Category: Groups -DO NOT USE

Date:  28th May 2018 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Newlyn School Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic   In 1830 some French ‘Romantic Painters’, hungry for ‘realism’ moved south of Paris to the village of Barbizon. The most prominent features of the Barbizon group are their tonal qualities,…

Date: Monday 14th May 2018  10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: History of Spain Part 3; The 16th to the 18th Centuries Lecturer: Peter Atkinson This lecture will begin with the same principal players who concluded Part 2: Isabella I of Castilla and Fernando II of…

Date: Monday 30th April 2018  10:30 (note new date) Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: History of Spain Part 2; ‘The Moors in Spain’ Lecturer: Angela Chantry The word “Moors” derives from the Latin “mauri”, a name for the Berber tribes living in Roman Mauretania.  It has no ethnographic…

Date: Monday 11th Jun 2018  10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Pride and Prejudice Lecturer: Mike Rendell The talk will look at the history of this famous book and follow its impact on British literature and subsequently on film and television from printed page to silver…

Date: 25 June 2018 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject:The History of the Automobile – or the car! Lecturer: John Hopwood This talk will examine the history of, mainly, four-wheel mechanised transport from the earliest 1672 steam driven “toy vehicle” to the latest manufactures’ concepts…

Date: Wednesday 11th April 2018 18:00 (note change of date and time due to public holiday in Moraira!) Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: History of Spain Part 1: Ice age to the Romans Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic   Man flourished on the Iberian Peninsula throughout the last…

Date: Monday 26th Mar 2018  10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Ancients of Mexico Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic We often see TV programmes about the great Inca Empire stretching down the whole of the Andes or about ‘The Aztecs’ of Central America. It is a quirk of…

Date: Monday 12th Mar 2018  10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Exploration for Oil and Gas; How Geologists Find The Black Stuff Lecturer: Ruby Philpott The recent history of oil and gas exploration by a geoscientist who worked in the industry for over 30 years. The…

Date: 12th Feb 2018 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: A Tale of Two Cities: Madrid and Barcelona Lecturer: Peter Atkinson Spain has two pre-eminent cities: Madrid, with a focus on monarchy, government and centralism; and Barcelona, with a focus on business, industry, and regionalism…

Date: Monday 29th Jan 2018  10:30 (note new date) Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Introduction to the History of Woolworths and the extraordinary Woolworth Family Lecturer: John Hopwood Frank Winfield Woolworth was the son of a farmer recently returned from the American Civil War and in…