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• Fri 25 Jan 19 · Wakeful: listening to the past through archives and experimentation (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 21 Jan 19 · £8 • £4 • Free Conway Hall Ethical Society presents: Thinking on Monday: Adventures in the Anthrop (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)

• Wed 14 Nov 18 · Counting the cost of caring - The Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture (IWM North, Manchester)

• Tue 13 Nov 18 · 'Please help us to carry on nursing': Jewish refugees and the nursing profession, 1938-45 (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Fri 28 Sep 18 · The end of the First World War in East Africa (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 21 Sep 18 · From Messines Ridge to Moltmann: Studdert Kennedy and a Suffering God after a century (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 7 Sep 18 · Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 31 Aug 18 · The Special Boat Squadron in the Second World War: A band of renegade cut-throats (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 24 Aug 18 · The development of British artillery on the Western Front (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 17 Aug 18 · Lawrence of Arabia, the Arab Revolt and the forgotten few who shaped it (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 10 Aug 18 · 100 years since the 100 Days: How the First World War transformed the army (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 3 Aug 18 · The evolution of military camouflage (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 20 Jul 18 · Remembering Australians in the First World War (National Army Museum, London)

• Thu 19 Jul 18 · Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 19 Jul 18 · St Kilda: The Silent Islands by Alex Boyd (Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow)

• Wed 18 Jul 18 · Minnows United by Mat Guy (October Books, Southampton)

• Fri 13 Jul 18 · Operation Husky, 1943 (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 22 Jun 18 · Soldiers’ families during the Second World War (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 15 Jun 18 · Romania and the First World War (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 8 Jun 18 · The real Monuments Men (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 1 Jun 18 · A cool and lonely courage: The women of SOE F Section. (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 25 May 18 · Weapons that wound, hands that heal (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 11 May 18 · A Different Kind of Radicalisation: The British Army, victory in Tunisia and ‘The Road to 1945’ (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 4 May 18 · The British fiasco in Norway, 1940 (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 30 Mar 18 · The British Army and its Intelligence Corps, 1904-1940 (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 9 Mar 18 · Researching women and the military (National Army Museum, London)

• Wed 7 Mar 18 · Kipling’s ‘The Eyes of Asia’ (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 2 Mar 18 · ‘Eve in Khaki': Women and the British Army, 1917-48 (National Army Museum, London)

• Thu 12 Oct 17 · Testimonies of War: UK Armenians & WW1 (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Mon 20 Feb 17 · Revamping the Vamp: Mata Hari Myths and Realities (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Mon 6 Feb 17 · How First World War Stretcher Bearers Changed Medicine Forever (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Thu 26 Jan 17 · Protesting the Wars: Cell Block Graffiti at Richmond Castle (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Thu 19 Jan 17 · Churchill, Attlee and the Generals (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 29 Nov 16 · Somme: 141 Days, 141 Lives (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Tue 8 Nov 16 · For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers in the First World War (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Wed 2 Nov 16 · Kitchener: Hero or Anti-Hero? (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Thu 6 Oct 16 · The Every Man's Club: A Haven from the Hell of the Trenches (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, 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 · Myths and Legacies of the Battle of the Somme (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Wed 31 Aug 16 · “What a place to send troops to!” The First World War Nurses of the Salonika Front (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Mon 20 Jun 16 · Avro Manchester: The Legend Behind The Lancaster (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)

• Wed 25 May 16 · COMRADES IN CONSCIENCE (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 14 Dec 15 · Rethinking Indian Soldiers and the First World War (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 30 Nov 15 · From the Suez Canal to Megiddo: The British Imperial Army's War in Sinai and Palestine, 1916-18 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 17 Nov 15 · Was the First World War good for medicine? (Centre of the Cell, London)

