A social get-together

with informal contributions from friends from Japan: Professor Osamu Ieda will tell us about his research and teaching Hungarian history, and violinist Takashi Ieda will play Hungarian music.

The Political Conflict between RW Seton-Watson and CA Macartney over Hungary

a lecture by Professor Laszlo Peter on the conflict between the two greatest British experts on Central Europe.
Read or download the books of RW Seton-Watson and CA Macartney here.

Two Hungarian Lords who Shaped British Economic Policy

Agnes Simon, currently a student at Darwin College Cambridge, will talk about Thomas Balogh and Nicholas Kaldor, gurus of British government in the 1960s.
Read about Nicholas Kaldor here.

Film night: A tanú (The Witness)

A showing of this classic Hungarian satire on the 1950s, directed by Péter Bacsó; originally made in 1969 it was first shown ten years later because of censorship. English subtitles. Introduced and hosted by Martin Mevius.

After the Hungarian Elections

Professor George Schopflin will talk about the outcome of the general elections of April 2002.
Follow the elections at the Central Electoral Website.

Ferenc Molnar remembered

Matyas Sarkozi, himself a writer in London, talks about his grandfather the writer and playwright who died fifty years ago.
Read or download A Pál utcai fiúk by Ferenc Molnár here.

The Original Goldfinger: the life and work of Erno Goldfinger

Helen Langley, of the Bodleian Library, will give an illustrated talk about the Hungarian-born architect whose blocks in London still cause controversy.

A whole day's outing ending with a visit to the cottage of Kati and Robert Evans in Sunningwell: details to be announced later.