by Lisa Chambers | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
Graham Watts casts his eye on this year’s Flamenco Festival held at Sadler’s Wells, London, earlier this summer. We are enjoying a rich generation of experienced flamenco dancers: Sara Baras is 54 and both Manuel Liñán and Mercedes Ruiz are 45 (María Pagés is,...
by Lisa Chambers | Nov 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
BSS member Dominic Begg reflects on his connection with Spain over seven decades “All these places had their moments…” The quotation above comes from the Beatles song “In my life”, in which John Lennon looks back at people and places that meant a lot to him. I...
by Lisa Chambers | Nov 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
La Revista’s intrepid explorer’s latest adventure takes him on a challenging nine-day journey by kayak and an intimate encounter with history and nature. In May, I set out to complete a journey I had long dreamed of, the full descent of the River Thames, from source...
by Lisa Chambers | Nov 2, 2025 | News
On 17 May, starting from the small Catalan town of Santa Eulalia de Riuprimer, a group of Barcelona’s “Witty Walkers” made a pilgrimage to the Ermita de Sant Sebastia. The chapel stands strategically located high on the hills overlooking the plain of...
by Lisa Chambers | Oct 22, 2025 | News
Members and friends of the BritishSpanish Society gathered recently for a very special evening celebrating The New Art of Cookery, Vicky Hayward’s acclaimed translation and contextualisation of the eighteenth-century Spanish classic by Franciscan friar Juan Altamiras....
