Speaker: Alla Viktorova, from Russia, had a successful career in business and journalism in Moscow. Synopsis: The War in Ukraine is likely to be long and presents the West with numerous challenges, economically, militarily and strategically. The Lecture provides a unique perspective; Alla draws on Russian public sources, data and research, as well as information […]
Speaker: Jane Robinson, Senior Associate of Somerville College, Oxford. Synopsis: Victorian Barbara Bodichon was responsible for the development of feminism in Britain. She campaigned for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, the polling booth, at home, and in the world beyond the kitchen or the drawing-room; she co-founded the first university college for women […]
Speaker: Dr Jean Marmoreo, one of Canada’s first practitioners to provide Medical Assistance in Dying. Synopsis: The history of the legislative changes in Canada that introduced MAiD to Canadians and moving into the changes and evolution of the more controversial changes that occurred in 2023: mental disorders as the sole underlying cause of the request […]
Speaker: David Duker, editor of diaries. Synopsis: ‘One of Our Own’ tells the remarkable story of local Battle of Britain pilot, Victor Ekins. David Duker has been in the privileged position of having access to the wartime diaries that he began in 1940 and meticulously kept every single day of the war. These diaries had […]
Speaker: Dame Mary Archer, co-chair of the Campaign Board raising funds to build Cambridge Children’s Hospital. Synopsis: The East of England is the only area of the country that does not have a specialist children’s hospital. This unfortunate anomaly will be rectified by the creation of Cambridge Children’s Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Scheduled […]
Speaker: Victor Lucas, U3AC member, and former High Sheriff Synopsis: The Office of High Sheriff is the oldest secular Office in the United Kingdom, and dates from Saxon times. The word ‘Sheriff’ derives from ‘Shire Reeve’. 27 clauses in Magna Carta relate to the Sheriff. This talk examines the history of this ancient Office, The […]