History and Local HistoryHistory and Local HistoryPower Couples in Revolutionary Paris (Friday 11am - 12pm)DescriptionPlease note that the ‘last booking’ date is only a guide. Courses may close earlier. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure to enrol as soon as possible. Registrations may not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm. ‘Power couples’ is a term that modern audiences are familiar with. Barrack and Michelle Obama, William and Kate, Victoria and David Beckham, to name but a few, are the images that spring most readily to mind when we hear the term ‘power couple’. However, there are historical examples which are often overlooked because this term did not exist in the period being examined Number of Meetings 6 Course Leader Dr Sam Dobbie CRN 28286/HIST000 Course FeesCourse Fee: Standard Fee: £95/Concession £50 Click here for information on our fee bands and further enrolment information
Revisiting The Beatles: Gender, Fashion and Fandom in the 1960s (Thursday 1 - 3pm)DescriptionPlease note that the ‘last booking’ date is only a guide. Courses may close earlier. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure to enrol as soon as possible. Registrations may not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm. The 1960s was a decade of turbulent change in many areas of social and cultural life, notably in terms of gender, race and sexuality. In the early post-war period gender roles were strictly delineated and outdated laws governed sexual behaviour. Number of Meetings 3 Course Leader Dr Georgina Gregory CRN 28143/HIST000 Course FeesCourse Fee: Standard Fee: £70/Concession £50 Click here for information on our fee bands and further enrolment information
CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE Cemeteries of Liverpool, A Visual History (Wednesday 11am - 1pm)DescriptionPlease note that the ‘last booking’ date is only a guide. Courses may close earlier. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure to enrol as soon as possible. Registrations may not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm. Charting the visual history of death, burial/cremation in Liverpool’s private/public cemeteries over the course of three centuries this innovative new course documents the surprising changes to private and public attitudes to death in Liverpool beginning with creation of Liverpool Necropolis (now Grant Gardens) in Everton, and on via the development of St. James’ Cemetery at the bottom of St. James’ Mount, the cemeteries of Toxteth Park, Anfield & etc. Number of Meetings 10 Course Leader Dr Lee R. Kendall CRN 28110/HIST4000 Course FeesCourse Fee: Standard Fee: £155/Concession £80 Click here for information on our fee bands and further enrolment information
The Pit and the Pendulum: Edgar Allen Poe & Liverpool (Saturday 10am - 4pm)DescriptionPlease note that the ‘last booking’ date is only a guide. Courses may close earlier. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure to enrol as soon as possible. Registrations may not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm. It is a truth seldom acknowledged that the 19th Century’s greatest exponent of Gothic fiction and tales of terror was once a resident of the bustling Port of Liverpool for several weeks in the summer of 1815. The future author of nighttime terribilita was suitably impressed as a child with the enormity of the docks, the smells of the Mersey and the piquant decrepitude of the homeless. Number of Meetings 1 Course Leader Dr Lee R. Kendall CRN 28111/HIST000 Course FeesCourse Fee: Standard Fee: £55 Click here for information on our fee bands and further enrolment information
WAR PIGS Liverpool & Conflict, 1775-1982, A Visual History (Tuesday 11am - 1pm)DescriptionPlease note that the ‘last booking’ date is only a guide. Courses may close earlier. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure to enrol as soon as possible. Registrations may not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm. This course examines the astonishing visual record/history of the people of Liverpool’s involvement in various wars and conflicts beginning with the American Wars of Independence in 1775 and the loss of the American colonies, seen at the time as a potentially devastating blow for Liverpool trade and a cause of consternation for the Port’s Royalists. Number of Meetings 10 Course Leader Dr Lee R. Kendall CRN 28124/CEPD4000 Course FeesCourse Fee: Standard Fee: £155/Concession £80 Click here for information on our fee bands and further enrolment information
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