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Weekend courses at Madingley Hall

The programme of weekend courses for January to December 2013 is now available. To find out what's on offer, you can either browse the courses below, order a free copy of our course brochure or download a PDF version (2.98 MB).

weekend course brochure 2013 cover 200pxOur popular programme of residential weekend courses runs all year round and features more than 150 courses on subjects ranging from Ancient Greek to genetics, taught by leading Cambridge experts.

Weekend courses are open to all, and no background knowledge is required in most cases. You will be taught in small, informal groups by academics who are expert not only in their subjects but also in teaching students of all ages and experience.

Madingley Hall is a 16th-century country house, set in seven acres of landscaped gardens. It is just four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and only 60 minutes from London.

As a weekend student, you will enjoy award-winning cuisine in our elegant Dining Hall and first-rate facilities in an atmospheric and inspiring setting. You can choose to stay at the Hall for the duration of your course, or attend as a non-resident. Find out more about what a weekend course involves.

 

Available courses

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Title Start Date Status
The inter-war years: 1918-193924 May 2013 Available
Reading Classical Greek24 May 2013 Available
Pompeii (New course)24 May 2013 Available
Modern British sculpture31 May 2013 Available
Reading Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse31 May 2013 Available
Crime and deviance: nuts, sluts and perverts?31 May 2013 Available
Evolution and the fossil record31 May 2013 Available
From Gettysburg to Birmingham: the African-American freedom struggle, 1863–196331 May 2013 Available
Advanced French weekend31 May 2013 Available
Philosophical paradoxes31 May 2013 Available
Deviance in Tudor society14 June 2013 Available
Reading Classical Latin: Plautus and Sallust14 June 2013 Available
Portraits: from Roman generals to Freud’s children14 June 2013 Available
The haunted mind: an exploration in literature14 June 2013 Available
Divided cities: fractured pasts, walls and buffer zones14 June 2013 Available
Atheism, nonreligion and society14 June 2013 Available
Gardens 1943–2013: sustenance and showcase14 June 2013 Available
Bees, flies and flowers: the ecology of pollination and why it matters14 June 2013 Available
Women in Victorian literature, art and society: saints or sinners?28 June 2013 Available
The plant hunters28 June 2013 Available
Beethoven: the 32 sonatas and Diabelli Variations28 June 2013 Available
Appreciating Caribbean poetry28 June 2013 Available
The scientific heritage of Cambridge28 June 2013 Available
Now you see it: the illusion of vision28 June 2013 Available
The landscapes of Anglo-Saxon England28 June 2013 Available
Medieval masterclasses: medieval Latin II12 July 2013 Available
Crime scene investigation12 July 2013 Available
Intermediate French weekend12 July 2013 Available
Basic level Italian weekend12 July 2013 Available
Pipers and tune: John and Myfanwy Piper and the music of Benjamin Britten12 July 2013 Available
Freud: psychologist and philosopher12 July 2013 Available
The Mycenaeans: the roots of Greek history12 July 2013 Available
Ending the great wars: justice and conciliation19 July 2013 Available
Egyptian hieroglyphs: beginner and intermediate levels19 July 2013 Available
The English Renaissance garden19 July 2013 Available
Sun, sex and sea: the Grand Tour and its legacy, 1700-180019 July 2013 Available
Introduction to Chinese language and culture19 July 2013 Available
Re-imagining the past: intrigue, ghosts and the comic19 July 2013 Available
The operas of Meyerbeer19 July 2013 Available
Time to write16 August 2013 Available
Two films about Stalin's USSR: 1930s propaganda versus 1990s post-socialist realism16 August 2013 Available
Jazz improvisation16 August 2013 Available
Tracing prehistoric ancestry using DNA16 August 2013 Available
Painting autumn berries and fruits16 August 2013 Available
Advanced Italian weekend16 August 2013 Available
Satin, silk and sin: Dutch genre painting in the time of Vermeer16 August 2013 Available
'He paints as he plants': the planting and artistry of Capability Brown23 August 2013 Available
Early French film and photography23 August 2013 Available
The Pre-Raphaelite rebels23 August 2013 Available
Wildlife and natural history photography23 August 2013 Available
