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Tue 26 Oct 21 · Ben’s Book Club: ‘Incomparable World’ by S I Martin (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Thu 30 Jan 20 · Storying feminist history: Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK (Wolfson Theatre, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields)
Tue 9 Apr 19 · Tutankhamun : Carnarvon, Carter and Tutankhamun Revisited (Cwmbran Probus Club, Cwmbran)
Thu 4 Apr 19 · Launch: The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite with Douglas Watt (Blackwell's Bookshop Edinburgh, Edinburgh)
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 14 Sep 18 · Operation Torch (National Army Museum, London)
Wed 25 Jul 18 · Edinburgh Launch: Memory and Straw by Angus Peter Campbell (Waterstone's Edinburgh West End, Edinburgh)
Wed 25 Apr 18 · The Firbank Beneath My Foot (Newport Branch of the Gwent Family History Society, Newport)
Tue 24 Apr 18 · In the frame: portraits, power and personality (Royal College of Physicians, London)
Fri 9 Mar 18 · “A Bloodless Victory”: The Battle of New Orleans in history and memory (National Army Museum, London)
Tue 6 Mar 18 · “One Train May Hide Another”: Arnaud Rykner’s Le Wagon as Authentic Fiction (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Fri 2 Mar 18 · ‘Eve in Khaki': Women and the British Army, 1917-48 (National Army Museum, London)
Thu 1 Mar 18 · Secret Lives Exposed: If Walls Could Talk (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Tue 30 Jan 18 · Public Lecture: Narrating the German Occupation of the Channel Islands (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Wed 15 Nov 17 · Deborah Cadbury and Queen Victoria's Matchmaking (Bloomsbury Institute, London)
Wed 15 Nov 17 · The cusp of life and death: Sir Thomas Browne & the religion of a physician (Royal College of Physicians, London)
Tue 14 Nov 17 · Racial Persecution and Resistance in the Channel Islands (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Fri 1 Sep 17 · Masculinity and the British Army officer (National Army Museum, London)
Tue 22 Aug 17 · Hetty Feather: Using History Creatively (The Foundling Museum, London)
Thu 6 Jul 17 · 2017 Robert H. Smith Lecture: American Democracy in Focus in association with the Eccles Centre for (British Library, 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)
Tue 29 Nov 16 · The Lion, the Children and the Bookcase: Anne Frank and C.S. Lewis (Skeel Lecture Theatre, People's Palace, London)
Mon 28 Nov 16 · London Irish Poetic Tradition (Irish Literary Society, London)
Mon 31 Oct 16 · Canada and slavery in literature (British Library, London)
Wed 19 Oct 16 · The English Country House in English Literature (THE COURSE, London)
Wed 12 Oct 16 · The English Country House in English Literature 4/5 Lectures may be taken individually (The University Women's Club, London)
Thu 29 Sep 16 · Rose Tremain: Forty Years On (British Library, London)
Mon 26 Sep 16 · Alice Milligan, 150 (Irish Literary Society, London)
Thu 22 Sep 16 · Banned Books Week: Censorship and the Author (British Library, London)
Thu 22 Sep 16 · From Fact To Fiction: How the Real-life Stories of Cadbury Women Workers Inspired 'Comforts for the (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)
Wed 21 Sep 16 · The English Country House in English Literature 1/5 Lectures may be taken individually (The University Women's Club, London)
Mon 19 Sep 16 · The Wisdom of the Greeks (British Library, London)
Sat 2 Jul 16 · On Being a Woman Writer: Nawal El Saadawi in Conversation (British Library, London)
Fri 1 Jul 16 · Africa Writes, Fresh Perspectives on African Literature (British Library, London)
Fri 1 Jul 16 · Africa Writes, Sex, Love and Poetry (British Library, London)
Fri 1 Jul 16 · Africa Writes, Africa in Translation: Memory and Remembrance (British Library, London)
Fri 1 Jul 16 · Africa Writes, Meet the Publishers (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)
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, Narratives of Fear (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)
Thu 16 Jun 16 · JM Barrie, Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Hospital (Florence Nightingale Museum, 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, 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 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)
