Return to Burma by Derek Brooke-Wavell

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………….. when we hope you will give your support to an experiment with a new type of lecture meeting - using your own computer or tablet via Zoom technology. For this first meeting, Derek Brooke-Wavell will give us a full photo-presentation and commentary on his visit to Mon and Karen States in January this year […]

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Kalaw – Past and Present by Vicky Bowman and Kyel Sin Lin

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Vicky Bowman is a former British Ambassador to Myanmar (2002-2006) and currently Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business. Together with her stepdaughter, Kyel Sin Lin, a recently graduated architect working for Article 25, a UK NGO advising on the masterplan to refurbish the 1909 Yangon General Hospital, she will give a presentation on […]

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MYANMAR IN THE WORLD TRADE: Trade, Faith, Empire, Art

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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 […]

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Memories, Remembrance and The Chindit Operations of Burma

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Travelling in Myanmar`s Remoter Regions – by Bertie Alexander Lawson

Myanmar rewards those travellers who are there for longer than a fleeting visit and keen to look deeper into the postcard-perfect landscape. For those travellers who want to get off the beaten track, those who have already witnessed the wonder of the Shwedagon Pagoda and sunset at Bagan, those who want to visit places where […]

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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 […]

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An Acquaintance with Burma by Sir Robert Cooper

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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, […]

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