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There are still 40 churches in the City of London that have survived, some from before the Great Fire and others from the Blitz and they are all different! We shall explore some of them on this tour ranging from the very early period to the early eighteenth century. BUT as the churches are often tucked into streets surrounded by what we would call ...
A talk by Mark Cornwall on Tuesday 20th October 2026 at 6.30pm in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY ‘Traitors’ are a very popular subject today, and the idea that ‘treason’ is lurking in society is an age-old concept. The talk will focus on how traitors have regularly appeared in modern Czech history ...
On Thursday 16th July a group from The Friends braved the summer sunshine and heat to visit two contrasting houses in Sussex: Grade-I-listed Standen, belonging to the National Trust, designed by the Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb, and Saint Hill Manor, of late-Georgian design, now occupied by the Church of Scientology. Image of Stande...
The Friends organised a very fulfilling walking tour on Sunday 26th April to view the work of Czech émigré architects in London. We started in South Kensington and saw Eva Jiřičná's high-tech staircases: the Bollinger Jewellery Gallery gallery in the V&A dates from 2008, and nearby the Joseph Shop opened specially for the tour so that we could ...
Collaborations between the British Museum and the Czechoslovak National Gallery in 1980s. Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 6.30pm in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, London W8 4QY. Between 1983 and 1987, as part of a cultural agreement between the UK and Czechoslovakia, the speaker, then a very junior member of the British Museum staff, was instruct...
Our event by Richard Bassett on Tuesday 7th October 2025 in the Czech Embassy London brought in a full house for a very absorbing talk on a vast subject. This was followed by a long and interesting discussion. Maria Theresa was supremely successful in surrounding herself with the best people and advisers available to achieve her lasting legacy in C...
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I. Kelmscott Manor was the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896. Rodmarton Manor is a la...
Saturday 24th May, 2025. Participants met at Hampstead Underground Station at 10.30am. The walk from Hampstead to Belsize Park is a rich mixture of architecture from the late Regency to the 20th century, home to writers, artists, architects, refugees and spies. We visited a classic 1930s building, 2 Willow Road, wandered down Keats Grove to the edg...
The British Czech & Slovak Association Jointly with The Friends of Czech Heritage ON ZOOM from 18.30 - 19.30 on Monday 19th May 2025 As Europe faces yet another major crisis only 80 years after World War Two and confronts the threat of war while latter-day dictators set the terms of peace in Ukraine, it is timely to revisit the role and aim of ...
A Talk by Sir John Tusa on Tuesday 8th April 2025, 6.30pm, in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY. Sir John Tusa was born in Zlín. Two days before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, John’s father flew out of Czechoslovakia on a Bat'a company plane via Poland, Yugoslavia and France...
