FULLY BOOKED: NORTH WEST FRONTIER OF ROME

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

For four centuries, the Great Wall of Hadrian marked the North West Frontier of Rome, an empire so vast the south east frontier rested on the Euphrates. Even today, the 

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ON NOT KNOWING: HOW ARTISTS THINK

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Join our principal Lizzie to explore contemporary artists' practices from a curator's point of view. I will introduce you to a range of artists' practices and their wider cultural and 

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THE VICTORIANS

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

The Victorian Age in Britain was an age of great dynamism, creativity, complexity and change. Through a series of biographical talks on notable figures such as Florence Nightingale, Joseph Paxton, 

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FULLY BOOKED: GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Scotland has had an extremely eventful geological history for a country of its size, and this is reflected in its vast array of geological features. Come on this course and 

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THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY STUARTS 1603-1660

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

In this short course we will explore something of the revolution in art and architecture in England during the first half of the seventeenth-century, associated with such names as Inigo 

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300 – THREE CENTURIES OF ANGLO-SCOTTISH WARFARE

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

A narrative overview of the Anglo-Scottish Border wars (1296 – 1603), focusing on conflict and identity, military activity and fortifications, battles, weapons and armour, the riding names, the blood feud/vendetta, 

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