Category: Groups -DO NOT USE

Date: Monday 11th January 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Alternative History Lecturer: Mike Granville   What if Britain had stood aside in 1914? What if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed? What if Anne Boleyn had had a healthy baby boy? What if the Union…

Date: 14th December Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Valencia: the Biography of a City Lecturer: Peter Atkinson The lecture will cover the history (economic, cultural, architectural and morphological) of Spain’s third city, from its Roman origin as a planned, new town in 138 BC, through to…

Date: Monday 30th November 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Life in Lycra on the Roads to Santiago de Compostela: History, Art, Architecture and Landscape This is a memoir of more than 5,000 kilometres on a bicycle across Spain, France and Portugal, following the…

Date: Monday 9th November 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject:The 2nd Republic and the Spanish Civil War 1930-1939 Lecturer: Alan Oliver The political and economic condition of Spain in the early 1930’s resulted in the election of a left leaning Popular Front Government in…

Date: Monday 26th October 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Magic of Turner’s Watercolours Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic Watercolour is the most difficult of all painting techniques to master. The immediacy, fluidity and transparency leaves very little room for the correction of errors. This method…

Date: Monday 28th September 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Elizabeth Thompson (1846- 1933) Lecturer: Angela Chantry During her heyday in the 1870s, Elizabeth Thompson was one of the most acclaimed artists in Britain. She showed a strong aptitude at a young age for painting horses…

Date: Monday 14th September 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Cheda and Brian double-act Lecturer:A dual presentation by Cheda Panajotovic and Brian Nicholls Your group co-leaders have no bounds when it comes to ambition! In the 30 or so minutes that we have allocated to…

Date: 13th March 2017 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject:Charles II – The Wilderness Years Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic This is the story of an exiled Prince who lived his young years as a Royal Pauper. From the age of 12 young Charles spent most of…

Date: Monday 26th September 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Lecture With No Name Lecturer:  Brian Nicholls If you can connect sardines, trout, a transvestite, three numbers from a popular series of films, an ingredient in a popular English country pie, several countries…

Date: Monday 29th February 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: In the Footsteps of Moses: The Wandering Years From Exodus to the Conquest of Canaan Lecturer: David Rohl David continues where he left off in his last lecture, revealing the latest evidence for the…

Date: Monday 29th June 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Turbulent Years Of Charles The First And Oliver Cromwell Lecturer: Brian Nicholls   As an introduction to Cheda’s scheduled talk on the ‘The Life and Times of Charles the Second’ early next year I thought…

Date: Monday 8th Jun 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Cheda and Brian Dual Art Presentation Lecturer:  Brian Nicholls and Cheda Panajotovic Following on from our previous talk when we each chose five of our own favourite paintings, we decided this time round to make…