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Mon 11 Nov 19 · William Beveridge at LSE (Wolfson Theatre, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields)
Wed 9 May 18 · Goldoni, the Freemasons and the Mysteries: the female discovery trope in 18th century theatre (Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London)
Tue 28 Nov 17 · The Leveller Revolution (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 27 Jun 17 · In Search of Paul Robeson (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 21 Mar 17 · Emotions, Identity and the Supernatural: The Concealed Revealed Project (Horse Hospital, London)
Sat 5 Nov 16 · The Victorian mania for stories (Kensington Palace, London)
Mon 20 Jun 16 · Avro Manchester: The Legend Behind The Lancaster (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)
Thu 5 Nov 15 · European Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series 2015/16 - The Politics of Land. Archaeology, Architectur (German Historical Institute, London)
Wed 9 Sep 15 · The Kite and Key (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Mon 7 Sep 15 · The Vickers Wellington (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)
Tue 2 Jun 15 · Mendel's legacy (The Royal Society, London)
Mon 18 May 15 · The Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps - The Forgotten Ancestor of the RAF (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)
Thu 9 Apr 15 · Science on myself (The Royal Society, London)
Tue 31 Mar 15 · People & Politics: Why Are Politicians Not Talking About the City of London or the Super-rich? Conve (Book and Kitchen, London)
Mon 23 Mar 15 · Mark Gardner: 'Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain' (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Mon 9 Feb 15 · The Life and Times of the Harrier (Royal Aeronautical Society, London)
Tue 13 May 14 · The Marx Memorial Lecture: An Enduring Passion: Eric Hobsbawm and Karl Marx, a talk by Gregory Ellio (Highgate Cemetery, London)
Wed 11 Dec 13 · An Introduction to Mystery Traditions (New Acropolis, London)
Tue 29 Oct 13 · The Private Diary and Public History (Museum of London, London)
Mon 7 Oct 13 · Franklin and the Dissenters (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Sun 26 May 13 · Sunday Lecture - Rebels, Infidels and Troublemakers (SPES, London)
Mon 11 Mar 13 · Ideas in the Bath? Serendipity, Chance and Science (British Library, London)
Sun 10 Mar 13 · Milo Beach: The Gulshan Album (British Library, London)
Tue 29 Jan 13 · I was a number...:Memories of the Holocaust (British Library, London)
Fri 23 Nov 12 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: medical missionaries and microglia malfunction (Chadwick Building Room B05, London)
Mon 30 Apr 12 · PhotoVoice Lecture Series – Chris Steele Perkins (Kings Place, London)
Wed 11 Apr 12 · 20th anniversary of the Bosnian War (Frontline Club, London)
Wed 26 Oct 11 · Conway Memorial Lecture: Jeremy Bentham - Prophet of Secularism (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 25 Oct 11 · The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Wed 8 Jun 11 · To Kill A Vampire? (Weird o'Wonderful Lectures, York)
Fri 27 May 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture (UCL Darwin Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, 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)
Tue 3 May 11 · The Idea of the University: Newman and Now (School of Advanced Study, University of London, London)
Thu 28 Apr 11 · Crossing over Annan Water: A Scottish Ballad for Magical Journeys (Treadwell's Books, London)
Wed 20 Apr 11 · Voltaire Day Lecture 2011: What the Romans and Greeks did for us: how Ancient History makes our live (Conway Hall, London)
Fri 11 Mar 11 · Birth of the Birth Control Clinic (School of Advanced Study, University of London, London)
Wed 9 Feb 11 · Refugees in the Media: Then and Now (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Thu 3 Feb 11 · Reporting the Holocaust: As it was Happening (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Sun 30 Jan 11 · Varieties of Irreligious Experience: atheism in historical perspective (Conway Hall, London)
Sat 29 Jan 11 · TRANSPERSONAL HISTORY: TOWARDS A MAP OF A NEW COUNTRY - FOOTNOTES TO THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE WORLD (International Institute of Peace Studies & Global Philosophy, Cairndow)
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)
Tue 11 Jan 11 · Time for Tompion (Pump Room, Bath, Bath)
Wed 8 Dec 10 · Why Does Water Have Memory? (Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, BATH)
Mon 6 Dec 10 · Lord elgin & Some Stones of No Value (Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, BATH)
Tue 26 Oct 10 · The Great House in the Twenty-first Century (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Tue 19 Oct 10 · An Unsung Hero? Joseph Naples, Resurrectionist (Hunterian Museum, London, London)
Wed 13 Oct 10 · Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painters, 1770-1857 (Royal Asiatic Society, London)
Fri 23 Jul 10 · THe Way we Were (Chester Heritage Centre, Chester)
Thu 1 Jul 10 · Roy Foster on 'Swedenborg and the Irish Literary Imagination' (The Swedenborg Society, London)
Wed 30 Jun 10 · Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)
Sun 20 Jun 10 · Moncure Conway and the Abolition of Slavery (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 15 Jun 10 · How would Adam Smith fix the financial crisis? (Gresham College, 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 18 Apr 10 · 'The God that failed' Leszek Kolakowski: humanist thinker and critic of Marxism (Conway Hall, London)
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)
Thu 18 Feb 10 · This Sporting Planet: global sport and (Hong Kong Theatre, London)
