This tag: Women’s history
I first ran this course at Crayford Manor in January 2003 but the latest manifestation was on Saturday 14th March 2020 at the City Lit just before the great lockdown. Following the attempt by James II to re-establish Catholicism in Britain his daughter and son-in-law were invited to oust him to protect the Protestant church.… Read more »
- Posted on: April 22, 2020
- Featured in History, Kings and Queens, Music
- Also tagged British Kings and Queens, Choral Music, English Composer, European History, Glorious Revolution, Greenwich, King William III, London History, Mary II's Memoirs, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Memoirs of Mary II, Memoirs of Queen Mary II, Modern history, National Maritime Museum, Purcell, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II, Queen Mary's Memoirs, The Stuarts, William and Mary, William of Orange, Women's history
This tag: Women’s history
The Lives and Importance of women in Republican and Imperial Ancient Rome and Roman Britain including the importance of the worship of goddesses. This course was run at the City Lit and British Museum on Saturday 2nd March 2019. It covered the contrasting roles of women in different parts of Roman society in the Republic… Read more »
- Posted on: March 16, 2020
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Art History, British Museum, Etruscans, European History, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Women's history
This tag: Women’s history
Life and times of Queen Anne What is the course about? Queen Anne was the last of the Stuarts and suffered much personal tragedy but she ruled over an increasingly prosperous nation that had unprecedented military success in Europe under the Duke of Marlborough. What topics will we cover? Although Anne reigned for only 12… Read more »
- Posted on: November 25, 2018
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- Also tagged British Kings and Queens, Duke of Marlborough, English Composer, European History, Handel, Modern history, Queen Anne, Sarah Churchill, The Churchills, The Stuarts, Union of England and Scotland, War of the Spanish Succession, Women's history