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Thu 7 Oct 21 · Explore Your Nursing Family History for Black History Month (Royal College of Nursing, London)
Wed 23 Sep 20 · Nursing Myth Busters: Fashion, Fantasy and Female Firsts (online event) (Royal College of Nursing, London)
Tue 21 Jan 20 · Florence Nightingale Comes Home (online event) (Royal College of Nursing, London)
Tue 24 Jan 17 · Curious connections…Jewish history of the Tower (Tower of London, London)
Thu 8 Dec 16 · 'Precious Relics': Hair Jewellery and the Victorians (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)
Sat 5 Nov 16 · The Victorian mania for stories (Kensington Palace, London)
Wed 17 Jun 15 · Magna Carta and the Struggle for Justice: The Common People and Resistance to Empire (St Mary-le-Bow Church, London)
Mon 11 May 15 · Franklin the Abolitionist (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Sat 18 Apr 15 · Mary Slessor and the Scottish Mission (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)
Wed 8 Apr 15 · Debunking Robin Hood with Prof Ronald Hutton (Swedenborg House, London)
Thu 25 Sep 14 · Longitude: back and forth across the years (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Tue 29 Oct 13 · The Private Diary and Public History (Museum of London, London)
Sat 11 May 13 · From Bethlem to Broadmoor (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Sat 6 Apr 13 · A Visit to the Historic Boardroom (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Wed 27 Feb 13 · Discovering People Ian Hislop (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Sat 2 Feb 13 · Bethlem Hospital: Worth a Visit? (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Fri 30 Nov 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: mental time travel and co-operative consumers (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)
Thu 14 Jun 12 · Talk: Know Your Place (Bristol Record Office, Bristol)
Sat 14 Apr 12 · A Visit to Bethlem (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Wed 1 Feb 12 · The Rise & Fall of Edward II (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)
Sun 22 Jan 12 · Sunday Lecture: Myths of Christian Europe (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 12 Jan 12 · Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Dr Josie McLellan (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Sun 26 Jun 11 · The British 18th Century Enlightenment (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 13 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)
Fri 6 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, London)
Thu 7 Apr 11 · 'Ashes in the Wind. The Destruction of Dutch Jewry' by Jacob Presser. A Re-evaluation by Philo Breg (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Tue 15 Feb 11 · The Royal Charter, Chester built treasure ship wrecked on Anglesey (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)
Sun 30 Jan 11 · Varieties of Irreligious Experience: atheism in historical perspective (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 26 Jan 11 · Speak Up, Speak Out: The 1942 UN Declaration on the Persecution of the Jews (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Sun 16 Jan 11 · Why Humanists Forgot the Future (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 12 Dec 10 · The Priestesses of Beelzebub? (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 4 Nov 10 · The Capable Mr. Brown (Methodist Church Hall, Bishops Stortford)
Sun 31 Oct 10 · Vernon Lushington and the Ethics of Positivism (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 7 Oct 10 · Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 9 Sep 10 · Change & Continuity: Chester in the Georgian Age (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)
Wed 8 Sep 10 · The Capable Mr. Brown (Meadowcroft Community Centre, Aylesbury)
Wed 30 Jun 10 · Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Thu 17 Jun 10 · The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji - Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India (Gresham College, London)
Tue 15 Jun 10 · Plague and Pestilence in London (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Wed 26 May 10 · Jews in Football: Mediating between the Gentleman's Sport and the Professional Game (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Mon 24 May 10 · The Future of London Government (Guildhall, LONDON)
Tue 11 May 10 · Wren, Hooke and Willis: Divine Geometry and Natural Design (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 22 Apr 10 · From Balkan War to World War, 1908-1918 (The Museum of London, London)
Sun 28 Mar 10 · Heidegger and Humanism (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 28 Mar 10 · The Origins of Religious Belief in Primitive Astrology (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 18 Mar 10 · The Inexhaustible Mr. Paxton (Clair Hall, Haywards Heath)
Thu 18 Mar 10 · Lost London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Sat 13 Mar 10 · An Armchair Guide to the History of Gardening (Pulborough Village Hall, Pulborough)
Thu 11 Mar 10 · Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 8 Mar 10 · Canaletto - Grand Designs (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 4 Mar 10 · The Russo-Turkish War, 1875-1878 (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 1 Mar 10 · Foreign Artists in 16th Century London (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 16 Feb 10 · 21st Century Challenges: how global crises provide the opportunity to transform the world (Old Theatre, London)
Tue 16 Feb 10 · The Legacy of Robert Boyle - then and now (St Mary le Bow Church, London)
Thu 11 Feb 10 · The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 4 Feb 10 · The Wars of German Unification, 1864-1871 (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 1 Feb 10 · The Ancient Garden (St. James United Reform Church Hall, Essex)
