https://www.creativesacrosssussex.com/listings/events/?archive=1&user=8793&view=rss Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativekirklees.com/s-daley/the-sounds-of-time/ 175 Anniversary Concert The Sounds of Time The University’s Department of Music has devised a fascinating concert that contrasts music that was popular in the era of Huddersfield Mechanics’ Institute and Technica... Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativekirklees.com/s-daley/the-class-of-1841/ Dr Martyn Walker, of the University’s School of Education and Professional Development, is an expert on the Mechanics’ Institute movement in Victorian Britain. In this lecture Martyn looks at the contribution the Hudd... Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativekirklees.com/s-daley/the-victorian-talk-show/ Professor Martin Hewitt - who is Dean of the University’s School of Music Humanities and Media – explores the importance of the celebrity lecture as a recreational activity in the nineteenth century. At many late Vict... Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativekirklees.com/s-daley/read-all-about-it/ Poetry flourished among the working classes in in the industrial towns and cities of the North of England during the Victorian period. It was a passion fostered by leading authors such as Charlotte Brontë (whose bicenten... Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0100 https://creativekirklees.com/s-daley/good-chemistry/ It was as early as 1843 that Huddersfield Mechanics’ Institute offered its first courses in chemistry - then widely regarded as a rather obscure subject. It was a highly progressive decision, driven by far-sighted local ...