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Tue 12 Nov 19 · WELSH PHOTOGRAPHER : ANGUS McBEAN (Blackwood U3A, Blackwood)
Wed 25 Sep 19 · Shirley Bassey: The Early Years of a Welsh Musical Legend (Sugar and Spice Group, Newport)
Wed 18 Sep 19 · Cliff Gordon: The Welsh Icarus, and the man who discovered Shirley Bassey (Caldicot U3A, Caldicot)
Wed 4 Sep 19 · Cliff Gordon: The Welsh Icarus, and the man who discovered Shirley Bassey (Pontypool Probus Club, Pontypool)
Wed 17 Apr 19 · WELSH PHOTOGRAPHER : ANGUS McBEAN (Newport Hard of Hear Club, Newport)
Fri 8 Mar 19 · Through two lenses: Re-enregistering Cypriot Greek as ‘slang’ in London’s Greek Cypriot diaspora (English, Middlesex University, London)
Tue 4 Sep 18 · Fortean London: London Bridge Ghosts and Lore (The Miller, London)
Sat 30 Jun 18 · The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Myths (Conway Hall, London)
Mon 4 Jun 18 · Strange Tales of London: Murder, Magic and Urban Myth (Backyard Bar and Kitchen, London)
Thu 28 Sep 17 · The Lighting Rod: Invention and Contention (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Tue 11 Jul 17 · The state of the Thames (Zoological Society of London, London)
Wed 12 Apr 17 · Franklin and Polly Hewson: A Second Daughter (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Thu 30 Jun 16 · The Cock Lane Ghost: A London Ghost Story (The Pipeline, London)
Wed 29 Jun 16 · Place-making in the City (The City Centre, London)
Wed 15 Jun 16 · 90 Years of British Architecture (The City Centre, London)
Wed 27 Apr 16 · Our London Talks: Gentrification: good, bad & the ugly? (Oxford House, London)
Tue 5 Apr 16 · Curious Connections...the diary is history (Tower of London, London)
Tue 23 Feb 16 · Curious Connections... capital punishment and public opinion (Tower of London, London)
Sun 31 Jan 16 · How do we solve the housing crisis? (Camden People's Theatre, London)
Wed 27 Jan 16 · London is Dating: City Love and Urban Lust (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 27 Jan 16 · Ours or theirs? Who owns London? (Camden People's Theatre, London)
Mon 2 Nov 15 · London is Wild (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 25 Sep 15 · Culture Now: Juliet Jacques (ICA, London)
Fri 18 Sep 15 · Culture Now: John Roberts and Peter Osborne (ICA, London)
Fri 24 Jul 15 · Culture Now: Daniel Keller (ICA, London)
Fri 10 Jul 15 · Culture Now: Christine Delphy (ICA, London)
Fri 3 Jul 15 · Culture Now: Gilles Peterson and Jez Nelson (ICA, London)
Tue 30 Jun 15 · The Terror of London: Spring-heeled Jack and the Victorian Metropolitan Press (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 4 Mar 15 · Where Theory Belongs: Catharine Rossi (ICA, London)
Fri 27 Feb 15 · Culture Now: Franco Bifo Berardi (ICA, London)
Fri 20 Feb 15 · Culture Now: Marjetica Potrč (ICA, London)
Wed 18 Feb 15 · Where Theory Belongs: Yuko Hasegawa (ICA, London)
Wed 11 Feb 15 · Where Theory Belongs: Andrew Copson (ICA, London)
Thu 29 Jan 15 · Minimalism: Much ado about almost nothing. (London Art Salon, London)
Wed 26 Nov 14 · See Rembrandt in a whole new light. (London Art Salon, London)
Tue 25 Nov 14 · Looking for Common Ground (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 30 Oct 14 · Fortean London Halloween: Ghost, Witches and Demons (The Vaults at Dirty Dicks, London)
Wed 22 Oct 14 · Zeppelin Nights: (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Sat 20 Sep 14 · London's Lost Rivers - The Geek Off (HMS President, London)
Sat 20 Sep 14 · Swimming the Thames: Then & Now (HMS President, London)
Wed 20 Aug 14 · Journal: Artist Talk: Marlie Mul (ICA, London)
Wed 13 Aug 14 · ‘Resisting the First World War in Camden and Islington’ with Ben Copsey (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Fri 18 Jul 14 · Culture Now: C-G Hagström (ICA, London)
Sun 6 Jul 14 · Artists' Film Biennial 2014: The Evolution of Artists' Film (ICA, London)
Sat 5 Jul 14 · Artists' Film Biennial 2014: How is the 21st Century Different? (ICA, London)
Thu 3 Jul 14 · Artists' Film Biennial 2014: Artists’ Seminar Group (ICA, London)
Thu 3 Jul 14 · Artists' Film Biennial 2014: Curating Artists’ Film (ICA, London)
Fri 27 Jun 14 · Journal: Precarious Tasks #9, 24hrs Gathering Activity 1: Reading to the Public (ICA, London)
Fri 27 Jun 14 · Journal: Precarious Tasks #9, 24hrs Gathering Activity 3: Re-staging Precarious Tasks #0: Communal T (ICA, London)
