League News

The first event of the autumn 2009 season, on October 21 at St Columba’s Hall, Knightsbridge, was a lecture by Justin Marozzi, author of The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus.

This was followed on November 19 by the book launch of Scholars, Travels, Archives with short talks by contributors at the Royal Astronomical Society.

On November 25 the League held its annual Charity Lunch at Searcy’s in Knightsbridge, with the usual popular programme of Christmas gift bazaar, lunch and Raffle Draw. The charity chosen for the League’s support this year was The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, whose representative, Dr Werring, attended the event. After lunch Dr Werring was introduced as guest speaker by the Chairman of the League, Sir David Dain. The Raffle prizes were drawn by Mrs Pispinis, wife of HE the Greek Ambassador. At the conclusion of this consistently successful event,
warm thanks are once more offered to the many donors, and to all those who participated in the organization of the stalls, Raffle and excellent lunch.