Sun 24 Jan 10 · Atheism: Misperceptions and Misconstructions (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 11 Nov 09 · Movers & Shapers: Japan - UK Relations Seminar Series VII - Mutsu Hirokichi (The Japan Foundation, London)
Thu 22 Oct 09 · The birth of heritage and the fabrication of history (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 22 Oct 09 · Family History through Fashion & Photographs (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)
Wed 21 Oct 09 · Braille and the History of Blindness (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 20 Oct 09 · The Inexhaustible Mr. Paxton (Emmanuel Church Hall, Sidcup)
Mon 12 Oct 09 · Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 8 Oct 09 · The Defeat of Napoleon, 1806-1815 (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 15 Sep 09 · An A-Z of Garden History (Village Hall, Tonbridge)
Tue 28 Jul 09 · Dig for Victory (St Peters Church Hall, Reading)
Sun 21 Jun 09 · Tom Paine after 200 years (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)
Thu 29 Jan 09 · Writing Revolutionary Art (British Museum, London)
Tue 20 Jan 09 · The Siege of Sidney Street by Don Rumbelow (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 2 Dec 08 · Educating Charlie (Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth)
Wed 26 Nov 08 · Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future: History and the Making of Public Policy - Bad Kids? The Politi (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 6 Nov 08 · Black Panther, the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)
Thu 23 Oct 08 · Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Wed 6 Aug 08 · Forgotten Season: Screening - Bolivia: Looking for the Revolution (Frontline Club, London)
Tue 15 Apr 08 · The Great Fire of London (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 15 Apr 08 · The Skeptic in the Courtroom (The Penderels Oak, London)
Thu 30 Aug 07 · Magical Grimoires Introduced (Treadwell's Books, London)
Thu 2 Aug 07 · Hell in a Handbasket: A Portable Summary of Demonic Conjuration (Treadwell's Books, London)
Sat 23 Jun 07 · Freeze Frame 4 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Sat 2 Jun 07 · Audubon’s Birds of America: Accuracy vs. Aesthetics? (Nature Live in the Attenborough Studio, London)
Tue 29 May 07 · The Napoleonic Surgeon (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Tue 29 May 07 · The Napoleonic Surgeon (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 9 May 07 · Waking the Dead (Treadwell's Books, London)
Sat 28 Apr 07 · Titanic: Myth-Making and Celluloid Dreams (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Sat 21 Apr 07 · Virginia 1607 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Tue 17 Apr 07 · The evolution of a digital idea - HistoryWorld and TimeSearch (Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Barnet)
Thu 2 Nov 06 · French and Immigrant Workers United? The French Left and Anti-Racist Movements of the 1970s (University of Greenwich, Greenwich)
Thu 2 Nov 06 · Longitude (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Sat 21 Oct 06 · Sex, Crime and Passion in Nelson's London (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Fri 6 Oct 06 · The Black Atlantic: Then and Now (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Tue 26 Sep 06 · Europe Transformed 1700-1914(Birkbeck Course) (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Tue 6 Jun 06 · Thomas Coram: 18th century volunteer campaigner and fundraiser (The Foundling Museum, London)
Tue 2 May 06 · Jeanie: An Army of One - From personal charity to non-governmental organisation - some of the work o (Institute of Historical Research, London)
Tue 28 Mar 06 · New mebranes: how cities organise their memory (The Royal Museum Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh)
Fri 10 Mar 06 · Re-Orient: Travel and Encounter (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Wed 8 Mar 06 · The WRENS and Women in the Navy Today (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Fri 24 Feb 06 · Made in China (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Mon 9 Jan 06 · Reforming the UN (Portcullis House, London)
Sun 6 Nov 05 · The Caroline Feilding Letters (exact title TBC) (The National Trust - Cotehele House, Saltash)
Wed 14 Sep 05 · Princesses: Telling the Story of George III's Daughters (Victoria and Albert Museum (learning), London)
Thu 28 Jul 05 · Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Sun 5 Jun 05 · Knowing God, Knowing the Self: Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Christianity (Agape Institute, Culver City, CA)
Thu 26 May 05 · The beautiful bones: coveting anatomy in Georgian London (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Thu 19 May 05 · The complete World of Human Evolution (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 21 Apr 05 · Reparation, re-education, reconciliation: Britain's German POW camps re-visited (Insights - Lectures for the Public, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Thu 24 Feb 05 · It's epidemic (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Wed 19 Jan 05 · The Arabian Bedouin in the Modern World (Press and Information Office, SOAS, London)
Wed 8 Dec 04 · Plague (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Tue 7 Dec 04 · Krakatoa (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 9 Sep 04 · Richard Owen: Aggressive Adversary? (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Wed 11 Aug 04 · The Coiffure of Death: Hair Jewellery (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 17 Jun 04 · Mis/Representation in Media conference 17-18 June (Mis/Representation in Media, Manchester)
Wed 2 Jun 04 · The Coiffure of Death: Hair Jewellery (Darwin Centre Live at the Natural History Museum, London)
Thu 22 Apr 04 · Rosemary Baird: Mistress of the House (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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