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SUMMARY:English-Speaking Union Spring lunch with Robert Hardman
DESCRIPTION:This March\, we are delighted to welcome journalist\, author and documentary filmmaker Robert Hardman as our special guest at our Spring Lunch which will raise funds for our educational programmes.  \nCelebrated for his unparalleled insight into the British royal family\, Robert will take us behind the scenes of his latest book\, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story\, offering a glimpse into the life and reign of our new monarch.  \nAfter his talk\, continue the conversation over a two-course lunch in the Long Drawing Room at Dartmouth House.  \n 
URL:https://www.esu.org/event/english-speaking-union-spring-lunch2025h/
LOCATION:English-Speaking Union\, Dartmouth House\, 37 Charles Street\, London\, England\, W1J 5ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:ESU Social
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SUMMARY:POST PONED: Talk by author Rupert Wieloch on his book ‘Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners’
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED \nOne 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 Bridge Too Far)\, who succumbed to epidemic typhus\, but was saved by his best friend who nursed him through the illness.  In March\, the prisoners were escorted to Irkutsk where a British train arrived to pick them up\, but the Bolshevik authorities only allowed the women and children to leave and sent the despondent soldiers 3\,500 miles to hateful prisons in Moscow. \nIn his talk at the English Speaking Union\,  Rupert Wieloch will describe how the soldiers maintained morale and coped with their fearsome ordeal and explain what the War Secretary\, Winston Churchill\, did to secure their protracted release.  Rupert was educated at Winston Churchill’s alma mater and completed a Fellowship in International Relations at Pembroke College\, Cambridge during a 35 year career in the British Army.  His extensive research includes a treasure-trove of unpublished documents and archives from Philadelphia\, London\, St  Petersburg and Oxford.
URL:https://www.esu.org/event/london-branch-talk-by-author-rupert-wieloch-on-his-book-churchills-abandoned-prisoners/
LOCATION:English-Speaking Union\, Dartmouth House\, 37 Charles Street\, London\, England\, W1J 5ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:ESU Social
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SUMMARY:London Branch: talk by author Andrew Lownie on his book 'THE MOUNTBATTENS: Their Lives and Loves'
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nWine & nibbles from 6.30pm the talk will start 7.00pm sharp \nDiscover 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 the Second World War from Churchill\, Macmillan\, Eden\, Montgomery to Roosevelt\, Eisenhower\, Stilwell and Chiang Kai-Shek; The Royal Family; and stars of stage and screen Charlie Chaplin\, Agatha Christie\, Noel Coward\, Joan Crawford\, and Cary Grant. \ntickets: \nESU Members £15 \nNon-members & guests £20 \nAttendees will have an opportunity to purchase a signed copy of The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves after the event.
URL:https://www.esu.org/event/london-branch-talk-by-author-andrew-lownie-on-his-book-the-mountbattens-their-lives-and-loves/
LOCATION:English-Speaking Union\, Dartmouth House\, 37 Charles Street\, London\, England\, W1J 5ED\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:London Branch: ESU-Churchill Public Speaking Regional Finals
DESCRIPTION:Please come and support the ESU-Churchill London Public Speaking Regional Finals at Dartmouth House. \nLight refreshments will be served from 5.00pm\, performances will start at 5.30pm.
URL:https://www.esu.org/event/london-branch-esu-churchill-public-speaking-regional-finals/
LOCATION:English-Speaking Union\, Dartmouth House\, 37 Charles Street\, London\, England\, W1J 5ED\, United Kingdom
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