Fri 27 Jun 14 · Journal: Precarious Tasks #9, 24hrs Gathering Activity 2: Friday Salon: Gallery as Community (ICA, London)
Fri 27 Jun 14 · Journal: Precarious Tasks #9, 24hrs Gathering Activity 4: Riot From Wrong (ICA, London)
Wed 25 Jun 14 · Journal: Educator’s Tour (ICA, London)
Tue 24 Jun 14 · Building London: A Roundtable (WORK Gallery, London)
Thu 19 Jun 14 · Carl Turner in Conversation with Jay Merrick (WORK Gallery, London)
Wed 23 Apr 14 · BOB CROW MEMORIAL EVENT ‘Plundering London Underground’ with Janine Booth, and Peter Pinkney (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Thu 20 Mar 14 · Making sense of our world (Dr William Barry Theatre, Ealing)
Thu 16 Jan 14 · The Battle of Cable Street (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 9 Jan 14 · Scott Wood: London’s Legendary Landscape (The Old Kings Head, London)
Sat 14 Dec 13 · Christmas Chocolate House Tour (St James's Church, London)
Thu 28 Nov 13 · Urban Legends of the London Underground (The Bell, London)
Wed 20 Nov 13 · William Hogarth (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Sat 26 Oct 13 · Rediscovery: See, Say, Sense (TEDxSquareMile, London)
Sat 12 Oct 13 · Routemaster Coffeehouse Tour (By the steps of St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London)
Mon 30 Sep 13 · Doctor of the Lost (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 26 Sep 13 · Fortean London: Magic, Mazes, Marshes and a Curse on Eddie and the Hot Rods! (The Bell, London)
Sun 22 Sep 13 · Concrete and beauty: the architecture of Sir Denys Lasdun (Royal College of Physicians, London)
Sat 21 Sep 13 · BOOK TALK - ‘This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City’ with John Rogers (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Wed 21 Aug 13 · Book Launch - ‘Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital' with Lloyd Bradley (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Sat 15 Jun 13 · Summer Coffeehouse Tour (By the steps of St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London)
Sat 15 Jun 13 · Ghosts of Fleet Street: A Twilight Murder Tour (Stationers' Hall, London)
Wed 29 May 13 · Riot City (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Wed 22 May 13 · The Future of London within the UK (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)
Thu 25 Apr 13 · Handsome Brute: Story of a Ladykiller (King and Queen Pub, London W1)
Wed 10 Apr 13 · Book Talk - Iain Sinclair on Arthur Machen (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Wed 27 Feb 13 · Twentieth Century Estates: Architecture and the Paintings of Keith Coventry (South London Gallery, London)
Thu 21 Feb 13 · London's Lost Pleasures (The Step, London)
Sat 16 Feb 13 · Coffeehouse Tour (By the steps of St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London)
Thu 24 Jan 13 · London As It Might Have Been (The Step, London)
Thu 6 Dec 12 · Virtual Walk on Strand (The Step, London)
Sun 2 Dec 12 · Dom Sylvester Houédard and the Cosmic Typewriter (South London Gallery, London)
Sat 1 Dec 12 · Book Event ‘Savage Messiah’ with Laura Oldfield Ford (Housmans Bookshop, London)
Sat 17 Nov 12 · London Coffeehouse Walk & Talk (By the steps of St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London)
Tue 13 Nov 12 · Architecture & Urbanism (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Sat 27 Oct 12 · London Ghosts Conference (The Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Wed 24 Oct 12 · The Conch: A Forum For Critical Discussion (South London Gallery, London)
Sat 1 Sep 12 · Hawkers, Harlots and Hacks: a Fleet Street Tour (Stationers' Hall, London)
Thu 30 Aug 12 · Fortean London: Ghosts, Magic & the Hackney Bear (The Bell, London)
Thu 30 Aug 12 · Fortean London: Ghosts, Magic & the Hackney Bear (The Bell, London)
Thu 12 Jul 12 · Trading places and travelling - music legacies of the Hanseatic League (Gresham College, London)
Thu 5 Jul 12 · The Lost World of 1962 (City of London Festival, London)
Wed 4 Jul 12 · Festival Lecture - celebrating 50 years of arts in the City (Guildhall Livery Hall, London)
Tue 26 Jun 12 · Berlioz - Grande Messe des Morts and the absence of God (Gresham College, London)
Sat 16 Jun 12 · London Coffeehouse Walk & Talk (St Michael's Church Cornhill, London)
Wed 6 Jun 12 · Talk: Charles Dickens And Two Great Queens (The George In The Strand, London)
Tue 3 Apr 12 · Eric Parry In Conversation With Edwin Heathcote (WORK Gallery, London)
