ENGLISH SPEAKERS’ CIRCLE

International club for cultural and social activities
for speakers of English

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

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