AUTUMN TERM 2021
HISTORY-PLUS
ZOOM TEACHING
MONDAY MORNINGS
DILIGENT NATION
Britain in the Early Georgian Era (1714-1783)
REF: HPM1/21
Venue: Zoom
5 October – 6 December 2021
Mondays 10.30 am - 12.30 pm
Cost: £50 (includes Households)
History-Plus examines a nation coming to terms with empire …
TUTORS: Kevin Harrison, Martin R. Jervis, Andrew Jones, Creina Mansfield
Oct 4 A United Kingdom ? Problems facing the Hanoverians [KH]
Oct 11 Georgian London [MJ]
Oct 18 Virtual Representation – The politics of Privilege [MJ]
Oct 25 Building Empire – Georgian Foreign Trade [KH]
Nov 1 Building Empire – North America [MJ]
Nov 8 Defeating the Final Enemy:
The Seven Years War (1757-1763) [MJ]
Nov 15 Seeing the Light – Rise of the New Dissenters [MJ]
Nov 22 Gullliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift as satirist [CM]
Nov 29 'I Saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm'
The Loss of the American Colonies [AJ]
Dec 6 A New Threat - The Rise of the Radicals [MJ]
Contact Andrew Jones
via E–Enrolment Form
ZTP 10
ZOOM TEACHING
TUESDAY AFTERNOONS
ZTP PRESENTS A SERIES OF 'STAND-ALONE' LECTURES
ON A VARIETY OF HISTORICAL TOPICS
Venue: Zoom
28 September - 26 October 2021
Tuesdays, 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Cost: £25 or £5 per session (includes Households)
TUTORS
Tim Cockitt, Kevin Harrison, Birgitta Hoffmann, Martin R. Jervis, Andrew Jones, Creina Mansfield, Mike Milligan, Steve Millward, Frank Vigon
28 September, Session 1 'Something Cheerful'
Three Men in a Boat:
The Comic Novel that Threatened the Empire [CM]
The British Music Hall [SM]
5 October, Session 2 'I Have a Dream'
Harry Belafonte [MM]
Malcolm X [MJ]
12 October, Session 3 'Political Mistakes?'
A Noble Idea Failed by Poor Statesmanship?
The Fate of the League of Nations [AS]
Christine Keeler & the Profumo Scandal [FV]
19 October, Session 4 'Tis to Glory We Steer'
Nelson - The Necessary Hero [KH]
The Trafalgar Campaign:
The Establishment of British Naval Supremacy [AJ]
26 October, Session 5 'Giving the Enemy a Hard Time ...'
After Bonnie Prince Charlie:
What Happened to Estates Forfeited by Jacobite Supporters? [BH]
The Zulu Wars - Isandlwana & Rourke's Drift [TC]
Contact
Bookings - Alan Sennett:
a.sennett@open.ac.uk or 01625-665-031
Payments - Kevin Harrison:
kevkev.harrison@hotmail.co.uk or 0161-432-3710
HISTORY-PLUS
ZOOM TEACHING
DAY SCHOOLS
POSTWAR JAPAN
History-Plus invites you to join us as we examine postwar Japan, its culture, politics and contradictions …
A Special History-Plus Presentation
Monday, 6 September – Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Monday, 13 September – Tuesday, 14 September 2021
£15 per day school or £30 for both day schools (incl. households)
TUTORS: Kevin Harrison, Martin R. Jervis, Creina Mansfield , Alan Sennett
DAY SCHOOL ONE: Bridge of Hesitation
MONDAY AFTERNOON 1.30 PM – 4.00 PM
Sep 6 The American Occupation (1945-1952) [KH]
Sep 6 The Yakusa – Japan's Mafia [MJ]
TUESDAY MORNING 10.00 AM – 12.30 PM
Sep 7 Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World [CM]
Sep 7 Japanese Cinema: Origins [AS]
DAY SCHOOL TWO: With Neither Dreams nor Despair
MONDAY AFTERNOON 1.30 PM – 4.00 PM
Sep13 Saving Hirohito: The Tokyo War Crimes Trials KH]
Sep13 Japanese Cinema: Early Postwar era [AS]
TUESDAY MORNING 10.00 AM – 12.30 PM
Sep14 Yukio Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion [CM]
Sep14 Yukio Mishima: Author, Poet & Nationalist (1925-1970) [MJ]
Contact Creina Mansfield:
01625-511-581 or creina.m@hotmail.com
Address: Beech Court, Beech Hall Drive,Macclesfield,SK10
HISTORY-PLUS
ZOOM TEACHING
DAY SCHOOLS
DIEN BIEN PHU
France's Crown of Thorns
History-Plus presents a two-day History-Plus special, examining the secret history of Graham Greene's Vietnam War. Close attention will be given to the author and his view of the tragedy of French rule in Indochina, which, in Spring 1952, culminated in the annihilation of elite French forces at Dien Bien Phu (North Vietnam).
