Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 builds…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Charles Dickens’s 10th novel, Hard Times (1854) depicts the interconnected lives of the people of Coketown and the enormous changes…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
This day school will explore why this seminal Nigerian novel, published in 1958, has become such a beacon for post-colonial…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
“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 ‘society’? This day school will initially look…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
The Dutch Golden Age?
The Dutch Golden Age is used to describe a period of cultural excellence and scientific progress in the emerging Dutch…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Brightest Peru: Amazonian Stories and Voices
Forget ‘darkest Peru’! Amazonian peoples have long been portrayed as exotic and mystical, an ‘otherness’ hiding their real humanity. This…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 Pill…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 lives.…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Ethics & Technology
Our need to understand the relationship between humans and technology has never felt so urgent. This day school considers the…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 of the High Baroque,…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
The 30 Years’ War 1618—1648
This course explores one of the longest and most devastating conflicts in European history. Drawing in nearly all the major…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
The Victorian Schoolmistress in Norwich
This day school will explore the lives of women who taught Elementary education to the children of parents who ‘made…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 (some)…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 garden and orchard. It describes…
