Category: The Story of Scarborough Round Table 88 1934 – 1968

The Second Scarborough Conference, 1956 IT IS A GENERALLY ACCEPTED fact that the 1956 Scarborough Conference started the previous year in Torquay. In the sedate days of the first Scarborough Conference, the invitation had been given with becoming decorum by Frank Winn, who merely stood up at the London Conference and invited everybody to come…

The Developing Years, 1953-56 IN LOOKING BACK over the years it becomes possible to see trends and events in a perspective not readily apparent at the time they are taking place. There is a danger in measuring a Table against the yardstick of its own social fellowship and activities; there is an equal danger in…

The Ladies, 1937-39 AT THIS POINT we must briefly look back two years, and in so doing remember a sphere of Round Table activity in which the membership of the Table had no immediate part. Although the early ideas of Round Table took no account of femininity, it was perhaps inevitable that the ladies should…

From National Conference 1937, to International Conflict 1939 THE OPENING OF THE Table’s second year was marked by the resignation of Singer on his removal to Warwick. His enthusiasm and hard secretarial work had done a great deal towards building a firm foundation for the Table, and he was ably succeeded by H. T. Jackson.…

The First Year, 1934-35 THE STORY OF ROUND TABLE, nationally and internationally was told by John Creasey in 1953 in Round Table, the First Twenty-five Years. In these pages is the shorter story of one of the member Tables of the movement, the National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland. It is…

IT IS NOW MORE THAN thirty years since the Scarborough Round Table was founded. The Table feels that whilst many of its earlier members and their memories are still available, some account of its own formation, development and work should be recorded. A true record must be not merely an impersonally factual history, nor yet…

How to use the Index It was originally intended that this Index should be helpful, if not instructive, to the ordinary reader as well as to the crossword expert. To gain the maximum benefit from it, however, it is necessary for both types of reader to observe the following simple rules: Page 78 in the…

The young business and professional men of this country must get together round the table, adopt methods that have proved so sound in the past, adapt them to the changing needs of the times and, whenever possible, improve them. Edward, Prince of Wales, 1927 Had I been present at the creation, I would have given…