Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership Online Courses CALL’s online courses are offered throughout the year and are designed so that you can participate at your own pace and at your own time. Each course is 7 weeks, each week a separate lesson. Continuing Education Units are offered at the rate of 2 CEUs per …
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Welsh in a Week 22nd August – 28th August 2016 Arrive with little or no knowledge of the Welsh languageand Julie Brake will ensure you leave at the end of the week able to carry on a conversation in Welsh. Residential prices (bed & breakfast, morning and afternoon coffee, lunch and dinner) start from £586, non-residential from …
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Gladstone Umbrella 15th July – 17th July 2016 A favourite of the Gladstone’s Library calendar returns for another year! Whether you’ve grown up with a healthy love of history and Victoriana or you’re an academic with a penchant for the ‘Grand Old Man’, no matter your background the Gladstone Umbrella is the colloquium for you. …
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Fractured Feminism with Political Writer in Residence Emma Rees 18th June – 19th June 2016 2016 Political Writer in Residence Emma Rees discusses the role and relevance of feminism today, considering how infighting and media representations have fractured feminism. She also looks at key feminist debates: how is the ‘personal’ in fact ‘political’? And is ‘choice’ …
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Demfest 2016 13th May – 14th May 2016 DemFest is a new festival of democracy taking place 13th – 14th May 2016 in the beautiful surroundings of W.E. Gladstone’s library at Hawarden in North Wales. At DemFest you will meet people developing fairer and more participatory forms of politics, enjoy a range of exciting democracy-related …
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A Masterclass with Writer in Residence, Susan Barker 30th April – 30th April 2016 In this day workshop, Susan Barker will lead the group through the challenges of conveying works of art in prose. Focusing on depictions of visual art and artists in literature, the group will consider literary texts in which works of art …
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An Evening with Writer in Residence, Susan Barker 12th April – 12th April 2016 12th April In a talk that includes readings from her award-winning third novel The Incarnations (2014) — described by critics as ‘multi-layered and masterful’ and like ‘China’s Midnight’s Children’ — novelist Susan Barker will talk about the process of writing her …
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  Hearth Improve your writing, find out how to publish your novel, get hints and tips and find inspiration during our February and November winter micro-festivals. Pull up a chair, gather around the hearth and indulge in a weekend of stimulating and entertaining conversation. The newest addition to the Gladstone’s Library Calendar, Hearth began in 2013 …
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Reading Islands – an Evening with Writer in Residence, Amy Liptrot 8th March – 8th March 2016 8th March What can we learn from communities on the edge? In this evening of readings, author and journalist Amy Liptrot explores the best writing from the UK’s islands. Author of The Outrun, one of 2016’s most anticipated …
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The Gap in the Sky – A Masterclass with Writer in Residence Rebecca Farmer 13th February – 13th February 2016 When the Norfolk fisherman and artist John Craske died, a huge embroidered panorama of the evacuation of Dunkirk was left unfinished: there is a gap in the sky. Award-winning poet Rebecca Farmer will lead a …
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