All@Alleyn's Series

A talk on representations of the Elizabethans in film followed by a screening of the OSCAR winning ‘Shakespeare in Love’

Britain in the late 16th century: one of cinema’s go-to periods for drama, suspense, and intrigue. From the many film versions of Shakespeare's plays, to explorations of the religious and political turmoil of the Elizabethan 'Golden Age', this short talk explores the cinematic representation of the people who lived on ‘this sceptred isle’ around the time of the founding of Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift in 1619. A screening of the OSCAR winning film ‘Shakespeare in Love’ (directed John Madden, 1998) will follow this presentation. 

What drew one of the most enigmatic Impressionist painters to our corner of South London? Explore how the atmosphere and landmarks (past and present) of Dulwich and its surroundings were captured by this French master and see some familiar sights in a new light.

Come and discover the history and changing technology of letterpress with our Design and Technology Department, and carve and print with your own wooden letterpress letter.

This session focuses on the main sources for researching family history and demonstrates how to access sources via Ancestry. It takes the participants on a chronological journey, starting with the present, and works backwards looking at which archive sources can be used for which periods of history. It also includes methods and approaches to family history research, including how to keep records, how to verify your information and possible traps and pitfalls along the way.

It is aimed at beginners and introduces GRO certificates, electoral registers, wills, the census, parish records, tithe maps, ancestry websites and how to use a local authority record office.

Are you stuck at a point with your family history? This is a surgery session for people who would like to work on their family history overseen by a qualified archivist. Course participants will need a current subscription to the on-line family history sources that they wish to access in the session. Computers will be provided. You will work live on your project while having someone experienced with archive sources on hand to help with questions. It will also be possible to submit questions in advance, which will be shared as group learning at the start of the session.

Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald famously called it 'going whoring', but Edith Wharton made selling her stories to the magazines a lucrative means of further exercising her developed taste for irony. Find out how she beat the editors and advertisers at their own game and became the bestselling American writer of her age.

Director of Sport, Gavin English, and Dan Bearfoot-Fallon, our Sports First Aid Officer and functional movement specialist, talk about developing character through sport and ways to offer physiological support to young people, and help them to prevent, and recover from, injury.