• Mon 16 Nov 15 · The Indian Sepoy in First World War Culture: Object, Images, Songs (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 2 Nov 15 · Illiterate but Literary? The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-1918 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Sat 24 Oct 15 · Can Europe keep the peace? (The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Mon 19 Oct 15 · Remembering the West Indian contribution to the First World War (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Thu 8 Oct 15 · The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-45 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 5 Oct 15 · British Women on the Serbian Front in 1915 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 21 Sep 15 · Black Poppies - Britain's Black Community and the Great War. Stephen Bourne (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 7 Sep 15 · The Vickers Wellington (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)

• Mon 7 Sep 15 · Screening Anzacs - film and television representations of the Anzac experience of the Great War. (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Thu 27 Aug 15 · WW1 Series: Military nurses during the Gallipoli Campaign (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Fri 3 Jul 15 · WW1 Series: Women’s Poetry in the Great War: Poetry and Music (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Thu 2 Jul 15 · Fighting Machetes with Pens – The Voltaire Lecture 2015 (Hilton London Metropole Hotel, London)

• Thu 7 May 15 · The Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Thu 7 May 15 · Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Victory over Fascism (Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School, London)

• Thu 30 Apr 15 · WW1 Series: From Shell-shock to PTSD: War neuroses from the First World War to the present day (Nobles Hospital, Isle of Man)

• Wed 22 Apr 15 · WW1 Series: Nurses and psychological trauma in the First World War (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 8 Apr 15 · Filmed Public Lecture: C.L.R. James and opposition to WWII (Hatch, London)

• Wed 1 Apr 15 · WW1 Series: Remembering First World War Nurses (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 1 Apr 15 · WW1 Series: Remembering First World War Nurses (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Mon 16 Mar 15 · Genes, culture and connectivity in the ocean (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 19 Feb 15 · The First World War in 100 Objects, Professor Gary Sheffield (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Thu 12 Feb 15 · Images of War: World War I – Looking Back to the Renaissance / Guided Walk (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 9 Feb 15 · The Life and Times of the Harrier (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)

• Tue 16 Dec 14 · Dr David Clarke: The Angels of Mons (The Bell, London)

• Fri 5 Dec 14 · Lunchtime Lecture: HIV and nursing – testing times (Royal College of Nursing, London)

• Wed 3 Dec 14 · No Glory: the real history of the First World War (JustShare, Londn)

• Tue 2 Dec 14 · And The Band Played On… The Artist’s Perspective (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Thu 20 Nov 14 · Rebuilding Faces: Rhinoplasty in History (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)

• Wed 12 Nov 14 · War and Moral Stupidity (New Theatre, East Building, London)

• Wed 5 Nov 14 · MusicUpClose - In Memoriam - bells and sounds of War (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 1 Nov 14 · The Origins of the mad minute (Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds)

• Wed 29 Oct 14 · Names: the long shadow of war and remembrance, 1914-2014 (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Wed 29 Oct 14 · MusicUpClose - Britain at War: the lads that will never be home (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 22 Oct 14 · MusicUpClose - Jane Bathori – A Voice in the War (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 22 Oct 14 · Zeppelin Nights: (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Thu 16 Oct 14 · Clive Aslet hosts the 2014 Annual Lecture (Charterhouse, London)

• Wed 15 Oct 14 · The Summit: the biggest battle of the Second World War – fought behind closed doors (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Mon 13 Oct 14 · Venice and the First World War (The Society of Antiquaries, London)

• Sun 12 Oct 14 · Thinking on Sunday - The origin of World War One – hidden history and lessons for today (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 7 Oct 14 · MusicUpClose - Musical Responses to War (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 1 Oct 14 · MusicUpClose - On the Brink of War (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 24 Sep 14 · Franz Ferdinand and the mystery of the silk vest (Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds)

• Wed 13 Aug 14 · ‘Resisting the First World War in Camden and Islington’ with Ben Copsey (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Thu 3 Jul 14 · European Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series - Prof Jay Winter (German Historical Institute, London)

• Wed 28 May 14 · Animals and humans on the London Home Front 1939–1945 (Birkbeck, University of London, London)

• Thu 22 May 14 · European Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series - Glenda Abramson (German Historical Institute, London)

