A Scottish Lake Dwelling Supper

Date: 28th April 2004 Venue: Staff House, University of Birmingham Sponsor: Alex Hale PhD FSA Scot. Minutes of a Scottish Lake Dwelling Supper The Club met on the 28th April 2004 to recreate the sort of feast which would have been enjoyed about 2000 years ago by those living in the crannogs of Scotland. Crannogs were big…

Buckland Club’s Golden Jubilee Luncheon

Date: Sunday 23rd June 2002 Venue: Christ Church, Oxford Buckland Club Members & Guests Gather in the Archdeacon’s Lodging In 2002, the Buckland Club reached its fiftieth birthday and celebrated in the most appropriate style. For fifty years, the Club has been entertaining and instructing its members, and dutifully following its motto “Semper in ventrem aliquid novi”. We…

The Parsee Dinner

Date: 7th November 2001 Venue: Forest Hall, Meriden Sponsor: Rusi Dalal Invitation to the Parsee Dinner from Secretary Roger Wood. BUCKLAND CLUB MINUTES  A PARSEE DINNER The Parsees, as a race, are great travellers. Their story began in Persia around 700 AD. From there they travelled to the most distant corners of the earth. At the…

A Robert Burns Dinner

Date: 25th January 2001* Venue: Staff House, The University of Birmingham Sponsors: Michael Brewer with Andrew Morris Assisted by: Alastair Kerr, Hamish Aird, Craig Smith, Bryer and Tessa Sidey Minutes of A Robert Burns  Dinner The Buckland Club decided to celebrate Burns Night at The Staff House Birmingham University on 25th January 2001*. So far as I…