Puentes 2

Posted by Cristina A-C
On April 21, 2020

Welcome to the latest issue of Puentes, the BritishSpanish Society e-newsletter. Puentes is created by our BSS volunteers. They are committed to reaching out and connecting with our community with a renewed sense of identity and purpose through our website, and social media as we look forward to the day when we can meet again. […]

“London Diary 4” by Jimmy Burns OBE

Posted by Cristina A-C
On April 14, 2020

“London Diary 4” by Jimmy Burns OBE Monday 6th April News that Boris Johnson has gone into intensive care generates an outpouring of get better messages from around the UK, friends, supporters, political opponents. Well known figures in several countries around the world have fallen victim to the virus-in Spain it has hit several well-known […]

Conversaciones Hispano-Británicas con Jimmy Burns. Blog del Instituto Cervantes.

Posted by Cristina A-C
On April 12, 2020

Todos los martes, el Instituto Cervantes de Londres publica en su blog una entrevista con personajes relevantes de la comunidad Hispano-Británica en Reino Unido. Este es un extracto de la entrevista mantenida con Jimmy Burns, chairman de la BSS. Usted es el presidente de la BritishSpanish Society desde marzo de 2013. ¿Podría contarnos sobre el […]

“London Diary 3” by Jimmy Burns OBE

Posted by Cristina A-C
On April 6, 2020

Sunday 29th March. The clocks have gone forward. The days are getting longer. I fetch her a cup of English tea and myself a bowl of Argentine yerba mate and climb back into bed. This has been an enduring ritual of our shared life but all sorts of bonds are having to be reasserted amidst so much falling apart.

Welcome to the launch edition of Puentes, the BritishSpanish Society newsletter

Posted by Cristina A-C
On March 31, 2020

In the spirit of engagement with our members and supporters I would like to welcome you to Puentes, the first edition of a digital/ e-newsletter written and designed by our volunteers and members in Spain and the UK

“London Diary 2” by Jimmy Burns OBE

Posted by Cristina A-C
On March 28, 2020

Saturday 21 March. Listening to an inspiring poem entitled ‘Lockdown’ on BBC Radio 4 by Brother Richard Hendrick, an Irish Capuchin Franciscan

Tristan Garel-Jones In Memoriam

Posted by Cristina A-C
On March 27, 2020

A Tribute by Tom Burns Marañon on behalf of his many friends in the BritishSpanish Society For a Spanish public intellectual an invitation to deliver the Pregón Taurino de la Feria de Abril by the Real Maestranza de Sevilla is on a level with being asked by the BBC to give the annual Reith lectures. […]

“London Diary“ by Jimmy Burns OBE

Posted by Cristina A-C
On March 22, 2020

“London Diary” by Jimmy Burns OBE Friday the 13th March It’s been a week of relative normality compared to other big cities hit by a more advanced stage of the virus. We seem to still be in semi-crisis mode, with the emphasis on self-containment rather than draconian enforcement. A phoney war while others elsewhere in […]

Statement on COVID19 crisis

Posted by Cristina A-C
On March 15, 2020

Dear BSS Members and Friends, We have been monitoring closely the COVID-19 situation as it unfolds around the world, and specifically how it might impact our members and friends in Spain and the UK. Given the bi-cultural nature of our charity and also mindful of the global uncertainty and disruption caused by the virus, and the […]

The inauguration in Madrid of BSS exhibition “Churchill & Spain”

Posted by Cristina A-C
On March 10, 2020

One of Madrid’s most prestigious university conference venues registered a full house on the 28th January for the BritishSpanish Society/Universidad Pontificia de Comillas event dedicated to the figure of Britain’s wartime prime-minister Winston Churchill and his relationship with Spain. The state of the art Salon de Actos located in the Canto Blanco campus of the […]

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“London Diary 4” by Jimmy Burns OBE

Conversaciones Hispano-Británicas con Jimmy Burns. Blog del Instituto Cervantes.

“London Diary 3” by Jimmy Burns OBE

Welcome to the launch edition of Puentes, the BritishSpanish Society newsletter

“London Diary 2” by Jimmy Burns OBE

Tristan Garel-Jones In Memoriam

“London Diary“ by Jimmy Burns OBE

Statement on COVID19 crisis

The inauguration in Madrid of BSS exhibition “Churchill & Spain”

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