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January 2018

Members’ contributions – “Love and Laughter”

3rd January 2018 at 2:00 pm - 24th May 2018 at 4:00 pm
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February 2018

The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde: Mark Perry Nash

7th February 2018 at 2:00 pm - 24th May 2018 at 4:00 pm

Historian Mark Perry Nash presented a lively talk on Wilde to the Society on 7th February, 2018. He explored Oscar’s brilliant but eccentric personality and shared some of Oscar’s witticisms...

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March 2018

Christopher Luscombe, RSC Director: Interviewed by Al Senter

7th March 2018 at 2:00 pm - 24th May 2018 at 4:00 pm

Members and visitors packed the hall for a spellbinding March afternoon as Al Senter interviewed theatre director and actor Christopher Luscombe, to give us an insight into directing, acting and...

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April 2018

Mervyn Peake in Sussex : Miles Leeson

4th April 2018 at 2:00 pm - 24th May 2018 at 4:00 pm

For our very well attended April meeting, Dr. Miles Leeson gave us an interesting, illustrated presentation on the author of the Gormenghast, gothic fantasy trilogy. He focused on Peake’s golden...

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May 2018

David Jones, Poet and Painter : Tom Durham

2nd May 2018 at 2:00 pm - 24th May 2018 at 4:00 pm

At our May meeting, Tom Durham, an actor who loves communicating poetry, gave us an interesting presentation on the poet, artist and soldier David Jones (1895-1974). Tom had first met...

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London Walk: Along the river at Chiswick & to Chiswick house after lunch.

12th May 2018 at 2:00 pm - 24th May 2018 at 4:00 pm
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June 2018

T.S.Eliot : Chris Joyce

6th June 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Dr Chris Joyce is a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a former Lectures Organiser for the T. S. Eliot Society (UK) and a member of the T. S....

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July 2018

Raymond Chandler : John Clegg

4th July 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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August 2018

Summer Party and Quiz

1st August 2018 at 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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September 2018

Hans Christian Andersen : Illustrated talk by Karin Fernald

5th September 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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October 2018

Four Feet and Two : Presented by Virginia McKenna and Ann Harvey

3rd October 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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November 2018

AGM with Simon Brett

7th November 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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December 2018

Christmas Lunch

5th December 2018 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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January 2019

Words – Members’ Contributions: Entertainment

9th January 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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February 2019

Women Abroad: Elizabeth Cassie

6th February 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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March 2019

Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes to the Cottingley Fairies: Douglas Kerr

6th March 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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April 2019

Speaking Volumes: Gordon Griffin on his work with audio-books

3rd April 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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May 2019

Page to Screen: Ellen Cheshire

1st May 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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London Walk in Covent Garden area

11th May 2019
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June 2019

Thomas Coryat: Jeremy Tomlinson

5th June 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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July 2019

Austen Sisters: Rowan Suart

3rd July 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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August 2019

Virginia McKenna

21st August 2019 at 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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September 2019

Iris Murdoch: Frances White

4th September 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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London Walk

14th September 2019 at 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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October 2019

Vladimir Nabokov: Miles Leeson

2nd October 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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November 2019

AGM & Romantic Poets: Anne Rowe

6th November 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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December 2019

Christmas Social

4th December 2019 at 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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January 2020

“New Year” Members’ Selected Readings

8th January 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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“New Year” – Members’ Selected Readings

8th January 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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February 2020

Ten Short Story Writers: Alistair Alexander

5th February 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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March 2020

Lord Byron and his Heritage of Storms, his Romantic Inheritance and Artistic Legacy: Elizabeth Merry

4th March 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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April 2020

Diaries and Letters Dashed Off Day by Day: Kevin Maynard – Postponed

1st April 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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May 2020

Virginia Woolf in Richmond: Peter Fullagar – Postponed

6th May 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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June 2020

Imagination! The Life and Times of the Victorian actress Ellen Terry, including her interpretations of Shakespeare: Lindy Alexander

3rd June 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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July 2020

Christopher Isherwood: A Twentieth Century Life. Peter Parker

1st July 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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August 2020

Social Event

5th August 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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September 2020

“Dark Conceits” and “Speaking Pictures”: Roger Jones

2nd September 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This talk will concern the influence of Medieval Art and Renaissance Art on European Literature.

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October 2020

Having the Last Word: Adventures in Autobiography: Adam Mars-Jones

7th October 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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November 2020

The Social and Political Satire of Gilbert & Sullivan: Bernard Lockett

4th November 2020 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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December 2020

Christmas Lunch

2nd December 2020 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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January 2021

No Meeting

6th January 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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February 2021

No Meeting

3rd February 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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March 2021

No Meeting

3rd March 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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April 2021

No Meeting

7th April 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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May 2021

No Meeting

5th May 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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June 2021

No Meeting

2nd June 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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July 2021

Simon Brett : Who is a Diary Written For?

7th July 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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August 2021

Georges Simenon: Bill Alder

4th August 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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September 2021

“My Dear Miss Terry” Letters from G.B. Shaw to Ellen Terry – Jean Rogers

1st September 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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October 2021

The Golden Age of Illustrated Books : John Smith

6th October 2021 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

John is the manager of Chichester's Oxfam bookshop.

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