Godmanchester Learning (Educational Experiences)
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GLEE continues to provide interesting courses for enthusiastic adults, after the closure of the WEA branch which began here over 40 years ago. Our small band of volunteers welcomes students, from Godmanchester and further afield, to our refurbished venue at the Queen Elizabeth School, next to Godmanchester's Chinese Bridge. When face-to-face meetings aren't possible, we hold courses over Zoom, enabling more distant participation. We aim to hold two five-week courses in each autumn and spring term, with single talks in the summer, all at modest fees.
If you would like GLEE to keep you in touch, with details about the courses we are offering, please contact the Secretary, who will add you to our GLEEmailing list.
Any Zoom courses will open at 10.00 ready for a 10.15 start.
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Course Title: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
Course Description: Is it just a matter of personal taste if you judge this painting by Botticelli as beautiful? Or are there some objective qualities that make it beautiful? Or is it all a matter of your
cultural upbringing and education? Can an horrific image be beautiful? etc Over five weeks we will be looking at examples of visual art from Greek times through to
the present day, and thinking about the question of what is beautiful. We will only lightly touch on the many theories of art and beauty: the emphasis throughout will be on
enjoying a feast of wonderful art, whilst, along the way, thinking further about our ideas on the nature of beauty
Tutor: Ges Hartley
Venue: ZOOM
Day Of Week: Thursday
Start Time: 10:15
Duration: 1.50 hrs
Date: 15/01/26
No. of Weeks: 5
Fee: £25.00
Course Title: Stand and Deliver
Course Description: Highwaymen vs the Georgian Judicial System. By 1737 Dick Turpin was England's 'Public Enemy Number One' with a string of house-breaking offences, highway robberies and a cold-bloodied murder to his name. The forces of law and order seemed completely ineffectual in bringing him to justice, and it was only due to a lucky co-incidence that he was eventually tried and hanged - but for stealing horses, rather than for his exploits as a highwayman. This course will look in detail at the careers of a number of notorious highway robbers and reveal the cat and mouse games they played with the authorities, who struggled to apprehend them with the very limited manpower and resources at their disposal.
Tutor: Stephen Poulter
Venue: ZOOM
Day Of Week: Thursday
Start Time: 10:15
Duration: 1.50 hrs
Date: 26/02/26
No. of Weeks: 5
Fee: £25.00
