„Dear Colonel Foster-Brown“ – our chair writes a letter on the occasion of the 80th Jubilee of VE

{:de}Essen, 4th May 2025 Dear Colonel Foster-Brown, On 8th May we will be celebrating the end of World War II. As chairman of the Deutsch-Britsche Gesellschaft Ruhr I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the British Armed Forces for liberating Germany from the scourge of National Socialism and for laying the foundations for „Unity and Justice and Freedom“ in the Ruhr and beyond. The Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft (then The Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft) which was founded by the...

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Achtung Vortragsänderung am 7. Mai!

{:de}Wir weisen darauf hin, dass der uspr. für den 7. Mai vorgesehene Vortrag von Dr. Ryan Swift, Research Fellow am Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) leider nicht wie geplant stattfinden kann. Stattdessen wird unser Mitglied Prof. Christoph Heyl einen Vortrag zum Thema "English Ideas of the Orient in the Eighteenth Century" halten.{:}{:en}Wir weisen darauf hin, dass der uspr. für den 7. Mai vorgesehene Vortrag von Dr. Ryan Swift, Research Fellow am Institute for Public Policy...

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Jane Austen lecture by Nicola Pritchard-Pink a huge success

{:de}{:de}The room was packed when on March 12th, Nicola Pritchard-Pink gave our members and guest a talk on one of the UK's most famous authors of all time: Janes Austen came to life as we followed her from her birthplace in Hampshire on to Bath and Bristol and back again, while learning about her wit and, at times, caustic tongue when characterising her contemporaries. The picture shows the - still unusually large - party of the traditional dinner together with our lecturer that concluded...

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