An update on The King's School, Tamil Nadu by Colin Wagstaff Colin Wagstaff is an ex-Army officer who left the services in 1976 mainly due to injuries sustained in a parachuting accident. His parents and grandparents were born in India. His father, John Wagstaff, was a Captain in the British Royal Navy and he served […]

‘Sir Clements Markham RGS: success or failure?’ by Isobel Williams Our last Talk of the 2021-22 season, on Wednesday, 20 April, is by Isobel Williams. Isobel is a retired Consultant in Respiratory Medicine. While qualifying at St George’s Hospital, University of London, where Edward Wilson, Robert Scott’s friend and confidant, had trained some sixty-five years […]

‘The inner workings of the UK Privy Council’ with Alex Galloway (Retired Clerk of the Privy Council and Head of the Privy Council Office) The Privy Council is a group of advisers on the royal prerogative to the sovereign and has been in existence since the 1500s. Initially it advised on the authority, privilege, and immunity attached to the British monarch; […]

The South Wales branch is delighted to announce a date for the long-postponed visit of author Anne Sebba who will be talking about her most recent book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg, A Cold War Tragedy’. This event at the Cardiff City Stadium is sure to be a fascinating opportunity to re-visit historical relationships with the Soviet Union […]

Join us for a tour of the English-Speaking Union's headquarters Dartmouth House; this opulent Grade II*-listed townhouse boasts a marble courtyard, French panelling and a Robert Adam fireplace. From a banker's ostentatious home to a military hospital and then the headquarters of educational charity the English-Speaking Union, Dartmouth House has had an illustrious history. Join […]

In May 2012, Bristolians voted by a narrow majority to introduce an elected mayor as a way of running their city. This May, after a vote in the City Council, Bristolians are being asked to vote in another referendum on whether they wish to keep the elected mayor model, or revert to a committee system. […]

We are delighted to mark the 30th year of the ESU Ann Chilton Art History scholarship with a talk by Geoffrey Munn OBE, MVO who is a jewellery specialist, historian and writer but is probably best known as a television presenter on the BBC Antiques Roadshow. Carl Fabergé was the maker of the famous Easter Eggs […]