Mini Museum Soirée (3/3)
Monday, March 15th at 5pm Eastern Time

This atmospheric Mayfair house had a famous first tenant - none other than George Frideric Handel - who lived here for 36 years of a stratospheric musical career. Some 250 years later, a new tenant arrived next door, Jimi Hendrix, who, when he found out about Handel, went out and bought his albums, including Messiah. In 2016 Handel and Hendrix in London opened as a joint museum, revealing some surprising similarities between the two musicians.

Thursday, October 29th at 6:30 PM Eastern Time

After our last lecture in each series, our C&S Members are invited to refill a glass and join us for a private reception to reflect on the Soirée with our hosts and discuss the highlights with our fellow travelers.

London Soirée (5/5)
Thursday, October 29th at 5 PM Eastern Time

We know about Shakespeare as a boy. We know about him as a man. What he was doing in between is another thing entirely. Explore his London with the help of a priceless archive, a hidden theatre, a church, two palaces and Shakespeare's Globe. Curtain up 7pm. No throwing of rotten tomatoes or loud chewing of hazelnuts.

London Soirée (4/5)
Thursday, October 22nd at 5 PM Eastern Time

Thump! A sound that put the fear of god into journalists frantically polishing copy as the presses crashed into action at 4pm each weekday. To most Brits over a certain age Fleet Street means journalism - and although presses, newspapers and hacks have long since moved out, buildings, pubs and atmosphere remain. BYO crate of claret.

*Not everyone agrees with this

London Soirée (3/5)
Thursday, October 15th at 5 PM Eastern Time

Actually, it wasn't signed (they didn't in those days) or really delivered, due to wicked King John breaking the rules, but IT WAS SEALED in this very meadow. Runnymede is fascinating and too often passed by when leaving Windsor Castle - so let me persuade you, using JFK, a mysterious reflection and an ancient yew, that you must, must visit.

London Soirée (2/5)
Thursday, October 8th, 2020 at 5 PM Eastern Time

Ignore us at your peril, as our much-loved NPG found out when a suffragette took a meat cleaver to a portrait of Thomas Carlyle in 1914. They listened... and gradually more female faces have appeared on its walls. Come meet, among others, a millionaire diva, the controversial Pankhursts, a cross-dressing spy and a charming physicist.

London Soirée (1/5)
Thursday, October 1st at 5 PM Eastern Time

2000 years with its toes in the Thames has given the City of London (our Wall Street) a certain insouciance about world events, but the next few months are a tough call. Find out why Roman realtors chose this spot, who gets to drive sheep over London Bridge, why Bow Bells make you cockney and exactly WHAT is going with the horizon?