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smallhobbit) wrote2019-09-26 04:10 pm
smallhobbit) wrote2019-09-26 04:10 pm
Continuing Activities - Month Five
Over the past six weeks I've completed three more FutureLearn courses. I keep telling myself to do one course at a time, but when two run which are both equally interesting I'm unable to choose.
The first was The Scottish Highland Clans: Origins, Decline and Transformation, run by Glasgow University. It was a subject I knew nothing about and now feel a little more knowledgeable. Interesting, but not something I expect to pursue. This was followed by Peterloo to the Pankhursts: Radicalisation and Reform in the Nineteenth Century by Royal Holloway College. It tied in with being 200 years after the Peterloo Massacre. Lots of worthwhile information, and I'm glad I followed the course. I find the lecturers from Royal Holloway hard to engage with, they're very dry, but there was someone from the Parliamentary Archives and another from the People's History Museum in Manchester, who were far better presenters.
The last course was The Living Picture Craze: An Introduction to Victorian Film by the British Film Institute (BFI). The films themselves were interesting, but I didn't find it as inspiring as I'd hoped. As yet I haven't managed to use the subject in a Holmes ficlet, but no doubt that will come. But there was the wonderful opportunity of creating a playbill on behalf of the Ferret. (Here)
I continue to cross stitch, and am now up to the halfway mark for the right hand half:
The first was The Scottish Highland Clans: Origins, Decline and Transformation, run by Glasgow University. It was a subject I knew nothing about and now feel a little more knowledgeable. Interesting, but not something I expect to pursue. This was followed by Peterloo to the Pankhursts: Radicalisation and Reform in the Nineteenth Century by Royal Holloway College. It tied in with being 200 years after the Peterloo Massacre. Lots of worthwhile information, and I'm glad I followed the course. I find the lecturers from Royal Holloway hard to engage with, they're very dry, but there was someone from the Parliamentary Archives and another from the People's History Museum in Manchester, who were far better presenters.
The last course was The Living Picture Craze: An Introduction to Victorian Film by the British Film Institute (BFI). The films themselves were interesting, but I didn't find it as inspiring as I'd hoped. As yet I haven't managed to use the subject in a Holmes ficlet, but no doubt that will come. But there was the wonderful opportunity of creating a playbill on behalf of the Ferret. (Here)
I continue to cross stitch, and am now up to the halfway mark for the right hand half:
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And wow,wow,wow with sunflower garden! It's coming along very nicely. I like the colours.
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I've been really pleased with the cross stitch. The green can get wearing at times - there's a lot of it, but it does show the colours off perfectly.
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And an impressive range of courses studied:-)
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The cross-stitch piece looks so beautiful. You must be feeling very proud ^___^
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I've been really pleased with the cross-stitch. Thank you.
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Well done for following those courses. They're bound to provide some material for writing at some point!
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Oh yes, you never know when I random bit of information will come in useful :)