This tag: Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
Life and times of Charles I and Henrietta Maria Charles was never meant to be king but rose to the challenge and he and Henrietta led a glittering court. Sadly they were at odds with Parliament and the people which led to Civil War. This course was run at the Queen’s House Greenwich on Saturday… Read more »
- Posted on: January 20, 2018
- Featured in History, Kings and Queens
- Also tagged Art History, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, English Composer, European History, Greenwich, London History, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, National Maritime Museum, The Queen's House Greenwich, The Stuarts, Women's history
This tag: Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
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, European History, Greenwich, James VI & I, London History, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Scottish History
This tag: Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
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, European History, 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