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Previous Events

Science Group: Gazing at the Ceiling

Jerome Wynne
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
28

Lecture: The Fashion Industry & climate change

Nadia Scullion
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
26

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Designer Maker Fair

Mar
22 - 24

Debate: Allowing Physician-Assisted Dying is necessary and overdue

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Mar
21

Concert, Live at HLSI: Wiggin-Wass Duo

7:30pm - 9:40pm
Mar
20

Lecture: Katherine Mansfield and London

Claire Harman
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
19

Film Society: Utama

Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Mar
14

Lecture: Russia and the West: The Long War

Keir Giles
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
12

Gallery: Heckel’s Horse Jr.

Edgeworth Johnstone
Mar
8 - 21

Opera Circle: The Fairy-Queen

The Opera Circle with Dame Emma Kirkby and HGO's artistic team
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
6

Lecture: A Woman’s Life on the Road

Sara Wheeler
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
5

Science Group: Clinical Genetics

Dr Angela Barnicoat
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
29

Lecture: My Experience of the Digital Revolution

Mike Smith
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
27

Film Society: HFS Special: England, My England

Tony Palmer
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Feb
25

AGM: Members’ meeting

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Feb
23

Lecture: What is Life?

Paul Nurse
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
20

Film Society: Everything went fine (Tout s’est bien passé)

Dir. François Ozon
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Feb
15

Lecture: Financial Services for an Ageing Society

Debora Price
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
13

Gallery: Bringing It All Back Home

Philip Diggle
Feb
9 - 22

Opera Circle: The Force of Destiny

Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
7

Lecture: Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History

Jonathan Kennedy
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
6

Concert, Live at HLSI: The Asaka Quartet

7:30pm - 9:40pm
Jan
31

Lecture: 8000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike

Kate Rawles
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
30

Science Group: Mathematics education

Peter Whitehead
Jan
25

Lecture: The Iron Curtain Then and Now

Tim Phillips
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
23

Lecture: Justice for Women

Harriet Wistrich
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
16

Library: Chess Group

Andrew Costeloe
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Jan
10

Opera Circle: Madam Butterfly

Barry Mellor
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Jan
10

Lecture: It’s OK to be strange

Sarah Chaney
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
9

Lecture: HLSI Spring 2024 Lecture Season Online Booking

HLSI Lecture Committee
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan - Apr
9 - 16

Library Event: Children’s Event: Rumpel-tinsel-skin

Brooke & Hannah
11:00am - 12:00pm
Dec
16

Library Event: Library Tour

Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Dec
15

Science Group: Mathematics Education in England

Jeremy Hodgen
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
14

Debate: The ‘Elgin Marbles’ should be returned to Greece – new date

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Dec
13

Lecture: How to speak Whale

Tom Mustill
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
12

Live at HLSI: Members’ Christmas Party

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Dec
8

Film Society: Operation Mincemeat

Dir. John Madden
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Dec
7

Opera Circle: Falstaff

Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
6

Lecture: Bringing Down Goliath

Jolyon Maugham
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
5

Science Group: Higher, Faster, Further

Jim Lloyd Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
30

Concert, Live at HLSI: Apollo5

7:30pm - 9:40pm
Nov
29

Lecture: Harold Wilson – cancelled – see new lecture details

Nick Thomas-Symonds
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
28

Lecture: The Barclay Dynasty

Jane Martinson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
28

Library Event: Library Tour

Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Nov
24

Lecture: Adam Smith Reconsidered

Dr Eamonn Butler
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
21

Gallery: King’s Cross – All Change

Marianne Fox Ockinga
Nov
17 - 30

Film Society: Lunana, a Yak in the Classroom

Dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Nov
16

Lecture: Confessions from a broadcasting career

Edward Stourton
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
14

Lecture: Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

Hugh Brody
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
7

Opera Circle: Hansel & Gretel

Opera Circle and HGO’s artistic team
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
1

