Continuing Learning for Adults in St Ives
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Continuing Learning for Adults in St Ives ("CLASI")
We are a group of between 30 and 40 and meet the in the Methodist Church Hall on The Waits, St Ives on a Thursday morning. Our courses start at 10.30 and finish about 12.15.
We normally run two courses each year, one starting when the schools go back in September and one again when the new school term starts in January. We also include a weeks break to cover half term week. The course time includes a 15 minute coffee break.
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Courses
Course Title: From Sleeping Giant to Superpower: USA 1880-1980
Course Description: After the end of the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction the United States began to realise the enormous industrial potential which could transform the country into a dominant world power
Tutor: Mike Muncaster
Venue: St. Ives Methodist Church, The Waits, St. Ives
Day Of Week: Thursday
Start Time: 10:30
Duration: 1.50 hrs
Date: 18/09/25
No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £
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Course Title: The River Great Ouse
Course Description: All aspects of this mighty river
Tutor: Keith Grimwade
Venue: St. Ives Methodist Church, The Waits, St. Ives
Day Of Week: Thursday
Start Time: 10:30
Duration: 1.50 hrs
Date: 15/01/26
No. of Weeks: 5
Fee: £
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Course Title: Lectures on some historical aspects of St. Neots and Huntingdonshire
Course Description: Victorian Medicine, Victorian Christmas in Huntingdoshire, Crime & Punishment in Victorian St. Neots, Regency St. Neots in time of Jane Austen, The Kimbolton Iron Age Coin Hoard
Tutor: Liz Davies
Venue: St. Ives Methodist Church, The Waits, St. Ives
Day Of Week: Thursday
Start Time: 10:30
Duration: 1.50 hrs
Date: 26/02/26
No. of Weeks: 5
Fee: £
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Course Title: Introduction to Japanese history and culture
Course Description: Showing how the 2011 Tsunami and Radiation disaster in North East Japan tells us a lot about Japanese culture and politics, resilience, folklore and superstitions and ultimately how some positive effects have come from the recovery and where Japan is now.
Tutor: Julian Sedgwick
Venue: St. Ives Methodist Church, The Waits, St. Ives
Day Of Week: Thursday
Start Time: 10:30
Duration: 1.50 hrs
Date: 09/04/26
No. of Weeks: 5
Fee: £
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Course Title: Mud, Blood and Bandages
Course Description: Military medical services and innovations in WW1 - introduction of steel helmet and nurses gas masks, chain of evacuation and introducing Xrays, blood transfusions etc
Tutor: Ian Langworthy
Venue: St. Ives Methodist Church, The Waits, St. Ives
Course Length: One Day
Date: 21/05/26
Start Time: 10:30
End Time: 12:00
Fee: £
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