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.
October 6th
‘The Duchess of St Albans: Harriet Mellon, Actress and Millionairess’
Former solicitor Tamara Rabin is an English Heritage volunteer guide. She has a keen interest in women of note in history.
October 13th
‘The Art Thief’
Art historian Lucrezia Walker will talk about three fascinating bad players in the art market: the thief, the forger and the crooked art dealer.
October 20th
‘Norway – Nationhood Through Art and Culture ‘
Martin Webster is Treasurer of HGS Fellowship and Chair of the Decorative Arts Society Events Committee.
October 27th
‘Mycroft Holmes – The Only Man In History Brighter Than Sherlock Holmes‘
Orlando Pearson is one of the world’s leading pasticheurs of Sherlock Holmes and the UK Mahler Society has described him as writing with ‘chutzpah’ backed by meticulous historical research.
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