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A proposed new U3A in the Dulwich area – meeting Tuesday 18th March at Dulwich Library

The University of the Third Age (U3A) movement is an unique and exciting organisation which provides, through its U3As, life-enhancing and life-changing opportunities. Retired and semi-retired people come together and learn together, not for qualifications but for its own reward: the sheer joy of discovery!

Members share their skills and life experiences: the learners teach and the teachers learn, and there is no distinction between them.

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Born in the NHS Sat 8th Mar

A reading and short play, followed by debate about the NHS, led by the authors will take place in the main Library on Saturday, the 8th March from 2:30pm-4pm. From the book review here:

"Born in the NHS is one of those books that’s hard to categorise. It offers a fascinating slice of social history – families in sickness and health, the changing roles of health professionals – over the last seventy years, but it’s no dry academic study. The book – a collaboration between two poets, Wendy French and Jane Kirwan – is Continue reading Born in the NHS Sat 8th Mar