How an RNLI Lifeboat Became a Little Ship of Dunkirk and Climbed a Hill in Chile
#LestWeForget The iconic view from the Museo Marítimo Nacional in Valparaíso Chile is known by many, captured in Whistler’s Nocturne in...
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Museum of the Immigrants - Valparaíso
During the presentation of his book Meteor, at the launch held last year by the Society, David Woods mentioned the ambitious project in...
Times of Trial and Friendship
Times of difficult news from Chile. The very sad news of the loss of former President Piñera in a helicopter crash. This followed the...
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET PRINCIPAL DANCER, CÉSAR MORALES TO LEAVE THE COMPANY AFTER 16 YEARSTO JOIN SANTIAGO BALLET
Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer, César Morales will depart the Company after 16 years to take up the role of Artistic Director...
Ballet de Santiago
We were thrilled to welcome the Director of Chile's Municipal de Santiago Santiago, Carmen Gloria Larenas, and the team of dancers from...
The British and Chile’s Opening to the World by David Woods
Commercially, post-independence Chile opened itself to the world, and Valparaiso was its gateway. Even if, during colonial times, it was...
A Forgotten Outrage in a Forgotten War by David Woods
On May 2, 1866, The New York Times ran a nine-deck headlined story from its correspondent in Panama reporting the bombardment, a few...
Rugby in Chile
Our member Dacre Watson's father, also named Dacre Watson, was British and traveled to Chile at the age of 21 in 1928 as a Chartered...
14th - ‘The British Commonwealth Fire Company’
It was the 1950s when John Alfred Stewart Jackson, founder of The Grange School, and his great friend Captain Graham Balfour, both driven...
National Day of the Chilean Flag
Every July 9th, #Chile commemorates National Flag Day, a symbol that has had different versions throughout the 200 years of our country's...
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