Change of Venue

After many happy years at the Ensleigh Centre, we were saddened to learn that it was to close. Our new venue is The Community Enterprise Centre on Cottingham Road, Hull HU5 2DH where we will continue to meet fortnightly on Tuesdays from September to April. Visitors will be very welcome, please contact our Secretary.

56th Session - 2015/2016

Programme

8 September 2015 

Inconvenient Women: Lunacy in Life and Literature

22 September 2015

Seamus Heaney: Digging with his Pen

6 October 2015

The Other Bronté Girl

20 October 2015

Othello:Villain or Victim?

3 November 2015

Book Reviews/Discussion

17 November 2015

Shocking Mid-Victoria Britain: An Introduction to Sensation Fiction. 

(Our Guest Speaker - Dr. Janine Hatter)

8 December 2015

Christmas Miscellany

5 January 2016

New Year Party and Buffet

19 January 2016

Wilkie Collins and the Tribulations of Passionate Women

2 February 2016

Heat, Snobbery and Intrigue in L. P. Hartley's "The Go-Between"

16 February

Short papers

1 March 2016

Penelope Fitzgerald: Art from Life

15 March 2016

All Dressed Up and Somewhere To Go: The story of the Parisian Department Store via the Literature of Emile Zola

5 April 2016

Annual Dinner

12 April 2016

Annual General Meeting

Summer outing

On 4 July 2015 we headed west, by coach, to Wakefield for a double delight. First we visited the Barbara Hepworth Gallery where we had coffee on arrival followed by a conducted tour of some of her iconic works; our guide was extremely knowledgeable and the visit proved interesting for everyone. On then to Nostell Priory with the opportunity for lunch in the courtyard café and then a wander around house and grounds until time for home at 4.30. An informative and very enjoyable day blessed with fine weather.