In 1954 he became a founding member of the Anglo-Belarusian Society, which was created with the object of the diffusion, interchange and publication of knowledge relating to the Belarusian people, their land, their history and their culture.
Among the early cultural activities of the Society was the publication of a pamphlet on Belarus (1954) and the organisation of two concerts of Belarusian church chants, folk songs and dances in Westminster Cathedral Hall (1954 and 1956).
As well as articles on Belarusian literature, linguistics, history and art, each number of the Journal included book reviews, a chronicle of current events, and a comprehensive bibliography for the preceding year.
[4] Apart from Belarusian music, Picarda’s academic publications explore Anglo-Belarusian relations and cover a wide range of interests.
The early articles he wrote under the pseudonym Haŭryil Pičura for the journal “On God’s Way”(Божым Шляхам) deal with such disparate topics as the mysterious fifteenth-century printer who worked for a time in London, called in English ‘John of Lettow’ (Ян з Літвы), and the monetary system of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.