Membership list
An up-to-date membership list is maintained, from which members
can establish contact with each other if they wish. Our members are a fascinating and varied selection, and many have offered some information about themselves, their interests and their connection with Myanmar, as a way of introducing themselves to others. Do read about them by clicking on the membership list, and you can use the e-mail facility on it to get in touch with a fellow spirit.
Summaries and Transcripts of Lectures
| May 2009: | Gordon Luce* | 8,600 words | by Dr Pamela Gutman |
| Mar 2009: | Obituary of a Botanist: U Chit Ko Ko | 1,260 words | by David Sayers |
| Nov 2008: | Seeding the Future* | 4,500 words | by Diana Millington |
| Mar 2006: | Getting Inside Myanmar Painting* | 2,100 words | by John Glass |
| Jan 2006: | Unlocked: Secrets of the Sazigyo Tapes* | 2,250 words | by Ralph Isaacs |
| Nov 2005: | Bold and Old Soldiers of Myanmar* | 5,500 words | by Lt Col Sam Pope, OBE, RM |
| May 2005: | The Changing Face of Thingyan* | 3.000 words | by Peter Evans |
| Dec 2004: | Médecins sans Frontières in Yangon* | 1,000 words | by Muriel Volpellier |
| Nov 2004: | Antiques Roadshow* | 10,400 words | by nine experts on Burmese fine arts |
| Jun 2004: | Briefing on Ethnic Politics* | 12,600 words | by Ashley South |
| May 2004: | A Carriage Fit for a King* | 3,700 words | by Ralph Isaacs |
| Mar 2004: | Son of Donnison* | 4,900 words | by Professor David Donnison |
| Dec 2003: | Second Chance in Mandalay* | 3,900 words | by Diana Millington |
| Nov 2003: | First Impressions of a Third Secretary* | 3,360 words | by Martin Morland |
| June 2003: | Family Routes* | 11,000 words | by Wendy Law-Yone |
| May 2003: | Elephants* | 3,000 words | by Daw Khyne U Mar |
| Feb 2003: | Myanmar 1999-2002 | 2,600 words | by Victoria Billing |
| Dec 2002: | Magic Places, Magic Times* | 12,000 words | by Sir Nicholas and Lady Fenn |
| June 2002: | The Art and Magic of Myanmar Tattooing* | 2,500 words | by Will Womack |
| Feb 2002: | Life in the Southern Chin Hills* | 6,600 words | by Helga So-Hartmann |
| Dec 2001: | Yangon Revisited* | 7,800 words | by Professor Robert H Taylor |
| May 2001: | By Car to Mong Lar* | 5,600 words | by Vicky Bowman |
| Mar 2001: | Folk Tales of Myanmar | 4,800 words | by Gerry Abbott and Daw Khin Thant Han |
| Feb 2001: | A Myanmar Time Capsule* | 8,000 words | by Joanna Wright |
| Dec 2000: | Spirit Journey from Shwegu* | 4,300 words | by Mandy Sadan |
| Nov 2000: | White on White* | 5,700 words | by Tiffany White |
| Jun 2000: | Border Minorities Revisited | 4,300 words | by Martin Smith |
| May 2000: | New Ways to Beat Malaria | 8,000 words | by HE Dr Kyaw Win |
| Mar 2000: | Life and Buddhism in a Myanmar Village | 4,800 words | by Naoko Kumada |
| Feb 2000: | Diplomatic Incursions, 1995-99 | 4,600 words | by Pam and Robert Gordon |
| Dec 1999: | Myanmar's Botanical Treasures | 2,900 words | by David Sayers |
| May 1999: | An Economist in Yangon | 3,000 words | by Professor Anne Booth |
| Feb 1999: | Myanmar Over & Over Again | 3,000 words | by Professor Stephen Smith MA, DM, PhD |
| Dec 1998: | Myanmar Lacquerware | 500 words | by Ralph Isaacs, OBE |
| Jun 1998: | Murals of the Jataka Stories | 2,100 words | by Alexandra Green |
| May 1998: | Myanmar Short Stories Today | 3,800 words | by Anna Allott, OBE |
| Mar 1998: | People and Eyes in Myanmar Today | 2,400 words | by Richard Packard, F.R.C.Opthth |
| Feb 1998: | Fifty years of the Myanmar State | 2,800 words | by Robert H. Taylor |
| Dec 1997: | Who Really Killed Aung San? | 2,100 words | by Rob Lemkin |
| Nov 1997: | The Fate of the Myanmar Royal Family | 2,200 words | by Dr U Thant Myint-U |
