u3a

Ryedale

The Lake District: a celebration and a warning

Event type: Meeting
Date: 9th June 2026
Time: 10:00 am

Chris Forse is a retired teacher and administrator who spent 33 years in Hong Kong
where he was also a sometime columnist and radio panel guest. He has travelled
widely, enjoys travel photography and self-publishing and is a reputed speaker on
travel, history and politics in the Midlands where he was for six years chairman of
one of England’s largest U3As. He has produced several talks for Rest Less
including his travel experiences in North America and China, and history talks on
Hong Kong, the United States constitution, and the English Lake District.

Chris's background is as both a historian and economist.