Mon 25 Apr 16 · Bernard MacLaverty at the Irish Literary Society (Irish Literary Society, London)
Wed 23 Mar 16 · Fairytales for Grown-ups: The Homing Stone (The Forge, London)
Thu 17 Mar 16 · The Silk Road Then and Now: Past and Present Culture (The University Women's Club, London)
Wed 16 Mar 16 · IN NATURE'S MYSTERY MORE SCIENCE (S-2.18 Lucas Lecture Theatre, London)
Sat 5 Mar 16 · Anna Kavan's Fictional Worlds (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Sun 7 Feb 16 · Alice’s Adventures Underground: A Reading (British Library, London)
Fri 5 Feb 16 · Art, Literature and Environmental Justice (British Library, London)
Sat 30 Jan 16 · Patients, Psychiatrists and Stigma (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Mon 25 Jan 16 · Ireland 1916: Death of a Literary Revival (Irish Literary Society, London)
Mon 30 Nov 15 · The Reading Agency Lecture: Shami Chakrabarti (British Library, London)
Wed 18 Nov 15 · The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (British Library, London)
Tue 17 Nov 15 · Enduring Ideas: The Problem of Prejudice (British Library, London)
Mon 2 Nov 15 · Illiterate but Literary? The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-1918 (Army & Navy Club, London)
Sat 31 Oct 15 · Aspects of the same problem: the many careers of WHR Rivers (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Fri 30 Oct 15 · The Shakespeare circle (St John's College, Cambridge)
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)
Wed 10 Jun 15 · Crick Crack Club Talks: Hugh Lupton on Myth (Swedenborg House, 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)
Wed 8 Apr 15 · Debunking Robin Hood with Prof Ronald Hutton (Swedenborg House, London)
Wed 8 Apr 15 · Secrets from the Victorian House (Florence Nightingale Museum, 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)
Thu 5 Mar 15 · 'The Magic Lantern': Charles Dickens and London (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)
Wed 18 Feb 15 · The London Course – The Evolution of a Great City / The River and the London Docks (lecture) (The University Women's Club, London)
Mon 16 Feb 15 · The WG Sebald Lecture: AL Kennedy (British Library, London)
Thu 12 Feb 15 · Images of War: World War I – Looking Back to the Renaissance / Guided Walk (The University Women's Club, London)
Thu 22 Jan 15 · Radclffe Hall (Highgate Cemetery, London)
Wed 26 Nov 14 · The English Renaissance: England Under The Tudors / Elizabethan Architecture (The University Women's Club, London)
Wed 5 Nov 14 · The English Renaissance: England Under The Tudors / The Model of the Queen – Elizabethan Portraiture (The University Women's Club, London)
Tue 28 Oct 14 · Writing for a modern world: a talk by Alexander McCall Smith (St John's Divinity School, Cambridge)
Sat 25 Oct 14 · Ben Okri in conversation (The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)
Wed 15 Oct 14 · King's Arts & Humanities Festival 2014 (King's College London: School of Arts & Humanities, London)
Mon 13 Oct 14 · The Establishment and How They Get Away With It (Old Theatre, Old Building, 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)
Sat 29 Mar 14 · Book Talk: 'Are the Kids All Right? Representations of LGBTQ Characters in Children's and YA Literat (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Fri 21 Mar 14 · RA Book Club - Sarah Dunant: ‘In the Company of the Courtesan’ (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Mon 17 Mar 14 · The Devil is a Gentleman (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Mon 17 Mar 14 · The chronicler of Ferrera (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Fri 14 Mar 14 · Personal Archaeology: Panel Discussion (Parasol unit, London)
Thu 27 Feb 14 · British Israelism and it's Continuing Influence (The Bell, London)
Tue 28 Jan 14 · Ancient Reading in Historical Context (Museum of London, London)
Thu 23 Jan 14 · Trauma, Humour and Repetition: Lecture by Dennis Duncan and Gill Partington, Birbeck (Parasol unit, London)
Tue 14 Jan 14 · AGM and The Gita, a conversation with Parul Jani (St James's Church, the Meeting Room, the Rectory, London)
Fri 6 Dec 13 · Discovering People: Yotam Ottolenghi (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Tue 3 Dec 13 · Modern Art in Churches (Museum of London, London)
Thu 28 Nov 13 · Combatting Crime and Imposing Good Governance on the Oceans (Mercers' Hall, London)
Tue 26 Nov 13 · Reading for Pleasure (Museum of London, London)
