Brighton, Sussex - Adult Education Courses, Poetry Readings
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Modern British History
Social and Cultural History
Art History
Cinema
Literature
Fashion History
Fashion History
Brighton, Sussex, History
Stuarts * Georgians * Regency * Victorians * Edwardians * Between the Wars * Modernism * Art Deco * Cinema * Local History * Novels and History * Film History * Art and History * History of Fashion * Wartime WWI & II * Christmas Customs * Death & Mourning * History in Literature *
2017/18 courses are taught in Brighton at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College MET (formerly City College), Whitehawk Community Centre, Varndean College, Holy Trinity Church Hall (Woodingdean) and Preston Manor (Preston Park)
AUTUMN 2017
Conflict and revolution: The Stuart Age 1603-1702
Cinema and Society 1896-1960
The Novel as Social History: 20th Century Women Writers
Late Victorian Britain 1875-1902
Culture and Society Between the Wars 1918-1939
The Edwardians (1900-1910)
Single Saturdays:
Looking at Art as Social History: Victorian Narrative Painting
An Edwardian Christmas
A Sussex Christmas: customs, myths and legends of winter in the festive season
SPRING 2018
Eighteenth-Century England from Anne to George II (1702-1760)
Making Waves: the development of Brighton - a unique resort
The Novel as Social History: Comparing 20th Century Male and Female Novelists
In the Shadow of the Century: Life and Leisure 1900-1914
Single Saturdays:
Victorian Rituals of Death and Mourning
"Beautiful and Useful" Victorian Arts and Crafts
Space, Light and Speed: Art Deco and Modernism 1918-1939
SUMMER 2018
Innovation and Experiment: Georgian England 1760-1800
From Page to Screen: the film of the novel
Summer Reading: Books, books and more books!
Summer in the City: exploring Brighton's unique history
(2 classroom sessions and 3 Brighton Field trips)
The Grange Rottingdean
SEA PICTURES
Readings to accompany Mike Bensleys exhibition of marine paintings. He will be giving a short talk before the readings.
Saturday 29 July 2-3pm
Read by Anita Gilson and Sarah Tobias
Refreshments and cream teas will be available outside in the Grange Gardens or the Barn
SEA PICTURES
Readings to accompany Mike Bensleys exhibition of marine paintings. He will be giving a short talk before the readings.
Saturday 29 July 2-3pm
Read by Anita Gilson and Sarah Tobias
Refreshments and cream teas will be available outside in the Grange Gardens or the Barn
Admission to the readings £4 refreshments paid separately
KIPLINGS POEMS
Amusing and entertaining read by Sarah Tobias and Anita Gilson
Sunday August date tba 2-3pm
Refreshments and cream teas will be available outside in the Grange Gardens or the Barn
Admission to the readings £4 refreshments paid separately
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