WHAT'S ON

Thursday 06 June 2019 — Theatre Visit: a bit in advance but a chance for you to reserve the date. We will be returning to the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park this time to see The Last Temptation Of Boris Johnson by Jonathan Maitlan.

Future iU3A Outings
Watch this space — the next two Outings now in the planning stage are: Highclere and Bombay Sapphire......

Like all iU3A activities it will depend on whether we get people willing to organise future Outings. If you are willing to organise an Outing or just have some ideas for Outings, please send them to our Outings Coordinator here.

  
Monthly Meetings

Our monthly meetings always have an interesting and entertaining speaker (and plenty of time to meet and chat to other iU3A members). Strictly members only (though you can join at the meeting), they are held on the fourth Thursday of each month (except for August and December). They are always at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, N7 6PA (next to the Nags Head Waitrose). Registration opens at 9.45am for a prompt 10.30am start. Please remember to bring your membership card and (if you've got one) your plastic badge holder.

Thursday 24 January — Frank Dobson, Former Health Secretary and MP. His talk will be entitled 'Juggling and Decision Making'. Rt. Hon. Frank Dobson, Fellow of Birkbeck College and Hon. Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, was born in 1940 and is a former Leader of Camden Council. He was MP for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979-2015 and served on Labour’s front bench from 1981. As Shadow Health Secretary (from 1997 to late 1999, resigning to run for Mayor of London) he produced authoritative reports on cervical cancer screening and infertility services. He served as governor of the Royal Veterinary College and was a member of council of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  He is married, with one daughter and two sons.

His presentation will lift the veil on decision-making processes at the Department of Health, involving the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, other Ministers and Departments, clinical and scientific advisers, NHS staff, professional bodies, trades unions, drug companies and patient groups, in the face of funding problems and conflicting official advice. He will cover the establishment of NICE, the threat to blood supplies from vCJD, the introduction of the meningitis ‘C’ vaccine, MMR and autism, the concentration of children’s intensive care, anthrax vaccine for British troops and viagra.

Further lookahead in 2019:
28 February — Rosemary Seton, Professor and Archivist: 'Others might have buckled … famines and droughts, floods, fire and native customs — Fresh perspectives on British missionary women c. 1800-1950s.' The encounter between missionaries from Britain’s towns, cities and villages with people in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and elsewhere was an unusually close association over a prolonged period of time. Often now castigated, in our post-colonial world, as yet another tainted episode of Britain’s imperial past it requires careful scrutiny to assess its true cultural significance and consequences. In particular the part played by women in the missionary movement forms an absorbing and rich subject of study in its own right. In examining their role my presentation illustrates the work of some of the pioneers, reflects on the changing status of missionary women over the period, and considers how their presence overseas affected the lives of others as well as their own.
 
Rosemary Seton became acquainted with the work of missionaries when she was archivist at the School of Oriental and African Studies which houses a very large collection of missionary society archives, personal papers, publications, photographs and artefacts. Since her retirement she has written a book on British missionary women, co-organises a monthly seminar on Christian Missions in Global History at the University of London and co-ordinates the recently-formed Writing Memoirs Group in iU3A.


21 March — Robin Weiss, Molecular Biologist: 'Two Gentlemen of Verona — a Brief History of Contagious Diseases', RfL Seminar Rooms 2&3

25 April — Karen Thurman, Art Conservationist 'Photography as Art', RfL Conference Hall + Seminar 5

23 May — Prof Anne Power, subject to be announced, RfL Conference Hall + Seminar 5

27 June — RfL, Seminar 2&3
25 July — RfL, Seminar 2&3
19 September — RfL, Seminar 2&3
24 October — RfL, Seminar 2&3
28 November — RfL, Seminar 2&3

Our iU3A coffee mornings are a popular way of getting to know other members. They take place around the borough, are always at 11.00 on varying days of the week and are free to iU3A members. In order to provide opportunities for all our members to attend, we limit attendance to a maximum of three coffee mornings per member per year (1st January to 31st December). The next coffee mornings will be on:

• Thursday 17 January — see the Bulletin for location details

 Our coffee mornings are now organised by Sally Fox. To book up for any of the above coffee mornings please email Sally here. She will then advise you that you are booked, or if there are no spaces that you have been put on a reserve list. If you can't attend a coffee morning you've booked for, please let us know by emailing Sally (same link as above) to say you can't now make it.