Mon 11 Nov 13 · Printing in the Infernal Method: William Blake's Method of Illuminated Printing (St James's Church, the Meeting Room, the Rectory, London)
Thu 24 Oct 13 · Slenderman: Fighting fiction with fiction (Treadwell's Books, London)
Sat 19 Oct 13 · Serpentine Gallery 89plus Marathon (Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London)
Fri 18 Oct 13 · Serpentine Gallery 89plus Marathon (Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London)
Mon 30 Sep 13 · Lairs of Cthulhu: The Hollywood years (Treadwell's Books, London)
Tue 17 Sep 13 · Minute Particulars: Visions in the Stockbroker Belt, an Evening with Nick Papadimitrou (Hampstead Tube Station Northern Line), London)
Fri 30 Aug 13 · RA Book Club - Courtney Collins: ‘The Burial’ (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Sun 11 Aug 13 · William Blake, Arbonauts at the Grave (Bunhill Fields Cemetary, London)
Tue 16 Jul 13 · William Blake and the Left Hemisphere, a talk by Roderick Tweedy (St James's Church, the Meeting Room, the Rectory, London)
Thu 4 Jul 13 · The Scarlet Letter (Treadwell's Books, London)
Sat 15 Jun 13 · A Visit to the Exhibition 'Burning Bright' led by the Curator Stella Halkyard (John Rylands Library, Manchester)
Thu 13 Jun 13 · EDWARD BOND PUBLIC LECTURE: The Third Crisis -- Drama and Civilisation (Institute of English Studies, London)
Wed 5 Jun 13 · Is Literature Good for Us? Presented by Rebecca Goldstein (Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Oxford)
Tue 28 May 13 · The Poet and the Flea: reimagining Blake a talk by G E Gallas (House of William Blake, London)
Sat 11 May 13 · London Radical Bookfair (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 1 May 13 · 2001 days later: living in the future (The Royal Society, London)
Sun 28 Apr 13 · Contagion in the Workhouse (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)
Thu 25 Apr 13 · Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher- Not For Turning (British Government, LSE, London)
Wed 24 Apr 13 · Book Talk - ‘Arthur Machen and the Art of Wandering’ with Merlin Coverley (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Fri 19 Apr 13 · 'Footsteps of King Arthur' (Glastonbury Town Hall, Glastonbury)
Wed 17 Apr 13 · Book Launch - ‘London Fictions’ with Andrew Whitehead, Sarah Wise and Jon Day (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Mon 8 Apr 13 · Cityread London: Sebastian Faulks in conversation (British Library, London)
Thu 14 Mar 13 · Dissecting the Workhouse Dead (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)
Fri 8 Mar 13 · The Female Detective (British Library, London)
Thu 7 Mar 13 · Ghost Stories at the Florence Nightingale Museum (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · Trying New Positions: how to spice up your text life (Alumni Theatre, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · Art in Conflict (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · New Media and the Future of Literacy (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · Fast Fiction: creative writing and changing technology (Alumni Theatre, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · Narratives: the oral tradition of storytelling and fiction (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 2 Mar 13 · Based on a True Story (Alumni Theatre, London)
Thu 28 Feb 13 · The Silence of Animals (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Thu 28 Feb 13 · A Tale of Two James(es) (Thai Theatre, London)
Wed 27 Feb 13 · Women Writing History (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Wed 27 Feb 13 · The Ironic Spectator (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Wed 27 Feb 13 · Day Jobs and the Twilight World (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Wed 27 Feb 13 · Altered States: what happens when we tell stories about science? (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Mon 18 Feb 13 · On being stalked (Royal Society of Literature, London)
Fri 8 Feb 13 · The Story of Crime Fiction (British Library, London)
Fri 1 Feb 13 · The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson (British Library, London)
Mon 21 Jan 13 · Elif Shafak in conversation (King's College London: School of Arts & Humanities, London)
Mon 21 Jan 13 · Real Crime, Real Fiction (British Library, London)
