Programme

Further details will be emailed to all members when booking for an event becomes available.

Full Members receive discounted prices on most 'paid for' events and will benefit from 'Free' events where guests may attend for a fee.

Programme of Events :- More events will be added throughout the year and can be viewed here. 

2026

Sunday 13th September - 11.30am -2.00pm

Frühschoppen - Venue: The Greenwoods’ Home in Downend.- (we shall be in the garden if the weather is clement!)

Come & spend a relaxing morning chatting to other BAGS members, catch up with old friends & meet new members!

Canapes and drinks will be served! £5 per person - email bristolagsinfo@gmail.com  for details.

Wednesday 23rd September 7.45pm

St Peter’s Church Henleaze, Meeting Room

Our own Dr Mark Bright-Allinson will be giving us a talk entitled "'German politics at a crossroads?':

Mark will lead a discussion in English on the current situation in Germany following the important elections in Sachsen-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin amid signs that the Merz government may be at risk and with Thuringia also on a political knife edge. Is Germany's much vaunted stability now fatally undermined?

Wednesday 14th October - 7.45pm 

St Peter’s Church Henleaze, Meeting Room

BAGS member, Roger Cholmondeley will be taking us on an illustrated tour of German Railway history.

Wednesday 18th November 7.45pm

St Peter’s Church Henleaze, Meeting Room

Dr Angela Greenwood will deliver the talk postponed from last March - The Dark Queens; Brunhild & Fredegund;  Vengeance and Power, in Early Germanic History!

Friday 4th December - 7pm - The Commonwealth Society, Whiteladies Road, Bristol - Nikolausabend Party - 

(Quiz, Carols & Poetry in German)

Members will be notified of booking arrangements.

2027

Monday 11th January - Virtual Quiz Night! - 7pm on Zoom (In German and English) - New questions and challenges in the latest  of our popular quiz events.

Quiz Master - Christine Heuger ; Slides by Dr Mark Bright-Allinson

February – online talk – Details tbc

March – Dr Steffan Davies – Details tbc

Wednesday 14th April – Bristol University 

Anual General Meeting- 

May event TBC

Friday 18th June -  7pm – Summer Party – At the Home of ‘The Greenwoods’  in Downend

Conversation Group - A conversation group meets on the last Friday of each month between September and May (excluding December); 12.15pm - 2.15pm - The topics for discussion are suggested in advance.