Film Night – 7:30pm, Friday, 29th November 2024 A cantankerous, unpopular teacher, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti); a bright, abrasive student, Angus (Dominic Sessa); and Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), the school’s head cook and a recently bereaved mother, find themselves forced to spend the winter holiday together in an otherwise empty…
Film Night – 7:30pm, Friday, 25th October 2024 Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life tells the incredible true story of a London stockbroker who helped 669 Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the outbreak of World War…
Martin Edwards is a crime writer of international distinction, with twenty-three published novels (most recently Hemlock Bay), and two multi-award-winning histories of crime fiction, The Life of Crime and The Golden Age of Murder to his credit. He has received three Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association, including the Dagger…
The city of Venice might appear to be a romantic amalgam of canals and bridges, churches andpalaces, but the trained eye can date the various buildings and thereby discern the rise and fall of aremarkable republic in a Europe of monarchies. This lecture will concentrate on the evolution ofVenice’s secular…
Alex Lake is a British novelist who was born in the North West of England. “After Anna” was a No. 1 best selling eBook sensation and a top-ten Sunday times bestseller. The author now lives in the North East of the US.
Cassie writes rich, contemporary fiction about family relationships and secrets. Come and learn all about her debut novel, “Number Thirty-Two”
Author of over 25 books on Warrington. Harry will be sharing his experiences of ‘Photographing Warrington‘
In 1915, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which postulated a link between gravity, space and time. One hundred years later, in September 2015, one of the last elusive predictions of the theory was finally confirmed with the first experimental discovery of gravitational waves. This achievement crowned a…
The Place of the Earls of Warrington in England’s History Speaker: Dr. Bill Cooke The talk will give a brief account of the two families who held the title Earl of Warrington and assess their role in the nation’s history. As with many other areas of the country’s past, Warrington…
A talk by DR. Bill Cooke.
H G Wells was a prophet and visionary who made a series of forecasts about how the twenty-first century would look.
The talk will focus on three aspects. Wells as a prophet of the internet; what he said about world government and his role as a Cassandra for the environment.
The talk is based on Dr. Cooke’s work “H G Wells and the Twenty-first Century”, published by Liverpool University Press (2023).
