Month: April 2018

Date: Monday 30th April 2018  10:30 (note new date) Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: History of Spain Part 2; ‘The Moors in Spain’ Lecturer: Angela Chantry The word “Moors” derives from the Latin “mauri”, a name for the Berber tribes living in Roman Mauretania.  It has no ethnographic…

Date: Monday 11th Jun 2018  10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Pride and Prejudice Lecturer: Mike Rendell The talk will look at the history of this famous book and follow its impact on British literature and subsequently on film and television from printed page to silver…

Date: 25 June 2018 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject:The History of the Automobile – or the car! Lecturer: John Hopwood This talk will examine the history of, mainly, four-wheel mechanised transport from the earliest 1672 steam driven “toy vehicle” to the latest manufactures’ concepts…

Date: Wednesday 11th April 2018 18:00 (note change of date and time due to public holiday in Moraira!) Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: History of Spain Part 1: Ice age to the Romans Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic   Man flourished on the Iberian Peninsula throughout the last…