Postwar America: Power, Prosperity and Protest
Emerging from the Second World War as an unrivalled economic, military and political power, the United States ...
Norwich: a Social History 1850—1950
Superbly illustrated with historic photographs from Neil’s own archive, this course will explore Norwich and...
He who Pays the Piper: Creative Expression and Politics in the World of Opera
To survive economically as well as culturally, composers, librettists and singers have always had to be politi...
F Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
In 1926, Chatto & Windus published F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby. Not many people r...
Deciphering Tudor and Stuart Handwriting: An Introduction to English Palaeography
Where does history come from? Much of our knowledge of the past derives from original documentary evidence and...
City of Gardens
19th-century Norwich citizens were enthusiastic gardeners, but in 1840 James Grigor, the eminent botanist and ...
Anglican Missionaries in Africa in the 19th Century
In 1843, Anglican missionaries travelled to present-day southwestern Nigeria to form a community of God-fearin...
An Introduction To Russian Art
Russian visual arts are amongst the most breathtaking and challenging works in the world, whether you are pass...
A Brief History of the Short Story
A short story is much more than just a story that is short. In this five-week course we will explore…
