Guided Munich Tours

When you think of England, what do you think of first? Are you familiar with the terrain you're treading with the English language, or have you only seen the tourist attractions along well-trodden paths?

Learn more about England's history, human and cultural makeup and you will realize how intertwined the English language and English culture are. Over the course of ten afternoons, you will have the opportunity to gain new perspectives on England through short lectures and open dialogue with your instructor.

The Culture Talks take place at regular intervals at the Cambridge Institut in Munich and are led by Philip Moore, the founder of the Cambridge Institut. The next thematic series is in preparation and will be published soon. Contact us for more information.

Past thematic series have been devoted to diverse aspects of English culture, a selection of which you find below.

Swinging London of the 1960s - an English Revolution

For a few years in the 1960s London was the world capital of cool.

This cultural talk describes London's change from a gloomy, grey post-war capital into a shining centre of style. A transformation that was mainly due to two factors: youth and money. As Michael Caine described it: 'It was rather like being in a dancing school full of Fred Astaires'.

Iconic English Women of the 20th Century

We shall be talking about the lives and times of women who were, in the words of Virginia Woolf's by nature explorers, revolutionists, reformers. But our surroundings were at least fifty years behind the times. They were women living restricted lives in a man's world. Women who had the audacity to defy propriety. And by doing so, they were, as often as not, deemed 'mad'.

Spitalfields, London

If you love London, go, on your next visit, to a district in the East End, near Brick Lane and Liverpool Street, called Spitalfields. Its streets have witnessed waves of immigration, great prosperity and dreadful poverty. The shadow of Jack the Ripper crossed its courts and alleys. Here, in one neighbourhood, are two thousand years of English history. But go there soon - the commercial towers are spreading from the City of London, encroaching upon the historic core of Spitalfields.