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• Thu 9 May 19 · Song in the Novel (Guildhall School, London)

• Tue 6 Nov 18 · Gothicising the Fairy Tale: Monstrous Cinderellas in Angela Carter and Ali Shaw (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 2 Nov 18 · Crime Fiction in the Archives: Hunting for Hammett (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 1 Sep 17 · Masculinity and the British Army officer (National Army Museum, London)

• Wed 5 Jul 17 · The Carnarvons of Highclere Castle and Downton Abbey (Llansair & Gobioh WI, Llansair)

• Thu 13 Apr 17 · Carnarvon, Carter and Tutankhamun Revisited (Probus Club of Llandaff,, Llandaff, Cardiff)

• Mon 13 Mar 17 · Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and the Treasures of Tutankhamun? (Caerphilly Local History Society, Caerphilly)

• Thu 26 Jan 17 · The Finest Beards in the Ladybird Archive (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Tue 17 Jan 17 · We Need to talk about Lionel Shriver (Cecil Sharp House, London)

• Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, Narratives of Fear (British Library, London)

• Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, The Very Thought of It: Ideas and Literature (British Library, London)

• Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, A Place Called Home (British Library, London)

• Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, The Authenticity Paradox (British Library, London)

• Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions (British Library, London)

• Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions,Utopia: The Impossible Dream? (British Library, London)

• Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, Shakespeare reimagined: Jeanette Winterson on the Gap of Time (British Library, London)

• Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, All the World’s a Story (British Library, London)

• Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, Not Even Past: Historical Narratives (British Library, London)

• Sat 28 May 16 · Signifying Nothing? The Creative Revolution of Punk (British Library, London)

• Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me (British Library, London)

• Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, Caribbean Book Club (British Library, London)

• Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, London Liming: Independence! (British Library, London)

• Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, The James Berry Archive (British Library, London)

• Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, We Need to Talk About Independence (British Library, London)

• Sat 5 Mar 16 · Anna Kavan's Fictional Worlds (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• Tue 1 Sep 15 · Rosemary's Story: Rosemary : The Society Girl Who Nearly Became Queen of Britain (Newbridge U3A, Newbridge, South Wales)

• Thu 9 Jul 15 · Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: On Diversity in Literature (Bloomsbury Institute, London)

• Tue 23 Jun 15 · Bloomsbury Book Club with Hannah Rothschild (Bloomsbury Institute, London)

• Sat 16 May 15 · Saturday Evening Lecture Series 2015 (Events, University of Dundee, Dundee)

• Thu 14 May 15 · Bloomsbury Book Club with Polly Samson (Bloomsbury Institute, London)

• Tue 24 Mar 15 · Christopher Frayling: The Yellow Peril (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

• Fri 20 Mar 15 · The Folio Society Lecture: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (British Library, London)

• Wed 30 Jul 14 · ‘London Irish Fictions’ with John Healy and Tony Murray (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Mon 9 Jun 14 · Housing: Where Will We All Live? (Old Theatre, London)

• Sat 7 Jun 14 · Room&Book: What Makes A Book Rare Today? (ICA, London)

• Wed 21 May 14 · Short Stories with Tim Winton (Royal Academy of Arts, London)

• Mon 17 Mar 14 · The chronicler of Ferrera (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

• Thu 27 Feb 14 · British Israelism and it's Continuing Influence (The Bell, London)

• Tue 3 Dec 13 · Modern Art in Churches (Museum of London, London)

• Tue 26 Nov 13 · Reading for Pleasure (Museum of London, London)

• Thu 24 Oct 13 · Slenderman: Fighting fiction with fiction (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Mon 30 Sep 13 · Lairs of Cthulhu: The Hollywood years (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Fri 30 Aug 13 · RA Book Club - Courtney Collins: ‘The Burial’ (Royal Academy of Arts, London)

