2022/2023 Programme
Of Illustrated Talks
19th October 2022
The Age of Jazz
by Sandy Burnett
16th November 2022
Prized Possessions – Dutch 17th Century Art in National Trust Houses
By Jane Choy-Thurlow
14th December 2022
The Art of the Cartoonist
By Harry Venning
18th January 2023
The Sahara as Palimpsest
By Eamonn Gearon
15th February 2023
The Glasgow Girls
By Elaine Hansen
15th March 2023
The Manufactured Woman – The Story of Pandora
By Mary Sharp
19st April 2023
Pots and Frocks – The World of Grayson Perry from Essex punk potter to Superstar National Treasure
By Ian Swankie
17th May 2023
Damian Hurst
By Lucrezia Walker
WHERE WE MEET
We are very honoured to hold our meetings at the Garrison Library.
We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month October to May (except December – 2nd Wed) at 7:30pm with membership fee of £65.00 per person per annum or £130.00 per couple per annum a guest fee for a single meeting is £12 from 6:30pm.
The Garrison Library
Constructed on the site of the Governors’ residence during the Spanish occupation of Gibraltar, the library was officially opened in 1804 by the Duke of Kent.
The library served as the headquarters and archive service of the Gibraltar Chronicle, the world’s second oldest English language newspaper. The Library was established for and by the officers of the Garrison of Gibraltar. It has remained a private entity run by a Trust for over two hundred years up until, September 2011, at which point the Library was transferred to the Government of Gibraltar.
The Garrison is a library of 45,000 books, including many rare volumes. This library exists to hold the collection which includes good coverage of the subjects of culture and travel. The library was started to occupy officers stationed in Gibraltar. It has an excellent local history collection. Many lithographs and art prints are held here and many of the furnishings have interesting backgrounds
The dragon tree in the library’s front garden is thought to date from the Spanish occupation when the plant was introduced to Gibraltar by mariners who brought the seeds from the Canary Islands