Tue 27 Nov 12 · The Creative Mind (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Wed 21 Nov 12 · Dickens and Parliament (Portcullis House, London)
Wed 21 Nov 12 · Crime Fiction: Sheila Quigley in Conversation with Nick Quantrill (North Bransholme Community Centre, Hull)
Sat 17 Nov 12 · ‘Book Event The Legacy of Allen Ginsberg’ with Steve Finbow (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Thu 15 Nov 12 · Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture (Frontline Club, London)
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)
Wed 10 Oct 12 · Fifty Shades of Grey: mummy porn or feminist crisis? (Friends Meeting House, Brighton)
Mon 3 Sep 12 · Out of Bounds: Black and Asian Poets on Britain (British Library, London)
Wed 6 Jun 12 · EYAL WEIZMAN: THE LEAST OF ALL POSSIBLE EVILS (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Wed 30 May 12 · YOUSSEF COURBAGE: The Arab World – From the Demographic to the Democratic Revolution (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Thu 24 May 12 · THE 2012 EDWARD W SAID LONDON LECTURE: BY AHDAF SOUEIF (BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, LONDON)
Tue 22 May 12 · The Queen and I (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Mon 21 May 12 · Robert H. Smith Annual Lecture in American Democracy in association with the Eccles Centre for Ameri (British Library, London)
Sat 19 May 12 · Thinking with Euclid in Victorian Britain (The Galilean Society, Glasgow)
Tue 8 May 12 · Next Year Will be Better - A Personal Memoir of the 1950s (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 3 May 12 · Death in Prague: Philip Kerr on 'Prague Fatale' (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Fri 20 Apr 12 · Anglo-Saxon art: tradition and transformation (British Museum, London)
Thu 29 Mar 12 · China Inside Out (English PEN, London)
Wed 28 Mar 12 · Suzanne Treister In Conversation With Adrian Dannatt (WORK Gallery, London)
Sat 18 Feb 12 · In Memoriam (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)
Thu 16 Feb 12 · Dispatches from the Dark Side: on torture and the death of justice (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London)
Wed 8 Feb 12 · Reflections on the Role of the Intellectual in Society (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Tue 7 Feb 12 · Islam, Sufism & Arabic Literature (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Sat 4 Feb 12 · Million for a Morgue (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)
Sat 4 Feb 12 · Adonis Artist's Talk (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Fri 3 Feb 12 · Literary Evening with Adonis and Khaled Mattawa (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Thu 15 Dec 11 · Simon Schama on Colette (The French Institute, London)
Thu 17 Nov 11 · Felicity Lott on Hugo (The French Institute, London)
Thu 10 Nov 11 · Michael Morpurgo on Giono (The French Institute, London)
Thu 20 Oct 11 · The New International? Literature in an age of ‘globish’ (Free Word Centre, London)
Thu 20 Oct 11 · London in Fiction: Soho Noir (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 13 Oct 11 · Simon McBurney on Rabelais (The French Institute, London)
Sun 9 Oct 11 · Bryan Talbot – Grandville and the Anthropomorphic Tradition (The French Institute, London)
Sat 8 Oct 11 · Audrey Niffenegger – On Aubrey Beardsley (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)
Tue 27 Sep 11 · London in Fiction: Kersh and the City (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 15 Sep 11 · Geoff Dyer on Camus (The French Institute, London)
Thu 7 Jul 11 · Kate Mosse on Maupassant (The French Institute, London)
Thu 30 Jun 11 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on tour at the British Museum (BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, LONDON)
Mon 27 Jun 11 · Brian Dillon & Momus | In Conversation | Swedenborg Hall (The Swedenborg Society, London)
Tue 17 May 11 · Crisis of Brilliance (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Tue 17 May 11 · A New Understanding of the Blakes’ Spirit World and the Underlying Aim of William’s Creativity (City of Westminster Archives Centre, London)
