Website: cambridgedickensfellowship.org
Regular meeting venue: monthly currently by Zoom; from January 2022 Clare Hall, Cambridge
Chair: Robert-Louis Abrahamson, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website Coordinator: Jim Jones, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Secretary: Christine Watts (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
The Cambridge branch meets, currently on zoom, at 7.30 pm on the second Monday of the month during the academic year September to June. Our chosen text for 2021/22 is ‘Great Expectations’ which will be studied in monthly instalments starting in September and continuing throughout the year. It is hoped we will be able to resume normal meetings, which will take place in Clare Hall, in January 2022. Until then our virtual meetings will continue, complemented by online contributions from members of a Google group. In normal times our meetings include a lecture or presentation on a theme connected with the novel being studied.
Regular meeting venue: St Dunstan's Church Hall or on Zoom, second Monday of each monthSecretary: John Ingram, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 01227 472589President: Professor Malcolm Andrews, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Canterbury Branch was re-founded in 1996 by Dr Frank Fricker with a programme of monthly talks, of a mainly academic nature, and occasional outings. That, with the annual Birthday Lunch, remains the basic pattern. However, before each talk there is a convivial half-hour for refreshments, news and chat, not always strictly Dickensian. The Branch AGM is held at its December meeting, when business is leavened by a Christmas entertainment accompanied by Dickens Tart and Punch. The Canterbury Branch has twice staged the Fellowship's Annual Conference, in 2005 and 2012.
A short introduction to Canterbury
Website:Regular meeting venue:Contact: Mr Andrew Whitton, Flat 1, 1 Hayes Place, London NW1 6UAAlternative:
Website:Regular meeting venue:Contact: Ernest Morris, 16 Copperkins Lane, Chesham Bois, Amersham, Bucks, HP6 5QFAlternative
(Photo by David Iliff. License: CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Regular meeting venue: Crown & Anchor, Marine Parade, EastbourneContact: Keith de Vos, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 01323 471615
We meet on the first Thursday of each month September - May. We follow a BOOK OF THE YEAR and enjoy discussions, lectures, films and a special Birthday Luncheon each February to honour the birth of CD. We always have a musical Christmas event with singing, readings, food and drinks and great merriment.
Programme 2021-22
Thursday 8 December - Christmas Party. Buffet supper with live music.Thursday 9 February - Dickens' Birthday luncheon at the Langham Hotel, Eastbourne. With guest speaker Dr Marzia Dati (President, Carrara branch) giving talk on 'Dickens in Italy'.Thurday 4 May: AGM and meeting
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