Weekly Talks

Fellowship’s Weekly Talks have become a Suburb institution over the last 16 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 sixteen years there have been literally hundreds of talks on as many different subjects from a myriad of speakers from North London and way beyond. A randomly selected list shown below under ‘Previous Talks’ gives some indication of the range of subjects.

December 3rd

Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus (1601)
Art Historian Laurence Wolff

 

December 10th

‘ The Mirror in the Bike Shed – Edwardian Ladies in Waterlow Court’

Architectural Historian Anthony Davies (FSA) will give the talk

 

December 17th

NO  TALK

 

January 14th

New year’s Entertainment

How Did We Get To Mr Putin? – Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former UK Ambassador to Moscow

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

H M 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

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)

‘Les Annees Folles’: Music, Art, Style, and Glamour in Paris between the wars – Deborah Calland

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

Russia: A Journey of Discovery – Helen Leiser

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