Alumni and guests are invied to join the Cambridge Society in Nottinghamshire and guest speaker Catharine Arnold, for a lecture on the 1918 influenza epidemic and lunch at the Belgrave Rooms.

In the last months of the First World War, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the globe, killing up to 100 million people. It was one of the most devastating disasters in world history. In this talk, Catharine Arnold draws on eye-witness accounts of the tragedy and the stories of those who fought back, at the Front, at home, in the hospitals and laboratories.

Catharine Arnold is a member of the Society, whom many of you will know. She grew up in Nottingham and read English at Girton. She is a popular historian and author of Necropolis: London and its dead and Globe: Shakespeare and the English Stage, among other titles. She has a further degree in psychology and teaches creative writing for the Open University.

She is currently Sheriff of Nottingham and represents the Basford ward on Nottingham City Council.

Menu

Main Courses

Lemon & Thyme stuffed Supreme of Chicken

Traditional Roast Gravy

(DF, GF-without stuffing)

or

Fruits de Mer Mille-feuille

A selection of fish & seafood in a Lemon & Dill Sauce

Between layers of Puff Pastry

or

Sweet Potato, Chestnut & Apricot Loaf

Sage Cream (GF, V, DF, Ve available by pre-order)

All served with chef’s choice of potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Desserts

Warm Chocolate & Cherry Frangipane

Cream (V, Contains Nuts!)

or

Lemon & Blueberry Pavlova

Chantilly Cream (V)

Coffee or tea