{"id":122,"date":"2016-07-28T17:45:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2025-08-18T20:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:06:16","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=122","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Who are the lecturers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>All the lecturers working for MANCENT have had many years of experience working in Adult Education. Apart from working for Manchester&#8217;s &#8220;Courses for the Public&#8221;, they have associations with University departments throughout the Country, the Open University, the Adult Education Branches of the University of Liverpool and the Wilmslow Guild<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Over the next few months we are going to add pictures and short CVs for most of our lecturers. At the moment here is a short list of their names, subjects and contact addresses in case of queries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainContent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Rosemary Broadbent<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2369\">Music<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rosemary-image.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6142\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rosemary-image.jpeg?resize=286%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rosemary-image.jpeg?resize=286%2C300&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rosemary-image.jpeg?resize=416%2C436&amp;ssl=1 416w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/rosemary-image.jpeg?w=763&amp;ssl=1 763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosemary Broadbent read Music at Oxford University, where she also studied the organ with David Lumsden and John Webster. She has spent much of her career in music education, as Head of Music in a girls\u2019 independent school, and later as an Academic Tutor at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. In that r\u00f4le she taught analysis, composition, theory and aural perception for more than twenty years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is a composer with a substantial catalogue of music written for schools and theatre groups, and also carols, anthems, and music for contemplative retreats. For many years she was a Principal Examiner for Composition in A Level Music. She founded and conducted the Convivium choir in Manchester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is active as a practical examiner for ABRSM, and has travelled widely in the UK and Republic of Ireland in this connection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosemary has given talks on music to local interest groups for many years and is available for face-to-face or Zoom lectures on topics from the Renaissance to the present day. There is more information on her website: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosemarybroadbent.co.uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.rosemarybroadbent.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3 align=\"left\">Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann, FSA<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=79\">Latin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2077\">Archaeology<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2072\"> Ancient World<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2275\">Medieval History<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4069\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?resize=324%2C324&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1516836862566.jpg?w=380&amp;ssl=1 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Dr. Hoffmann is available for outside speaking appointments and invitations to lecture and can be contacted via the details below.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann is Co-Director of the Roman Gask Project. She teaches or taught Archaeology, Ancient History and Latin at UCD Dublin, the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, Queen\u2019s College Canada and Virginia Military Institute Virginia. She also lectures for a number of adult education organisations in addition to freelance research and writing. She studied Roman Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology and Ancient History at Freiburg University in Freiburg\/Germany. She has a MA in Roman Archaeology from Durham University and a PhD in Roman Archaeology (with sub-sits in Ancient History and Iron Age and Medieval Archaeology) from Freiburg University . Birgitta Hoffmann is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and has published widely, especially on trade and long-distance contact across borders, military archaeology for the Roman to early modern periods, as well as Roman history and archaeology.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Websites:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/liverpool.academia.edu\/BirgittaHoffmann\">https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/BirgittaHoffmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/pub\/birgitta-hoffmann\/1a\/b3\/848\">http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/pub\/birgitta-hoffmann\/1a\/b3\/848<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theromangaskproject.org\">Roman Gask Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(return to MANCENT site, by pressing BACK button)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">Address:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>55 Broadwalk, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5PL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">email: <a href=\"mailto:latinteacher@btinternet.com\">latinteacher@btinternet.com<\/a> phone: 07747 533 070<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Dr. Tony Keen<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2072\">Classical Reception<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2362\">Film and Media Studies,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=2072\">Ancient Mythology, Walking tours in London and the South of England<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tony-keen.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tony-keen.png?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tony-keen.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tony-keen.png?resize=416%2C312&amp;ssl=1 416w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tony-keen.png?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tony-keen.png?w=1004&amp;ssl=1 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony Keen has more than thirty years\u2019 teaching experience, including for the University of Manchester\u2019s Extra-Mural Studies Department, and the Open University. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s London Global Gateway, where he teaches \u2018Roman Britain\u2019 and \u2018Classical Mythology and London\u2019, as well as courses on cinema. He took a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Manchester in 1992. Keen is a world-leading researcher on the reception of Greek and Roman literature and culture in modern science fiction and fantasy, and has also written widely on Classical reception, science fiction, and cinema. He is currently working on a book on depictions of Roman Britain on screen. In his spare time, he writes about <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, is a keen railway modeller, and contributes to two websites about comics and graphic novels.<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/tonykeen.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/tonykeen.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Creina Mansfield (text to follow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Literature<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainContent\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Dr. Michael Tunnicliffe<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Michael-Tunnicliffe-Head-and-shoulders.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6146\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Michael-Tunnicliffe-Head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Michael-Tunnicliffe-Head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Michael-Tunnicliffe-Head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=416%2C312&amp;ssl=1 416w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Michael-Tunnicliffe-Head-and-shoulders.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Michael-Tunnicliffe-Head-and-shoulders.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C|\/Users\/Woolliscroft\/Documents\/Birgitta's documents\/Mancent Correspondence\/CVs for lecturer\/theologyspring10.html\">Theology &amp; Biblical Studies, World Archaeology, History<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Michael Tunnicliffe was one of the founder members of Mancent<br \/>\nHe also teaches for a number of other providers locally and nationally<br \/>\nHe has degrees in Theology and Biblical Studies from Birmingham (BA and MA) and Cambridge Universities (MLitt)<br \/>\nAlso a certificate in Judaism and Jewish Christian Relations from Birmingham and\u00a0 a certificate in Egyptology from Manchester<br \/>\nThe subject areas are mainly in Biblical texts and in a variety of historical\u00a0 courses from ancient to more recent history<br \/>\nHe is the author of a Commentary on the books of Chronicles Ezra and Nehemiah<br \/>\nHe teaches both face-to-face and online courses by Zoom<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Address:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>5 St.George&#8217;s Way, Kingsmead, Northwich, CW9 8XG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">email: <a href=\"mailto:mtunni@sky.com\">mtunni@sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainContent\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the lecturers? 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