Greenwich Society Events
Upcoming Events:
Coffee & Chat
For our regular monthly free event we meet in the upstairs area of the Parkside Cafe at the National Maritime Museum with its lovely view of the Park. These sessions, on the first Wednesday of the month from 11am, have been proving popular so join us for a warm welcome and a ten-minute talk of local interest. Perhaps bring a friend and encourage them to join the Society and get to know your fellow members!
2025 dates:
1st October
5th November
3rd December
Annual Quiz
7pm Saturday 27th September 2025
St Alfege Church Hall
Greenwich Church Street, SE10 8NA
Gather a team of 6 to pit your wits and support the Society. The ticket price includes a glass of wine/soft drink and some tasty pizza with prizes for the victorious team.
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Private viewing at the Fan Museum
Monday 6th October 6.30 – 9.00pm
Fans in the Time of Jane Austen
The Museum is opening its new exhibition on fans in the Time of Jane Austen in September. We have arranged a private viewing on the evening of Monday 6th October. The evening will start at 6.30 with a talk from a member of the Jane Austen Society. Between 7pm and 8pm the curating staff will take 3 groups of 10 people each to view the specific exhibits and explain their historical and cultural significance . Between 8pm and 9pm there will be wine and refreshments in the Orangery.
Numbers are limited to 30 so buy your tickets £15 per person through the website as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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Annual Greenwich Society Lecture
Sunday 2nd November 11.00 – 12.00pm
Guest Speaker: Robin Mortimer, CEO, Port of London Authority
"The PLA – Past, Present & Future"
£10 members, £15 non-members to include a glass of wine/soft drink after the lecture. Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre (0003), Greenwich University, 11 Stockwell Street, SE10 8EY.
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Past events 2025
Conversations with Judges
30th April 2025
Judge Ben Gumert QC
Stockwell Street Lecture Theatre at 7pm.
On Wednesday 30th April 2025 the University of Greenwich and the Greenwich Society jointly hosted the fourth and final conversation with distinguished Judge Ben Gumert QC.
Derek attended a State School and after University served with the British Army for a year, training at Sandhurst. He later was a reservist with the Special Air Service (SAS), and ran the Marathon de Sables ( the most testing of all marathons - across the Sahara Desert.) He practised as a Barrister at 7 Bedford Row where he was my Pupil before going on comfortably to eclipse professionally his Pupil Master! As a Junior, Derek did a variety of criminal and civil work but increasingly in Silk he concentrated on computer linked litigation and civil claims arising out of alleged war crimes in Iraq ( where he acted for the MOD). He became Chairman of the Bar in 2021-2022 where he made a major effort to increase the number of women and those with ethnic backgrounds coming to the Bar. He became a High Court Judge in 2022 and was assigned to the Kings Bench Division ( then the Queens Bench Division), meaning that he does a range of work including judicial review, criminal and civil cases and sitting in the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division).
26th February 2025
Lord Sumption
Stockwell Street Lecture Theatre at 7pm.
Former Justice of the Supreme Court, and Reith Lecturer in 2019 on Law and the Decline of Politics. He has expressed strong views about the legality and political propriety of aspects of the Covid lockdown as well as giving informed opinions on contemporary moral and political issues. At the same time he has earned universal respect as an historian writing a 5 volume history of the Hundred Years War.
St.Alfege Secret Spaces Tour
Tuesday 8th April
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