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 […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 3, 2016

Jorge Benítez, El Mundo Imagine que recibe un email de un cazatalentos internacional de Apple en el que se le pide una cita para tomar un café dentro de media hora. ¿Qué hace? ¿Acudir corriendo? Mejor montar en bici. Eso hizo Rodrigo García un día después de haber triunfado en Londres con una exposición de sus inventos […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 27, 2016

21/09/2016 British Council ha publicado en su web una entrevista a Jimmy Burns, presidente de la British Spanish Society. En ella se reflexiona sobre el escenario que se ha abierto tras el pasado referéndum del 23 de junio y la salida del Reino Unido de la UE y sobre el papel de la organización de […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 10, 2016

Two Anglo-Spanish friends, visual artist Sonia Boué and poet Jenny Rivarola, have produced a creative response to Felicia Browne’s short life. We explain their interest in her and introduce their upcoming Arts Council-funded exhibition: Through An Artist’s Eye. Artist Sonia Boué first discovered the work of Felicia Browne at the Conscience and Conflict exhibition at […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 10, 2016

By Duncan Wheeler In April 2016, the third-third edition of the academic cycle of Almeria’s Classical Theatre Festival took place in the neighbouring coastal resort of Roquetas de Mar. The brain child of secondary school teacher and theatre practitioner Antonio Serrano, the University of Almeria took on a more active role this year. Noelia […]

The BritishSpanish Society Prize sponsored by the University of Wales Press and Iberian and Latin American Studies Series

Posted by Jonny hough
On September 1, 2016

The British Spanish Society is pleased to join the UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS and Iberian and Latin American Studies Series to support research in Hispanic Studies and to provide a channel among researchers, academia and the Society. This is a unique opportunity for researchers to win a prestigious prize and for their thesis to be considered for publication by […]

A very Spanish Battersea by Stephanie Kennedy

Posted by Jonny hough
On August 25, 2016

Like London, Battersea is changing. Most strikingly of course, the iconic Battersea Power station has lost three of its towers, until, we are promised, the structure is resurrected into a sprawling residential and commercial hub. An impressive investment of £8 billion; its momentum spilling out of its pockets like loose change and rolling into the […]

El British Council indaga sobre el el papel de la BritishSpanish Society de la mano de su Chairman, Jimmy Burns Marañón. ‘Descubre la British Spanish Society’

Posted by Jonny hough
On August 19, 2016

En un escenario internacional convulso, caracterizado por el desafío que presentan nuevas realidades como el Brexit, hablamos con Jimmy Burns Marañón, presidente de la British Spanish Society (BSS), una fundación dedicada a promocionar las relaciones entre España y el Reino Unido. Burns reflexiona sobre el papel de la BSS cuando cumple su 100º aniversario […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On July 1, 2016

From the Chairman of The BritishSpanish Society Dear Friend, I am aware that for many of our members and supporters, not least Spaniards living in the UK and British living in Spain , are living through a period of uncertainty as a result of the Brexit vote, including many who have communicated with me personally […]

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

“El Da Vinci español que dijo ‘no’ a Apple”. Rodrigo Garcia, becado por la BritishSpanish Society y Telefónica en 2013

British Council Entrevista a Jimmy Burns

Artist Felicia Browne: The first Briton to die in the Spanish Civil War

Jornadas de Teatro Clasico in Almeria

The BritishSpanish Society Prize sponsored by the University of Wales Press and Iberian and Latin American Studies Series

A very Spanish Battersea by Stephanie Kennedy

El British Council indaga sobre el el papel de la BritishSpanish Society de la mano de su Chairman, Jimmy Burns Marañón. ‘Descubre la British Spanish Society’

Jimmy Burns Marañon: HEALING THE RIFT

Faith Matters Question Time Discusses Brexit

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