TUTORS: Creina Mansfield & Martin R. Jervis
THURSDAY, 18 November
10.30 am French Indochina [MJ]
11.30 am 'A magic potion':
How Graham Greene Fell in Love with Indochina [CM]
THURSDAY, 25 November
10.30 am The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Spring 1952 [MJ]
11.30am 'Like Actors in the Arena':
Green's Insight into the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. [CM]
Contact Creina Mansfield:
01625-511-581 or creina.m@hotmail.com
Address: Beech Court, Beech Hall Drive,Macclesfield,SK10
HISTORY INC
IN-PERSON TEACHING
TUESDAY AFTERNOONS
BRIGHT SUNS
DARK SHADOWS
Early Modern Britain 1540s-1640s
Venue: Emmanuel Parish Centre, Didsbury
5 October – 23 November 2021
Tuesdays 1.30- 3.30pm Cost: £40
Our eight-week course looks at the impact of this turbulent period. Join us, as we examine significant scientific, cultural and artistic developments of this period. We also chart the birth of early modern Britain, starting with the reign of Henry VIII and the Scottish Reformation, and conclude with Oliver Cromwell's bloody rise to power.
TUTORS: Kevin Harrison, Andrew Jones, Creina Mansfield, Mike Milligan, Steve Millward, Frank Vigon
Oct 5 The Dissolution of the Monasteries [AJ] + John Leland [KH]
Oct 12 New Horizons for Art and Music [SM]
Oct 19 Francis Bacon [CM]
Oct 26 Elizabeth and Essex [CM]
Nov 2 Sixteenth Century Scotland:
The People, the Reformation, the Stuarts
– and the English! [MM]
Nov 9 Sir Peter Paul Rubens [SM]
Nov 16 The Weaponising of Art and Craft:
From the Patronage of Henry VIII to
the Propaganda of the Civil War [FV]
Nov 23 Origins of the Civil War [AJ] + The Civil War: An Overview [ KH]
Contact Andrew Jones - 0161-491-2874
HISTORY INC
IN-PERSON TEACHING
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS
EXCELLENCY
OF HEART
Culture in Early Georgian Britain
Venue: Emmanuel Parish Centre, Didsbury
6 October – 8 December 2021
Wednesdays 1.30 pm - 3.30pm Cost: £50
The 1707 Acts of Union created the United Kingdom and along with it, the nation of 'Great Britain'. Join us as we examine the Georgian Renaissance, which clearly established a unique 'British' culture, emerging between 1715 and 1788.
TUTORS: Tim Cockitt, Kevin Harrison, Andrew Jones, Creina Mansfield, Steve Millward
Oct 6 Acts of Union [KH]
Oct 13 A New Pride: A new Art for a New Age [SM]
Oct 20 The Rise of the Novel [CM]
Oct 27 Opposition to Hanoverian Rule [TC]
Nov 3 Georgian Female Artists and Composers [SM]
Nov 10 Georgian Medicine: Thomas Coram & the Foundling
Hospital [KH] + Edward Jenner [AJ]
Nov 17 Hanoverian Satire: John Gay [SM] + William Hogarth [AJ]
Nov 24 Daniel Defoe: Writer, Trader & Spy [CM]
Dec 1 Joshua Reynolds & Thomas Gainsborough [SM]
Dec 8 George Frideric Handel [SM]
Contact Andrew Jones - 0161-491-2874
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