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• Tue 26 Nov 19 · The Firbank Beneath My Foot: The Life and Times of Ronald Firbank (Caerleon Local History Society, Caerleon)

• 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)

• Sat 30 Jun 18 · The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Myths (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 11 Apr 18 · Parkinson of the Disease: Apothecary, Pamphleteer, Fossilist and Freemason (Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London)

• Thu 28 Sep 17 · The Lighting Rod: Invention and Contention (Benjamin Franklin House, London)

• Wed 12 Apr 17 · Franklin and Polly Hewson: A Second Daughter (Benjamin Franklin House, 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 5 Apr 16 · Curious Connections... censorship and denial of service (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)

• Sat 30 Jan 16 · Bland reform: losing London’s subcultures (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)

• Tue 3 Nov 15 · The Unfortunate Colonel Despard (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 2 Nov 15 · London is Wild (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 2 Nov 15 · London is Wild: Wildlife and Landscape in the City (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 27 Oct 15 · George Hibbert M.P. (1757-1837): and the Defence of British Slavery (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 20 Oct 15 · The Law’s Ambiguous Struggle with Slavery (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 13 Oct 15 · First Prime Minister of the London Empire: William Beckford, Jamaican Planter & Lord Mayor of London (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)

• Sat 29 Aug 15 · Keep the Home Fires Burning (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)

• 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 20 May 15 · To Speak of Things You Have Not Seen (South London Gallery, London)

• Wed 13 May 15 · London Thinks: Buying and Selling Sex - the Big Debate (Conway Hall, London)

• Sat 2 May 15 · WE (Not I) symposium: On Creativity and Value (South London Gallery, London)

• Wed 22 Apr 15 · The Conch: A forum for critical discussion (South London Gallery, London)

• Thu 19 Mar 15 · London Thinks: The Rise of UKIP (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 17 Mar 15 · The Drugs Don’t Work: London without antibiotics (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)

• Wed 4 Feb 15 · Artist's Talk: Dor Guez (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)

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

• Sat 20 Sep 14 · Swimming the Thames: Then & Now (HMS President, London)

• Sat 20 Sep 14 · London's Lost Rivers - The Geek Off (HMS President, London)

• Wed 10 Sep 14 · Julia Crabtree and William Evans in Conversation (South London Gallery, 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)

• Tue 22 Jul 14 · Vandalism and Art (South London Gallery, 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)

• Mon 2 Jun 14 · Yinka Shonibare MBE RA (Geological Society, London)

• Wed 23 Apr 14 · BOB CROW MEMORIAL EVENT ‘Plundering London Underground’ with Janine Booth, and Peter Pinkney (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• 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)

• Wed 16 Oct 13 · London Calling: 80's Fashion and Music Fusion (Victoria and Albert Museum, 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)

• 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 17 Nov 12 · London Coffeehouse Walk & Talk (By the steps of St Michael's Church, Cornhill, 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)

• 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)

• Fri 30 Mar 12 · Marilyn Monroe (British Museum, London)

• Tue 28 Feb 12 · Darwin's Landscape Laboratory (The Guildhall, Bath, Bath)

• 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)

• Wed 5 Oct 11 · Is the world becoming more dangerous? (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Tue 4 Oct 11 · Lenin in Exile (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Wed 7 Sep 11 · Tue Greenfort in Conversation (South London Gallery, London)

• Wed 24 Aug 11 · Paul Etienne Lincoln Talk (South London Gallery, London)

• Fri 8 Jul 11 · Photographing London: The Hungarian Connection (Royal Academy of Arts, London)

• Wed 15 Jun 11 · THE LONDON COURSE/Bohemian Life in Fitzrovia (The Course, London)

• Thu 14 Apr 11 · The Challenge of Climate Change (Duplicate account (was: Society of Chemical Industry), n/a)

• 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)

• 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)

• Tue 13 Jul 10 · Climate Change and the City: Scepticism or Solutions? (All Hallows by the Tower Church, London)

• Tue 8 Jun 10 · Art on the Underground: London Journeys: Free Public Discussion at City Hall (Part 2) (City Hall, London)

• Tue 1 Jun 10 · Art on the Underground: London Journeys: Free Public Discussion at City Hall (Part 1) (City Hall, London)