Lecture: Otherlands: A World in the Making

Thomas Halliday
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
31

Science Group: Space Exploration

David Parker
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
26

Lecture: Ten Thinking Mistakes

Kit Barton
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
24

Film Society: Casque D’Or

Dir. Jacques Becker
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Oct
19

Lecture: Mudlark’d: Hidden Histories from the River Thames

Malcolm Russell
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
17

Gallery: Beauty Amidst Hardship

Pamela Willoughby
Oct
13 - 26

Concert, Live at HLSI: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Fitzwilliam String Quartet
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
11

Lecture: The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story

Jessie Childs
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
10

Opera Circle: Don Giovanni

Robert Lloyd
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
4

Lecture: Puritans or Profligates?

Anne Summers
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
3

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Designer Maker Fair

Sep - Oct
29 - 1

Science Group: Search for the Source of the Nile

Barry Mellor
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
28

Lecture: How Woke Won

Joanna Williams
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
26

Film Society: Parallel Mothers

Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Sep
21

Lecture: The Waste Land : A Biography of a Poem

Matthew Hollis
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
19

Lecture: HLSI Autumn 2023 Lecture Season Online Booking

The Lecture Committee
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep - Dec
19 - 12

Gallery: Transformations

Rosalind Whitman
Sep
15 - 28

Library Event: Children’s Storytelling

Brooke Dunbar
10:30am - 12:00pm
Sep
9

Library Event: Library Tour

Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Jul
28

Gallery: Describing Landscape

Lyn Melville-James
Jul
7 - 20

Film Society: Mandabi

Dir. Ousmane Sembène
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Jun
15

Psychosomatic, a film performance by Richard Layzell

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Jun
14

Gallery: Verdance

Maggie Jennings
Jun
9 - 22

Opera Circle: Don Carlos

Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Jun
7

AGM: HLSI Annual General Meeting

8:00pm - 9:00pm
May
23

Film Society: Flee

Dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen
7:30pm - 10:00pm
May
18

Gallery: The World Slips By

Heather Libson
May
12 - 25

Opera Circle: Agrippina

Opera Circle and HGO’s artistic team
7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
3

Science Group: Mycology

Lee Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
27

Gallery: A restless mind at work and play

Tom Scase
Apr - May
21 - 4

Film Society: The Father

Dir. Florian Zeller
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Apr
20

Lecture: Ethel Rosenberg

Anne Sebba
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
18

Lecture: The Mercenary River

Nick Higham
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
4

Lecture: Different ways of writing lives

Ann Oakley
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
28

Science Group: The Space of Possible Minds

Philip Ball
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
23

Concert, Live at HLSI: The Kosmos Ensemble

The Kosmos Ensemble
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
22

Lecture: Fun & Irony in Art History

Estelle Lovatt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
21

Gallery: Dreamscapes and Landscapes

Nathaniel Boyd
Mar
17 - 30

Film Society: Parasite

Dir. Boong Joon-ho
7:30pm - 10:15pm
Mar
16

Lecture: The Island of Extraordinary Captives

Simon Parkin
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
14

Opera Circle: Naples in the Baroque

Brian Hargreaves
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
8

Lecture: The Making of the Rhine

Giles MacDonogh
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
7

Lecture: From Colindale to Wuhan: an epidemiologist’s progress

John Watson FRCP FFPH
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
28

Lecture: The 1980s Literary Circus

John Walsh
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
21

Film Society: Nomadland

Dir. Chloe Zhao
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Feb
16

Lecture: The Troubled Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
14

Gallery: Rough and Smooth

Elspeth Hamilton
Feb
10 - 23

Opera Circle: Singing in Rosenkavalier

Penny Chalmers
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
8

Lecture: Portable Magic: a history of books and their readers

Emma Smith
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
7

Concert, Live at HLSI: The Fibonacci Quartet

The Fibonacci Quartet
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Feb
1

Lecture: One hundred years on – why read Ulysses?

