This tag: European History
The Life and Times of James VI & I This one day course was run at the City Lit on Sunday 26th November 2017. James was already king of Scotland when he succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603. In fact he had been a king virtually his whole life when he became the first monarch of… Read more »
- Posted on: November 19, 2017
- Featured in History, Kings and Queens
- Also tagged British Kings and Queens, British Museum, English Composer, Greenwich, James VI & I, London History, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Scottish History
This tag: European History
Shakespeare and the Classical World This course was held at the City Lit on Saturday 11th November 2017. It was repeated online during the pandemic over three Friday evenings on 5th, 12th and 19th February 2021. A quarter of Shakespeare’s major works were based on stories from the Classical World and have influenced our view… Read more »
- Posted on: November 7, 2017
- Featured in History, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Achilles, Actium, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Antony and Cleopatra, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Celtic History, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Ovid, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Classical World, Shakespeare400, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Troy, Two Noble Kinsmen, Venus and Adonis
This tag: European History
This was a one day course run as a collaboration between the City Lit and the National Maritime Museum at the Queen’s House in Greenwich on Saturday 22nd July 2017. The course was inspired by the new hang of artworks in the Queen’s House and in particular the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of his friend Captain… Read more »
- Posted on: July 21, 2017
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Achilles, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Enlightenment, Free British Museum Tour, Greenwich, Influence of Classical Art, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Queen's House, Tour of the British Museum, Tour of the Queen's House, Troy