Summer Reception 2017

Posted by Jonny hough
On July 4, 2017

Thank you so very much for your generous comments – we are chuffed! Please share your feedback to help us improve. YOUR FEEDBACK MATTERS. Wishing you all a very happy and restful Summer break. The BritishSpanish Society Team It was a pleasure to meet you at such a wonderful event yesterday […]

H.E. The Spanish Ambassador Carlos Bastarreche meets our Chairman and Board of Trustees

Posted by Jonny hough
On May 11, 2017

It was a great pleasure to meet the Board of Trustees of the BritishSpanish Society to which I express my thanks for the impressive work they have done to maintain the strong links between our two countries and societies. I assure them the continued support of this Embassy to their endeavour. H.E. The Spanish Ambassador Carlos […]

Remembering La Transicion

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 30, 2017

BritishSpanish Society event in Madrid by our social affairs correspondent Remembering Spain’s Transition to Democracy in film and comment was the theme of the BritishSpanish Society’s latest encounter with its supporters in Madrid on March 28th. A full-house registered for the showing for the first time in Spain of a British TV documentary made in […]

Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett, a literary experience

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 17, 2017

This is the extraordinary new biography of one of the most powerful women in history. In 1474 , writes Jimmy Burns, Isabella claimed the throne of Castilla in a country divided by political factionalism, riddled with corruption, and facing the challenge of Muslim occupation and the treat of invasion by foreign powers. By the time […]

HE the Spanish Ambassador Sr. Carlos Bastarreche

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 14, 2017

Enhorabuena new Spanish ambassador to UK Carlos Bastarreche who today presented his credentials to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. He is profiled in next issue of La Revista.

Spanish Masters in the Heart of London

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 7, 2017

A crisp Spring early afternoon sun casting its rays across Trafalgar Square provided the perfect prologue to the British Spanish Society’s latest exclusive visit to the National Gallery. Guided by lecturer Paul Pickering, of the BSS’s Executive Council, a group of members and friends in early March were taken on a memorable tour of works […]

Brexit Tertulia at Boqueria by our social affairs correspondent

Posted by Jonny hough
On December 5, 2016

Delicious tapas and wine in a warm basement of the lively Spanish restaurant Boqueria in Acre Lane, south London on November 30th proved a perfect setting for an extended discussion about Brexit stimulated by the lawyer, media expert, and European campaigner Peter Wilding. The founder of British Influence, a campaign group to keep Britain in […]

Chairman Jimmy Burns’s address to Annual General Meeting at the Luis Vives Room, Spanish Embassy, London November 15th 2016

Posted by Jonny hough
On November 17, 2016

As the Chairman of the BritishSpanish Society, it is a great pleasure to have you here at our Annual General Meeting and thankyou so much for coming. As a UK British registered charity , myself and my board of Trustees and our Executive Council members do not take our responsibility and accountability lightly and this […]

London is Latin and Latin is London by Stephanie Kennedy (Battersea Spanish)

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 18, 2016

In 1777, English writer and poet Samuel Johnson was a dapper man about town. An engaging and charismatic figure, he was a prominent member of the London social scene, preferring to be out and about than at home alone with his thoughts. Such was his delight with the city that he assured his good friend […]

Faith Matters Question Time Discusses Brexit

Posted by Jonny hough
On June 17, 2016

Farm Street Church in Mayfair, central London, was packed on Tuesday 9th June for a debate entitled: ‘Faith Matters Question Time – A Christian response to the EU Referendum’, chaired by Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector of Saint James Church, Piccadilly. The three Catholic speakers were Dr Frank Turner SJ, Fellow in Political Theology, Campion Hall, Oxford; […]

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Summer Reception 2017

H.E. The Spanish Ambassador Carlos Bastarreche meets our Chairman and Board of Trustees

Remembering La Transicion

Isabella of Castile by Giles Tremlett, a literary experience

HE the Spanish Ambassador Sr. Carlos Bastarreche

Spanish Masters in the Heart of London

Brexit Tertulia at Boqueria by our social affairs correspondent

Chairman Jimmy Burns’s address to Annual General Meeting at the Luis Vives Room, Spanish Embassy, London November 15th 2016

London is Latin and Latin is London by Stephanie Kennedy (Battersea Spanish)

Faith Matters Question Time Discusses Brexit

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