Friday April 24  Lecture 5.30  Drinks 6.45  Dinner 7.15 Curiously, "Pug" Ismay, one of the most celebrated names in the forties, fifties and sixties, has been almost forgotten.  But he was Churchill's Chief of Staff throughout the War, and ultimately one of his honorary pallbearers.  He was instrumental in events from the Indian and Pakistan […]

Tuesday April 21    Choir  6-6.45pm  Drinks 6.45  Dinner 7.15  Choir: £25  Non Choir  £35   Guests £40 Cecil Rhodes famously said: 'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life".  Tonight, a slightly early St George's evening, we shall be celebrating Englishness in music and cuisine.  The […]

Wednesday April 15    Drinks from 5.30   Opera  6-7.30pm  Dinner 7.45   Black tie   £75  Guests £80 Four of the Longborough Opera Singers will be entertaining us.  All of you who like opera know them.  This time we will have a soprano, a mezzo soprano, a tenor and a baritone.  It will be superb.