John Robert Smith
Our October ’21 speaker is John Robert Smith who has worked in second hand bookshops for thirteen years, buying and selling antiquarian books for his entire working life. He currently…
Jean Rogers
Our September 2021 speaker is a local actress who has had a long and varied acting career . She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and joined…
Bill Alder
Bill Alder is our August 2021 speaker on Georges Simenon, author of the well known Maigret series of detective novels. Bill Alder has worked in the Department of Languages at…
Kevin Maynard
Kevin Maynard, one of our newer members, will be talking about Diaries and Letters for our April Ist meeting. He taught English for many decades and studied at Exeter University,…
Elizabeth Merry
Elizabeth will be speaking on March 4th, 2020 on Lord Byron and his heritage of storms, his romantic inheritance and artistic legacy.
Elizabeth has over 25 years experience lecturing to adult audiences in UK, Europe and Australasia on various subjects including literature and poetry, classical art and architecture and aspects of the visual arts.
She has worked for WEA, Universities of Bristol and Southampton, Royal Society of Arts, Jane Austen Society, Thomas Hardy Society, and NADFAS.
She has been a co-lecturer on arts study tours to Europe and in the UK has run study weekends on Jane Austen, the Brontes and Thomas Hardy and given lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand.
