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Salisbury & Wiltshire

About us

Salisbury is a thriving Branch with some 200 members. We support a number of educational activities that include working with primary schools and with fifteen local state secondary schools to encourage improved standards in both written and spoken English. We also support the UK Public Speaking Competition by organising local heats (both on Zoom and in-person), the winners of which progress to the regional and then, if they are successful, to the national finals.  We are very proud that a team from South Wilts Grammar School in Salisbury has won the national competition 3 times in recent years. We promote and organise locally, Public Speaking Workshops where specialist members of staff from Dartmouth House come down to spend a day teaching public speaking skills in local schools, and we also have a team dedicated to promoting the ESU’s Oracy in Action programme.

On the social side, we run a monthly programme of speakers and lunches for members and guests from September to May each year.  If you think that you might be interested in helping us, either on the educational side or on the social side, or you would simply like to become a member and attend our monthly talks and lunches please do get in touch with our membership secretary Peter Garbutt (details above).

We would love to hear from you.

Michael Tulloch

Upcoming events in Salisbury & Wiltshire

Salisbury Branch: The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms with James Stopford

Salisbury & Wiltshire

On Monday, 9 October, Salisbury and Wiltshire branch of the ESU are joined by James Stopford to hear more about the history of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was first formed in 1509 during the turbulent years of Henry VIII to…

Salisbury Branch: Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners with Rupert Wieloch

Salisbury & Wiltshire

Join Salisbury branch for an interesting lecture with Rupert Wieloch The Salisbury branch of the ESU invites you to a lecture with Rupert Wieloch to learn more about Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners. One hundred years ago a group of fifteen British soldiers serving with the British Mission to Siberia were captured by the Red Army on Russian Christmas Eve (6th January). They were held in a lice-infested room at Krasnoyarsk for three months, whilst Prime Minister Lloyd George’s representative signed a prisoner exchange treaty with Lenin’s envoy in Copenhagen. One of the prisoners was a young Captain Brian Horrocks (played by Edward Fox in the film A Bridge Too Far), who succumbed to epidemic typhus, but was saved by his best friend who nursed him through the illness. Another captive, Francis McCullagh, was the only western correspondent to interview the Tsar’s assassin. In March, the prisoners were escorted to Irkutsk where a British train arrived to pick them up, but the Bolshevik authorities only allowed the women and children to leave and sent the despondent soldiers 3,500 miles to hateful prisons in Moscow. In his talk at the English-Speaking Union, Rupert Wieloch will describe how the soldiers maintained morale and coped with their fearsome ordeal and explain what the War Secretary, Winston Churchill, did to secure their protracted release and how their incarceration became a ’cause célèbre’ in the House of Commons. Rupert was educated at Winston Churchill’s alma mater and completed a Fellowship in International Relations at Pembroke College, Cambridge during a 35 year career in the British Army. His extensive research includes a treasure-trove of unpublished document, as well as archives from Philadelphia, London, St Petersburg and Oxford and the testimony from the families of some of the prisoners. To book your place please contact the Luncheon Secretary – Julia Tibbs. Tel, 01722 325552 or e-mail, jetibbs@gmail.com. Guests are welcome to arrive from 10.15 for coffee, followed by the lecture and then lunch.

Salisbury branch: The wonderful world of glass with Dr Francis Burroughes

Salisbury & Wiltshire

Join ESUs Salisbury and Wiltshire branch for an interactive experience that explores the history of glass-making. From his own collection, Dr Burroughes brings historic and valuable items of glass for members to examine for themselves, to illustrate the history of glass-making from 3,000 B.C. to the present day. He is…

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