Our Convention

We have just finished our annual Convention. It was held at the University of York, where we were looked after very well by Hannah from the events team, the catering staff and the accommodation staff as well.

We had papers celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Clouds of Witness, the relationship between DLS and CS Lewis, a play reading based on the novel, a group discussion, a reading of DLS’ poem, ‘War Cat’ in French and a wonderful Evensong in the Minster where we were welcomed as special guests. If you want to hear more about the Convention, please contact us and we will send you a copy of our September Bulletin when it is published, with full reports of the wonderful weekend in York.

January Zoom Event

The first Zoom event for members and their guests will be held on Friday, 23rd January at 7.00pm (GMT) This will be a book group discussion of two short stories, led by Chris Seymour. The two stories come from the collection Lord Peter Views the Body. We will travel with Lord Peter from New York, to a London club, then onto the holiday resort of East Felpham with the first story being ‘The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers’ and the second ‘The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face’. Chris has asked if anyone can spot a film connection in one of the stories.

The discussion will be repeated, live, on Saturday, 24th January, 2026, at 10am (GMT) to accommodate members in other time zones. Members and their guests can attend one or both of these events.

Posting parcels to the USA

Posting items to the USA

With the changes to duty for items other than letters being posted to the USA, the Society is pausing the posting of anything other the Bulletin – which is sent as a letter and does not attract duty – to members in the USA.  Royal Mail has resumed some postage of parcels to the US but there is a handling fee now, for parcels.  Once we have some clarity on the new postage charges and duties process, the Committee will discuss how we will manage this. We regret that we have had to do this but until we are clear about both process and charges, we will not be accepting orders from the US, apart from membership fees.

Annual Convention at the University of Chichester

Our and Convention for members and their guests commences this Friday at the University of Chichester. Our speakers are: our President, Professor BJ Rahn, Simon and Lucy Brett, Alison Hall, Margaret Hunt, Jem Bloomfield, Liz Eddy-Mulcahy, Patrick Kidd and Jasmine Simeone. We will be going to see ‘Top Hat’ the musical at the Chichester Festival Theatre on Saturday Evening and attending Chichester Cathedral for the Sunday morning service.