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Thu 2 Dec 21 · Hon. Tom Freeman-Mitford 1909-1945 (Newport U3A, Newport)
Tue 21 Sep 21 · Hon. Tom Freeman-Mitford 1909-1945 (Newbridge U3A, Newbridge)
Wed 1 Sep 21 · Hon. Tom Freeman-Mitford 1909-1945. (Pontypool Probus Club, Pontypool)
Thu 6 Feb 20 · Lady Rosemary Leveson Gower: who was nearly Queen of Britain (BLAENAVON SENIORS, Blaenavon)
Tue 26 Nov 19 · The Firbank Beneath My Foot: The Life and Times of Ronald Firbank (Caerleon Local History Society, Caerleon)
Thu 7 Nov 19 · Tredegar House: Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 1934-1938 (Newport U3A, Newport)
Tue 1 Oct 19 · “Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 1934-1938. (First Tuesday History Group, Newport)
Tue 3 Sep 19 · Angus McBean’s Newport : 1904-1924 : A Backdrop To Genius (First Tuesday History Group, Newport)
Tue 6 Aug 19 · Lady Rosemary Leveson Gower: who was nearly Queen of Britain (Crickhowell U3A, Crickhowell)
Mon 18 Feb 19 · Perils of Perception – Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)
Tue 20 Nov 18 · When to trust a self-driving car... (The Royal Society, London)
Thu 6 Sep 18 · Bridget Parsons’ Diary and the pursuit of love. (Newport U3A, Newport)
Tue 17 Apr 18 · Hon. Lois Sturt and Princess Olga Dolgorouky, Lord Evan Morgan's Two Wives (Blackwood U3A, Blackwood)
Thu 1 Feb 18 · Lady Winifred Burghclere and her four troublesome daughters (Newport U3A, Newport)
Tue 14 Nov 17 · Rosemary's Story: Lady Rosemary Leveson- Gower: The Society Girl Who Nearly Became Queen of Britain (Church Group, Newport)
Tue 7 Nov 17 · Rosemary's Story: Lady Rosemary Leveson- Gower: The Society Girl Who Nearly Became Queen of Britain (Blackwood U3A, Blackwood)
Tue 31 Oct 17 · Lady Winifred Burghclere and her four troublesome daughters (Newbridge U3A, Newbridge, South Wales)
Wed 1 Mar 17 · Discovering People: Shappi Khorsandi (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Mon 16 Jan 17 · The Platonic Tradition (Cecil Sharp House, London)
Wed 16 Nov 16 · 'Islamic law and the challenges of modernity' by Salah al-Ansari (Conway Hall, London)
Mon 17 Oct 16 · Plato and Aristotle on Friendship and Community (1) (Cecil Sharp House, London)
Mon 3 Oct 16 · The Life and Secrets of Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon, of Tutankhamun fame (GWENT FORMER HEAD TEACHERS CLUB, Cwmbran, Gwent)
Thu 9 Jun 16 · The Carnarvons of Highclere Castle and Downton Abbey (Blackwood Pontllanfraith Probus, Blackwood)
Wed 8 Jun 16 · The Life and Secrets of Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon, of Tutankhamun fame (St Mary's Pamteg Church, Pontypool)
Mon 11 Apr 16 · The Carnarvons of Highclere Castle (Talywaun & District WI, Talywaun)
Wed 6 Apr 16 · Spilling the Beans on the Toffs (Gwent Osteoporosis Group, Llanover)
Wed 25 Nov 15 · Tackling addiction: Understanding and treating all types of addictive behaviour (Friends Meeting House, London)
Thu 5 Nov 15 · Tilly Losch : Actress- Dancer- Artist (Newport U3A, Newport)
Wed 14 Oct 15 · The Life and Secets of Almina Carnarvon (Panteg Woman's Institute, Panteg)
Tue 13 Oct 15 · Effective anger management (Friends Meeting House, London)
Wed 26 Aug 15 · Rosemary's Story: Rosemary : The Society Girl Who Nearly Became Queen of Britain (Newport Branch of the Gwent Family History Society, Newport)
Sun 28 Jun 15 · Divided Britain – The Impact of Rising Inequality (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 24 Jun 15 · Tackling addiction: Understanding and treating all types of addictive behaviour (Friends Meeting House, London)
Tue 23 Jun 15 · Effective anger management (Friends Meeting House, London)
Sun 21 Jun 15 · The Robots are Coming (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 19 May 15 · Lady Rosemary Leveson- Gower: The Society Girl Who Was Almost Queen Of Britain (Marshfield WI, MArshfield)
Tue 17 Mar 15 · Tackling the Housing Crisis (Working Men's College, London)
Wed 28 Jan 15 · Effective anger management (Engineers' House Conference Centre, BRistol)
Wed 19 Nov 14 · Lady Rosemary Leveson Gower (Newport Hard of Hearing Club, Newport)
Thu 25 Sep 14 · Male and female minds: making sense of the differences (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)
Sat 2 Aug 14 · Scottish Poor Law & Taxation Records (Society of Genealogists, London)
