Feelgood Learning

 

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Learning new things can be a great pleasure and learning alongside other people is a wonderful way of sharing ideas and experiences.

Feelgood Learning is a group of local people who enjoy exploring different ideas in company with one another.  This is the group for people who want to meet new people who are also interested in ideas.  Members come from different backgrounds and age groups.  You don’t need qualifications or to have been good at school. Basically you just need to be curious and to want to keep the grey matter working.

The emphasis of Feelgood Learning is not just on learning, however.  We are a supportive group and we do our best to make members feel included and valued.

Why do people join the group?

• Because learning new things helps to keep the brain young and the body healthy.
• To find out about new subjects of interest.
• To carry on exploring topics you already know quite well.
• To meet with people who have similar interests.

Whatever your reason you are sure of a warm welcome.

Might be interested?  Why not come along and give it a go?  The first two weeks are free.  After that the cost is £3.50 a week to cover group costs.

Feelgood Learning is on at the Feelgood Factory every Wednesday between 1.30  and 3.30.  For further details, phone Sandra on 0151 291 8010.

Alternatively see the most recent leaflet.

During the next few months we will be looking at four subjects:

• The Servant Problem: Being and employing servants from 1800 to 1939
• Shipwrecks in the Mersey
• The Life of Charles Darwin
• Margaret Beavan: The Little Mother of Liverpool

14th January— Servants Everywhere

As the Industrial Revolution led to the growth of the middle classes, more and more people began to employ servants—but this wasn’t as easy as it might have seemed.

21st January—Shipwrecks in the Mersey

28th January—The Problem of Servants in the Victorian Period.

"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself." - Benjamin Franklin. The mistress of the house was a manager of an army of servants rather than a domestic goddess. How did this work out in reality?

4th February—Shipwrecks in the Mersey

11th February—Suffrage and Servants

The end of the Victorian era and the First World War led to a huge change in employment for ordinary people.

 18th February—Shipwrecks in the Mersey

 25th February —The Maid of All Work becomes the Lady Who Does

The servant problem between the wars became the problem of actually persuading people to be servants.

4th March—The Life and Work of Charles Darwin

 11th March—Margaret Beavan

Margaret Beavan became Liverpool’s first woman Lord Mayor in 1927. Her work for children had a national impact and when she died in 1931, Liverpudlians lined the streets to watch the funeral procession of ‘the little mother of Liverpool’.

 18th March—The Life and Work of Charles Darwin

 25th March—The Life and Work of Charles Darwin