Please enter your postcode
In order for us to give you accurate results for your courses, please click on the Search options and enter your postcode and the mile radius for your search.
Find a course
WEA courses
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4
Displaying search results for: "danbury"
Art Appreciation: St.George in Renaissance Art: England, Italy and Germany
With Guest-Tutor Alison Barker we will examine how the image of St George crossed boundaries and was disseminated across Europe. St George’s status as a chivalric hero and Christian martyr made him uniquely qualified to cross boundaries, especially through the networks of courts and court culture.
-
Course Information
-
Dates:Wed 17/09/2025 -
Wed 01/10/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:3 sessionsLocation:St John the Baptist Church Meeting Room
55 Main Road
Danbury
CM3 4NGTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00022312How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £48.00
History: America's Peculiar Institution and the American Civil War
In this course, guest-tutor Roger McMaster will map out the social and constitutional development of the United States following the War of 1812 against Great Britain. It is a journey that leads to the Civil War and Reconstruction and to the development of the country of today.
-
Course Information
-
Dates:Thu 18/09/2025 -
Thu 16/10/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:St John the Baptist Church Meeting Room
55 Main Road
Danbury
CM3 4NGTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00022316How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £80.00
Literature: A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
In A Hero of our Time, his only novel, Lermontov explores a life quite parallel to his own, lived in the wild, still untamed Caucasus mountains. Grigory Pechorin, the ironically-designated hero, becomes progressively disillusioned with the society that courts him, with the love of women, and with military glory. Pechorin becomes the Outsider, destined to live by nothing more than the contradictory truths of his own feelings and the dooms these create. The novel quickly outlived its early notoriety to become one of the greatest of all Russian texts, matching Pushkin and Turgenev in the exploration of the "superfluous man" who finds no meaningful connection to the world around him.
-
Course Information
-
Dates:Tue 23/09/2025 -
Tue 21/10/2025Times:10:30am - 12:30pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:URC (Danbury)
Little Baddow Road
Danbury
CM3 4NSTutor:Adrian EckersleyCourse code:Q00022296How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £80.00
Literature: Dirty Realism: the Short Stories of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford
Guest tutor Paul Marshall will provide an introduction to ‘Dirty Realism’ a term coined by Bill Buford, editor of Granta magazine, to define a North American literary movement prevalent during the 1980s. We will study the work of Richard Ford and Paul Carver, two prominent writers associated with this haunting, pared down style of writing
-
Course Information
-
Dates:Tue 04/11/2025 -
Tue 18/11/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:3 sessionsLocation:URC (Danbury)
Little Baddow Road
Danbury
CM3 4NSTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00022297How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £48.00