2022 talks

WINTER TERM 2022 TALKS

The WINTER term started on Thursday 13th January with the meetings held as 'hybrid' meetings, with a limited number of members attending the talks in Ealing Green Church whilst many other members watched from home over Zoom. For this term we had talks fortnightly. A list of the talks and speakers this term is shown below, whilst full details of the talks can be found in the Winter Term 2022 talks document. Most of these talks were recorded and this is indicated by a sign, after the talk name. The Recordings are available on our Ealing u3a YouTube channel; if you would like to view any of these recordings, please contact the Webmaster. All speakers were present in Ealing Green Church, unless otherwise shown.

Thur 13 January (EGC & Zoom) - Sex-Magic, Werewolves and Love-Knots: 12th Century English Lays for Modern Times with Jordan Campbell, a storyteller who focuses primarily on stories from the Caribbean and Africa and has also fallen in love with stories from around the world.
Thur 27 January (Zoom) - The Love of Dangerous Men – Part 2 with Tony Nicholson, who spoke to us from his home in Saltburn, with the second part of the story based on an astonishing collection of Victorian photographs, souvenirs and letters, discovered in the attic of the house he moved to following retirement, from which an amazing love story emerged.
Thur 10 February (Zoom) - My Ancestors and Their Professions with Jenny Mallin, who spoke to us from her home in Hampshire. Jenny is an award-winning author for her 'Best in World' cookbook memoir "A Grandmother's Legacy", and delivered a fascinating insight into five generations of her family who lived in India during the days of the British Raj.
Thur 24 February (EGC & Zoom) - Overlooked Female and Over-promoted Male Artists with Colin Lomas, Ealing u3a Member. Colin did supply us with a copy of his notes relating to his talk; click on Female and Male Artists notes to see these - they include links to the video clips that were part of this talk.
Thur 3 March (Zoom only talk) - Teak - the King of Timbers with Jean Brewster an Ealing U3A member who taught English Studies/Applied Linguistics in various institutions, including what is now The University of West London, Nottingham University and the Institute of Hong Kong.
Thur 10 March (EGC & Zoom) - Rising to the Global Urban Land and Housing Challenge with Geoff Payne, a housing and urban development consultant with five decades of experience covering all regions of the world who has undertaken research, consultancy and capacity building assignments for international development agencies, governments and academic institutions.
Thur 24 March (EGC & Zoom) - EALING u3a AGM followed by a talk by Ealing u3a Member Ann de Beaupre on Canadian Artist, Lawren Harris: Between Our Mundane World and the World of Spirit. This talk explores not only his complex life, but also attempted to explain why people should be interested in this special artist’s incredible body of work. For copyright reasons, we did not record Ann's talk nor can we share her presentation. However, Ann has kindly supplied a list of links to websites where some of Works of Lawren Harris can be found.
Thur 31 March (EGC & Zoom) - Ealing - The Cradle of British Rock Music with Bob Salmons, a working musician who founded the Ealing Blues Festival in 1987 which is now London’s longest running Blues Festival. Bob has provided us with a list of reading material referred to in his talk and other related info - to see this click on British Rock talk material.

SPRING TERM 2022 TALKS

The SPRING term started on Thursday 28th April with the meetings held as 'hybrid' meetings, with a limited number of members attending the talks in Ealing Green Church whilst many other members watched from home over Zoom. For this term we continued to have talks fortnightly. A list of the talks and speakers this term is shown below, whilst full details of the talks can be found in the Spring Term 2022 talks document. Most of these talks were recorded and this is indicated by a sign, after the talk name. The Recordings are available on our Ealing u3a YouTube channel; if you would like to view any of these recordings, please contact the Webmaster. All speakers were present in Ealing Green Church, unless otherwise shown.

