Last week I attended the presidential lecture by Donald Munro at the Arc and Arc (the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society). All newly elected presidents give a lecture. Donald chose as his topic the history of printing and publishing in St Albans up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Not many people [...]
Entries Tagged as 'St Albans School'
From The Book of Hawking to the book of Hawking
January 31st, 2012 · 4 Comments · Sandy's blog
Tags:Abbey·Arc and Arc·Book of Hawking·father of the chapel origin·printing·SAHAAS·St Albans·St Albans School
Who is Justin Bieber?
November 24th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Sandy's blog
You’re part of a panel in front of 600 sixth formers filling St Albans Abbey nave. The young questioner poses the question, “Justin Bieber and the media are promoting underage sex. Does this mean teenage pregnancies are acceptable?” The chair turns to me. “Sandy?”
The stuff of nightmares, except this was the actual final question in [...]
Tags:Andrew Bright·Beaumont School·Chris Bryant·Francis Bacon School·Giles Fraser·Justin Bieber·Loreto School·Samira Ahmed·St Albans·St Albans Abbey·St Albans Girls School·St Albans School·Tobias Ellwood
A larger audience than Nigel Farage… and an interesting debate on what makes a fair tax system
March 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
On Friday I spoke to the St Albans School 6th form before rushing up to the Liberal Democrat spring conference in Birmingham. The school certainly has an interesting range of speakers. The previous week they had Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP. This week they are going to have Esther Rantzen. It is an intriguing progression!
I [...]
Tags:Esther Rantzen·Nigel Farage·pensions·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·St Albans School
Elsinore comes to Verulamium
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
With apologies for the delay in this posting while we moved the blog to a new platform, I want to report how totally stunned I was by the quality and magic of the recent production of Hamlet by St Albans based Theatrix performance arts school at the open air amphitheatre in the grounds of St [...]