Poverty, the third topic in my W.E.A. short course entitled History of not very nice things, is to take place this evening. Have some discussion points for early in the session e.g. is poverty relative?, what defines a state of poverty? and then intend to work back in time rather than forward. Starting with Child […]

This second unit for the WEA evening class ‘History of not very nice things’ highlighted two interesting lines of thought; that the physical processes at work in the centre of the Sun whereby hydrogen is converted to helium by continuous nuclear fusion is the very process that enables life in that heat and light produced are,

As stated in the last blog Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled ‘witch-finder general’ of the 1640s was one of the ‘horror episodes’ for the current evening class. Hopkins (1620-1647) was the fourth son of a puritan church minister from Essex. Between 1643 and 1647 (during the chaos of the First Civil War) he oversaw the ‘discovery’

Despite what was stated in blog of 19th the regional branch of the W.E.A. are to allow the Barton class to continue despite the low number of students. This was a new venture in that instead of the five-week course having a single theme each class had a separate theme under the general title of ‘History

As previously stated have been quite heavily involved in events programmed for Heritage Week in both Hull and Barton. As regards Barton nobody turned-up for either guided walk round Baysgarth Park whereas around a hundred turned-up for both guided visits to the medieval great hall at Tyrwhitt Hall. My talk about my housing book had

In the previous blog I forgot to mention the guided walk through Barton Cemetery yesterday evening which went ok, partly because the weather was so pleasant. Part of my article A Study of the Historical Context of Burial, Cremation and the Development of Civil Cemeteries (probably the worst title ever) (see Articles and Publications) in