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I’ve taught all kinds of modern and contemporary literature from the early 1900s right up to the present. I'm an Associate Lecturer with the Open University in the North of England, teaching literature and humanities modules. I was Subject Area Leader i more details

I have been an Explore member since 2012 and am a director of the JCLLC CIC. I mainly attend Literature and Art History in Explore but drop into a variety of topics from time to time. I attend Alan Beale’s Latin class at the Lit & Phil as well as art g

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I am interested in the ways in which western Europe emerged from the shake-out of the decline of the Roman Empire, and this is the area of most of my teaching and research. I like to work with both archaeology and text sources. I set up the Bernician more details

Born in London, I’ve lived most of my life in Thameside Essex – not the pretty bit. In my youth (and in Wales which I love) I studied to become a Chartered Librarian, and began and ended my working life in Public Libraries, mostly in services to young more details

After retirement in 2007 from a medical career as a Consultant in Haematology and Blood Transfusion I completed a BA(Hons) in History with the OU and attended sessions at CLL . I was delighted and relieved when Joseph Cowen LLC CIC came into existence more details

After a career predominantly in Education, as teacher of French in my youth and university administrator when rather less youthful, I welcome the opportunities offered by Explore in my retirement. I was a keen member of the old Explore scheme and one of more details

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Lifelong learning is adventure we all share, so I like to mix subjects that I have been studying for a long time - the Dark Ages, the Industrial Revolution, trees and woodland - with stuff that I come to fresh, like my Seven Women course (see website) or more details

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I received my B.A. in English studies in 2004 (Durham University/Universidade de Vigo). A few months later I started studying a 2-year M.A. in medieval English literature, for which I wrote a dissertation entitled The Grail Knight in medieval English and more details

I've been a member of Explore both as a student, largely of literature classes, and as a tutor of mathematics classes. My career started in the classroom, teaching mathematics in Liverpool comprehensive schools. However, I have spent most of my working more details

I have taught philosophy in the North East for more than thirty years including Newcastle, Durham, the Open University and Sunderland University. I very much enjoy teaching - and learning from – adult students. I am currently, amongst other roles, more details

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'I trained as a painter at Glasgow School of Art, moved to the North East of England and became interested in the history of that region's art. My PhD was entitled entitled "Picturing Locality : Art and Regional Identity in the North-East of England 1822- more details

I obtained a first class degree in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Leicester in 1980 followed by a PhD in Cosmology from the University of Durham in 1986. I have been teaching astronomy, mathematics and physics for fifteen years, mainly more details