Britain-Burma Society lecture - talks, discussions with refreshments provided. Save the date, further details to follow!

This 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 […]

For 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Robert 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, […]