{"id":3271,"date":"2020-07-12T19:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=3271"},"modified":"2020-07-12T19:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T18:38:38","slug":"zooming-through-the-past-season-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=3271","title":{"rendered":"Zooming through the past \u2013 Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A third series of lectures from the MANCENT history and literature tutors, delivered through the online conference facility Zoom (<a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesdays:<\/strong> 5 sessions<br \/>\n<strong>Dates:<\/strong> from 28th July to 25th August 2020 \u00a0 <strong>Time:<\/strong> 1.30 \u2013 3.30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesdays:<\/strong> 5 sessions<br \/>\n<strong>Dates:\u00a0<\/strong> from 29th July to 26th August 2020\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Time:<\/strong> 1.30 \u2013 3.30pm<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tuesday series:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Session 1:\u00a0 28<sup>th<\/sup> July &#8211; <strong>Churchill: For and Against<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Harrison: <strong>His \u201cFinest Hour\u201d: Churchill Becomes PM (May 1940)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alan Sennett: <strong>Churchill as racist-imperialist. A critical view.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 2: 4<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Cockitt: <strong>The Battle of Britain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alan Sennett: <strong>Myths of 1940<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 3: 11<sup>th<\/sup> August<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Jones: <strong>The Manhattan Project<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Martin Jervis: <strong>Truman and the atomic bomb<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 4: 18<sup>th<\/sup> August <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Cockitt: <strong>War underground, Verdun and the Maginot Line<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Creina Mansfield: <strong>The cu chi tunnels in Vietnam<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 5: 25<sup>th<\/sup> August<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birgitta Hoffmann: <strong>The history and architecture of Fort EbenEmael<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Steve Millward: <strong>Songs of Resistance<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Wednesday series<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Session 1: 29<sup>th<\/sup> July<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birgitta Hoffmann: <strong>Slavery in the Ancient World<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harrison: <strong>Atlantic slavery &amp; the <em>Zong<\/em>Slave ship case (1781-83)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 2: 5<sup>th<\/sup> August <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creina Mansfield: <strong>The virtue of disloyalty<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Martin Jervis: <strong>MI6<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 3: 12<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birgitta Hoffmann: <strong>The White Rose resistance in Nazi Germany<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Creina Mansfield: <strong>Hans Fallader\u2019s<em> Alone in Berlin <\/em>(1947)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 4: 19<sup>th<\/sup> August<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Jones: <strong>Why the North won the American Civil War<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Steve Millward: <strong>Music of the American Civil War<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 5: 26<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Cockitt: <strong>Historical Tourism, with particular reference to visiting battlefields, and Dark Tourism<\/strong> (but no gruesome pictures).<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harrison: <strong>Native Americans in the US Civil War<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Learning Platform:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0ZOOM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price per Session:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"560\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"221\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\u00a35<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">n\/a<\/td>\n<td width=\"168\">4<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Price for the Series:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesdays:<\/p>\n<table width=\"560\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"221\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\u00a325<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\">4<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Wednesdays:<\/p>\n<table width=\"560\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"221\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"52\">\u00a325<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"168\">4<\/td>\n<td width=\"221\">60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Booking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are running this on the same basis as previous series.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not attended the previous ZTP series, then please email Alan Sennett: <a href=\"mailto:a.sennett@open.ac.uk\">a.sennett@open.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u00a0 Time: 1.30 \u2013 3.30pm Wednesdays: 5 sessions Dates:\u00a0 from 29th July to 26th August 2020\u00a0\u00a0 Time: 1.30 \u2013 3.30pm Tuesday series: Session 1:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3271\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}