| May 1997: | New Approach to Malaria Control | 1,400 words | by Dr Roger Webber |
| Mar 1997: | Myanmar's Fantastic Supernatural World | 1,800 words | video by Yves Rodrigue; commentary by Martin Morland |
| Feb 1997: | Myanmar Revisited | 1,800 words | by John Okell |
Books
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Book Reviews and Discounts
| 3 reviews by Philip Plumb, and 4 reviews by Patricia Herbert (6,200 words) |
Last of the Guardians Chinthe Women Epilogue in Burma 1945-48 Among Insurgents; Walking Through Burma Burma: Insurgency & the Politics of Ethnicity Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics |
| 26 book discounts |
The White Umbrella by Patricia Elliott, with prologue by Bertil Lintner: Ballads of Burma by Ulay Brahmanical Gods of Burma by Niharranjan Roy Burma's lost Kingdoms: Splendours of Arakan by Pamela Gutman Burmese Lacquerware (HB, PB) by Sylvia Fraser-Lu Festivals and Flowers of the Twelve Burmese Seasons by Khin Myo Chit In Search of Sunlight: Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand by Pim Koetsawang Journal of a Voyage Through Pegu & Martaban by Robert Abreu On the Road to Mandalay: Tales of Ordinary People by Mya Than Tint Our Trip to Burmah by Charles Alexander Gordon Sanskrit Buddhism in Burma by Niharranjan Roy Splendour in Wood: the Buddhist Monasteries of Burma by Sylvia Fraser-Lu The British Humiliation of Burma by Terence Blackburn Theravada Buddhism in Burma by Niharranjan Roy The Traveller's History of Burma by Gerry Abbott Welcome to Burma and Enjoy the Totalitarian Experience by Timothy Syrota Whispers at the Pagoda - Portraits of Modern Burma by Julie Sell Burma: Frontier Photographs by Elizabeth Dell, John Falconer, Mandy Sadan, David Odo Through the Jungle of Death by Stephen Brookes Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity by Martin Smith Living Silence - Burma under Military Rule by Christina Fink The Art of Burma: New Studies edited by Donald Stadtner Ma Ma Hta by Denise MacDonald Epilogue in Burma 1945-48: The military dimension of British withdrawal by John McEnery From the Dogs of War to a Brave New World and Back Again - BURMA '47 by Gavin Fowells |
Past Meeting Notices
With book particulars and UK events as well as brief meeting detailsEach meeting notice is around 700 words long
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History
Behind-the-scenes memoirs from people in authority| By | In Myanmar 1945-48 | 6,800 words | Myanmar: Waiting for the End |
| By former Canadian Ambassador | In Myanmar 1967-71 | 15,600 words | Canada-Burma Relations 1967-71 |
Myanmar Art Gallery
| Anna Allott OBE | Review of Exhibition, 700 words with two colour photos, expandable to full screen size. |
| Burmese artist | 6 paintings, expandable to full screen size. |
| Burmese artist | 5 paintings, expandable to full screen size. |
| British artist | 5 paintings and 3 pen-and-ink drawings, all done in Myanmar in 1941. |
Research - Bogyoke Bulletin Board
The debate on who may have been behind the tragic assassination of General Aung San in 1947.
On the 50th anniversary of General Aung San's death, BBC TV ran a programme, produced by Rob Lemkin, that looked at the possibility that a small and little-known British group had given U Saw covert support prior to the assassination. Since then, many historians and others have given their own opinions, some of which we run.
On the 50th anniversary of General Aung San's death, BBC TV ran a programme, produced by Rob Lemkin, that looked at the possibility that a small and little-known British group had given U Saw covert support prior to the assassination. Since then, many historians and others have given their own opinions, some of which we run.
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