• Thu 4 Jul 13 · The Scarlet Letter (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Sat 11 May 13 · London Radical Bookfair (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 25 Apr 13 · Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher- Not For Turning (British Government, LSE, London)

• Wed 17 Apr 13 · Book Launch - ‘London Fictions’ with Andrew Whitehead, Sarah Wise and Jon Day (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Wed 27 Feb 13 · Altered States: what happens when we tell stories about science? (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Thu 14 Feb 13 · A Literary Mapping of the Indian Ocean: from medieval dreams to modern-day pirates (Westgate Hall, Southampton)

• Thu 1 Nov 12 · The Conservatives since 1945 (CLM 4.02, London)

• Wed 24 Oct 12 · A celebration of Patrick Leigh Fermor – Lecture with Colin Thurbron and Artemis Cooper (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Fri 5 Oct 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: dementia and life writing (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)

• Tue 8 May 12 · Next Year Will be Better - A Personal Memoir of the 1950s (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Thu 16 Feb 12 · Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London)

• Thu 20 Oct 11 · London in Fiction: Soho Noir (Bishopsgate Institute, London)

• Sun 9 Oct 11 · Bryan Talbot – Grandville and the Anthropomorphic Tradition (The French Institute, London)

• Sat 8 Oct 11 · Dave Gibbons & Jean-Claude Mézières – Science Fiction!!! (The French Institute, London)

• Fri 7 Oct 11 · China Miéville – My Graphic Gods (The French Institute, London)

• Thu 6 Oct 11 · Charles Dickens: A Life (Bishopsgate Institute, London)

• Thu 29 Sep 11 · IRISH AND WELSH PERIODICALS: TWIN TRADITIONS (Hesperia Hotel, London)

• Thu 30 Jun 11 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on tour at the British Museum (BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, LONDON)

• Thu 2 Jun 11 · "Ha-ha-ha. Hi-hi-hi. Ho-ho-ho. Ha-hi-ho": Representing sounds in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century (School of Advanced Study, University of London, London)

• Tue 17 May 11 · Crisis of Brilliance (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Tue 12 Apr 11 · Bright Particular Stars (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Sat 19 Feb 11 · Crossing Borders: Migration in Women's Writing in Poland (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Sat 19 Feb 11 · Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontinental Literature (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Sat 19 Feb 11 · A reading and Q&A session with the novelist, Anjali Joseph (Alumni Theatre, London)

• Fri 18 Feb 11 · New Ways to Witness Wars (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Fri 18 Feb 11 · Writing Across Borders: Empathy in the Age of Conflict (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 17 Feb 11 · Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 17 Feb 11 · The Making of Bestsellers (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Tue 15 Feb 11 · JCC LIt Cafe: Arab–Israeli Book Review (Joseph’s Bookstore, London)

• Thu 10 Feb 11 · READ LSE Book Swap Event (Fourth Floor Café, London)

• Thu 3 Feb 11 · Alain de Botton on Stendhal (The French Institute, London)

• Thu 30 Sep 10 · Lloyd George - the great outsider (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 2 Aug 10 · The Quest for Meaning (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 3 Jun 10 · Writers on the Run (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)

• Thu 27 May 10 · The Tank Museum Evening Lecture with Sean Longden (The Tank Museum, Wareham)

• Wed 26 May 10 · JCC Lit Cafe- Coming Out in Fiction (The Magdala, London)

• Tue 11 May 10 · Islam Quintet: Night of the Golden Butterfly (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 26 Apr 10 · Creative Writing (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)

• Thu 15 Apr 10 · Writing Wrongs: DM Thomas on The White Hotel (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Thu 15 Apr 10 · Virginia Woolf (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)

• Thu 25 Feb 10 · Geopolitics and Imperialism: the British Empire and Halford Mackinder 1890-1940 (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Fri 27 Nov 09 · Conversations on Making: Edmund de Waal and AS Byatt (Siobhan Davies Studios, London)

• Wed 4 Nov 09 · Lunchtime Lecture (The Fleming Collection, London)

