Friends of Barts Heritage

15/03/2025

31/10/2024

Behol- my Hershey's frimyrtersys ASER workshop .

17/12/2021

We are now amalgamating this Facebook account with Barts Heritage and no further posts will appear here. Please head over to Barts Heritage and we look forward to seeing you there!

15/10/2021

Join us in the Great Hall next Wednesday 20 October 2021 for the first of our new public lecture series on London’s Tudor history. Historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist Dan Jones will speak about the three themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce, conquest and Christianity.
Admission £12 ( or £6 for members of the Friends)

Dan Jones speaks about the three themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce, conquest and Christianity.

15/09/2021

Barts Heritage is delighted to announce the launch of our new membership system, which costs just £20 a year. Member benefits include invitations to attend regular lectures, dinners, visits and events; regular updates on the project to restore the Great Hall; priority booking for all events, including invitations to member-only functions; and regular networking opportunities with their fellow members. In addition Members will feel a tangible part of the Great Hall restoration project and have ‘given something back’ to an institution of national importance. Please sign up now!

Set up an annual Direct Debit We collect membership fees by Direct Debit. When your membership renewal is due it will be debited directly from your bank account – you don’t need to remember to make a payment. To joint us as a new member, please complete the Direct Debit mandate form below.  Tak...

26/06/2021

Just four days until our next webinar with Dr Edward Rowland, former medical student and now medical director at Barts, who will compare past and present at this famous institution.
Wednesday 30 June at 1900 hrs
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Dr Edward Rowland, medical director at Barts, discusses his career and the evolution of Barts into a world leading heart and cancer centre

17/05/2021

'Barts and the Olympics'
Wednesday 26 May 2021 at 1900 hrs

With the delayed Tokyo Olympics just weeks away GB international rower Jack Beaumont joins us to help spotlight some previous Barts medallists. Jack’s grandparents were a Barts nurse and a Barts doctor and he is currently captain of the world-famous Leander Club, in Henley.

In conversation with Olympic commentator Robert Treharne Jones, Jack will look back on Barts surgeon Raymond Etherington-Smith, a member of the GB gold medal eight in 1908; eye surgeon HB Stallard, who won a bronze medal in 1500m at the 1924 ‘Chariots of Fire’ Games; and Arthur Wint, the Jamaican athlete who won gold over 400m at two successive Olympics during his student career at Barts. Book your free place at:

With the delayed Tokyo Olympics just weeks away GB international rower Jack Beaumont joins us to help spotlight previous Barts medallists.

11/05/2021

A surprise visit today from our Patron HRH The Prince of Wales, being shown our exciting restoration plans by our CEO Will Palin and Charles Knight, CEO of Barts Hospital. It was wonderful to introduce many of the front-line clinical staff, as well as some of our partners and supporters.

20/04/2021

'Monastic houses and Georgian speculators:
A tour of historic Clerkenwell'
Wednesday 28 April 2021 at 1900 hrs

Join architectural historian and Barts Heritage CEO Will Palin, in conversation with Robert Treharne Jones, for a virtual ramble through the streets of historic Clerkenwell, tracing the ancient origins of this unique part of London and following its growth and redevelopment through the Georgian and Victorian periods.
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Join Will Palin for this architectural tour of historic Clerkenwell, tracing the monastic origins of its dense and atmospheric streetscape

20/04/2021

Barts Heritage needs your help.

Take a minute to share how you’d like to explore and experience Barts Hospital’s hidden heritage gems.

Have your say HERE https://bartsheritage.org.uk/your-views/

29/03/2021

More than 300 people have already booked to watch 'Were Monks the first Anaesthetists?’, our next free webinar on 31 March.

Retired consultant anaesthetist David Wilkinson was head of department at Barts, and now lectures widely on the history of anaesthesia, in which Barts has played a prominent part for more than 200 years.

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Dr David Wilkinson explores the early history of anaesthetics with a focus on St Bartholomew's Hospital