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English-Speaking Union
March 2020
London Branch: ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Regional Finals
Please come and support the ESU-Churchill London Public Speaking Regional Finals at Dartmouth House. Light refreshments will be served from 5.00pm, performances will start at 5.30pm.
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London Branch: talk by author Andrew Lownie on his book ‘THE MOUNTBATTENS: Their Lives and Loves’
The English-Speaking Union invites you to an evening at Dartmouth House with Historian Andrew Lownie who will deliver a fascinating talk on his joint biography of the lives of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife Edwina. Wine & nibbles from 6.30pm the talk will start 7.00pm sharp Discover more about the charismatic character of the Earl of Mountbatten with lives touching the history of the 20th century, it is a rich story whose characters include: all the key figures of…
Find out more »March 2022
English-Speaking Union Spring lunch
A celebratory talk by Katya Galitzine on her mother Jean Dawnay’s life as a Dior Model in the 1950s. This will be followed by a Champagne lunch. The event will be held on Tuesday 22nd March at 11.30am at Dartmouth House in Mayfair (close to Green Park tube station). This event is part of the English-Speaking Union's programme of celebrating global understanding through dialogue and will support our vital charitable mission of giving young people the speaking and listening skills…
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POST PONED: Talk by author Rupert Wieloch on his book ‘Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners’
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED One hundred years ago a group of 15 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…
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