Humanities ![]() Art History & Appreciation To find out more about this Group, Email What we do
Meeting Area: Swansea Meeting Day: Mondays PM ![]() To find out more about this Group, Email What we do each meeting
Meetings held on varied topics. Presentations on a variety of Family History topics - the audience are welcome to contribute from their knowledge and ask questions. Workshops - members are encouraged to share their research and help each other by asking questions, making comments, raising difficulties etc. Introductory talks on how to get started in Family History when sufficient interest is shown. Meeting Area: Sketty Meeting Day: Fridays AM ![]() Family History 2 To find out more about this Group, Email What we do: In response to requests from members, we will be running a weekly Family History Group starting in February for a trial period of 6 weeks. Meeting Area: Morriston Meeting Day: Mondays Literature To find out more about this Group, Email What we do: The Literature Group, having finished reading Marcel Pagnol's "Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs" is presently reading Anthony Trollope's "The Way We Live Now". A rich story of life in England in the 1870s; a period where life in England is rapidly changing, affecting rich and poor. This group is closed while we look for a convenor. Please contact us if you can help. Meeting Area: Newton Meeting Day: Tuesdays PM ![]() Local History To find out more about this Group, Email What we do: In an area rich in social and cultural history and industrial heritage, a new Local History Group is being set up In Morriston. Meeting on a monthly basis, the group is planning a variety of activities including inviting speakers to meetings, visiting areas and buildings of special historical interest and organising group walks. Meeting Area: Morriston Meeting Day: Thursdays PM ![]() Philosophy To find out more about this Group, Email
What we do
Most common sense thinking stops at some conventional and comfortable point. Usually only annoying children keep asking ‘why?’. Philosophers are a bit like these annoying children and like to dig deeper, questioning received wisdom or ‘common’ sense. Meeting Area: West Cross Meeting Day: Thursdays PM ![]() Politics/Citizenship To find out more about this Group, Email We meet on the second Tuesday of the month at the West Cross Community Centre, Linden Avenue, from 2.15- 4.15 pm. The aim of the Group is to hold informed and friendly discussions on a variety of topics of British, Welsh, International and local interest. Topics for discussion are decided from month to month. Usually a member of the Group volunteers to research, prepare and introduce the subject. Everybody is encouraged to contribute and his/her views are heard. We aim to strike a balance between burning political issues of the day and questions of a more philosophical or moral nature and issues that concern us as citizens of Swansea.Once a year we invite an outside speaker with particular expertise to address us. We also visit places of interest in and around Swansea. In the most recent past we sat in a Swansea City Council meeting, visited the Crown Court, the Coast Guard Station before is closed and the new Lifeboat Station and enjoyed conducted tours of the new Bay Campus of Swansea University and the newly refurbished Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. We have travelled to Cardiff Bay a number of times to attend sessions of the National Assembly of Wales. A convivial meal before or after the visit contributes to make these very successful events. Meeting Area: West Cross Meeting Day: Tuesdays PM ![]() Social History This will be a group which will look at the history of peoples’ everyday life from the 19th to early 20th century. We will look at the way people lived their lives – housing, education, leisure and sport, health, work, marriage. The study would also involve looking at movements in literature, art and design, and at government polices and political ideas. We could look at each aspect in depth and it would involve members being involved in investigations of their own. History is not just about Kings and Queens and Battles!! There is no waiting list for the Social History group at the moment, everyone is welcome. Meeting Area: Swansea Marina Area. Meeting Day: Thursdays PM |