Events

With over 60 participants from more than 30 countries this promises to be another exciting competition. Members are welcome to Dartmouth House to see the heats in the morning.

International Schools Mace Final to be held at Liverpool Town Hall.  The international championships involving champions from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

ESU members are invited to a coffee morning at Dartmouth House.  This is an opportunity to meet old and new members and to introduce friends to the ESU's international headquarters.

An international conference organised by The English-Speaking Union to be held at St. Petersburg State University, School of International Relations.

Speakers will include HE Mr Tony Brenton, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Russian Federation, The Lord Watson of Richmond CBE, Chairman Emeritus of the ESU, The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG and Professor Ludmila Verbitskaya, Rector of St. Petersburg State University. Sessions and lectures will include discussion on Cities of Globalisation, The Role of English as the Language of Globalisation and Universities – Agents of Globalisation and Cultural Diversity. Panel Discussions will follow, to be chaired by Mrs Valerie Mitchell OBE, ESU Director-General and Lord Watson.

There will be a pre-conference cultural programme, which will include the following sites of interest: the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Hermitage Museum, a visit to Peterhof, the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly (Mariinsky Palace) and the British Consulate General.

ESU France International Dinner in Paris in honour of Lord Hunt.  Monsieur Pierre-Christian Taittinger, Honorary President ESU France and Mme Beatrix de Montergermont-Keil, President ESU France and former President ESU International Council will preside.  On Thursday 29 May a tour of the 17th century chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte is organised.

Tickets: €80

ESU members are invited to a coffee morning at Dartmouth House.  This is an opportunity to meet old and new members and to introduce friends to the ESU's international headquarters.

Literary lecture in aid of The ESU Arts Scholarship to Attingham. Bruce Robertson, Deputy Director of Arts Programmes in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will be speaking on High Culture and the Wild West: the Development of Art Museums in the American West.

Tickets: £7.50 to include a glass of wine

Literary lecture with Julia Fox, historical researcher and teacher, on her newly published book on the highly topical Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford. The story of Henry VIII's queens - as seen through the eyes of Jane Rochford, sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and cousin to Katherine Howard.

Tickets: £8 to include a glass wine

Copies of the books will be available for purchasing and signing.

House of Lords Tea Party. Lord Hunt will receive guests on the Terrace of the House of Lords.

Tickets: £25

ESU members are invited to a coffee morning at Dartmouth House.  This is an opportunity to meet old and new members and to introduce friends to the ESU's international headquarters.