The Italian Renaissance: new perspectives of man and his world30 August 2013 Available
Who's afraid of Wagner's 'Ring'?30 August 2013 Available
Extinctions: crises in the history of life30 August 2013 Available
Beginners' French weekend30 August 2013 Available
From astronomy to zoology: the A-Z of science30 August 2013 Available
An introduction to (Late) Old and Middle English literature30 August 2013 Available
German language weekend13 September 2013 Available
Medical ethics: controversy and consensus in a changing world13 September 2013 Available
Reading Classical Greek13 September 2013 Available
The poetry of W B Yeats13 September 2013 Available
Great (ancient) Greek philosophers13 September 2013 Available
An introduction to the study of psychology and religion13 September 2013 Available
'This enchanted isle': the romantic spirit in modern British art4 October 2013 Available
Adventurous women: stout boots and strong skirts4 October 2013 Available
Reading Classical Latin: Hannibal4 October 2013 Available
Journeys: travelling with prophets, pirates, slaves and saints4 October 2013 Available
Crime dames: P D James and Ruth Rendell4 October 2013 Available
Globalization: curse or blessing?4 October 2013 Available
The Black Death18 October 2013 Available
Medieval Latin for beginners18 October 2013 Available
Polynesia: art, history, people18 October 2013 Available
Advanced French weekend18 October 2013 Available
Music from the court of Louis XIV: its performance practice and its influence on J S Bach18 October 2013 Available
Intermediate Russian weekend18 October 2013 Available
Writing about science and nature18 October 2013 Available
Mozart and his operas25 October 2013 Available
Victim identification: forensic anthropology25 October 2013 Available
Restoration London25 October 2013 Available
Reading the 'Woman Question': female emancipation from George Eliot to the suffragettes25 October 2013 Available
Gustav Klimt25 October 2013 Available
Faith and empire: the shaping of religions and states in ancient Asia25 October 2013 Available
Poetry masterclass: three mistresses of the lyric28 October 2013 Available
The psychology of everyday life1 November 2013 Available
From alder to ash, not forgetting mountain ash1 November 2013 Available
Medieval queenship1 November 2013 Available
The architecture of pilgrimage1 November 2013 Available
Shakespeare's histories: Falstaff, Hotspur and Prince Hal1 November 2013 Available
Intermediate Spanish weekend1 November 2013 Available
Creative writing for teachers8 November 2013 Available
Sir Christopher Wren: architect in context8 November 2013 Available
Birds in autumn: their migrations and survival strategies8 November 2013 Available
A marriage Italian-style: Italian society and its cinema8 November 2013 Available
Parting is such sweet sorrow: Greek and Latin lovers15 November 2013 Available
Having fun with writing15 November 2013 Available
JFK: image and reality15 November 2013 Available
Anglo-Scottish relations in the 16th century15 November 2013 Available
History of astronomy15 November 2013 Available
An introduction to the archaeology of Roman Britain15 November 2013 Available
The rising powers and development: how are Brazil, China and India affecting global poverty and progress?22 November 2013 Available
Dial M for Murdoch, press B for Beaverbrook: the rise and fall of the press baron22 November 2013 Available
Diffraction and crystal structures22 November 2013 Available
Art, archaeology and landscape: from cave art to contemporary art22 November 2013 Available
'I'm sorry it must be my fault': the psychology of guilt and shame22 November 2013 Available
Parliamentary reform during the 18th and 19th centuries22 November 2013 Available
Leonard Bernstein: the complete musician22 November 2013 Available
Aspects of Keats29 November 2013 Available
James VII and II and the Glorious Revolution29 November 2013 Available
Reading Classical Greek29 November 2013 Available
An insight into neurological disease: when brains go bad29 November 2013 Available
Medieval palaeography for beginners29 November 2013 Available
Acts of the Apostles: history or myth?6 December 2013 Available
Reading Classical Latin: Virgil and Cicero6 December 2013 Available
Advanced French weekend6 December 2013 Available
Bach's cantatas in context6 December 2013 Available
Medieval paintings: how they were made and what they mean6 December 2013 Available
Potent images: rock art of the world6 December 2013 Available
Wilde in the round: the life and works of Oscar Wilde6 December 2013 Available

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