• Tue 3 Nov 09 · Evening Lecture, Alan Riach and Alexander Moffat (The Fleming Collection, London)

• Wed 28 Oct 09 · Mind, Time and Evolution: A Celebration of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) (Colet House, London)

• Wed 28 Oct 09 · Write smart and publish well (Marriot Hotel, Durham)

• Wed 14 Oct 09 · Remembering Keats (Keats House, London)

• Mon 5 Oct 09 · Fossils, fact and fiction (The Royal Society, London)

• Tue 1 Sep 09 · Fridrik Erlings 'In Conversation' with Nick Tucker (The Embassy of Iceland, London)

• Thu 27 Aug 09 · Pablo Bernasconi 'In Coversation' with John Dunne (Brompton Library, London)

• Thu 16 Jul 09 · The Occult in Late Victorian & Edwardian literature: Some Reflections on Belief (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Sun 21 Jun 09 · Dubravka Ugrešić with Lisa Appignanesi (Stevenson Room, The British Museum, London)

• Sun 21 Jun 09 · Voicing the Masters (and Mistresses): Translation with Variations (Stevenson Room, The British Museum, London)

• Sun 21 Jun 09 · Mourid Barghouti with Ruth Padel (London Review Bookshop, London)

• Sun 21 Jun 09 · Elias Khoury with Jeremy Harding (London Review Bookshop, London)

• Sat 20 Jun 09 · Translation: Making a Whole Culture Intelligible (Stevenson Room, The British Museum, London)

• Thu 18 Jun 09 · Edgar Allen Poe and Emanuel Swedenborg (The Swedenborg Society, London)

• Thu 4 Jun 09 · London Review of Books discussion (British Museum, London)

• Tue 14 Apr 09 · Arthur Morrison: East End Working Class Novelist (Bishopsgate Institute, London)

• Sat 28 Feb 09 · In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Wolfson Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Fri 27 Feb 09 · ReaLITy: creative responses to social realities (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)

• Wed 11 Feb 09 · The Monstrous Lesbian: Literature and Art c. 1900-1930 (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Thu 5 Feb 09 · Light from the Orkneys: Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 15 Jan 09 · The Christian Reticence of W H Auden (Gresham College, London)

• Wed 3 Dec 08 · Inside Story: Red Cross - behind the scenes of crisis (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Mon 13 Oct 08 · The Image of The Road (Pushkin House, London)

• Sun 7 Sep 08 · J. G. Ballard: imaginary scientist (Sociology/Communications, Brunel University, Uxbridge)

• Tue 12 Aug 08 · Edith Wharton (Chawton House Library, Alton)

• Fri 1 Aug 08 · Park Nights at the Serpentine Gallery: John Gray and Hari Kunzru (Serpentine Galleries, London)

• Mon 30 Jun 08 · Conversations: Meet the Editor and Author (The Women's Library, London)

• Thu 29 May 08 · Clearing a Space: reflections on India, literature and culture (Shaw Library, London School of Economics, London)

• Thu 8 May 08 · RSA Thursday: The Pirate's Dilemma (RSA, London)

• Tue 6 May 08 · Raymond Tallis on the Human Head and the Self (RSA, London)

• Tue 22 Apr 08 · Insight with Sir Menzies Campbell - War, Politics and the Lib Dems (Frontline Club, London)

• Wed 16 Apr 08 · Women's Writing on Education and History in the Age of Austen (Chawton House Library, Alton)

• Sat 15 Mar 08 · Jeannette Winterson (The Bluecoat, Liverpool)

• Sat 19 Jan 08 · ‘Thinking Out Of The Box: What We’re Doing To Raise The Game In The British Black Music Sector’ (City University, London)

• Sat 8 Dec 07 · A Dickens’ Christmas Pie (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)

