The South East U3A Forum has released details of next year’s Summer School to be held, as before, at the University of Chichester. The dates are Monday 18 to Thursday 21 June and the cost ranges from £320 for a self-contained en suite room to £150 for non-residential participants. Among the courses to choose from […]
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The end of British colonialism in Africa
Our October speaker made clear how changing attitudes in Africa and at home led to Britain’s rapid disengagement from colonialism after the Second World War, writes Lionel Cartlidge Peter Docking gave us a fluent and fascinating explanation of the reasons why in a few short years in the 1960s virtually all of Britain’s colonies in Africa […]
A bright and merry yellow?
Dorking U3A member Mike Thurner took this photo yesterday in North Holmwood when the effects of Saharan sand and Portuguese smoke in the atmosphere produced an extraordinary yellow twilight sky in mid-afternoon. Mike, who is co-leader of the Photography 1 group, says that the picture is just as it came out of the camera without […]
Giacometti exhibition
Members of the Art Appreciation group went to see Tate Modern’s recent Giacometti exhibition – the first major retrospective of his work in the UK for 20 years. Rosemary Hobbs reports A small group of us made an informal arrangement to travel by train to view the Giacometti exhibition at Tate Modern in early September. The […]
A visit to Petworth
Inside its slab-like exterior Petworth House contains a collection of art treasures that make it well worth a visit, writes Jenny Ford Petworth House was chosen by the Art Appreciation group for its autumn trip and the day proved to be fine and dry, which was fortunate as the house can be cold and gloomy. […]