• Tue 25 May 10 · Natural disasters: how can we improve? (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 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)

• Wed 3 Feb 10 · Michael Schudson On Journalism and Democracy: Tocqueville's Interesting Error (Boardroom - University of Westminster, London)

• Thu 8 Oct 09 · Keep Death On The Road - Suicide Burials in Theory and Practice (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Mon 5 Oct 09 · Wergeld: Crime and the compensation culture in medieval England (The Museum of London, London)

• Thu 11 Jun 09 · Trees, Weeds and Folklore (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Thu 11 Jun 09 · Environmental Parliament (Environmental Parliament, London)

• Thu 14 May 09 · The Haunted London Underground: What Lies Beneath? (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Thu 14 May 09 · Engineering our Climate (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Sun 3 May 09 · Environmental Parliament (Environmental Parliament, London)

• Sat 25 Apr 09 · London Lore (The Bishopsgate Institute, London)

• Tue 17 Mar 09 · The future shape of Capitalism (21st Century Challenges, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)

• Thu 12 Mar 09 · Fairy Superstition: Puck, Robin Goodfellow, the little people and other visitors. (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Wed 18 Feb 09 · What’s going on Underground? Tunnelling into the Future (The Royal Society, London)

• Thu 12 Feb 09 · Too Many Broken Hearts Have Fallen in the River (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Wed 3 Dec 08 · Denis Oswald, Executive Member of the International Olympic Committee, speaks at De Montfort Univers (Hawthorn Building, De Montfort University, Leicester)

• Tue 11 Nov 08 · Migration: skills and the job market (The Willis Building, London)

• Sat 25 Oct 08 · Slide Lecture Performance (A Foundation Gallery, London)

• Tue 21 Oct 08 · Running Cities: London in context (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Sat 18 Oct 08 · Designing for artists and London Underground (A Foundation Gallery, London)

• Sat 18 Oct 08 · An Alternative Tour of London's St Katharine Docks and Wapping (St Katharine Docks entrance, by Tower Bridge, London)

• Sat 11 Oct 08 · Artistic licence: the creative use of the roundel in posters BSL Interpreted (A Foundation Gallery, London)

• Wed 18 Jun 08 · London Under Water (Chartered Accountants Hall, London)

• Fri 13 Jun 08 · TRANSFORMING CONFLICTS: A BUDDHIST APPROACH (Drake House (behind Guild House), London)

• Thu 8 May 08 · Naming the Green Man of the Medieval Church. (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Thu 10 Apr 08 · Big Cats Around The Capital (South East London Folklore Society, London)

• Tue 8 Apr 08 · Sustaining the appearance of London (Vibe Lounge, London)

• Sun 14 Oct 07 · Cracksmen, Rampsmen and BLudgers: Inventing the Victorian Underworld (Keats House, London)

• Sat 24 Mar 07 · Europe: Land of the setting sun? (Louise T Blouin Institute, London)

• Thu 15 Feb 07 · Catwalk extravaganza at Science Museum’s Dana Centre to show off best green fashion designs (Dana Centre, London)

• Sat 25 Nov 06 · The Fashion City (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Fri 24 Nov 06 · Rewind (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Fri 24 Nov 06 · Fashion CGI (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Sat 18 Nov 06 · Roads to Reality: Matter, Mind and Symbol (UCL, London)

• Sat 28 Oct 06 · Consciousness, Synchronicity and Meaning: A Challenge to Scientific Orthodoxy (UCL, London)

• Tue 10 Oct 06 · The View from the Centre of the Universe (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

• Wed 4 Oct 06 · Rimbaud- The First Psychogeographer (Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, BATH)

• Thu 17 Aug 06 · Indignities suffered by the Famous Dead (Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London)

• Wed 24 May 06 · Putting A Price On It – How To Value Your Intellectual Property (The Patent Office, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 06 · The Women’s Library Annual Lecture 2006: Pensions – Paradise or Poverty? (The Women's Library, London)

• Sat 26 Nov 05 · The Underground University (Stationers' Hall, London)

• Thu 17 Nov 05 · London and the end of the war (Museum of London, London)

• Wed 9 Nov 05 · Future Cities: Nature vs. Technology (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

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