Course organiser:Kathryn Ell
Presenter:Various
7 Mar:
Brian Norton on 'Forgotten Islands of the South Pacific.'The experiences of a 20 year old in the Furious Fifties and a reconnect 56 years later.
14 Mar:
Alan Blackburn on 'The Enigma of Rapanui (Easter Island).'“Easter Island as a Microcosm – A Miniature Model of the Planet Earth” – (Flenley and Bahn). A warning for humankind!
21 Mar:
Nina Mogridge on 'Sail in the Wilderness.'A short history of German East Africa.
28 Mar:
'Oxbridge – Two Shades of Blue.'Loanne Metcalfe (Girton) and Kathryn Ell (Christ Church) have each had the experience of living in an Oxbridge College. They will share their respective experiences and include some significant social and political history of each college.
4 Apr:
Annette Begg on 'The Hills: Migrants, Merchants and Miscreants.'Annette’s great, great grandfather, at aged 16 and accompanied by his brother and their tutor, arrived in Christchurch on the Sir George Seymour in 1850. Using Kathleen Hill’s book, chronicling the Hill family, Annette will share the story of the family’s rise as successful, rich merchants socialising with Catherine the Great in St Petersburg, and, sadly, an unacceptable marriage and the consequences thereof.