Lectures
Britain-Burma Society Lecture – February 2020
The Medical Society of London Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, London, Middlesex, United KingdomBritain-Burma Society lecture - talks, discussions with refreshments provided. Save the date, further details to follow!
Britain-Burma Society Lecture – April 2020
The Medical Society of London Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, London, Middlesex, United KingdomBritain-Burma Society lecture - talks, discussions with refreshments provided. Save the date, further details to follow!
Britain-Burma Society Lecture – May 2020
The Medical Society of London Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, London, Middlesex, United KingdomBritain-Burma Society lecture - talks, discussions with refreshments provided. Save the date, further details to follow!
Britain-Burma Society Lecture – June 2020
Britain-Burma Society lecture - talks, discussions with refreshments provided. Save the date, further details to follow!
Britain-Burma Society Lecture – October Reception 2020
Britain-Burma Society lecture - talks, discussions with refreshments provided. Save the date, further details to follow!
MYANMAR IN THE WORLD TRADE: Trade, Faith, Empire, Art
ONLINEThis talk by Alexandra Green, Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia at the British Museum, presents the concepts behind the British Museum's forthcoming exhibition on Myanmar, now planned for 2023. This exhibition explores Myanmar’s history, cultures, and methods of interacting cross-culturally, as it opens to the world after half a century of relative isolation, in […]
Memories, Remembrance and The Chindit Operations of Burma
ONLINEFor our last meeting of 2020 and to mark the 75th anniversary year of the end of WWII Piers Storie-Pugh trained at Mons Officer School, served with the 10th Parachute Battalion and later did a Short Service Commission with 1st Battalion Queen’s Regiment. After leaving the Army he joined Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Tours, […]
Prospect Burma – An Educational Journey
Hannah Marcazzo has been Executive Director of Prospect Burma since 2014 during a time of transition in education and the country. Phyu Pannu Khin is a Prospect Burma scholar, currently studying for a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vermont, with a special focus on health services in resource-limited communities. And Martin Smith […]
Maurice Collis’s Days and Trails in Burma…this is a true story in every detail
When Joseph Woods discovered a flimsy wartime Penguin book about Burma in a second-hand bookshop in Drogheda in the mid-1990s, he stumbled upon the life of his fellow countryman, Maurice Collis; Burma’s finest late-colonial writer, chronicler and advocate. A few years earlier, Joe had entered Burma overland from China, but now, albeit in characteristic slow […]
An Acquaintance with Burma by Sir Robert Cooper
ONLINERobert Cooper’s acquaintance with Burma began when he was sent by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to New York for the UN General Assembly in 1970. There he became friends with Aung San Suu Kyi, who was working in U Thant’s Secretariat. He has never served in Burma, but visited it a number of times, […]