Presented by Sandy Burnett, Musical Director and Broadcaster Especially appropriate for the lead up to Easter, Sandy Burnett joins us for a special presentation on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Matthew Passion, a masterful work which combines tunefulness, craftsmanship, dramatic power and spirituality in equal measure. Study Days are open to all U3A members and guests are […]
Members Talk – Speaker: Peter Gardner For 16 years Peter was part of a small group of ex-police officers working for the Civil Aviation Authority Investigation Department covering the whole of the UK and dealing with legal complaints. This covered all types of flying object including very small aircraft, large jets, helicopters, microlights and even […]
Presented by Leslie Pitcher By his striking use of colour for emotive effects and his almost hallucinatory patterns of brush strokes, Van Gogh (1853-1890) changed the course of European painting. Using slides, we shall study the development of painting in 19th century France from the Old Master tradition to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and how Van […]
Speaker: Hayley Scott She will be talking about A Day in the life of a Metropolitan Police Crime Scene Investigator The meetings start at 1.30 pm with refreshments and the speaker starts at 2 pm. The Travel and Tourism team will also be at the meeting so you can book a short holiday, day trip […]
A Right Royal Scandal – the sons of George III Speaker : John Huggon. The meeting will start at 2:00 pm and there will be a refreshment break part way through the talk.
Presented by Steve Bird Somewhere around 1880 ‘Pax Britannica’ started to give way to an extra-long ‘American Century’. However, for the past forty years or so the West has sensed a similar passing of the baton. This time the shift is not to another variant of the European culture which has been so dominant since […]
