24th September 2024
Madrid
Reino Unido y España a través de la cultura – un podcast de UK in Spain desde Hay Segovia 2024 «España está obsesionada con la cultura británica», «Los escritores británicos no se cansan de la historia española». Dos autores conocedores de ambos países consideran si estas afirmaciones son ciertas. Analizamos de dónde viene esta fascinación […]
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22nd December 2015
Calgary, Canada
I was very excited and honoured to be nominated by the British Consulate-General in Calgary to represent Canada at the Week of Women in London.
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17th September 2015
Vancouver, Canada
It’s been 75 years since The Battle of Britain. Given that my daughter thinks the 1990s were the ‘olden days’, this is quite some time. Yet still we remember it, and rightly so. Not only because it’s important to honour those who sacrificed themselves for us, but because of the enduring legacy the Battle has […]
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19th June 2015
Ottawa, Canada
This is an edited transcript of an interview I did with Bianca Gendreau from the Canadian Museum of History on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta…
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21st May 2015
Toronto, Canada
If you didn’t, I’d thoroughly recommend it. It’s a dramatisation of Alan Turing and others’ work, capturing the herculean task that the code breakers of Bletchley Park undertook to help our war effort. Historians estimate that the code breakers shortened the war by two years and saved thousands of lives…
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5th March 2015
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
International Women’s Day is a huge festival in Russia, and the biggest sales day of the year for florists across the country. But yesterday in Ekaterinburg we marked the occasion with a more practical demonstration of what International Women’s Day means. With support from our Consulate in Ekaterinburg, the directors of womens’ crisis centres and […]
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16th January 2015
Montreal, Canada
Paddington, the film, opens in Canada today. Although Winnie the Pooh is a household name here, Paddington has a lower profile in Canada…
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17th November 2014
Ottawa, Canada
In a quiet corner of Ottawa by the junction of Sussex Avenue and Stanley Drive, there stands a fine memorial to the Canadian Officers loaned to Great Britain during the Second World War…
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26th June 2014
Ottawa, Canada
To mark Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix from 4-8 June in Montreal our Consulate-General held its first ever series of GREAT Britain events. The results were……Formidable (best repeated with a French accent)…
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12th June 2014
Ottawa, Canada
If you’re in Ottawa and don’t know what this means, you clearly weren’t downtown last night. That’s when we lit up the façade of the High Commission on Elgin in red to show our solidarity with the work of over 1,000 people in London at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict…
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