Bridget Guzner will talk about the birth of what subsequently became the second largest collection of Hungarian books held in any library outside Hungary. After his employment as full-time assistant in 1838, Thomas Watts started acquiring books in all languages for the  British Museum Library. With the steady increase of funds, this process culminated in … Read more

Tuesday 17 September, 7pm Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA Count András Hadik de Futak was a Hungarian Noble and Field Marshal of the Habsburg Army. He was Governor of Galicia and Lodomeria from January 1774 to June 1774 and is famous for capturing the Prussian capital Berlin during the … Read more

A lecture by HE Professor Géza Jeszenszky on Monday, 10 June on National Minorities  in Central Europe in the 20th Century through British Eyes, at the Hungarian Embassy. Admission is free but strictly by invitation. If you are a BHF member and have not received your invitation yet, please get in touch with Mrs Iren … Read more

Among the recently published travel accounts from the collection of the National Library of China there is an intriguing manuscript entitled Xiongyali youji, i.e. Record of a Journey to Hungary. It appears to be a so far unknown manuscript by a Chinese person who travelled to Hungary sometime during the late 19th or early 20th … Read more

Apart from Clive Wilmer’s own poetry the book contains over fifty translations, including thirty-six from the Hungarian. They will also be introducing their recently published translations of János Pilinszky’s poems Passio. Clive Wilmer teaches at the University of Cambridge, where he is Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College and an Affiliated Lecturer in … Read more

Please note this talk will be in Hungarian Since the political changes of 1989 the London-based writer Mátyás Sárközi has published eighteen books in Hungary: essays, short-stories, diaries, monographs, urban sociography, literary history and two novels. Age does not seem to stop him producing new works almost every year. This year he turned 75 and in a … Read more