Sat 5 Jul 14 · 'Straight Expectations: What Does It Mean To Be Gay Today?' with Julie Bindel (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Thu 3 Jul 14 · Histories of Prejudice: Persecuting Others (Birkbeck College, LONDON)
Wed 2 Jul 14 · ‘The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer’ with Mike Marqusee (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Wed 18 Jun 14 · Male and female minds: making sense of the differences (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham)
Wed 28 May 14 · Male and female minds: making sense of the differences (Friends Meeting House, London)
Fri 28 Mar 14 · The Life and Secrets of Almina Carnarvon (Pontllanfraith Branch of Gwent Historical Association, Pontllanfraith)
Thu 27 Feb 14 · How Climate Change Might Save the World (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Tue 11 Feb 14 · Economics, the Enemy? ( Hong Kong Theatre, London)
Tue 26 Nov 13 · Liberalism: A Challenge to Religion (Gresham College, London)
Sat 16 Feb 13 · Teaching and Assessing Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Health and Social Care (The Galilean Society, Glasgow)
Sat 26 Jan 13 · The Nobel Prizes 2012 (The Galilean Society, Glasgow)
Tue 4 Dec 12 · Male and female: making sense of the differences (Friends Meeting House, London)
Tue 13 Nov 12 · Unsustainable Fishing (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Sat 20 Oct 12 · The Battle of Ideas 2012 (Barbican Centre, London)
Tue 16 Oct 12 · Holyoake Lecture - Inequality: the enemy between us (Friends Meeting House Main Hall, Manchester)
Wed 10 Oct 12 · Male and female: making sense of the differences (King's Manor, York)
Tue 3 Jul 12 · Male and female: making sense of the differences (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)
Wed 30 May 12 · The mechanics of memory (The Royal Society, London)
Sat 26 May 12 · The "Other" Economy and its Crises (Clinical psychiatry&psychodynamic Practice, london)
Wed 16 May 12 · Keeping pace with a digital revolution (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Wed 9 May 12 · Male and female: making sense of the differences (Friends Meeting House, London)
Wed 25 Apr 12 · Launch of 2012 Audit of Political Engagement (Portcullis House, London)
Thu 22 Mar 12 · Language, Culture, and Being Human (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Thu 1 Mar 12 · Science and Society (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Tue 21 Feb 12 · On Friendship (New Theatre, London)
Tue 21 Feb 12 · A lecture by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland (LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders, London)
Mon 6 Feb 12 · Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Tue 17 Jan 12 · THE SCIENCE DELUSION: Freeing the Spirit of Inquiry (Public Engagement, King's College London, London)
Thu 1 Dec 11 · Landscape Urbanism versus Real Design (Futurescapes) (The Gallery, London)
Thu 24 Nov 11 · David Haney When Modern was Green (The Gallery, London)
Thu 17 Nov 11 · A Life in Landscape (Frances Lincoln) (The Gallery, London)
Wed 16 Nov 11 · The Deaths of Others (Hong Kong Theatre, London)
Wed 16 Nov 11 · Realising the Green City (The Garden Museum, London)
Thu 10 Nov 11 · Garden and Landscape Designer (Conran Octopus) (The Gallery, London)
Wed 9 Nov 11 · The Public Landscape: From Townscape to the Privatised Plaza (The Garden Museum, London)
Thu 3 Nov 11 · Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes (Frances Lincoln) Soetemi Horiguchi (forthcoming) (The Gallery, London)
Wed 2 Nov 11 · Landscapes for Leisure: Pleasure Grounds, Public Health and Recreation (The Garden Museum, London)
Tue 1 Nov 11 · Is technology making us smarter or dumber? (Friends' Meeting House, Brighton)
Mon 31 Oct 11 · The Better Angels of our Nature: The Decline of Violence in World History and Its Causes (Old Theatre, London)
Thu 27 Oct 11 · Marc Treib National Modernism (The Gallery, London)
Wed 26 Oct 11 · Housing Landscapes: Public Realm, Private Territory and the Spaces in Between (The Garden Museum, London)
Wed 19 Oct 11 · The Landscape of Consumption: (The Garden Museum, London)
Wed 12 Oct 11 · Landscape in the Garden City (The Garden Museum, London)
Tue 11 Oct 11 · A More Secure World - From Neighbourhood to Globe (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Tue 19 Apr 11 · JustShare Debate: 'Has the pay of chief executives increased too much?' (All Hallows by the Tower Church, London)
