Don't miss any changes on our website:Here is an overview of previous club meetings since September 2007:
- 25 March 2023: Seeing Europe during the Covid years by bicycle
- 11 March 2023: Almeria & Melilla: Conversations with the migrants
- 25 February 2023: Charterhouses in England
- 12 November 2022: Kenya 1982
- 22 October 2022: How Peter Rabbit changed the world – Beatrix Potter and the Lake District
- 24 September 2022: The golden age of British television drama
- 10 September 2022: German adventurers and swindlers
- 11 June 2022: Long live the short story
- 14 May 2022: Discussion evening about the pandemic
- 30 April 2022: The Cambridge spies and cold war espionage
- 26 March 2022: Full steam ahead
- 12 March 2022: Dickens' romantic heroines
- 13 November 2021: The golden age of British television drama – CANCELLED!
- 28 November 2020: Prohibition in America – CANCELLED!
- 31 October 2020: To Nisi / The Island – Crete's leper colony of Spinalonga
- 26 September 2020: Is bookbinding still relevant in modern society?
- 12 September 2020: 1-hour guided tour at Hetjens Museum
- 13 June 2020: Games evening – English Scrabble – CANCELLED!
- 09 May 2020: Long live the short story! – CANCELLED!
- 25 April 2020: A short trip through the life of a textile designer – CANCELLED!
- 14 March 2020: Dickens' romantic heroines – CANCELLED!
- 29 February 2020: Burma revisited
- 15 February 2020: Qi Gong and the Chinese way of Healing
- 09 November 2019: Look Mum, I'm on the telly!
- 12 October 2019: Financial enlightenment from a total amateur
- 28 September 2019: Typically German – so what?
- 14 September 2019: Spiritual places to visit in London
- 15 June 2019: Discussion evening about music
- 18 May 2019: Queen Victoria, more an era than a monarchy
- 13 April 2019: Scenes from George Eliot's ‘Scenes’
- 23 March 2019: Armenia and Georgia – early Christian countries
- 09 March 2019: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – did they just like to paint readheads?
- 16 February 2019: No coin for Shirin
- 10 November 2018: An evening of scary and not-so-scary stories
- 13 October 2018: Corsica – France's secret island
- 29 September 2018: No Coin for Shirin
- 15 September 2018: The Military Industrial Complex
- 09 June 2018: Discussion evening about parks, gardens and historical buildings
- 12 May 2018: “A lady in the Rocky Mountains”
- 21 April 2018: Algonquin Provincial Park: Lakes and Wildlife in the Heart of Ontario
- 17 March 2018: Little Germany, the German immigrants in London in the mid-19th century
- 17 February 2018: Liverpool: Gateway to heaven and hell
- 18 November 2017: India: A country of contrasts
- 14 October 2017: 100 years of Trans-Siberian Railway
- 23 September 2017: Me and my Englishes
- 09 September 2017: A storyteller with a nomadic soul
- 10 June 2017: Summer Quiz
- 20 May 2017: Conspiracy theories
- 29 April 2017: Ireland & experiences of summers over 40 years
- 08 April 2017: A life in the pit and on the fiddle
- 18 March 2017: Coconut and Ubuntu (a novel and a play)
- 18 February 2017: Sacred sites and a fragile peace
- 19 November 2016: Inspiration from children's classics
- 08 October 2016: New Zealand by bicycle
- 24 September 2016: “All the world's a stage” – Celebrating William Shakespeare
- 10 September 2016: Votes and rights for women
- 11 June 2016: An introduction to line dancing
- 28 May 2016: Madagascar
- 30 April 2016: The professor of Political Economy who made people laugh
- 09 April 2016: The advent of digital art in public culture
- 12 March 2016: Understand yourself better through your dreams
- 27 February 2016: Opera, Puccini and Madama Butterfly
- 21 November 2015: Career as a diplomat: A woman's experience
- 24 October 2015: The trials and tribulations of being a parliamentary candidate
- 26 September 2015: The wives of Los Alamos
- 12 September 2015: Two German composers who loved Britain
- 13 June 2015: Armchair exercises and relaxation techniques
- 30 May 2015: The Städel collection: Not just Goethe's two left feet
- 09 May 2015: Lest we forget – the fate of ordinary soldiers in the First World War
- 18 April 2015: William Morris, designer, poet and political campaigner
- 14 March 2015: London in literature
- 21 February 2015: “As rare as stars in the morning”
- 15 November 2014: Virginia Woolf's unconventional relationship
- 25 October 2014: Cycling in the midnight sun around West Iceland
- 27 September 2014: Ireland – from bronze age to early Christianity
- 13 September 2014: George Eliot and George Henry Lewes in Weimar
- 14 June 2014: Contemporary world and local topics
- 17 May 2014: Southern California – curiosities in and out of town
- 12 April 2014: Choose me, you English words?
