Would you like to brush up your Latin from school? Would you like to be able to speak and read the language of the Ancient Romans, one of the most beautiful languages of them all?This class is for those who have some basic knowledge of Latin already - perhaps you...
Would you like to brush up your Latin from school? Would you like to be able to speak and read the language of the Ancient Romans, one of the most beautiful languages of them all?This class is for those who have some basic knowledge of Latin already - perhaps you studied it at school to O-level a few decades ago,...
Are you a liberal, socialist or conservative? This course will suggest you’re probably a mixture of all three – just like the major political parties. This is because political ideologies are not conceived in some academic laboratory and then foisted upon gullible voters: they arise from a variety of timeless human...
Are you a liberal, socialist or conservative? This course will suggest you’re probably a mixture of all three – just like the major political parties. This is because political ideologies are not conceived in some academic laboratory and then foisted upon gullible voters: they arise from a variety of timeless human instincts, often contradictory, which politicians ignore at their peril. We...
Is Mankind civilised? Beneath a veneer of civilised behaviour, some writers have found a darker reality.In autumn term we shall read:· La Bête Humaine (1890) by Emile Zola (translated by Roger Pearson in Oxford World Classics edition)· Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad· ...
Is Mankind civilised? Beneath a veneer of civilised behaviour, some writers have found a darker reality.In autumn term we shall read:· La Bête Humaine (1890) by Emile Zola (translated by Roger Pearson in Oxford World Classics edition)· Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad· Lord of the Flies (1854) by William...