Tue 12 Apr 11 · Bright Particular Stars (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 24 Mar 11 · Posy Simmonds on Flaubert (The French Institute, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Reality Hunger (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontinental Literature (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Literature and Islamophobia: Three Dutch Muslima Authors Speak Out (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Writing Across Borders- a Botswana Perspective (Alumni Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Crossing Borders: Migration in Women's Writing in Poland (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Through the Soviet Looking-Glass (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Crossing Borders- Andrew Motion in conversation with Rebecca Jones (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · A reading and Q&A session with the novelist, Anjali Joseph (Alumni Theatre, London)
Fri 18 Feb 11 · Writing Across Borders: Empathy in the Age of Conflict (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Fri 18 Feb 11 · New Ways to Witness Wars (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Thu 17 Feb 11 · Science Fiction and International Orders Roundtable (NAB 2.07, Londonq)
Thu 17 Feb 11 · The Making of Bestsellers (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Thu 17 Feb 11 · Science Fiction and International Orders (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Thu 17 Feb 11 · Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Wed 16 Feb 11 · Storylines and Songscapes: Celebrating Tagore's short stories (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Tue 15 Feb 11 · JCC LIt Cafe: Arab–Israeli Book Review (Joseph’s Bookstore, London)
Thu 10 Feb 11 · Parreno: Construction of Character (Part 2) (The French Institute, 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 25 Nov 10 · Stevie Smith: the Literary Orphan (Chawton House Library, Alton)
Tue 23 Nov 10 · A Talk on Gothic Literature and History (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Wed 6 Oct 10 · The Rights' Future (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Thu 30 Sep 10 · Lloyd George - the great outsider (Old Theatre, London)
Wed 22 Sep 10 · On Writing: High, Low and everything in Between (Old Theatre, London)
Mon 2 Aug 10 · The Quest for Meaning (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Thu 1 Jul 10 · Roy Foster on 'Swedenborg and the Irish Literary Imagination' (The Swedenborg Society, London)
Tue 29 Jun 10 · Who needs men anyway? (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)
Tue 15 Jun 10 · Dialogue: Elizabeth Price (42 New Briggate, Leeds)
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 · JCC Lit Cafe- Arab-Israeli Book Club (The Magdala, London)
Mon 26 Apr 10 · Creative Writing (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)
Fri 23 Apr 10 · Decadent Fantasia: Modern Images of Closed Space and Open Sex (Portland Building, Portsmouth)
Mon 19 Apr 10 · Ghost Dancers – The Last Generation of Miners: Lecture and Book Launch (Marx Memorial Library, London)
Thu 15 Apr 10 · Virginia Woolf (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)
Mon 12 Apr 10 · Philosophy & the Arts (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)
Mon 29 Mar 10 · Pushkin, the Russian Autocracy and Rebellion (Marx Memorial Library, London)
Thu 18 Mar 10 · Philip Kerr on The Bernie Gunther Mysteries (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Wed 17 Mar 10 · Romantic Science & the birth of Frankenstein (Portland Building, Portsmouth)
Wed 10 Mar 10 · Mind-Body Problems: Science, Fiction, and God (London School of Economics & Political Science, 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)
Wed 24 Feb 10 · Lesbian Love/ Hate Letters (The Women's Library, London)
Wed 27 Jan 10 · The business of writing – today and tomorrow (a two-module event) (Own-it, 272 High Holborn)
Tue 26 Jan 10 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture (UCL, London)
Tue 8 Dec 09 · Writing Wrongs: Rachel Seiffert on The Dark Room (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, 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)
Tue 3 Nov 09 · Pandaemonium (University of Dundee, Dundee)
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)
Tue 27 Oct 09 · An Evening with Swedish Author Ulf Stark (The Swedish Embassy in London, 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)
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 · Ma Jian and Flora Drew (BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, LONDON)
