Publication date: Tuesday 18th January 2011
The HA Dining Club
Join the HA Dining Group for dinner, a talk and conversation.
The Group meets at the "Jolly St Ermins Hotel", 2 Caxton Street, London, SW1 0QW. at 7.00p.m. for 7.15p.m.
19 January 2011 Lady Jane Wellesley will be talking about her forebear "The Duke of Wellington".
16 March 2011 Lawrence Jones will talk on "Churchill and Empire: Intelligence and Policy Making in Russia nad the Middle East; 1914 - 1922."
May 11th 2011 Iain Ballantyne will speak on "The sinking of the Bismark".
The Group meets at the "Jolly St Ermins Hotel", 2 Caxton Street, London, SW1 0QW. at 7.00p.m. for 7.15p.m. The nearest underground station is St James's Park. The cost is £32 per head excluding drinks. Cheques must be made out to: "Historical Association Dining Group" Please contact Peter Titley: 01474 702959 e mail: pete_2_me362@talktalk.net
An HA Dining Group evening format is dinner followed by a speaker and then a question and answer session with discussion. The group has a hard core of members who attend all the dinners and others who attend when the speaker's topic appeals to them. The people are drawn from various backgrounds and occupations but all have a common interest in history. We have solicitors, civil servants, teachers, chemists, archivists etc.
Diners meet in the dining room before the dinner at 7.30p.m., for chat and gossip which carries on during the meal that usually takes about an hour and a quarter. The invited speaker will then talk for forty minutes or so and then there is discussion on and around the subject of the talk. The evening usually ends at 10.00p.m.
