History Lessons

Looking around the interest I found an interestin new website offering both whole courses structured around GCEs in Ancient History and British & European History, and short ‘Understanding History and Archaeology ’ courses, they aim to provide a varied, informative and entertaining service for anyone wanting to learn about the Past in a structured and enjoyable manner.

Fran and John Andel are based in Bedfordshire, England and have worked in adult education for over twenty years, in John's case, over 30 years! They have both worked for the Open University.

John has a BA (hons), MEd, and DipAE and Fran has a BA (Hons) and a Masters Degree. We are totally committed to maintaining a service for adults who want to learn in a friendly, sociable and enjoyable environment.

Adult education in its previous diverse and stimulating form has effectively disappeared due to government changes in educational funding and bureaucratic requirements.

You can still learn for life, but only if you can afford expensive fees! The new funding strategies mean many 'academic' type courses will not be offered in AE any more. They will be priced out of existence. This is especially true of history, archaeology, literature, psychology and others course of the same type.

Fran's expertise is history, and so they put together this site to help adults to continue to have access these types of subjects. they will try to keep the costs as low as they can, and as competitive as they can.

Their courses will range from the Prehistoric era right through to the English Civil War. They will include short ‘biography’ courses on various British and European monarchs.

they have tried to cut 'red tape' and 'form filling' down to a minimum. They have also taken off the pressure of having to take a public examination at a given time.

Distance courses can be lonely, and so they have arranged a series of trips and study days through the year. Family and friends over 18 years of age are also welcome. They hope to expand these in the future.

For more infomation visit www.lessonsofhistory.co.uk.