EVENTS
APRIL
Wednesday 9
Dartmouth House
Thursday 13
Epping Forest Branch Dudley Chignell will talk on “Flora, Fauna and Fun in New
Zealand” at the Murray Hall, Loughton. Tickets cost £4 and
include tea/coffee
Tuesday 15
Mid-Cheshire Branch
Talk by one of the branch’s Sponsored Students
Tuesday 15
Brighton Hove &
District
2.30pm: A talk on ‘Sheds on the seashore’ by Kathryn Ferry
Wednesday 23
Exeter Branch
6.30pm: Annual Dinner Speaker Sue Macgregor CBE – Because
the Pictures are Better. A long career in radio, with encounters
along the way. The Exeter Golf and Country Club. Tickets cost
£32 for members
Wednesday 23
Oxfordshire Branch
St George’s Day Lunch, Leander Club
Thursday 24
Epping Forest Branch Branch 50th Anniversary – details to be advised
Friday 25
Norwich & Norfolk
Branch
Speaker Mr John Jennings Sheriff of Norwich 2012/13
Saturday 26
Dartmouth House
ESU Public Speaking Competition for Schools Final at
Churchill College Cambridge
Monday 28
Dartmouth House
Travelling Librarian Award – Closing date for applications
Tuesday 29
Dartmouth House
6.30pm: 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought
& Won – a talk by historian Saul David on his new book which
is the first book to tell the story of the ‘war to end all wars’
through the events of one hundred key days between
1914 and 1918
Tuesday 29
South Wales Branch
12pm: Lunch at Cardiff City Stadium with Lady Carnarvon
speaking on “Lady Carnarvon and the real Downton Abbey
Date tbc
Dartmouth House
Submissions for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in
Translation, the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Language
Book Awards and President’s Award will open.
Talk with African-American novelist and political advisor to
Obama’s election campaign Candace Allen and the American
violinist Tai Murray on the theme of “Instrument of change, how
music transforms lives across the globe from the UK to Venezuela
and beyond.” Tickets £10 Members/Alumni, £12 General
Admission
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