Thu 31 Mar 11 · Last of the Big Beasts: the life, death and resurrection of modern monuments (The Gallery, London)
Wed 23 Mar 11 · 'Credit Crunch and Custody: Symbols of Social Dislocation' (JustShare, Londn)
Tue 22 Mar 11 · Last of the Big Beasts: the life, death and resurrection of modern monuments (The Gallery, London)
Thu 17 Mar 11 · Last of the Big Beasts: the life, death and resurrection of modern monuments (The Gallery, London)
Tue 8 Mar 11 · Last of the Big Beasts: the life, death and resurrection of modern monuments (The Gallery, London)
Thu 3 Mar 11 · Last of the Big Beasts: the life, death and resurrection of modern monuments (The Gallery, London)
Thu 24 Feb 11 · Last of the Big Beasts: the life, death and resurrection of modern monuments (The Gallery, London)
Wed 15 Dec 10 · Geoffrey Pleyers & Martin Albrow on Alter-Globalization (The French Institute, London)
Wed 1 Dec 10 · 21cc Can the UK ever be sustainable? (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Tue 19 Oct 10 · The Rule of Law (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Tue 20 Apr 10 · The Twilight of the Empire: A view from Kent & Sussex (Sevenoaks Museum and Library, Sevenoaks)
Thu 25 Feb 10 · Migration and the clinic (British Museum, London)
Thu 11 Feb 10 · Migration and Democracy (British Museum, London)
Tue 2 Feb 10 · You are not a gadget (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)
Thu 28 Jan 10 · Migration and Human Trafficking (British Museum, London)
Thu 14 Jan 10 · Migration and Social Suffering (British Museum, London)
Thu 3 Dec 09 · Happiness around the World: the paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Tue 1 Dec 09 · 21st Century Challenges Digital divide? (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Tue 24 Nov 09 · What Use Is An Imaginary Social Contract? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Fri 20 Nov 09 · Can we eliminate nuclear weapons? (LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders, London)
Mon 9 Nov 09 · Marriage in the Renaissance: What's Love Got To Do With It? (The Society of Antiquaries, London)
Tue 13 Oct 09 · Drawing and Portraiture (Shaw Library, London School of Economics, London)
Mon 12 Oct 09 · Age of Autism: rethinking 'normal' (Foyles Bookstore, London)
Tue 16 Jun 09 · Britain’s population time bomb? The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society’ 21st century (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Wed 6 May 09 · How 'the Poor' Became 'Poor': debating global civil society and constructions of poverty (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Tue 17 Mar 09 · The Power of Music (Gresham College, London)
Sun 8 Mar 09 · IS THERE MORE TO FREEDOM THAN “CIVIL LIBERTIES”? (The Ship, London)
Thu 5 Mar 09 · Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Thu 5 Feb 09 · Celebrities and Aid: new humanitarians or just another fad? (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)
Tue 20 Jan 09 · Planet of the Apes (1968) on the Big Screen (Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, London)
Thu 20 Nov 08 · Marcus Garvey: demagogue or messiah? (Shaw Library, London School of Economics, London)
Tue 18 Nov 08 · Re-Visions: International Distributive Justice, Reciprocity, and the European Union (Room G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE, London)
Thu 13 Nov 08 · Our Urban Future: the death of distance and the rise of cities (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)
Thu 13 Nov 08 · Free the Streets! (The Evangelist, London)
Thu 6 Nov 08 · Private Optimism vs. Public Despair: What do opinion polls tell us? (RSA, London)
Tue 4 Nov 08 · From War to Peace: Northern Ireland and its lessons for the 21st century (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Tue 4 Nov 08 · Re-Visions: International Distributive Justice, Reciprocity, and the European Union (Room G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE, London)
Thu 30 Oct 08 · Urban Spaces On Screen: the challenges of Capturing Social Complexity (New Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Thu 30 Oct 08 · Inequalities in health in a global context (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)
Wed 29 Oct 08 · Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Man of Dissent (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)
