BATH & ITS INTELLECTUALS 2008 For dates see diary   Visitors welcome

Betty Suchar Convenor

Martin Sturge Convenor Diary 2008

Programme of talks 2007-8

Wednesday 7 March 2007
Yehudi Menuhin and Bath: Serving the needs of each other
Tim Bullamore

Wednesday 4 April 2007
Buro Happold: 30 years of Engineering for the Built Environment Aspects of Development for the Twenty First Century
Michael Dickson CBE, Founding Partner then Chairman, Buro Happold

Wednesday 9 May 2007
Hannah More (1745-1833), A Vindication
Marie-Louise Luxemburg, Author

Wednesday 6 June 2007
The Horstmanns of Bath: A local dynasty of precision engineers and inventors
Stuart Burroughs, Curator, Museum of Bath at Work

Wednesday 4 July 2007
William Beckford and the Gothic: The Sublime in 'Vathek'
Amy Frost, Curator, Beckford's Tower

Wednesday 3 Oct 2007
Lady Isabella King (1805-1857): Bath's leading female philanthropist, a woman ahead of her time
Jacqueline Collier, researcher

Wednesday 7 November 2007
Lady Miller of Batheaston (1741-1781): The origins and achievement of her Poetical Assemblies
Martin Sturge, Member

Wednesday 5 December 2007
Mowbray Green: Architect, Writer and Campaigner
David McLoughlin, Memb

Wednesday 6 February 2008
Cedric Chivers (1853-1929), local businessman and Lord Mayor of Bath
Dr Evelyn Lewis and Ivor Stone

5th March 2008
Doris Langley Moore, visionary and founder of the Museum of Costume
Rosemary Horden, Fashion Museum Manager.

2nd April 2008
Goodrich the Greek
The birth of the picturesque.
Amy Frost, curator of Beckford's tower and museum.



The first Wednesdays in 2008 are reserved for the continuation of the series, for which suggestions are invited from members relating to possible subjects or expert speakers (emails to intellectuals@brlsi.org would be convenient).

A Dictionary of Intellectuals is planned for the Website as there are many more candidates for the inclusion in the series than can be accommodated. Any volunteers to assist with this aspect would be most welcome. BS/MS 18/01/07