Author: Piotr

Date: Monday 9th June 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Slavery and the Abolition Movement Lecturer: Mike Rendell   Mike’s talk will examine this issue from an 18th c. British, viewpoint and how the call for abolition started. He will use the language of that time…

Date: Monday 26th May 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Cleopatra – Queen of Egypt Lecturer: Angela Chantry Only 17 years old when she took the throne, Cleopatra quickly became one of the most powerful rulers Egypt had ever known. Her romantic liaisons and military alliances…

Date: Monday 14th April 10:30 Venue: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Victoria’s Children Lecturer: Dee Craig Victoria loathed babies. She compared them to wrinkled frogs.  However, that did not stop her producing a large number of them. As soon as they were born, she handed them over as…

Date: Monday 31st March 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The British East India Trading Company Lecturer: Larry Sherrington Monday 31st March 2014 From piracy to privateering. by stealing from Spain, beating the French, and joining with Portugal and Holland, the Company translated a British trading…

Date: Monday 10th February 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: War in the Alps Lecturer: Fabio Bezoari   Special Video Presentation By Fabio Bezoari In June 1940 Benito Mussolini , having declared his allegiance to Hitler’s Nazi regime flexed his military muscles by invading France through the…