Sat 20 Jun 09 · Translation: Making a Whole Culture Intelligible (Stevenson Room, The British Museum, London)
Sat 20 Jun 09 · Faïza Guène With Sarah Ardizzone (BP Lecture Theatre, 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)
Fri 29 May 09 · Thrilling Wonder Stories (Architectural Association, London)
Sat 9 May 09 · Tallyho and Away; or Huntin' the Reds: Communist Party Writers in the Cold War (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Sat 11 Apr 09 · Fiction lab (The Royal Institution, London)
Mon 2 Mar 09 · Fiction lab (The Royal Institution, 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)
Thu 5 Feb 09 · Light from the Orkneys: Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown (Gresham College, London)
Mon 2 Feb 09 · Fiction lab (The Royal Institution, 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)
Mon 6 Oct 08 · The fiction lab (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Tue 16 Sep 08 · Text visualisation: two approaches (The Brand Union, London)
Mon 8 Sep 08 · The fiction lab (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 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)
Sat 14 Jun 08 · Science and Civilisation (Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield)
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)
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 20 Nov 07 · Salley Vikers, Authors Talk in association with Daunt Books (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)
Sun 18 Nov 07 · The Horse's Mouth (The Sassoon Gallery, London)
Fri 12 Oct 07 · Keats House in the Victorian Period (Keats House, London)
Wed 19 Sep 07 · Influences: Identity and Inspiration (Keats House, London)
Tue 4 Sep 07 · Influences: Identity and Inspiration (Keats House, London)
Wed 18 Jul 07 · Science Oxford Book Club - Space Exploration (Science Oxford Live, Oxford)
Sat 23 Jun 07 · Memorial to the Iraq War: Ahdaf Soueif + Eyal Weizman (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Tue 5 Jun 07 · OuLiPo night (Rational Rec, London)
Thu 24 May 07 · Jane Austen & the Silver Fork Novel (Chawton House Library, Alton)
Mon 30 Apr 07 · The Art of Public Debate (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Sat 28 Apr 07 · Video Brasil Conference: Gambiarra: ‘Making Do’, the Brazilian Way (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 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)
Mon 23 Apr 07 · Autism Nation (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Mon 23 Apr 07 · Black Athena (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Fri 20 Apr 07 · William Blake and the British Israelite Tradition (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation, London)
Mon 16 Apr 07 · Isaac Deutscher and the Non-Jewish Jew (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 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)
Mon 19 Mar 07 · Zygmunt Bauman opens London Festival of Europe 2007 (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Thu 15 Mar 07 · The Fox and the Fabulist: Aesop's Emblematic Animals (English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, London)
Tue 6 Mar 07 · Media Talk - Turkey: Is Nationalism on the Rise? (The Frontline Club, 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)
Mon 22 Jan 07 · Zadie Smith and Philip Gourevitch on The Paris Review (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Wed 10 Jan 07 · Our Sci-Fi Future (Science Museum, 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)
Thu 23 Nov 06 · Provocations: Epicurus on Death (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)
Tue 21 Nov 06 · The Economist Debate: "David Cameron is just a blue-rinsed Tony Blair" (Telford Theatre, London)
Thu 16 Nov 06 · The Heart of Europe Series: Lost in Translation (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)
Thu 16 Nov 06 · Conference: John Paul II as Philosopher (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)
Wed 8 Nov 06 · Leigh Hunt and Keats's 'To Autumn' (Keats House, London)
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)
Thu 19 Oct 06 · The Heart of Europe Series (Forum for European Philosophy, LSE, London)
Sat 14 Oct 06 · Baudelaire Symposium (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)
Fri 13 Oct 06 · Why are we still spooked? (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Thu 12 Oct 06 · Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie: Lost Girls (Logan Hall, London)
