Category: Art & History Archive

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…

Date: Monday 24th February 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Guernica:  The atrocity and  the painting Lecturer: Peter Atkinson   Free entrance   On the 26th of April, 1937, German and Italian aircraft bombed the Basque town of Gernika at Franco’s request, with the objective of killing…