A brief entry in the British Go Association Newsletter No. 2 - April 1982- notes that
"The Hampstead Go Club now meets at the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 21 Avenue Road, London NW8", A bit of further research indicates that a "Not the European Championship" tournament was held there in August 1981. With the British Go Journal noting:
The venue was the elegant and exotic home of the Guild of Transcultural Studies and everything, including an exotic lunch, was organised by Judith Beck.
It turns out that the Guild of Transcultural Studies was based at a squatted embassy of some fame, and even the subject of a book "Tales From The Embassy: Communiqués From The Guild of Transcultural Studies 1976 – 1991", which is summarised as:
Quote:
One night in 1976, a group of squatters entered the Cambodian Embassy in London, an opulent building that had remained empty for two years following the bloody revolution of the Khmer Rouge. For the next fifteen years, this peculiar residence would play host to the Guild of Transcultural Studies, an open platform for creative monomaniacs, radical metaphysicians, poets, prophets and exiles.
and there is an article from a local newspaper:
https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/pol-pots-role-in-the-counterculture-movementDoes anyone know anymore about this strange period in the history of London/British Go?