{"id":57,"date":"2013-09-27T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/groups\/worldhistory\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:23:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Normally<\/strong><\/em> the World History Group meets in the Coronation Hall on the first Tuesday of the month from 10.00 to noon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Currently<\/em><\/strong> the Group is meeting via Zoom, on a bi-weekly basis, via Zoom. The sessions are open to anyone who&#8217;d like to join in, and all you need to do is get in touch with Rosie Kyles, the Group leader, at the email address below.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the group is to study history throughout the world and each member contributes their own area of study related to a group chosen topic.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years we have covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>the Balkans to 1914<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>early East Asia, around 1000BCE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the Romans in Britain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>American Civil War<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the Vikings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the East India Company<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the short period 1700-1710 across the world<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The early Ottoman Empire<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the Tokugawa and transition to Meji in Japan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our next topic, beginning in September, will be Russia from 1600-1800.<\/p>\n<p>At present the group has room for some new members.<\/p>\n<p>If you need any further information, please contact:<br \/><strong>Rosemarie Kyles:<\/strong> rosemarie.kyles@btinternet.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">******<\/span><br style=\"\u201dheight: 1.5em\u201d;\" \/><br style=\"\u201dheight: 1.5em\u201d;\" \/><br style=\"\u201dheight: 1.5em\u201d;\" \/><br style=\"\u201dheight: 1.5em\u201d;\" \/><br style=\"\u201dheight: 1.5em\u201d;\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">..<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally the World History Group meets in the Coronation Hall on the first Tuesday of the month from 10.00 to noon. Currently the Group is meeting via Zoom, on a bi-weekly basis, via Zoom. The sessions are open to anyone who&#8217;d like to join in, and all you need to do is get in touch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessu3a.org\/worldhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}