The visit to the Queen’s Gallery on Thursday 27 May at 11 am to see the Treasures of the Buckingham Palace is the first FCOA London event since 30 January 2020. This exhibition brings together some of the most important paintings in the Royal Collection from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace. Artists represented in […]
FCDOA is organising an online talk by Dr Helen Naylor Gin: The Spirit of Westminster on 22 June 2021 from 15.00 -16.30 pm on Zoom Dr Helen Naylor, a qualified City of Westminster Tour Guide and a member of the City of Westminster Guide lecturers Association, will give a talk to the FCDOA members titled Gin: The Spirit of […]
FCDOA is organising an online talk by journalist and author of The Happy Traitor (a biography of the British-KGB double agent George Blake), Simon Kuper with the title George Blake versus the UK on 13 July 2021 from 11.00 am - 12.00 pm on Zoom George Blake versus the UK. Blake, an MI6 officer who turned KGB double agent, […]
FCDOA is organising a talk by journalist and author Wendy Moore with the title The Suffragette Surgeons on 27th July 2021 at 11.00 am - 12.15 pm on ZOOM Journalist and author Wendy Moore tells the story of the only military hospital under the auspices of the British Army to be run and staffed […]
FCDOA is organising an Online Talk by Lord Andrew Adonis - Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill 8 September from 11.00-12.00 on ZOOM Ernest Bevin was one of the greatest and most inspirational figures of the twentieth century. Born in abject poverty to a single mother, and with virtually no formal education, Bevin went on to become the founder […]
Freemasons' Hall, Library and Museum is Cancelled. New visit will be organised at later stage Freemasons' Hall Used as a masonic meeting place since 1775, the current building - situated in Great Queen Street between Holborn and Covent Garden - is the third structure on this site. Built in the art deco style between 1927 […]
FCDOA is organising another online talk Sir John Sawers will be in conversation with Sir Jeremy Greenstock UK Security challenges and the Integrated Review 28 September at 11.00 on Zoom Sir John Sawers will be in conversation with Sir Jeremy Greenstock. Jeremy’s career started as an Arabist and then moved on to European and transatlantic […]
FCDOA is organising online talk by John Campbell on Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane: Resurrecting a Forgotten Statesman on 13 October 2021 @ 11.00-12.00 on Zoom Ticket is £5 Haldane’s biographer, John Campbell, will give us an insight into this remarkable lawyer, statesman and thinker who shaped many aspects of modern Britain. Born in 1856 in […]
Dear member, We're writing to tell you that regrettably it's been necessary to cancel the prestigious 19th October visit to the Dragon Hall and literary dinner. Three members dropped out at short notice - making the cost for the remaining participants too high. Despite a further publicity push last week, the lack of […]
FCDOA is organising an Online Talk on ZOOM by Lord Peter RICKETTS with a title Britain at a Crossroads: The Case for a New National Strategy on 26 October at 11.00 – 12.00 on ZOOM Ticket is £5 Peter Ricketts will talk about the themes of his book Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next. In […]
