NB - links in green are available to Society members only.
- A new book review - novelist Wendy Law-Yone reviews a remarkable new book on Burmese art -Burmese Painting by Andrew Ranard (Dec 2009)
- Our events page has the details of a Christmas cultural event and fair for Burma in Oxford on 6th December.(Nov 2009)
- On 7th May, our lecture was on a prodigious figure on the prewar Burmese scene - Professor Gordon Luce. Dr Pamela Gutman told how Professor Luce, with his many contacts among Britain's most famous literary figures of the time, was able to register the importance of Burmese artistic achievements on the western consciousness for the first time. CLICK HERE. to see the text of her talk - with all her slides too. (Jun 2009)
- Members of the Britain-Burma Society are asked - what more can we do for you? (And what would you like us to stop doing!?) Please find time if you can for our new opinion sampler. There are only five questions - answer any three of them and we will be very pleased! (June 2009)
- A new book review - historian Dr Michael Charney reviews Robert Taylor's tome The State in Myanmar (May 2009)
- This year's Calendar of Burmese Festivals has been corrected and updated. The chart (which can be reached by clicking "Festivals" below) offers computer predictions of the Burmese lunar calendar, and hundreds of festivals whose dates are tied to it, till the end of the 21st Century - but in the last resort, it is Burmese astrologers who decide the exact day, so corrections of a day or so are sometimes necessary. In addition, this year the Burmese government has decreed an extra national ten-day holiday from 12th to 21st April - perhaps intended as an equivalent of the UK's extended Christmas/New Year holiday. It is to be expected that Burmese embassies abroad will also be on holiday on these days - so get your visa at some other time if you need one! (March 2009)
- Our Society's Calendar of lectures in London has been updated, with photos and details of our 2009 programme. (March 2009)
- An obituary on one of our much-loved former Council members, Mavis Edwards, who died in January aged 93. (Feb 2009).
- On 4th November, Diana Millington and Genette Dagtoglou gave Society members a talk on ways in which they and others in the UK have been able to help the teaching of the English language in many parts of Burma. Britain-Burma Society members can see a full website version of Diana's talk, with pictures, in our Members' Area - if you are a member, you can CLICK HERE. to get there. (Nov 2008)
- There is a new book review of Almost Englishmen - Baghdadi Jews in British Burma. The book is by Ruth Cernea, and the review is by Patricia Herbert.
- Two art exhibitions in London in February, featuring Burmese artists, are listed on our UK Future Events page.
- October 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Britain-Burma Society - in October 1957. To mark the occasion, our October Reception in 2007 included a review of Highlights from the Society's History by a former Secretary of the Britain-Burma Society - Anna Allott OBE. You can find this brief history on the open part of our web site, by clicking here (November 2007)
- There is a new book review - Return to the Irrawaddy by Frank Kingdon-Ward is reviewed by Colleen Beresford. (November 2007)
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