- 29 March 2014: English humour in language, life and theatre
- 08 March 2014: Antarctica
- 15 February 2014: Brasil, a vida boa
- 09 November 2013: Burma – past and present
- 19 October 2013: Malta – 7000 years in 70 minutes
- 28 September 2013: From patriotic heroism to helpless delusion
- 14 September 2013: How German is the Mona Lisa?
- 15 June 2013: An evening of English word games
- 25 May 2013: Greenland glacier meltdown
- 27 April 2013: The iconic London Routemaster
- 13 April 2013: Denglish in pool position
- 09 March 2013: The Brontë Sisters (1816–1855)
- 16 February 2013: Land of punt, not pirates
- 17 November 2012: The green route – Twin-town cycling
- 27 October 2012: Music hall and Victorian society
- 29 September 2012: Jane Austen's England
- 08 September 2012: The Peak District – Britain's oldest national park
- 16 June 2012: Bridge for beginners
- 12 May 2012: Salt, mustard, vinegar, pepper
- 28 April 2012: Cycling the Altiplano – Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina
- 24 March 2012: Heathen and outlaw
- 10 March 2012: The Duchess in the nightdress
- 25 February 2012: Rewards or threats of new technologies
- 11 February 2012: Acting Shakespeare
- 19 November 2011: Glimpses of the New South Africa in life and literature
- 22 October 2011: From Dortmund to Düsseldorf – and the world beyond!
- 08 October 2011: Utah – the Mormon State
- 17 September 2011: Using our intelligence
- 11 June 2011: Buzzword Bingo
- 21 May 2011: Two people – an encounter with Donald Windham
- 16 April 2011: Confessions of an Ausländer
- 19 March 2011: House of Windsor
- 12 February 2011: The life and death of Mary Ball
- 20 November 2010: Four hands from two lands
- 30 October 2010: Bats
- 09 October 2010: Introducing … Alan Bennett
- 25 September 2010: Assisi on the Pacific coast
- 12 June 2010: A murder mystery evening
- 22 May 2010: Remains of the Italian occupation of Rhodes through the eyes of Lawrence Durrell
- 24 April 2010: The Hobbit or There and back again
- 20 March 2010: Mountain walking experiences
- 20 February 2010: Growing up bi-culturally
- 30 January 2010: James Cook and the discovery of the Pacific Ocean
- 21 November 2009: Taiwan and Hong Kong by bicycle
- 31 October 2009: Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more lives than any other person who has ever lived
- 10 October 2009: Magic from Ireland
- 26 September 2009: Learning to learn
- 12 September 2009: Surveillance Britain
- 13 June 2009: An evening of English Scrabble
- 16 May 2009: The New Zealand set of Lord of the Rings
- 25 April 2009: From Albert Dock to Paddy's Wigwam
- 21 March 2009: Cornwall – The country within a country
- 28 February 2009: Wilfred Owen and Benjamin Britten – soulmates
- 31 January 2009: From Harrods to Rhinebuzz
- 15 November 2008: English words from Latin elements
- 18 October 2008: All ship-shape and Bristol fashion
- 27 September 2008: Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005), world-famous Danish designer
- 06 September 2008: T. E. Lawrence – man or myth?
- 14 June 2008: A 'Pub Quiz'
- 17 May 2008: Lord Byron – Britain's First Pop Idol and Enfant Terrible
- 26 April 2008: Don't Shoot the Messenger
- 12 April 2008: A Dance Called America – Songs of Scottish Emigration
- 23 February 2008: Man Of the World: George Forster's journey round the world with Captain Cook
- 09 February 2008: Malta: The Bulwark Of Europe
- 10 November 2007: Thanksgiving in America
- 27 October 2007: East Anglia ‘Olde Worlde England’
- 13 October 2007: The Private Eye and ‘Film Noir’
- 22 September 2007: Moving Heaven and Earth
- 08 September 2007: A Maori Slide Show