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U3A Trustee Michaela Moody reviews a recent national event on the suffragette movement.

John Sandiford from Tynedale U3A describes years of detailed research and a very popular website developed by the Hadrian’s Wall group.

Janet Whitehouse from Roding Valley U3A introduces five projects which make up the Shared Learning Project – Maps and More

The last instalment of Arthur House's reminiscences on his time in the Home Guard... for now!

This exercise involved a number of HG units from surrounding villages as well as the town company and was deemed by HQ to be of such importance that it merited the assignment of a senior officer to command and manage the exercise. The town company had been given the task of defending the gasworks…

Louisa Sewell of Sussex U3A Network (SUN) introduces a new SLP on Legends, Myths and Spirits.

Jenny Carley from the U3A Greater Manchester Network gives an update on the shared learning project Cottonopolis.

The second instalment of Arthur House's stories about real life in the Home Guard.

It was in early springtime on a cold and frosty Sunday morning that I joined a small group of my school friends at the railway station together with the main body of the town HG to take part in another exercise. We were to attack a position at the summit of a hill a mile or so south of the station…

Maggie Gravelle from South London U3A talks about the award-winning SLP into the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Royal Naval Service.

Ann Higgins of King's Lynn U3A writes about her experience of running a shared learning project.

Gillian Brown of Callington U3A relates how U3A members spent a day learning about the history and geography of Cornwall, from maritime heritage to local fauna.

Geraldine Lee of Aylsham & District U3A has embarked on a project to mark the bicentenary of the death of the great landscape designer Humphry Repton.

The National Leather Collection looks to U3A groups across the country for help researching its diverse collection of artefacts and information.

Arthur House (Bracknell Forest U3A) shares some of his writings about what it was like in the real Home Guard during the Second World War.

Plans are being laid to bring together the experiences and learning that U3A members can enjoy from their contact with Wales’ fantastic coastline and border country.