Norwich Lifelong Learning
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…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
A Midwinter’s Read: Poetry and Short Stories for Wintertime
In this day school we will explore poems and short stories that capture the spirit of winter’s invitation to both…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Writing for Pleasure
Many of us write thousands of words during our careers — emails, letters, reports, notes, minutes — but in this…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 by…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
The Great Bardfield Artists and Associates
In 1934, Great Barfield, Essex, became a centre of English painting when Edward Bawden and Eric Ravillious moved there as…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
The Cinema of Quentin Tarantino
From his explosive debut with Reservoir Dogs in 1992, Quentin Tarantino has been regarded as one of the most influential…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 the form and techniques…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Postwar America: Power, Prosperity and Protest
Emerging from the Second World War as an unrivalled economic, military and political power, the United States has assumed global…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Norwich: a Social History 1850—1950
Superbly illustrated with historic photographs from Neil’s own archive, this course will explore Norwich and the experiences of its people…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
Norfolk Uncovered: From Prehistoric Landscape to 20th Century Industry
This course explores Norfolk’s evolution from prehistoric origins to industrial powerhouse. We will use aerial photography and landscape analysis to…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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 politically astute as well…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
F Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
In 1926, Chatto & Windus published F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby. Not many people read that first…
Norwich Lifelong Learning
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, the further…
