A third series of lectures from the MANCENT history and literature tutors, delivered through the online conference facility Zoom (https://zoom.us/)
Tuesdays: 5 sessions
Dates: from 28th July to 25th August 2020 Time: 1.30 – 3.30pm
Wednesdays: 5 sessions
Dates: from 29th July to 26th August 2020 Time: 1.30 – 3.30pm
Tuesday series:
Session 1: 28th July – Churchill: For and Against
- Kevin Harrison: His “Finest Hour”: Churchill Becomes PM (May 1940)
- Alan Sennett: Churchill as racist-imperialist. A critical view.
Session 2: 4th August
- Tim Cockitt: The Battle of Britain
- Alan Sennett: Myths of 1940
Session 3: 11th August
- Andrew Jones: The Manhattan Project
- Martin Jervis: Truman and the atomic bomb
Session 4: 18th August
- Tim Cockitt: War underground, Verdun and the Maginot Line
- Creina Mansfield: The cu chi tunnels in Vietnam
Session 5: 25th August
- Birgitta Hoffmann: The history and architecture of Fort EbenEmael
- Steve Millward: Songs of Resistance
Wednesday series
Session 1: 29th July
- Birgitta Hoffmann: Slavery in the Ancient World
- Kevin Harrison: Atlantic slavery & the ZongSlave ship case (1781-83)
Session 2: 5th August
- Creina Mansfield: The virtue of disloyalty
- Martin Jervis: MI6
Session 3: 12th August
- Birgitta Hoffmann: The White Rose resistance in Nazi Germany
- Creina Mansfield: Hans Fallader’s Alone in Berlin (1947)
Session 4: 19th August
- Andrew Jones: Why the North won the American Civil War
- Steve Millward: Music of the American Civil War
Session 5: 26th August
- Tim Cockitt: Historical Tourism, with particular reference to visiting battlefields, and Dark Tourism (but no gruesome pictures).
- Kevin Harrison: Native Americans in the US Civil War
Virtual Learning Platform: ZOOM
Price per Session:
Price | Concessions | Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
£5 | n/a | 4 | 60 |
Price for the Series:
Tuesdays:
Price | Concessions | Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
£25 | 4 | 60 |
Wednesdays:
Price | Concessions | Minimum No. | Maximum No. |
£25 | 4 | 60 |
Booking
We are running this on the same basis as previous series. If you are already on our mailing list there is no need for you to let us know, since we will just treat it as a continuation of the existing ZTP course.
If you have not attended the previous ZTP series, then please email Alan Sennett: a.sennett@open.ac.uk