Wed 17 Feb 10 · The Rule of Law (Sheikh Zayed 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)
Mon 8 Feb 10 · Shakespeare and the Shudder (British Museum, London)
Thu 4 Feb 10 · The Wars of German Unification, 1864-1871 (The Museum of London, London)
Fri 13 Nov 09 · Curators’ introduction to Moctezuma (British Museum, London)
Wed 11 Nov 09 · Movers & Shapers: Japan - UK Relations Seminar Series VII - Mutsu Hirokichi (The Japan Foundation, London)
Wed 28 Oct 09 · Dr David Starkey - History & Things (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Wed 28 Oct 09 · Movers & Shapers: Japan - UK Relations Seminar Series VI - The Iwakura Embassy in Britain by (The Japan Foundation, London)
Thu 22 Oct 09 · The birth of heritage and the fabrication of history (The Museum of London, London)
Wed 21 Oct 09 · Braille and the History of Blindness (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 19 Oct 09 · Bound for Botany Bay (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 15 Oct 09 · Rembrandt in the British Museum (British Museum, London)
Mon 12 Oct 09 · Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 2 Jul 09 · Swedenborgians and the Abolition of Slavery (The Swedenborg Society, London)
Thu 14 May 09 · Book Launch - The Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes by Professor Peter Davies (The Japan Foundation, London)
Thu 7 May 09 · Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman (The Women's Library, London)
Tue 3 Mar 09 · Parliament and the Evolution of Property Rights in Britain (Wolfson Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Mon 19 Jan 09 · BBC World Service: The Forum (British Museum, London)
Wed 7 Jan 09 · The Search for Quetzalcoatl: Aztec feathered serpent deity (British Museum, London)
Tue 2 Dec 08 · The Study of the Arab World in Western Universities (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, London)
Sat 4 Oct 08 · A Shell Eye (Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Barnet)
Tue 20 May 08 · Holocaust denial and freedom of speech (The Penderels Oak, London)
Mon 5 May 08 · The Sources of The Book (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 6 Mar 08 · The Black Swan (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)
Tue 5 Feb 08 · Measuring American Power in Today's Fractured World (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Tue 15 Jan 08 · The Short History of the Red Rubber Band (Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, London)
Sat 3 Nov 07 · Constantinople: The Last Great Siege 1453 (Richard III Society, Woking)
Thu 11 Oct 07 · Reforming the United Nations – Mission Impossible? (Old Theatre, London)
Tue 9 Oct 07 · The Decline and Fall of the Napoleonic Empire (Hong Kong Theatre, London)
Sat 8 Sep 07 · Jane Shore: Fact and Fiction (Richard III Society, Woking)
Sat 25 Aug 07 · Colchester's Connections with the Battle of Bosworth (Richard III Society, Woking)
Sat 25 Aug 07 · Weapons of the Bosworth Era (Richard III Society, Woking)
Wed 25 Jul 07 · Holy Wells (Richard III Society, Woking)
Sat 7 Jul 07 · Finding the DNA of Richard III (Richard III Society, Woking)
Sat 23 Jun 07 · The Lost Prince - Richard, Duke of York (Richard III Society, Woking)
Thu 7 Jun 07 · Uppity Mediaeval Women (Richard III Society, Woking)
Sat 12 May 07 · Finding the DNA of Richard III (Richard III Society, Woking)
Wed 18 Oct 06 · Bath through the lens - photographing the city 1853 to 1972 (The Guildhall, Bath, Bath)
Sun 6 Aug 06 · The history of Undertaking (Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London)
Thu 13 Jul 06 · Musical Artistes buried in Brompton & other London cemeteries (Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London)
Tue 6 Jun 06 · Thomas Coram: 18th century volunteer campaigner and fundraiser (The Foundling Museum, London)
Tue 16 May 06 · Soane's Museum and Cottingham's Museum; rival architectural museums of Regency London? (Royal College of Surgeons of England, London)
Fri 31 Mar 06 · The Real Priory of Sion (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation, London)
Tue 28 Mar 06 · New mebranes: how cities organise their memory (The Royal Museum Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh)
Sat 4 Mar 06 · Isambard Kingdom Brunel (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Sun 6 Nov 05 · Ladies of the Mansion - Cotehele's forgotten history. (The National Trust - Cotehele House, Saltash)
Sat 5 Nov 05 · Mount Edgcumbe Maps and other evidence (Mount Edgcumbe House, Torpoint)
Thu 6 Oct 05 · Queer Britain: The Gay Community and the Straight Press (London Metropolitan Archives, London)
Sat 25 Jun 05 · Jarrow at War (Bede's World, Jarrow)
Tue 19 Apr 05 · Under every leaf you will find an Englishman (Gresham College, London)
Tue 1 Mar 05 · What's So Good About Democracy? The Need for Fresh Thinking About an Old Ideal. (Centre for the Study of Democracy, London)
Wed 23 Feb 05 · Some London Heroes of Science and Technology (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 10 Feb 05 · The Celestial Geometry of Johm Flamsteed: (Gresham College, London)
Fri 28 Jan 05 · Europe: United or Divided by Culture? (Royal Institute of International Affairs,Chatham House, London)
Wed 19 Jan 05 · The Arabian Bedouin in the Modern World (Press and Information Office, SOAS, London)
Wed 10 Nov 04 · Two Thousand Years of London Bridge (Gresham College, London)
Wed 3 Nov 04 · PRESENTING UNWANTED HISTORIES: (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London)
Mon 25 Oct 04 · Coffee shops (Gresham College, London)
Mon 18 Oct 04 · Coffee shops (Gresham College, London)
Mon 11 Oct 04 · Coffee shops (Gresham College, London)
Mon 4 Oct 04 · Coffee shops (Gresham College, London)
Sat 19 Jun 04 · Troy day (The British Museum, London)
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