• Wed 21 May 14 · The Spy Who Loved (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Sat 26 Apr 14 · Saturday Evening Lecture Series 2014 (Events, University of Dundee, Dundee)

• Sat 12 Apr 14 · Global Warming-Where Do We Go From Here? (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 2 Apr 14 · FilmTalk 2013/14: The Jewish Villain (German Historical Institute, London)

• Thu 13 Feb 14 · Ethics Matters in War ( Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Tue 11 Feb 14 · The Court Martial of Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (Pontllanfraith Local History Society, Pontllanfraith , Blackwood)

• Thu 30 Jan 14 · Looking Back at Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War 1936-41 (Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London)

• Tue 10 Dec 13 · Ideas and the Future (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Wed 4 Dec 13 · Art of the Holocaust: Creativity In Extremis [Date Added] (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 3 Dec 13 · Getting Connected - Social Networks; Ancient and Modern (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 26 Nov 13 · The Future of Artificial Intelligence (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 12 Nov 13 · Human Evolution: Ancestors and Relatives you never knew you had (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Mon 4 Nov 13 · The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Sat 2 Nov 13 · Border crossings: in the light of history (Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge)

• Fri 18 Oct 13 · Hitler’s Helpers: The Female Administrators of the Holocaust (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 15 Oct 13 · The Worlds in which we Live: Religious Ideas and Beliefs (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 8 Oct 13 · Secularisation - or not? (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Thu 3 Oct 13 · Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Wed 2 Oct 13 · Coffee & Conversation: A Suit-able Promise (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Wed 25 Sep 13 · Rediscovering Piotr Rawicz’s Holocaust novel 'Blood from the Sky' (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 24 Sep 13 · Our Debt to Plato (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Fri 20 Sep 13 · 28 Letters: The Short Life Of Renée (Baba) Friedmann On Not So Calm Waters (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 17 Sep 13 · From Darwin to DNA (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 10 Sep 13 · Creationism - A new Fundamentalism (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Mon 9 Sep 13 · The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Fri 28 Jun 13 · The Making of 'The Last Boat' (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Thu 27 Jun 13 · Book launch: 'Ruta's Closet' (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 25 Jun 13 · European Law and Grasping the Nettle of British Sovereignty (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Thu 20 Jun 13 · “I’m not going back”: A Refugee Week Writing Workshop (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Wed 19 Jun 13 · A Campaign to Save the World's Refugees: World Refugee Year 1959-60 (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Wed 12 Jun 13 · John Singer Sargent (University Gallery and Baring Wing, Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Tue 11 Jun 13 · Communism: Theory and Practise (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 4 Jun 13 · Good and Bad Religion - The Challenge for Today (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Wed 24 Apr 13 · Englishness under Fire: The Great War and English identity (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Tue 23 Apr 13 · Psychiatry: How did it get here and will it survive? (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 19 Mar 13 · The Future of the Arts: Defending High Culture (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 5 Mar 13 · The Antarctic - Up for Grabs (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Thu 28 Feb 13 · Branching Out: mapping human imagination, exploration and innovation (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Tue 12 Feb 13 · 200 Million and Counting: Contemporary Migration (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 5 Feb 13 · Russia And The First World War: time to think again? (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Tue 5 Feb 13 · Free Speech (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 29 Jan 13 · I was a number...:Memories of the Holocaust (British Library, London)

• Tue 29 Jan 13 · Animal Rights (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 22 Jan 13 · From Conflict to Confucious: How Modern China's Past is Shaping its Future (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Tue 22 Jan 13 · The Outbreak of War in 1914 Revisited (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Wed 9 Jan 13 · Ideas that Changed the World (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)

• Thu 6 Dec 12 · COURSE ::: Introduction to Raja Yoga Meditation (inner space Brahma Kumaris, Spinningfield)

• Wed 21 Nov 12 · THIRD PARTY EVENT PhotoTALK with WPO: The funding game (Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 15 Nov 12 · The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 25 Oct 12 · The Relevance of International History (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)

• Thu 11 Oct 12 · Distilling the Frenzy (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

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