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FEBRUARY
MARCH
Wednesday 22 February, 12.30 – 2.30 pm
Dartmouth House Lunch
David Marquand: Where Next for the Euro
2012 sees the 10 year anniversary since the
introduction of the Euro as the official
currency of Austria, Belgium, Finland,
France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. To mark the
occasion, the ESU invites you to a Dartmouth
House Lunch with academic, author, former
politician and member of the European
Commission, David Marquand as he asks
“Where Next for the Euro”
Tickets: £40 members, £45 alumni*, £50
guests* (two-course lunch with wine)
*to include an optional voluntary donation of
£5 and £10 respectively to support the
charitable work of the ESU
Copies of The End of the West – The Once
and Future Europe by David Marquand, will
be on sale at the event.
Thursday 23 February, 10.00 – 11.00 am
and 1.30 - 2.30 pm
ESU Great Dickens Debate – Public
Lectures
To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles
Dickens, we have arranged two public
lectures at Dartmouth House as part of the
‘ESU Great Dickens Debate’.
A morning lecture from 10 – 11 am will be
given by Professor Malcolm Andrews,
Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies in
the School of English at the University of Kent
until 2009, editor of The Dickensian and
author of Dickens on England and the
English, Dickens and the Grown-up Child and
Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves.
Professor Andrews will discuss ‘Dickens and
the Education of the Imagination’ – an
exploration of Dickens’s aspirations to enrich
the imaginative lives of his readers and how
he developed what we might today call the
‘emotional literacy’ of the Victorians.
An afternoon lecture from 1.30 – 2.30 pm will
follow by novelist Lynn Shepherd, author of
Tom- All- Alone’s, a compelling new Victorian
murder mystery that interweaves with the
people, places, and foreboding secrets of
Dickens’ masterpiece, Bleak House. Lynn will
give an interactive talk entitled ‘Building a
new Bleak House’ during which she will
discuss her journey to create a new and
darker Dickens for the bicentenary and how
new characters and plot lines led her to ‘lay
down buried treasure for the modern Dickens
fan to find’.
Tickets: £8 per lecture, £15 for both
The Revelstoke Restaurant will be open for
lunch bookings from 12 pm. For reservations,
please contact Dartmouth House reception on
020 7529 1550.
Wednesday 7 March, 6.30 – 8.00 pm
Meet the Author
Alex Preston: The Revelations
Alex Preston is a former City banker turned
author of the critically acclaimed This
Bleeding City, the first ‘credit crunch novel’
that told the familiar tale of a generation of
young people caught up in a cycle of
unchecked greed in the pursuit of money.
Chosen as one of Waterstone’s ‘New Voices’
of 2010 as well as the winner of the
Edinburgh festival Readers’ First Book Award
and the Spear’s Best First Book Prize, Alex
Preston presents his second release, The
Revelations, a gripping novel of ideas which
explores The City from a new angle and the
idea of searching for meaning and fulfilment
beyond the realm of financial gain..
Tickets: £15 guests to include one glass of
wine and a selection of nibbles. Alex’s talk will
begin at 6.45 pm.
Copies of The Revelations and This Bleeding
City will be on sale at the event.
Wednesday 29 February
Secondary School Exchange applications
deadline