Glossop Guild for enquiring minds
Zooming Through the Summer
On-line Courses - June and July 2020
These courses are FREE to members. You may take part in as few or as many sessions as you wish. If you register your intention to attend you will receive an email invitation with joining details a day or so before each session.
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These courses have been completed. It is anticipated that the Autumn programme will follow a similar format.
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1. Monday 15th June 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Alan Sennett – Did Britain help Franco? Non–Intervention in the Spanish Civil War
Creina Mansfield – A Sort of Comedy: Graham Greene’s fight with a Haitian dictator
Kevin Harrison – Dr James Barry ‘the most peculiar medical life of a female doctor’
2. Thursday 18th June 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Tim Cockitt – Code Breaking / Bletchley Park in World War Two
Alan Sennett – Is the Popular View of the French Resistance Largely a Myth?
3. Monday 22nd June 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Tim Cockitt – Manchester’s Experience of World War One
Steve Millward – The Music of World War One
4. Thursday 25th June 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Kevin Harrison – ‘A House Divided’: The Origins of the American Civil War
Tim Cockitt – The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
5. Monday 29th June 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Kevin Harrison – The Old Lie – the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Alan Sennett – American Isolationism
Creina Mansfield – The Plot Against America (2006) by Philip Roth
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6. Thursday 2nd July 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Creina Mansfield – British India and Literature
Alan Sennett – Women and the British Empire
7. Monday 6th July 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Frank Vigon – Comics – A Cultural History of Everything