On this page we highlight some of the visits, talks and important events which are planned. Most of the events and groups are open to all members.
Forthcoming events
This week Cornelia Boldyreff will give a talk on ‘Ada Lovelace = 19th-century mathematician and the first computer programmer’.
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
Details of this meeting will be announced later.
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
Tom Duffy will be leading the discussion which will be on John Bordley Rawls, American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls's theory of “justice as fairness" recommends equal basic […]
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
At this meeting, following a request by the group, we will look again at how scams are increasingly enhanced by AI techniques and becoming more difficult to spot. We will […]
Venue: Age Exchange studio
Details for this event are to be announced later.
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
Our speaker is Alan Burkitt-Gray, who was for some 50 years involved as an editor and journalist reporting on the communicationsindustry.
This week Mark Serebriakoff will give a talk on "Science in the News".
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
This will cover topics such as the Women's Justice Board, David Gauke's Review of sentencing, and Brian Leveson's Review of the Courts: new laws, new courts, justice & injustice. Dame […]
Pat Duffy will be leading the discussion which will be on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) He was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy heavily influenced the Enlightenment across Europe, as well as […]
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
This week Professor David Perrett will give a talk on ‘Seeing the Light’.
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
The safety of shipping and the well-being of seafarers have been the prime concerns of Trinity House since being incorporated by Royal Charter on 20th May 1514. Our speaker David […]
Gunnel Minett will be leading the discussion on the topic: Will AI ever become conscious? There is a debate taking place in media whether AI will ever become conscious. Some argue yes […]
Venue: St Mary's Centre Eltham
The Pill and the Planet: can we have both a healthy ageing populationand a sustainable future? Dr Ian Mudway, Imperial CollegeModern medicine's success in extending lifespans comes at an environmental […]
Lynne continues the fascinating story of her family featuring amongst other things transportation and bigamy.
Our popular speaker Paul Wright returns to tell us about some very interesting figures who are buried in the 12 th century churchyard of St Margarets Blackheath, Lee Terrace.
Dr Matt Hill, School of Psychology and Vision Sciences (SoPVS), University of Leicester.
A maritime subject for this talk by one of our U3A members John Freestone, who tells us of his interesting life at sea.
After our AGM Blake Morrison, local resident, writer, poet, and former Goldsmith’s academic, will talk on hislatest book “On Memoir: an A-Z of life writing” published April 2026.