Dates for your Diary, May to December 2024

 Monthly Meetings 2024

May 15th: A talk about Annie Horniman, Theatrical Impressario, with Geraldine Beskin

June 19th:  Needle felting and talk about shepherding with Emma Harrison

July 17th: Votes for Women! Guided walk with Herstorical Tours. Pre-booking essential for this one, please email us to reserve your spot.

August : TBC

September : Sort My Stuff Out! with professional organiser Katherine Blackler

October : Commonwealth War Graves Commission: architecture and its conservation with Alistair Higgins

November : TBC

December: Christmas social:

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British Museum Exhibition Previews
We hope to attend more exhibition previews this year - in previous years we've been to most major exhibitions before they open to the public. This year we have already visited Legion: Life in the Roman Army, Michelangelo The Last Decades, and more

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Cake Sales

We aim to have at least one cake and craft sale a year. This year we will be having 2 stalls at the annual Soho Fete on Sunday 21st July. Bakers, Crafters and sellers always required. All money raised goes towards maintainin LWEWI's programme full of interesting speakers

May Monthly Meeting

Our next meeting is Wednesday May 15th, at 6.30pm in the Upper Vestry Hall of St. George's Bloomsbury

Our speaker this month is Geraldine Beskin, and she will be speaking to us about Annie Horniman, Theatrical Impresario and Her Chums.

Annie Horniman was a Victorian spinster with flaming red hair and a temper to match. She used her irritation with situations to change the world of the Theatre forever. She was rich, knew the poet W B Yeats for a lifetime, George Bernard Shaw - another redhead - author of very successful plays such as Pygmalion or My Fair Lady as the film was called, and Dame Ellen Terry the actress who was a National Treasure a bit like Judy Dench is now. These are a few of the big names in her address book, she had lots of other friends who were differently important.

Our Speaker

Geraldine Beskin runs The Atlantis Bookshop with her daughter Bali and they are very proud that their business is 102 years old. Geraldine should have been born a Victorian as she loves the creative people who were around then. Instead she had the fun of being able to be a Hippy and listen to great music and enjoy other benefits of being a mid-century baby!

Open to all our members, and to any interested women - you're all welcome as visitors. Email us on londonwestendwi@gmail.com if you'd like more info, or just turn up.