Date: Wednesday 10th March 1976 Venue: Union Club, Birmingham Sponsor: Prof. Anthony Bryer Menu As well as founding a centre for Byzantine studies at the University of Birmingham in 1976, Anthony Bryer was Dinner Minutes Secretary for the Buckland Club between 1988 – 1999.
Date: Wednesday 29th October 1975 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Mr Peter Martin The dinner was held at the Staff House, University of Birmingham, on Wednesday 29th October 1975. Sponsor Peter Martin It was sponsored by Mr Peter Martin of the British Council in Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of the Penguin…
Date: Wednesday 19th February 1975 Venue: The Staff House, The University of Birmingham Sponsor: Professor R.E.F. Smith Menu Minutes Buckland Club – Russian Dinner ’75 A Russian dinner was held at the Staff House, University of Birmingham on 19th February 1975. Our sponsor, Professor R E F Smith of the department of Russian…
Date: 30th October 1974 Venue: The Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Professor Robert Latham C.B.E. The Minutes of a Pepys Diner The Dinner was held at the Staff House, Birmingham University and was sponsored by Professor Robert Latham, C.B.E., Dean and Pepys Librarian of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The Chairman welcomed Professor Latham to the Buckland…
Date: 20th February 1974 Venue: Rajdoot Restaurant, Birmingham Sponsor: Mr. Ajaib Singh Menu Minutes Example of tandoor & breads, above. Featured image shows dal cooking in enormous containers at the Golden Temple, Amritsar. Photographs by APM.
Date: Wednesday 31st October 1973 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Dr A.C. Houghton Menu At…”a Fungus Dinner, where each course featured a different fungus. Our Guest of Honour, an eminent pharmacologist, quipped that he may have been invited to ensure we didn’t poison ourselves. We didn’t – and he was…
Date: 28th February 1973 Venue: The Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Scott Atkinson Menu Dinner Minutes C V Hancock Dinner for the Club’s 21st Birthday The dinner was held at the Staff House of the University of Birmingham on 28th of February 1973. Our sponsor was Scott Atkinson Before dinner we…
Date: 25th October 1972 Venue: The Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Dr John Hathaway Menu Minutes – Brillat-Savarin Dinner A meeting of the Club was held at the Staff House, the University of Birmingham on 25th October 1972, when Mr. John Hathaway, senior lecturer in French at the University,…
Date: 9th February 1972 Venue: The Staff House University of Birmingham Sponsor: Mr Oscar Hahn CBE Menu
Date: Wednesday 27th October 1971 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Dr. John Enticknap assisted by R.E. Threlfall Minutes of a Parson Woodforde Dinner A meeting of the Club was held at The Staff House, The University of Birmingham, on the 27th October, 1971, when Dr. John Enticknap sponsored a Parson Woodforde Dinner. R. E. Threlfall…