Fellowship’s Weekly Talks in the current format have become a Suburb institution over the last 18 years. These are at 2.30pm every Tuesday. All Suburb residents are most welcome. Admission is £1 for members and £3 for non members and includes tea and biscuits after the talk, an opportunity for a chat with friends and fellow residents. If members have a real need for help with transportation to get to these talks, they should ring Lorna Jones on 07891-112365 to discuss this possibility.
During the past 18 years there have been about 750 talks on a huge range of subjects from a myriad of speakers from London and way beyond. A randomly selected list shown below under ‘Previous Talks’ gives some indication of the range of subjects.
June 2nd
‘Charles Wade : Architect of the Picturesque’
David Davidson – Trust Architectural Adviser
June 9th
‘Are We Sleepwalking Towards A Global Crisis? Spillover Problems In Linked Systems On Which Humanity Depends’
William White – Canadian Economist
June 16th
‘Silk Roads of Central Asia’
Bernard Johnson – Former Teacher and Chair of ‘Friends of Barnet Environment Centre’
June 23rd
‘Libraries on the Suburb’
Colin Gregory – Former Government lawyerr and active HGS volunteer
America on Edge – Simon Marks (LBC Correspondent Washington DC)
Landslides and Political Earthquakes : a Year of Unprecedented Change – Libby Wiener (former ITV Political Correspondent)
How Did We Get To Mr Putin? – Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former UK Ambassador to Moscow
The Dinosaurs to Now : the Continuing Threat of Infectious Diseases – Professor Tom Rogers
UK 2030 Clean Power Plan – Dr Peter Davies
Juries – His Honour Geoffrey Rivlin KC
How Medical Advances since the 1840s benefitted one Patient – Professor Gordon Rustin
Marine Conservation ; What are we trying to do and why? – Dr Jean-Luc Solandt
Clichés, Platitudes, Absence of Meaning in Today’s Spoken and Written Communication – Roger Rose
Joseph Wright of Derby – Lucrezia Walker
Moving from an Age of Plenty to an Age of Scarcity – William White
Edward Burne-Jones, George Eliot, Richard Wagner – A Collision of Like Minded Souls – Barry Millington
The National Gallery during the War – Suzanne Bosman
Shakespeare : The Gift that Keeps on Giving – Dr Alistair Niven OBE
The American Election – Simon Marks (LBC Correspondent, Washington DC)
Luther and the Jews – Dr Henry Cohn
Antibodies, Genes and Cels : The Modern Medicines – Dr Barbara Bannister
The British Empire’s Contribution to the Defeat of Japan – Vice Admiral John McAnally
Royal Yacht Britannia – Vice Admiral John McAnally
Les Années Folles : Music, Art, Style and Glamour in Paris between the Wars – Deborah Calland
The World’s First Animals – Professor Roger Mason
Edgar Julius Jung : Right Wing Enemy of the Nazis – Roshan Magub
Plantagenet Brothers, Richard & John – Eleanor Levy
My Life outside the Monastery Walls – Harry Hicks
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata : Explanation and Performance – Angela Zanders
The Story behind London’s Foundling Hospital and the Children who grew up there – Roy Sloan
The Frenchness of French Art – Laurence Wolff
Beatrice Offor : Tottenham Artist – Reverend Alan Walker
How do we record History in an age of Fake News and Post Truth? – Alistair Niven OBE
The Great Fire of London – Lester Hillman
Orchids for Everyone – Professor Michael de Swiet
The Silk Road – Dr Frances Wood (former curator at the British Library)
Gender Indentity – Kirsten & Co from the Tavistock Centre
Hairdresser to the Stars – Barry Davis
A Blackbird Sang – David Matthews (Composer)
Judaism and Business Ethics – Rabbi Mark Goldsmith
Emma Hamilton : A Woman of Many Talents – Tamara Rabin
Art and Photography – Professor Michael Baum
Jocelyn Bostock : Inside Bletchley Park – Martin Knight
Viennese Operetten – Derek Scott
No School Tie – Peter Phillips (Poet)
Life in South Africa – Joy Barratt
Vegetarianism – Lisa Shend’ge
Elizabeth Louise Vigee le Brun – Lucrezia Walker (Art Historian)
Bridges – Klaus Falbe Hansen (Former Director Ove Arup)
An Orchestral Tour of India – Professor Rodney Slatford
A History of John Lewis – Amanda Timothy
Chinese Attitudes to Europe
Light in Medicine – Dr Peter Herbert
A Walk to Santiago de Compostela – Christine Battaye
A Potpourri of Poetry – Rabbi Dr Jeffrey Cohen
The Road to Dunkirk and Where it has Led – John Rimington
Life as an Organist & Choirmaster – Jonathan Gregory (Free Church organist)
Medicine in Shakespeare – Professor Howard Jacobs
The Social Function of Humour – Martin Aaron
A Museum under a Mountain, The National Gallery’s Wartime Home – Suzanne Bosman
The Anne Frank Trust – Gillian Walmer (Co-founder)
Life on a Scottish Island – Richard Rowland
Hollywood and Interfaith Dialogue – Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet
A Beginner’s Guide to Brass Instruments – Bob Winter
Lost London : Philip Davies
Both Sides of the Bench : Judge Barrington Black
The Story of Russian Chamber Music – Robert Max
John Betjeman – Terence Atkins (Organist and Choirmaster)
Royal Operations – Professor Harold Ellis
Hampstead Garden Suburb in the Great War – John Atkin
The Berlin Wall – Andrew Botterill
Not Yet The Dodo : The Verses of Noel Coward – Robert Gardiner
Call the Midwife – Dr Susan Cohen
Allenby’s Other Battle, Malaria – Anton Alexander
Blood – Phyllis Teasdale (formerly NHS Blood Service)
Musical Boxes – Dr John Reid
Wagner – Barry Millington (Wagner expert and music critic)
Britain in Bloom – Jim Buttress
The Soldier in Art – David Cohen
‘Epic Engineering’ Great Canals and Barrages of Victorian India – Jeremy Berkoff
Autism – Lisa Dresner
Pilgrimage from Sienna to Rome – Ruth & Michael Jacobs
Field Marshall Montgomery – Angus Walker
Medecins Sans Frontieres – MSF staff
Chirality – Professor Laurence Barron
Birds, Music & Literature – Roger Rose
Octavia Hill – Pam Wright
Memories of Life under the Raj – Alison Newton
Life at Henrietta Barnett School – Oliver Blond (former Head Teacher)
Inflation in Tudor Times – Ken Carter
Evelyn Waugh & Basil Bouchier – The Rev Alan Walker
An Indian Portia – Kusoom Vadgama
Masorti Judaism – Rabbi J Wittenberg
A Week in North Korea – Tim Botterill and Elke Karskens
The Chinese Gooseberry Man – Geoff Hales & His Travelling Theatre