• Tue 6 Nov 07 · Judging the Booker Prize: what concerns novelists in English today (and what does not) (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Tue 5 Jun 07 · OuLiPo night (Rational Rec, London)

• Thu 24 May 07 · Jane Austen & the Silver Fork Novel (Chawton House Library, Alton)

• Tue 15 May 07 · The Strange Secret Life of Charles Williams: Littérateur and Magician of Inter-War London (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Thu 26 Apr 07 · Apes in Fiction: Questioning the Human (English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 26 Apr 07 · Sense, Sensibility & Maternal Impressions: Pregnancy in Jane Austen's Time (Chawton House Library, Alton)

• Tue 24 Apr 07 · Introducing Leonora Carrington (Treadwell's Books, London)

• Fri 20 Apr 07 · William Blake and the British Israelite Tradition (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation, London)

• Thu 29 Mar 07 · Chinese and European Identities: Philosophical Encounters (Khalili Lecture Theatre (correct for event posting), London)

• Fri 23 Mar 07 · Europe and the Environment (London School of Economics, Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Thu 22 Mar 07 · Reading Childhood and Translating Animal(s) in Rudyard Kipling's 'Mowgli' Stories (English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 19 Mar 07 · Zygmunt Bauman opens London Festival of Europe 2007 (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

• Wed 28 Feb 07 · “The spoiled child of art”: the place of story in Dickens & Woolf (The Lit & Phil, Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Tue 20 Feb 07 · Insight with Nick Cohen - Are the Right Turning Left? (The Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 1 Feb 07 · Tortured in Saudi Arabia - Insight with Mark Hollingsworth and Sandy Mitchell (The Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 30 Nov 06 · Apes in Fiction: Questioning the Human (English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, London)

• Sat 25 Nov 06 · Marjane Satrapi In Conversation: From Persepolis To Paris (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Tue 21 Nov 06 · The Economist Debate: "David Cameron is just a blue-rinsed Tony Blair" (Telford Theatre, London)

• Thu 16 Nov 06 · Conference: John Paul II as Philosopher (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)

• Wed 15 Nov 06 · Limouse,Matisse & Modernism (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Wed 8 Nov 06 · The Question of Beauty in Architecture (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)

• Thu 2 Nov 06 · Borderlines: Philosophy/Fiction (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)

• Sat 28 Oct 06 · Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 23 Oct 06 · Alison Bechdel: Family Secrets (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Fri 20 Oct 06 · Ben Katchor: Tales of Cities (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 16 Oct 06 · Baudelaire & Limouse (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Sat 14 Oct 06 · Baudelaire Symposium (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Thu 12 Oct 06 · Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie: Lost Girls (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Thu 12 Oct 06 · Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie: Lost Girls (Logan Hall, London)

• Wed 4 Oct 06 · Images from 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Tue 3 Oct 06 · Hazlitt, Stendhal and the Lake Poets: The Forging of a Romantic Sensibility (Keats House, London)

• Wed 27 Sep 06 · Keats and Italy; A History of the Keats-Shelley House in Rome (Keats House, London)

• Wed 20 Sep 06 · Interesting Visitors: Evelyn Waugh and EM Forster in Belfast (Linen Hall Library, Belfast)

• Tue 19 Sep 06 · Jonathan Raban on surveillance culture (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Thu 14 Sep 06 · Belfast in Literature (Linen Hall Library, Belfast)

• Wed 28 Jun 06 · Should British Black Music Shut Up Shop? (BPI Offices, London)

• Mon 26 Jun 06 · Should British Black Music Shut Up Shop? (City Hall, London)

• Mon 15 May 06 · The Rise of the Amateur (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Sat 13 May 06 · Migrations of the Mind (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Mon 27 Mar 06 · Jacques Ranciere on Film and Social Fiction (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Thu 23 Mar 06 · Frederic Raphael: Supping with the Devil (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Sat 4 Feb 06 · Should British Black Music Shut Up Shop? (City University, London)

