The English-Speaking Union welcomes you to an evening in conversation with Ingrid Persaud, who will be talking about her new novel Love after Love. Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was a legal […]

We regret that this event has been cancelled. Tony Bostock lives in Swanlow area of Winsford in the heart of Cheshire and descends from a family which has lived in the Northwich district for several hundred years. The 30 years he was an officer with the Cheshire Constabulary and later worked as a community safety […]

Lunch followed by a talk by Ann May on ‘Thomas Erpingham Hero or Thug'

We regret that this event has been cancelled. Iran, Evil Empire or Overlooked Holiday Destination' is a talk by Edward Mynors on 21 April 2020 at the Barley Mow in Walderton. Address- The Barley Mow, Walderton PO18 9ED

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 previously, she saw many of Wilson’s iconic pictures of Antarctica and became fascinated by the continent and the explorers of the early 1900s. She has […]

ESU member's lunch at Cardiff City Hospitality Suites with guest speaker Professor James Raven. More details and tickets available by emailing [email protected]. Directions and ticket prices available on request.

We regret that this event has been cancelled. Devon & Exeter Branch's annual Black Tie Dinner with a talk autobiographical talk from Billy “Scratch” Hitchen. At the end of the Easter holidays in 1963, Billy ‘Scratch’  Hitchen, instead of returning to school in Salcombe, having already been expelled by his mother, who was the head […]