Due to the Coronavirus crisis, Spencer house is temporarily closed and this visit has been postponed. We will reinstate it as soon as it’s possible, and safe, to do so. Spencer House Situated in St James's Place, it was commissioned in 1756 by John the Ist Earl Spencer who required a large townhouse to […]
FCOA is organising an Online Interview with Sir Peter Westmacott They Call It Diplomacy on 21 April 2021 from 11.00 am - 12.00 pm on ZOOM At 11.00 am on 21 April Giles Portman, the FCDO’s Director Europe, will interview online Sir Peter Westmacott – former ambassador to Turkey, France and to the United States […]
FCOA Virtual lecture by Professor Philippe Sands QC From Nuremberg to Ecocide on 11 May 2021 from 11.00 am - 12.00 pm on ZOOM On Tuesday 11 May at 11.00 am Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law at University College London, practising barrister at Matrix Chambers, frequently appearing as counsel before international courts and tribunals, as well as sitting […]
FCOA is organising an online talk by Christina Lamb Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: War through the eyes of women on Wednesday 26th May from 11.00 - 12.00 on ZOOM Acclaimed journalist Christina Lamb, one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents, will deliver a heart-wrenching study of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Interweaving the harrowing testimonies […]
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 […]
