ENGLISH SPEAKERS’ CIRCLE

International club for cultural and social activities
for speakers of English

International club for cultural and social activities
for speakers of English

Here is an overview of previous club meetings since September 2007:

28 February 2026: The return of the osprey
07 February 2026: A journey with Barbara Pym
22 November 2025: Literary London through the ages
11 October 2025: Backpacking French, Dutch and British influenced Latin America
27 September 2025: Women as readers, writers and judges
14 June 2025: Contemporary topics
10 May 2025: Great British women – from Tudor queen to queen of crime
12 April 2025: It's never been easier to buy counterfeit goods
22 March 2025: The BT Global Challenge – the world's toughest yacht race
22 February 2025: Cycling Alaska and Yukon for my 60th birthday
25 January 2025: “The dead are holy, even they that were base …
09 November 2024: The clan Donald
12 October 2024: Prohibition in America
28 September 2024: South Africa under Nelson Mandela
14 September 2024: Anthony Trollope and P. G. Wodehouse
15 June 2024: Discussion evening – or Scrabble
11 May 2024: Britain through the poetry of Roger McGough
13 April 2024: The fabulous palace and forest of Fontainebleau
09 March 2024: On being a Kiwi
17 February 2024: An opera manager tells her story
20 January 2024: Armenia – the oldest Christian nation
11 November 2023: Polari – a secret language of the past?
28 October 2023: The Hanoverians
23 September 2023: Choose your voice, change your life
09 September 2023: 101 reasons to visit Liverpool
17 June 2023: The Orange Hatchback and the Secret Recollections of George Eliot
13 May 2023: Contemporary topics of the world
22 April 2023: Terry Pratchett and Charles Dickens
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