Thu 12 Oct 06 · Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie: Lost Girls (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Sun 8 Oct 06 · Poets' London - a walk and talk with Graham Fawcett (Keats House, London)
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)
Mon 18 Sep 06 · Marcus Ward and Belfast Printers (Linen Hall Library, Belfast)
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)
Sat 20 May 06 · Beyond Imagination (UCL, 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)
Fri 7 Apr 06 · Charles Dickens at the Foundling Hospital (The Foundling Museum, 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)
Fri 10 Mar 06 · Re-Orient: Travel and Encounter (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
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)
Fri 11 Nov 05 · Necessary Journeys (Tate Modern, 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)
Tue 14 Jun 05 · The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (Science Museum, London)
Fri 3 Jun 05 · Michele Roberts 'in conversation' with Helen Cross (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London)
Sat 7 May 05 · Love, Loss and Redemption (Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames)
Tue 5 Apr 05 · 'Everything in the Garden' - a miscellany (Conference Centre, London)
Sat 12 Mar 05 · SARACENS: Islam and medieval England (Birkbeck College, LONDON)
Wed 2 Feb 05 · History Now with Professor David Dabydeen (British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol)
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)
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)
Sat 18 Sep 04 · Putting History into Fiction (Quaker Meeting House, Kendal)
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 · Marian Keyes (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Sun 6 Jun 04 · Lesley Glaister and Helen Dunmore (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Sun 6 Jun 04 · Writers at Work (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 · Doris Lessing (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Sun 6 Jun 04 · Short Stories (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Sat 5 Jun 04 · The Samuel Johnson Prize 2004 (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)
Sat 5 Jun 04 · Erica Jong talks to Lisa Appignanesi (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Sat 5 Jun 04 · Guardian Breakfast (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)
Fri 4 Jun 04 · Philip Ardagh (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Fri 4 Jun 04 · David Almond (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Fri 4 Jun 04 · Minette Walters, Susan Hill, Jake Arnott (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Fri 4 Jun 04 · Michael Rosen (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Thu 3 Jun 04 · Hidden Dragons (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Thu 3 Jun 04 · Fields of Blood: Really? (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Thu 3 Jun 04 · Tabletalk: Benjamin Woolley, Kate Fox, Nicholas Murray (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Thu 3 Jun 04 · Jill Dawson, Carlos Luiz Zafon, Candace Allen (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Wed 2 Jun 04 · Malorie Blackman and Frank Cottrell Boyce (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Wed 2 Jun 04 · Matter Magazine (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Wed 2 Jun 04 · Louise Rennison (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Wed 2 Jun 04 · Julian Barnes (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)
Thu 27 May 04 · Margery Allingham: Centenary Lecture for a Queen of Crime Fiction (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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)
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 · Sorting Out Billy (Borders, London)
Thu 13 May 04 · 1968: The Year That Rocked The World (Borders, Oxford)
Thu 13 May 04 · Doing It (Borders, Stockport)
Tue 11 May 04 · Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe in conversation (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
Tue 11 May 04 · Sorting Out Billy (Borders, Cambridge)
Wed 5 May 04 · The Ultras (Borders, Glasgow)
Wed 7 Apr 04 · The Island of Mending Hearts (Borders UK Ltd, London)
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