The British Thong Society: New Year

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

New Year

A new year and plenty of exciting things in prospect for the BTS. We're got some excellent social events for your new BTS diaries -- they should arrive with you with in the week -- and some fascinating talks in our ongoing lecture series.

Check out the BTS newsletter and for updates here on the blog. If all goes well, we also hope to have the new British Thong Society website up and running at some point in the year.

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Our Founder

Sir Henry Peel was one of the greatest minds of the late Victorian age. He was an explorer, discovering some of the remotest tribes of South America, and travelled widely in the East, including China and Japan where he was one of the earliest Europeans to adopt the wearing of the fundoshi.

Returning to England, Sir Henry became a philanthropist, eventually setting up The British Thong Society.

His death in 1927 was one of the widely reported events of the decade. Each year at the small family church in Knots End, Surrey, members of the British Thong Society lay a commemorative thong on his grave to mark the very great things Sir Henry achieved and our abiding loyalty to his legacy.