Beauty in Truth – Timothy Walker
Beauty in Truth – Botanical Illustration : Timothy Walker Timothy Walker opened his January ’24 talk with the following slide of quotations on beauty, truth, art and illustration: “Nothing can…
Dr Duncan Salkeld
Duncan Salkeld will be joining us for our February 2024 meeting to speak on Bridewell – the palace that became a prison. Duncan Salkeld is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance…
A Crime in Rhyme – Simon Brett
For our December ’23 Christmas Social meeting Simon Brett entertained us with his amusing one man play “A Crime in Rhyme”. He played all the characters with a variety of…
Timothy Walker
Timothy Walker is a botanist, Fellow of the Linnaean Society and former Director of University of Oxford’s Botanic Garden and the Harcourt Arboretum. He joins us for our Jan ’24…
Booker Prize 2023
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch won the ’23 Booker Prize. An Irish writer describing the plight of a woman trying to protect her family in an Ireland descending into totalitarianism.