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Can Governments Help Us Change Our Lifestyles?
With health services in developed countries increasingly burdened by chronic illness linked to lifestyle choices, last Friday of May, we talked about the role governments might play in supporting healthier ways of living. The discussion focused mainly on diet, specifically, the dominance of ultra-processed foods: cheap, convenient, and engineered for maximum craving, but lacking in…
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Strong Attendance Marks History Group’s Season Finale on Franco’s War Routes
David Ebsworth, a familiar face from his Spanish Civil War talks, was back with us today to share his latest adventure. This time, he invited us to step into Franco’s Spain in 1938, tagging along on one of the dictator’s very real battlefield tours. The Group, David, and Coventry schoolteacher Mary Walker—an enthusiastic Franco fan—embarked…
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Shutterbugs – May 2025 Report
U3A Photography Group
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History Talk. The War Routes of Spain
This is our final talk of this season before the summer break. David Ebsworth, one of our regular presenters and civil war expert, now takes us on one of Franco’s real-life 1938 battlefield tours. Join him – and 1930s Coventry school-teacher Mary Walker, an ardent supporter of General Franco – as we meet some of…
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