Fri 24 Oct 08 · Internet Beyond Myths: the record of scholarly research (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)
Thu 23 Oct 08 · The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Clarification Process on the Notion of Direct Pa (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)
Wed 22 Oct 08 · The Individual and Society: does the West have the balance right? (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)
Tue 21 Oct 08 · Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: social order revisited (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)
Tue 21 Oct 08 · Re-Visions: International Distributive Justice, Reciprocity, and the European Union (Room G108, 20 Kingsway, LSE, London)
Mon 13 Oct 08 · Decisions, Probability and Beliefs: beware Mickey Mouse probability (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)
Thu 26 Jun 08 · The European Exception? The Public Intellectual in Britain (Old Theatre, London)
Thu 19 Jun 08 · Rorty and the End of Philosophy (Institut Francais, London)
Tue 17 Jun 08 · Religion and Secularism in the Public Sphere (Room E171, New Theatre, East Building, LSE, London)
Thu 12 Jun 08 · Philosophy and the Idea of America (Room J116 (Canada Blanch Room), London)
Thu 12 Jun 08 · RSA Thursday - Key Challenges to Humanitarianism (RSA, London)
Tue 10 Jun 08 · A Critical Defense of Secularism (Room E171, New Theatre, East Building, LSE, London)
Mon 9 Jun 08 · The Healing Intention: Conscious and Unconscious (Royal Society of Medicine, London)
Thu 5 Jun 08 · The Legacy of Frank Sibley (Room J116 (Canada Blanch Room), London)
Tue 3 Jun 08 · Secularism and Shared Values (Room E171, New Theatre, East Building, LSE, London)
Thu 29 May 08 · Out of Mind Talk (Room J116 (Canada Blanch Room), London)
Tue 27 May 08 · Does Faith Matter for Human Morality? (Room E171, New Theatre, East Building, LSE, London)
Thu 22 May 08 · Rorty and the Sources of Moral Solidarity (Institut Francais, London)
Thu 15 May 08 · No Single Vision: Autobiography, Politics, and Philosophy (Room J116 (Canada Blanch Room), London)
Thu 24 Apr 08 · Rorty on the Gallileo / Bellarmine Controversy (Institut Francais, London)
Thu 21 Feb 08 · RSA Lecture: Privacy in an open world (RSA, London)
Thu 6 Dec 07 · Our Modern 'God': The Nature of the Market and What It Means for Your Life (Lincoln Centre, London)
Wed 21 Nov 07 · RSA Lecture: More Tax or More Mobility? (RSA, London)
Mon 19 Nov 07 · RSA Lecture: A Question of Charity? the pros and cons of assesing charities (RSA, London)
Tue 6 Nov 07 · Dysfunctional Societies: Why Inequality Matters (Medsin UCL, London)
Wed 22 Aug 07 · The Feast of Strangers (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)
Mon 11 Jun 07 · Puccini and New York (Gresham College, London)
Tue 29 May 07 · Our new Constitution (Gresham College, London)
Wed 16 May 07 · Nature and nurture: Mental health and illness (Gresham College, London)
Mon 14 May 07 · Verdi and Milan (Gresham College, London)
Wed 9 May 07 · Euler - 300th annivesrary lecture (Gresham College, London)
Tue 8 May 07 · Utopia (Gresham College, London)
Wed 2 May 07 · Our new Constitution (Allen & Overy, Docklands)
Wed 2 May 07 · The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society: Utopia as Method (University of Kent, Canterbury)
Thu 26 Apr 07 · Getting a life: Limits to health in the 21st century (Gresham College, London)
Wed 25 Apr 07 · Brahms the progressives; Schumann the visionary (Gresham College, London)
Tue 24 Apr 07 · Valuing British music - Jazz futures (Gresham College, London)
Tue 24 Apr 07 · Valuing British music - Jazz futures (Seminar) (Gresham College, London)
Thu 19 Apr 07 · 'Thus saith the Lord' - God's law and secular justice (Staple Inn Hall, London)
Wed 18 Apr 07 · The psychology of financial participants and its implications for finance (Gresham College, London)
Mon 16 Apr 07 · Donizetti and Paris (Gresham College, London)
Tue 27 Mar 07 · Northern Ireland and the British-Irish relationship: The Gladstonian Settlement revisited (Gresham College, London)
Mon 26 Mar 07 · Slavery in the world today (Gresham College, London)
Thu 22 Mar 07 · I did it my way - Respect for Life (Staple Inn Hall, London)
Wed 21 Mar 07 · Redesigning financial regulation of pensions and other retail products (Gresham College, London)
