MONDAY TALKS Summer Term 2012

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                                      UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE IN LONDON

MONDAY TALKS  -  SUMMER TERM 2012

Talks begin at 10.10– please be punctual

PETER SAMUEL HALL  ;   ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL

 

 

23^rd April   :          A NIGHT TO REMEMBER :                                                   John Graves

                       TITANIC & THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION                   (National Maritime Museum)

                               (RMS TITANIC sank 15^th April 1912)

 

30^th April    :    THE GEOLOGY OF LONDON                                                   Diana Clement

                                                                                                            (The London Geodiversity Partnership)

 

  7^th May      :                                BANK HOLIDAY

 

 

14^th May      :           THE PERFECT STORM,                                                     Prof. Mark Maslin

                  POPULATION DEVELOPMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE           (Prof.of Palaeoclimatology UCL)                                                                               

 

21^st May       :      CREATIVITY IN HOLLOWAY PRISON                        Hilary Beauchamp MBE

                                                                                                                                    (Prison art teacher)

 

28^th May      :      GENERATING ELECTRICITY FROM WIND                               Dr. Leon Freris

                                                                                                                             (Fellow, Institution of Engineering)

 

  4^th June                                        BANK HOLIDAY

 

 

11th  June     :         REDISCOVERING OUR RIVER :                                                   Gustav Milne     

                              THAMES DISCOVERY PROGRAMME                                (Institute of Archaeology UCL)                                                                             

                                                                                                

18th  June     ;            QUEENS & POWER IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND                       Dr. Helen Castor 

                                       MATILDA, MARY AND ELIZABETH                                    (Historian & Author)

                                               

25^th June       :      ALAN TURING & BLETCHLEY PARK                                            Sinclair McKay  

                                    (Turing was born 23^rd June 1912)                                                (Author & Journalist)                                                                                           

 

  2nd July        :                EVOLVING ENGLISH                                                            Jonathan Robinson

                                                                                                                                              (The British Library)

       

  9^th July          :       THE JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP                                                 Judy Faraday

                                                                                                                                             (Partnership Archivist)

 

 

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