London’s Flamenco Festival 2024 preview

Posted by Amy Bell
On May 29, 2024

The Flamenco Festival returns to Sadler’s Wells in London for its nineteenth iteration from June 4-15 . This year’s festival will showcase ten UK premieres amongst a host of thrilling performances from some of the greatest exponents of the flamenco arts in a varied programme of dance performances and concerts in both Sadler’s Wells Theatre […]

Breakfast with British Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott

Posted by Amy Bell
On May 29, 2024

BritishSpanish Society chairman Jimmy Burns catches up with Hugh Elliott, who is leaving Madrid after five years in post, savouring the senior diplomat’s delicious home-made marmalade and sipping similarly restorative café The ‘mano a mano’ meeting is in the Ambassador’s official residence, discreet and elegant, in the leafy residential neighbourhood of Puerta Hierro. The residence has […]

The world’s toughest race

Posted by Amy Bell
On March 8, 2024

By Pepe Ivars La Revista’s intrepid adventurer is tested to his physical and mental limits on the infamous Marathon des Sables. The heat wave turned the desert into a furnace, with averages of 45°C a day, complicating progress climbing dunes and jebels (mountains) with the long stage day of 90km. One third of the competitors […]

Fin de Fiesta, London’s new flamenco hub

Posted by Amy Bell
On March 8, 2024

By Laura Obiols It is cold in London, almost hitting the end of February, and Irene Giménez gives us some time to speak over a coffee, about a project we are very curious about. Her smile and great vibes are as big as her soul; and as flamencos would say, also is her ‘arte’. She […]

José Pizarro – a Godfather of Spanish cuisine in the UK

Posted by Amy Bell
On March 8, 2024

By Jimmy Burns Originally from a rural village near Cáceres, Extremadura, José Pizarro is a a celebrity chef and TV personality. To celebrate his 25 years of living in London, La Revista caught up with him for this exclusive interview. JB: What brought you and when to the UK and what was your early employment? […]

Language as an opportunity

Posted by Amy Bell
On November 12, 2023

A young British graduate and BSS member, shares her positive cultural and educational experience working as a house parent at an English language school By Mary McCullough I recently had the pleasure of working for Wimbledon School of English as a house parent at their residential summer language school. Based in Lord Wandsworth College, Long […]

Spanish ambassador hosts the BSS scholarship awards 2023

Posted by Amy Bell
On November 12, 2023

The beating heart of the BritishSpanish Society’s charitable mission is its empowering of innovative research and youthful talent through its funding support of important post-graduate projects of relevance to both countries. In the words of the BSS honorary president, the Spanish ambassador in London, José Pascual Marco Martínez, such support must also be a part […]

Meet our 2023 BritishSpanish Society Scholars

Posted by Amy Bell
On November 8, 2023

Now in its 16th year, the society’s scholarship awards support post-graduates of British or Spanish nationality studying a wide range of academic disciplines. Our 2023 winners are studying or completing research projects across economics, music, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, reproductive medicine, civil engineering and performing arts. The awards receive the financial backing of the charity’s principal corporate […]

Spain’s women win the World Cup, and so much more

Posted by Amy Bell
On October 27, 2023

By Tomás Hill López-Menchero The writer explores the winds of change blowing through Spanish and English women’s football after celebrations were followed by outrage. Watch Tomás and Jimmy Burns talk all thing football at our recent ‘in conversation’ event. Video here Password: 4#u.RefQ When Spain lifted the Women’s World Cup in August, it should have […]

In conversation with…Professor Sir Paul Preston

Posted by Amy Bell
On October 18, 2023

BritishSpanish Society member Professor Paul Preston was in conversation with BSS chairman, the author & journalist Jimmy Burns in the latest ‘meet the author’ BSS event transmitted from the conference hall of the Instituto Español Vicente Cañada Blanch, the Spanish international school in Kensington, London. See a review of Paul Preston’s latest book in the […]

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London’s Flamenco Festival 2024 preview

Breakfast with British Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott

The world’s toughest race

Fin de Fiesta, London’s new flamenco hub

José Pizarro – a Godfather of Spanish cuisine in the UK

Language as an opportunity

Spanish ambassador hosts the BSS scholarship awards 2023

Meet our 2023 BritishSpanish Society Scholars

Spain’s women win the World Cup, and so much more

In conversation with…Professor Sir Paul Preston

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