Mon 19 Mar 07 · Does society risk my life through safety? The perils of too much risk-aversion (Gresham College, London)
Mon 19 Mar 07 · Liverpool and the slave trade (Gresham College, London)
Thu 15 Mar 07 · Lifestyle diseases: The burden of choice? (Gresham College, London)
Wed 14 Mar 07 · The science of love (Gresham College, London)
Mon 12 Mar 07 · Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement (Gresham College, London)
Mon 12 Mar 07 · Can We Really Trust Biologists? (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
Wed 7 Mar 07 · Schools and politics (Gresham College, London)
Tue 6 Mar 07 · What do rulers do when they rule? (Gresham College, London)
Thu 1 Mar 07 · There's nowt so queer as folk' - Gender and sexuality (Staple Inn Hall, London)
Thu 14 Dec 06 · The afterglow of the Big Bang (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 12 Dec 06 · The new localism: Local government and the Constitution (Gresham College, London)
Thu 7 Dec 06 · London can take it - psychological reactions to terrorism from the blitz to Bin Laden (Gresham College, London)
Wed 6 Dec 06 · A simple solution to global imbalance that is easy to implement and is unlikely to make matters wors (Gresham College, London)
Tue 5 Dec 06 · Humour and satire as the canary down the mine shaft of government (Gresham College, London)
Thu 30 Nov 06 · Gravitational-wave astronomy (The Museum of London, London)
Wed 29 Nov 06 · The psychology of seduction - Is life a seduction? (Gresham College, London)
Mon 27 Nov 06 · Mozart and Vienna (Gresham College, London)
Thu 23 Nov 06 · Hygeia and Panacea: Is prevention better than cure? (Gresham College, London)
Thu 23 Nov 06 · The God gene - religion and altruism (Staple Inn Hall, London)
Wed 22 Nov 06 · Power Play - The hidden role of power in our lives and relationships (Gresham College, London)
Tue 21 Nov 06 · ‘Lesser breeds within the law’ - Dickens and minor legal officers (Gresham College, London)
Thu 16 Nov 06 · John Paul II as Philosopher (Gresham College, London)
Thu 9 Nov 06 · From World Brain to the World Wide Web (Gresham College, London)
Wed 8 Nov 06 · Creativity and mental illness - you have to be mad to be creative? (Gresham College, London)
Tue 24 Oct 06 · The Referendum: Direct democracy and the Constitution (Gresham College, London)
Tue 24 Oct 06 · Increasing access to finance for developing countries (Gresham College, London)
Mon 23 Oct 06 · London's Ecology - Future ecological planning (Gresham College, London)
Wed 18 Oct 06 · Enclosures of the Mind: Governing the Intellectual Commons (Allen & Overy, Docklands)
Mon 16 Oct 06 · Standards Markets: The free market response to regulation (Gresham College, London)
Mon 16 Oct 06 · London's Ecolology - How clean is the Thames? (Gresham College, London)
Mon 9 Oct 06 · Handel and London (Gresham College, London)
Mon 9 Oct 06 · London's Ecology - Managing for biodiversity in London’s Royal Parks (Gresham College, London)
Mon 2 Oct 06 · London's Ecology - Disappearing London (Gresham College, London)
Thu 21 Sep 06 · Touché! A French Woman's Take on the English (Institut Francais, London)
Sun 26 Feb 06 · Too unimportant to fail? Innovation and competitive selection in markets (Gresham College, London)
Wed 22 Feb 06 · More than a feeling: How emotion works in the brain (Gresham College, London)
Tue 21 Feb 06 · Wired to get wound up! Why emotions are so hard to control (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 20 Feb 06 · Where is everybody? (The Museum of London, London)
Wed 15 Feb 06 · Birth control, death control and the demographic transition (Gresham College, London)
Mon 13 Feb 06 · The Fourth Annual Boyle Lecture (St Mary le Bow Church, London)
Wed 8 Feb 06 · Superhumans? - Interfering with nature (Staple Inn Hall, London)
Mon 30 Jan 06 · The government of London (Gresham College, London)
Wed 25 Jan 06 · The origin of the constellations (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 24 Jan 06 · Islam and Christianity - is a clash of civilisations inevitable? (Allen & Overy, Docklands)
Sun 22 Jan 06 · Corporation Tax or Income Tax: Which is the greatest con? (Gresham College, London)
Wed 18 Jan 06 · Holy war - religion and violence (Staple Inn Hall, London)
Mon 9 Jan 06 · Covenants without swords; swords without covenants (Gresham College, London)
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