Thur 28 April (EGC & Zoom) - A Considerable Seaport – British New York 1664-1783 with David Evans, who spent his life working in Air France both here and in France. He was responsible for commercial training in the UK and Ireland and is also a Cities of London and Westminster registered guide.
Thur 12 May (EGC & Zoom) - Fear of falling... or falling from fear? The influence of psychological factors on balance, walking and falls with Dr Toby Ellmers, PhD who is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Imperial College London. His research explores how psychological factors, such as fear of falling and attention, influence balance and an individual's risk of falls. Dr Ellmers provided us with a copy of his presentation as a PDF file - to view this, click on Fear of Falling presentation.
Thur 26 May (Zoom) - Living with Plastics with Emeritus Professor Roland Clift, CBE, FREng, a chemical engineer who has spent much of his working life on government policy and company strategy to address environmental issues. Professor Clift spoke to us over Zoom from Sweden for this talk and he has now provided us with a copy of his presentation as a PDF file - to view this, click on Living with Plastics presentation.
Thur 9 June (EGC & Zoom) - Ealing Council Waste Management and Recycling with Catherina Pack (Waste & Street Services Manager - the Council’s lead officer for waste management policy, strategy development and systems design) and John Arnold (Contracts and Performance Manager - responsible for service design and managing the performance of waste, recycling, street cleansing and graffiti/flyposting removal contracts). They have provided a copy of their presentation as a PDF file - to view this, click on Ealing Waste Management presentation.
Thur 23 June (EGC & Zoom) - Coffee: from bean to cup, and beyond with Dr Aaron Davies a Senior Research Leader of Crops and Global Change at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew whose area of research expertise is coffee, to which he has devoted over 20 years of his career. Dr Davies has provided a copy of his presentation; this has had to be split into 3 PDF files due to it's size - to view these, click on Coffee presentation 1, Coffee presentation 2 and Coffee presentation 3.
Thur 14 July (EGC & Zoom) - What is Architecture? with Ealing u3a member Nigel Clarke. Nigel has a BSc in Architecture planning and building and a Diploma in Architecture, both from UCL; he worked in practice, mainly as a self-employed sole practitioner, for around 50 years and is now semi retired.

AUTUMN TERM 2022

The AUTUMN term started on Thursday 8th September and our Thursday morning meetings were held as 'hybrid' meetings, where some members attend the talks in Ealing Green Church whilst we also broadcast them over Zoom for members to watch from home. For this term we had three talks per month, with Coffee mornings on the other week in the month. A list of the talks and speakers this term is shown below, whilst full details of the talks can be found in the Autumn Term 2022 talks document. Most of these talks were recorded and this is indicated by a sign, after the talk name. The Recordings are available on our Ealing u3a YouTube channel; if you would like to view any of these recordings, please contact the Webmaster. All speakers were present in Ealing Green Church, unless otherwise shown.

Thur 8th Sept (EGC & Zoom) - 'Social connections, health and well-being in later life: What do we know?' with Dr Snorri Rafnsson, Associate Professor of Ageing and Dementia in the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of West London.
Thur 22nd Sept (EGC & Zoom) - 'The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission' with Ashley Byford-Bates of the CWGC, a volunteer speaker for them, he joined last year and this is the third talk he has given.
Thur 6th Oct (EGC & Zoom) - Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy with Dr Kim Salmons, Associate Professor of Modernist Literature at St Mary's University, Twickenham. Dr Salmons provided us with a copy of her presentation as a PDF file - to view this, click on Food in Thomas Hardy novels.
Thur 13th Oct (EGC & Zoom) - Photographic Competition Results and a brief talk on Photographic Techniques with judge Michael Lurie, who was present in the Church.
Thur 27th Oct (Zoom) - Making fish oils in plants – how GM can help make crops more nutritious with Prof Johnathan Napier, Science Director at Rothamsted Research (Harpenden), also an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling. Prof Napier gave his talk over Zoom and provided us with a copy of his presentation from this talk - click on Making Fish Oils in Plants to view this.
Thur 3rd Nov (EGC & Zoom) - Why fungi are better than plants with Lee Davies, the Fungarium Collection manager at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Thur 10th Nov (EGC & Zoom) - Painting and Mathematics with Graham Tigg, member of Hammersmith & Fulham u3a and currently their Treasurer.
Thur 24th Nov (EGC & Zoom) - My Life in Radio with Karen Pirie, Radio producer at BBC Radio 4 until 2011, now working freelance. Karen having made 100s of programmes for Radio 4, she is currently one of the producers of 'The Reunion' series.
Thur 1st Dec (EGC & Zoom) - Mahogany: Colonies, Pirates, Furniture and Guitars % with Jean Brewster, Ealing u3a member and ex-University of West London lecturer in Linguistic Science.
Thur 8th Dec (EGC & Zoom) - A Seasonal Entertainment, a series of readings suited to this time of the year, with various Ealing U3A Members. To see the detailed list of readings, click on A Seasonal Entertainment.

WINTER TERM 2022 TALKS

SPRING TERM 2022 TALKS

AUTUMN TERM 2022

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