Join the Eastbourne Branch of the English-Speaking Union, for their annual summer afternoon tea at the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club. We hope to see you there. To book, please email Jill Weston at [email protected].

The London Branch of the ESU is joined by best-selling author, Charles Spicer, who will tell us the incredible true story of the amateur intelligence agents who befriended the Nazis in the lead-up to the Second World War. A Telegraph History Book of the Year, 'Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise […]

One of the oldest species on earth, eel’s eggs drift on the Gulf Stream from the Sargasso Sea arriving two years later in European rivers as elvers.  Thirty years later they migrate the 4,000 miles back to their breeding grounds and the cycle begins again.  We hear of the international fight to protect them. Start […]

Welcome to The Film Club! London branch is thrilled to invite you to our new monthly film club - a mixed cinema programme intended to spark conversation and to bring together like-minded people. Our debut theme (which will change quarterly) is ‘First Features’, where we’ll showcase three debut feature-length films from acclaimed directors. The first […]

December 2014 NATO formally ended its mission.  By August 2021 the Taliban were back in power.  With 15 years’ experience of Afghanistan both in the country and overseas, Dr Heidi Meyer gives her personal perspective of the critical key decisions that were taken which led to the Taliban’s swift return to power. Start time: 11.00 […]

With at least 14 separate almshouse groups in Salisbury and around the area we will learn their purpose, their history and in particular discover more about The Hospital of St John’s, Heytesbury, which has been in existence since 1472. Start time:             11.00 am  (Coffee from 10.30 am) End time:              12.30 pm  (Lunch from 12.30 pm […]