Today the British Council is well established in Vietnam as an educational and cultural centre with offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. We have 85 national and UK staff, eight classrooms in which 2,500 people are taught English annually and manage over 30 projects ranging from fashion design to malaria research. We run a national network for English language teacher training for over 1,000 English teachers.

But ten years ago, in the Autumn of 1993, it all began with one woman, a driver and a laptop computer in the Metropole Hotel Coffee shop in Hanoi.

This exhibition gives you a taste of 10 years of the British Council in Vietnam and looks at some of the highlights and long term partnerships that continue to flourish.