Fri 30 Mar 12 · Marilyn Monroe (British Museum, London)
Tue 28 Feb 12 · Darwin's Landscape Laboratory (The Guildhall, Bath, Bath)
Sat 11 Feb 12 · London Coffeehouse Walk & Talk (By the steps of St Michael's Church, Cornhill, London)
Wed 2 Nov 11 · Underground London by Subterranea Brittanica’s Andrew Smith (The Doodle Bar, London)
Tue 1 Nov 11 · A Turbulent City – London and Riot since the Eighteenth Century (London Canal Museum, London)
Thu 27 Oct 11 · Investigating Ghosts (London Fortean Society, London)
Wed 5 Oct 11 · Is the world becoming more dangerous? (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Tue 4 Oct 11 · Lenin in Exile (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 29 Sep 11 · Conspiracy Minded: The Psychology of Belief in Conspiracy Theories (The Bell, London)
Wed 7 Sep 11 · Tue Greenfort in Conversation (South London Gallery, London)
Fri 26 Aug 11 · Dark Working Sorcerers: Illusion and the Occult (Treadwell's Books, London)
Thu 25 Aug 11 · Occult London: A Walk for Occultists (Treadwell's Books, London)
Wed 24 Aug 11 · Paul Etienne Lincoln Talk (South London Gallery, London)
Wed 24 Aug 11 · Witches, Wizards & Warlocks: Real Magic in London (Treadwell's Books, London)
Tue 5 Jul 11 · Witches, Wizards and Warlocks: Magic in Medieval and Later London (Treadwell's Books, London)
Wed 15 Jun 11 · THE LONDON COURSE/Bohemian Life in Fitzrovia (The Course, London)
Wed 9 Mar 11 · THE LONDON COURSE/War and Peace in 20th century London (The Course, London)
Wed 2 Mar 11 · THE LONDON COURSE/Paintings in the Museum of London from the 17th to 20th century (The Course, London)
Wed 23 Feb 11 · DESIGN-NATION Creative Business Seminar Series Me, My products and My services with Patricia van den (London Metropoltian University, London)
Wed 16 Feb 11 · THE LONDON COURSE/London paintings in the National Gallery, followed by a tour of the restored churc (The Course, London)
Thu 10 Feb 11 · CREATIVE DIALOGUE Networking Evening (Metropolitan Works, London)
Tue 18 Jan 11 · London and the Making of the Permissive Society (Sohemian Society, London)
Wed 12 Jan 11 · THE LONDON COURSE/The burgeoning city of the 19th century (The Course, London)
Wed 24 Nov 10 · THE LONDON COURSE/HOGARTH AND HANDEL AT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL (The Course, London)
Wed 17 Nov 10 · THE LONDON COURSE/Constable and Turner (The Course, London)
Wed 3 Nov 10 · THE LONDON COURSE/William Hogarth (The Course, London)
Tue 19 Oct 10 · An Unsung Hero? Joseph Naples, Resurrectionist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 13 Oct 10 · THE LONDON COURSE/A second Venice (The Course, London)
Wed 13 Oct 10 · Plastic pollution in the oceans (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Thu 7 Oct 10 · The Stewardship Imperative in the 21st Century (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Wed 29 Sep 10 · THE LONDON COURSE/Panoramas of the 16th and 17th c. (The Course, London)
Thu 9 Sep 10 · The Knights Templars in London (South East London Folklore Society, London)
Thu 2 Sep 10 · Occult London in the Sixties & Seventies: Interview with Francesca Rossetti (Treadwell's Books, London)
Tue 13 Jul 10 · Climate Change and the City: Scepticism or Solutions? (All Hallows by the Tower Church, London)
Thu 8 Jul 10 · A land flowing with milk and honey (Gresham College, London)
Thu 24 Jun 10 · Lunch box talk: Fruit, vegetables and livestock in London’s Square Mile (Alan Baxter Gallery, London)
Thu 17 Jun 10 · John Flaxman as a Religious Sculptor (Chadwick Lecture Theatre, London)
Tue 25 May 10 · Natural disasters: how can we improve? (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Mon 24 May 10 · The Future of London Government (Guildhall, LONDON)
Wed 12 May 10 · Violent London (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Tue 13 Apr 10 · Urban Wind Turbine Trial - UNPLUGGED (Keyworth Centre, London)
Mon 22 Mar 10 · Alfred Hitchcock`s London Odyssey (Sandra Shevey Talks, London)
Thu 11 Mar 10 · Unknown Ghosts of London (The Old Kings Head, London)
Thu 11 Feb 10 · A-TO-Z-OMANCY - The Game of Chance and the Speaking of the Landscape (The Old Kings Head, London)
Wed 3 Feb 10 · Michael Schudson On Journalism and Democracy: Tocqueville's Interesting Error (Boardroom - University of Westminster, London)
Fri 22 Jan 10 · Align (Bridewell Theatre, London)
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