Tuesday Mornings
10.15am to 12.15pm Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage Tuesday 19th September. 10 weeks. Cost £40 Half term 24th October 19TH SEPTEMBER Speaker: Sara Barnard Sara Barnard will talk about being an author, the story behind her books and what it’s like writing for and about teenagers in 2023. A Q&A session and a reading will also be included. 26TH SEPTEMBER ADVENTURES IN HIGH PLACES Speaker: Henry Edmundson After an excellent talk earlier this year, back by popular demand, Henry will give us an insight into his trekking adventures in the Himalayas. 3RD OCTOBER (10 WEEKS) MEDIEVAL ENGLAND Speaker: Honor Ridout Besides the armoured knights and the down-trodden peasantry portrayed by modern media, the organisations, skills and ideas that developed between the compiling of the Domesday Book and the first printed books touch our lives today. In these 500 years, towns grew, thousands of churches were built, serfs became free, Parliament was born and universities were founded. The words of chroniclers, gentlemen and women, peasants and poets unlock medieval lives. |
Thursday Mornings10.15am to 12.15pm Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage Thursday 21st September. 10 weeks Cost £40 Half term 26th October 21ST SEPTEMBER (10 WEEKS) MORE LONDON HOUSES Speaker: Adam Smith The course will look at ten houses, including Lambeth Palace, Spencer House, Apsley House and 2 Willow Road, which were built in London and some of the people who lived in them, to illustrate aspects of the city’s architecture and history. Most of these houses were built after the Great Fire of London in 1666. 7th DECEMBER (to be confirmed) OLD WARDEN VINEYARD Nestled between the picturesque villages of Old Warden and Cardington, hear the fascinating story of how a vineyard came to be planted on this beautiful Bedfordshire site in medieval times. Learn how it came to be replanted in 1986 by pioneers of the English wine revival, and about its current incarnation as a community project and social enterprise producing award winning wines. 14TH DECEMBER HOW THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA WAS SAVED Speaker: Tim Parrott Not so long ago, the celebrated Leaning Tower of Pisa came very close indeed to collapsing. An international effort averted that disaster, and Tim’s talk will look at how the engineers did it |
