Category Archives: Our events

  • 29th January 2025

    Midsummer Lunch

    24th June 2025 (11:45 – 14:30) Lincoln’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn Fields WC2A 3TL Save the Date – details to follow nearer the time.  All four Nordic Societies in England – The Anglo-Danish Society, The Anglo-Finnish Society, The Anglo-Norse Society and The Anglo-Swedish Society – plan to renew last year’s successful Nordic Midsummer lunch.   

  • 23rd December 2024

    ‘Scandinavian Modern’: Nordic Design Behind the Scenes

    Finnish designers played a huge part in the ‘Scandinavian Modern’ movement of the 1950s. It was a style that took America and Europe by storm with its cool functionality, natural materials and organic curves. But, lurking behind the scenes, were hidden hands and powerful political projects. It wasn’t just the social democratic urge to change […]

  • Friedrich Karl of Hesse – the first, last, and never King of Finland.

    We know the richly storied accounts of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian royalty and nobility dating back over 1000 years to Viking times. But, what about Finland – did the Finns and Finland ever have their own King, or were they fated to ‘make do’ by sharing other people’s sovereigns? Prince Friedrich Karl, Landgraf of Hesse, […]

  • 22nd December 2024

    Vappu-Valborg Lunch

    Our Vappu-Valborg Lunch this year is being organised in the Hall of Gray’s Inn – details to follow nearer the time. 

  • Tove Jansson

    Sophia Jansson will give a talk about her aunt, the legendary Tove Jansson. This event is organised in cooperation with the Anglo-Swedish Society and other partner organisations. Details to follow nearer the time. 

  • 2nd December 2024

    Annual General Meeting

    Our AGM date has now been set with further details to follow nearer to the time to Members of the Society.

  • 18th November 2024

    Christmas comes to Moominvalley at Jackson Lane

    Christmas Comes To Moominvalley – evening performance on Friday, 3 January 2025 at Jacksons Lane, 269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA We have made arrangements for a group booking of tickets for Friday, 3 January 2025. There will be an opportunity before the show for a short introduction to Jacksons Lane and after the show […]

  • 27th October 2024

    Film Projection and Talk by Kirsten Adkins: Singing the Wooden House

    Tuesday, 14 January 2025 at 6 p.m. at the Community Hall of St Anne’s Church, Soho, 55 Dean Street, London, W1D 6AF. Film Projection and talk by Kirsten Adkins, a filmmaker based in Glasgow, of her film Singing the Wooden House (30 minutes):  A journey to a border zone, in search of a wooden house […]

  • 5th June 2024

    Traditional Finnish Christmas Lunch

    Traditional Finnish Christmas Lunch on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 from 2 p.m. at the Finnish Church in London, 33 Albion Street, London, SE16 7HZ. This day happens to be the 113th anniversary of the foundation of the Anglo-Finnish Society in 1911. The Anglo-Finnish Society’s Christmas lunch will again be at the Finnish Church in London, […]

  • 20th March 2024

    Afternoon Concert at Burgh House, Hampstead

    The United Kingdom Sibelius Society (“UKSS”) is holding a concert at Burgh House, Hampstead, London at 2 p.m. on Sunday, 19th May 2024. The programme will feature four duos by Sibelius, a sonata by Nielsen and a sonata by Delius. The full programme is: Sibelius Four Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op.78 Impromptu Romance Religioso Nielsen Sonata […]