Evening Courses at Toddington Village Hall (Click on Maps to see where this is)

Thursdays evenings from September 2008.

Time: 19.30 – 21.30

LOH5

The Flavian Emperors

Nero was the last of the emperors descended from the Julio-Claudian family. In the year 68 AD the Roman World collapsed once again into Civil War, and the Year AD 69 saw four emperors battling for control of the Empire.

The victor of AD 69 was Flavius Vespasianus, or Vespasian. He was the first of a new line of soldier emperors. His sons Titus and Domitian succeeded and so bad was Domitian’s rule that chaos followed his murder. This is the story of the three Flavian emperors.

Cost is £60.00 for those in employment/ £42.00 for retired

25^th Sept: The death of Nero and the Year of the Four Emperors

9^th Oct: Vespasian – from soldier to Emperor. We look at Vespasian in Britain and in Jerusalem

23^rd Oct: Vespasian – the Emperor: an Empire changed. How good an Emperor was Vespasian?

13^th Nov: Titus and Domitian: Unbrotherly love. Did Domitian kill Titus?

27^th Nov: Domitian – a study in tyranny. The Fall of the Flavians and the start of the reigns of the ‘Five Good Emperors’ – Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

LOH6

The Dudleys: A Sixteenth Century Dynasty

This course traces the rise, and numerous falls, of the great Dudley family throughout the Tudor period. It looks at their relationships with all the Tudor monarchs and with the great and the ‘good’ of the day, including the Sydneys, Bess of Hardwicke and Lettice Knollys.

Cost is £60.00 for those in employment/ £42.00 for retired

18^th Sept: Introducing the Dudley family. The Rise to Prominence

2^nd Oct: The Dudleys in the Reign of Henry VII

16^th Oct: John Dudley in the reign of Henry VIII

30^th Oct: The Dudleys in the reign of Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey and Queen Mary

20^th Nov: Sweet Robin: Elizabeth I and ‘her’ Leicester

4^th Dec: ‘His Last Letter’: the Dudleys at the end of an era