News of general interest to all members

Dear Member,

If you have already booked for the visit to the Globe Theatre on 25^th April 2018 please ignore this message.

Should you wish to join us on the visit there are nine places still available. In addition to the Globe Theatre there are also opportunities to visit the Tate Modern, Borough Market and perhaps take a walk on the Millennium Bridge.

The cost is £30.

You can find out more and book a place either on the Hayling U3A website or at the next monthly U3A meeting on 19^th April 2018.

Pat Hulls

In this update:

• Next Thursday's monthly meeting
• The next Science and Technology meeting
• Are you interested in longer walks?
• U3A Trust events

Continue reading Hayling Island U3A - March Update →

A two-day study break for U3A members in the town of Aberystwyth on 18th to 19th April, based at The National Library of Wales, one of the six Legal Deposit Libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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The British Library and the U3A Trust have arranged a study day at the Library on Monday 26^th March with sessions that include:

• Dr Claire Eustance, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich – Claire will share her research around masculinity and male support for women’s suffrage, thereby giving wider social and political context to the movement.
• Dr Fern Riddell, cultural historian and an expert in militant suffrage who appears regularly on TV and Radio, is consultant for the BAFTA award-winning BBC and Amazon drama Ripper Street and author of the Victorian Guide to Sex (2014) and forthcoming Death In Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion. Actress. Arsonist. Suffragette. (2018) – Fern will look at the militancy of the suffrage movements: its exponents, targets and consequences.
• Dr Polly Russell, Lead Curator of Contemporary Politics and Public Life at the British Library – Polly will look at the legacy of suffrage, and explore the Library’s oral history project ‘Sisterhood and Beyond’ that captures the memories of women who powered the Women’s Liberation Movement in the UK during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. This will include exerts from the Library’s sound and vision archives.

Attendance costs £24.

Click here for more details including a booking form.

In this update:

• Find out about the Maasai tribe
• Help prevent our emails going to spam folders

Continue reading Hayling Island U3A - January update →

Back in November and December 2017, BT Internet started rejecting most of our monthly update emails as 'looking like spam'.

We have changed the way we send emails to BT Internet addresses and this might resolve the rejection problem - we'll see. However, I can confirm that all other emails - including those sent by group leaders - have been accepted by BT. Meanwhile, I am still pursuing the issue with BT.

Unfortunately, I'm now getting reports that some of our emails are going to BT spam folders when there was no problem before. Worse, depending on how you receive emails, you might be unaware that's happening. Fortunately, you can take steps to prevent our emails going to spam. Click here to see a document that explains the problem; go to the bottom of the page to see the suggested actions for users of BT Internet. Please implement those suggestions. You will be helping yourself and other members who use BT Internet.

This is the text of an email we sent to all members with btinternet or btopenworld email addresses that didn't receive our two recent all-member emails because they were rejected by BT as 'looking like spam'.

We've made some changes designed to overcome the problem, but we'd like everyone with BT to follow the email's suggestion; that will help improve our email delivery to them and to other members in the same position.

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