Month: April 2025
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Chaucer’s View on Pardons for Sale
Our English Literature Group met on Tuesday 29 April 2025 to examine the Pardoner’s Tale in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales with our Group Leader David reading from the text in both Middle and Modern English. The sale of pardons was common practice in Chaucer’s time, although later on Pope Pious V outlawed the financial aspect of…
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The East End – Hugenots to Bengalis
The Speaker at our Monthly Meeting on 23 April 2025, St George’s Day. was Howard Slater who spoke on the East End of London which has been home to a series of immigrants from different parts of the world. Howard was very much into celebrating the cultures and customs that the different groups have brought…
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Musical Escapes to Desert Islands!
On Tuesday 22 April 2025, two members gave us their selection of music that they would hope to take with them if they were to find themselves alone on an island. Our u3a had developed its own rules on the selection of music and it met very much with the approval of the large number…
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Two Dramatic Changes and Confessions
Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 16 April 2025 to progress some earlier stories and to start some new ones. We started with the thoughts of a star actress about to step on the stage in a West End production whose attention wanders back over her career, how it began all those years ago…
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We Bring Our Favourite Female Artist
On Friday 04 April 2025, Members were invited to bring a presentation of their own Favourite Female Artists to the final History of Art Session in the current course. This time, Jennifer took a back seat assisting with the changing of slides rather than leading the session. We started with Louise whose favourite artist was…
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Creative Writers Discuss Value of AI
Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 02 April 2025 to read their work to the group and to discuss the value of AI (Artificial Intelligence) to the task of writing creatively. We started with a new version of a pilgrimage by coach where various members of the group contribute from their activities in our…