A research project run by Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD) with the Family Nurse Partnership Programme has secured funding of £70,000 over three years from The Wrigley Company Ltd. This funding will support a PhD post for a hygienist or dental therapist to develop a programme for dental nurses to support young, first time mothers in taking care of their...
Wim Wenders' documentary portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
The Salt of the Earth is Wim Wenders' documentary portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, perhaps most famous for his mid-1980s shots of Brazil's biblically vast gold mines and their workers. Notably Salgado photographed the terrible Rwandan genocide of the '90s – after which horror he necessarily switched focus from military subjects to environmental activism instead. Wenders' masterful film fully exploits the supreme power of Salgado's stunning, almost...
Cast: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
An idyllic village in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria is the setting for this exquisitely filmed take on the cycles of life. Structured in four parts, it opens with a shepherd tending his herd of goats, then shifts focus to one goat in particular, the tree under which he seeks shelter, and the industrialised fate of that plant.
Date/time: Monday 25 January | 19:00
Venue: Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building...
Ann Hughes is Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University, and one of the leading experts on the culture, religion and politics of the English Civil War, or the English Revolution. In recent years she has worked on religious debate and polemic, print culture, gender and radicalism, and has published widely in this area, including Gender and Politics in the English Revolution. She is currently working principally on preaching during the revolution, and this is the topic of this evening’s lecture.
Saul Dubow has published widely on the development of racial segregation and apartheid in all its aspects, and his most recent book is Apartheid, 1948-1994 (OUP). His lecture focuses on the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas, institutions, and culture, and setting South African history in its international context.
Date/time: Tuesday 8 March, 19:00
Running time: 80 mins
Venue: Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building
Ticket info: £6.60 / £4.50 / free to Peninsula Arts Friends and...
Dr Anna Whitelock, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is a Reader in Early Modern History and is Director of the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Engagement with the Past at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a regular media commentator on the Tudors, the monarchy, royal bodies, royal succession, gender and politics as well as on public history and heritage. Her books include, Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen, and most recently Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court, from...
Dr Timothy Cooper works in the fields of environmental and political history at the Penryn campus of Exeter University. His teaching emphasises on the role of historical knowledge in thinking about how we can realise different possible futures. He has been working with colleagues on an oral history of the Torrey Canyon disaster in 1967, which is the topic of this evening’s lecture.
Claire Fitzpatrick completed her doctoral studies at Cambridge University, and is now a lecturer in modern Irish history at Plymouth University. Her research interests lie mainly in the development of democracy in the Irish free state and the role of Labour in the Irish revolution. She is also interested in popular participation in the revolution, and the effects of partition on politics and identity and the development of the state in Northern Ireland in relation to Labour and popular politics. She is currently working on a history of the...
Plymouth City Centre Company is commencing a 6 month trial in partnership with Community Screen Networks Ltd (CSN) to make you and your group the stars of the Big Screen!
Vice-chair of Plymouth City Centre Company Liz Lawson said: “The Big Screen sits in the centre of the City on the Piazza which is widely used for events and entertainment. Therefore it is of the utmost importance that...