• Wed 23 Nov 05 · Dreams, Literature and Art (Goethe-Institut London, London)

• Wed 19 Oct 05 · The life and work of Beatrix Potter (Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Bristol)

• Thu 8 Sep 05 · White Savage: William Johnson and the invention of America (The British Museum, London)

• Sat 11 Jun 05 · Climbing the Walls: (MoDA, Barnet)

• Fri 3 Jun 05 · Michele Roberts 'in conversation' with Helen Cross (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London)

• Sat 12 Mar 05 · SARACENS: Islam and medieval England (Birkbeck College, LONDON)

• Thu 27 Jan 05 · Michael Rosen (Hackney Museum, London)

• Mon 24 Jan 05 · PETER FLORENCE, JACQUELINE WILSON AND MICHAEL MORPURGO: Classic Book - The Secret Garden (The British Library, London)

• Tue 30 Nov 04 · ‘“On each Wall / And Corner Post”: Playbills, Title-pages, and Advertising in Early Modern London’ (Strathclyde University, Glasgow)

• Thu 25 Nov 04 · Black Poetry in Brazil (Spanish and Latin American Studies, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 2 Nov 04 · W.E.B. Du Bois in Transnational Perspective (Strathclyde University, Glasgow)

• Tue 26 Oct 04 · The Renaissance Robot (Strathclyde University, Glasgow)

• Tue 5 Oct 04 · Some reflections on W.G.Sebald and literary ethnography (Strathclyde University, Glasgow)

• Tue 14 Sep 04 · Beauty in science and literature (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 8 Jul 04 · Literary Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, London)

• Sun 4 Jul 04 · Virginia Woolf and the Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship (National Portrait Gallery, London)

• Mon 7 Jun 04 · Orange Prize for Fiction Readings (The British Library, London)

• Sun 6 Jun 04 · The Stories of English (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sun 6 Jun 04 · Marian Keyes (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sun 6 Jun 04 · Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sun 6 Jun 04 · Lesley Glaister and Helen Dunmore (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Erica Jong talks to Lisa Appignanesi (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · The Orange Prize for Fiction Debate (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Eats,Shoots and Leaves (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Reading Lolita in Tehran (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · A Profound Secret (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Alexei Sayle and Jasper Fforde (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Lighthousekeeping (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Orange Essentials: Peter Florence and Guests (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Sat 5 Jun 04 · Stevie Davies and Nicholas Shakespeare (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Fri 4 Jun 04 · Minette Walters, Susan Hill, Jake Arnott (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Wed 2 Jun 04 · Matter Magazine (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Thu 27 May 04 · Dr Sweet and His Daughter (Borders, Oxford)

• Thu 27 May 04 · Interrupted Lives: Angela Carter (1940-1992) (National Portrait Gallery, London)

• Thu 27 May 04 · Margery Allingham: Centenary Lecture for a Queen of Crime Fiction (National Portrait Gallery, London)

• Tue 25 May 04 · Meat (Borders, London)

• Mon 24 May 04 · Meat (Books etc, London)

• Tue 18 May 04 · The Lonely Dead (Borders, Glasgow)

• Fri 14 May 04 · Horrid Henry's Joke Book (Borders, London)

• Thu 13 May 04 · Doing It (Borders, Stockport)

• Thu 13 May 04 · Sorting Out Billy (Borders, London)

• Thu 13 May 04 · 1968: The Year That Rocked The World (Borders, Oxford)

• Tue 11 May 04 · Sorting Out Billy (Borders, Cambridge)

• Tue 11 May 04 · Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe in conversation (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Wed 5 May 04 · The Ultras (Borders, Glasgow)

• Thu 29 Apr 04 · The Line of Beauty (Waterstone's Hampstead, London)

• Wed 7 Apr 04 · The Island of Mending Hearts (Borders UK Ltd, London)

• Sun 4 Apr 04 · Rocky 7 (Borders, Swansea)

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