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Discovered and raised in 2002-3, the well-preserved hull remains, and numerous artefacts indicate that the ship was likely built in the Basque Country as a wine-trading vessel for Portuguese owners. Examination of the ship timbers has led to a greater understanding of Atlantic-Iberian ship design and ship building in the late medieval period.
£20
07/05/2025
Wednesday 1-3pm
John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown David Cameron. The governments of these four post Thatcher political leaders is the theme for this course. To what extent did Margaret Thatcher reverse Britain’s economic decline? To what extent did she fundamentally change the political and social climate of the country?
£90
04/06/2025
Wednesday 1:30-3pm
The Hanoverian dynasty had a profound impact upon British culture: arts flourished as patronage was available in abundance and there was an infusion of continental influences. The Georgian architectural style was characterised by symmetry and classical proportions.
£220
28/04/25
Wednesday 10:00am-12pm
After the Persians were defeated by the Greeks in 480/479BCE and the assassination and death of Xerxes in 465BCE, was this the end of the Persian Empire. Persia has another 130 years of kings and there is much intrigue and the Greeks are still involved. A battle for the throne is seen through the eyes of the Greek writer Xenophon who was perhaps the most famous student of Socrates the Philosopher. Persia’s conqueror in 336BCE , Alexander, is eventually ‘conquered’ by Persian culture.
£220
30/04/2025
Wednesday 10AM-12pm
The 16th Century was not an easy time to be born in Rome for an aspiring woman artist. Artemisia was the elder sister of three brothers, all children of the artist Orazio Gentileschi.
Her mother died when she was only 12 years old. Life at home, however, with a father who had, of necessity, irregular habits would have been lively and she would have been exposed to the artistic style of a multitude of different painters one of whom was probably Caravaggio.
£12
Thursday 24/07/25
1.30 -2.30pm