Toby Brothers
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
31

Science Group: Financial Crime

Edna Young
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
26

Lecture: My Inside Story

Chris Atkins
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
24

Film Society: The Perfect Candidate

Dir. Haifaa Al Mansour
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Jan
19

Lecture: The Amur River

Colin Thubron
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
17

Debate: King Charles should be our last Monarch

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Jan
12

Opera Circle: Tannhäuser

Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Jan
11

Lecture: A History of Palestine in Twelve Photographs

Roger Hardy
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
10

Science Group: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn

Richard Ellis
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
15

Lecture: My Year on the Heath

Hunter Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
13

Film Society: Film Talk: Blue Jasmine

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dec
9

Film Society: Blue Jasmine

Dir. Woody Allen
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
8

Opera Circle: Humours of Opera

Robert Lloyd
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
7

Lecture: Demolishing Babel

Keith Kahn-Harris
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
6

Lecture: The Pablo Neruda Paradox: a poet’s passion for science

Adam Feinstein
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
29

Science Group: Manned powered flight

James L. Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
24

Concert, Live at HLSI: Festival of Classical Guitar Music

Royal College of Music Virtuosi
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Nov
23

Lecture: Reading Proust: Perspective and Plurality

Adam Watt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
22

Film Society: Film Talk: The Edge of Heaven

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Nov
18

Film Society: The Edge of Heaven

Dir. Fatih Akin
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Nov
17

Lecture: John of Gaunt: A European Prince

Helen Carr
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
15

Lecture: Van Gogh: A Life in Places

Juliet Heslewood
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
8

Gallery: Sandy Laing

Nov
4 - 17

Debate: Private cars should be banned from inner London

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Nov
3

Opera Circle: The Cunning Little Vixen

Opera Circle & HGO
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
2

Lecture: Brexit and the next General Election

Denis MacShane
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
1

Science Group: The Liverpool-Manchester Railway

Barry Mellor
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
27

Lecture: Francis Bacon in Moscow

James Birch
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
25

Film Society: Film Talk: Caramel

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oct
21

Film Society: Caramel

Dir. Nadine Labaki
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oct
20

Lecture: How to Love Animals

Henry Mance
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
18

Live at HLSI: The Medea String Quartet

7:30pm - 8:30pm
Oct
12

Lecture: William Kentridge: artist, performer and filmmaker

Rose Thompson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
11

Gallery: Looking In/Looking Out

Marilyn Simler
Oct
7 - 20

Opera Circle: Turandot

Barry Mellor
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
5

Lecture: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (Replacement lecture)

Dawn Ades
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
4

Library Event: Catherine Budgett-Meakin book launch

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sep
30

Lecture: George Eliot’s Marriage Question

Clare Carlisle
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
27

Film Society: After Love

Dir. Aleem Khan
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
22

Lecture: Russian Popular Prints in the Pre-Revolutionary Period

Faith Wigzell
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
20

Lecture: HLSI Autumn Tuesday Lecture Season – Book Now

Lecture Committee
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep - Dec
20 - 13

Gallery: Allegories and Metaphors

Anne McNeill Pulati
Sep
16 - 29

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Designer Maker Fair

Sep
9 - 11

Gallery: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

Christina Eberhart
Jul
1 - 14

Film Society: Film Talk: Genevieve

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jun
17

Film Society: Genevieve

Dir. Henry Cornelius
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jun
16

Gallery: London Dreams

Tina Leslie
Jun
10 - 23

Debate: Ukraine and the role of Nato – CANCELLED

6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
26

Science Group: Science Talk: Robert Paul’s Instruments

Ian Christie
3:00pm - 5:00pm
May
25

Gallery: Special Exhibition: Before Hollywood – Robert Paul’s Invention of Cinema

Robert Paul
May
21 - 28

Film Society: Special Exhibition & Talks

Before Hollywood – Robert Paul’s Invention of Cinema
1:00pm
May
21 - 28

Film Society: Film Talk: Distant Voices, Still Lives

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
May
20

Film Society: Distant Voices, Still Lives

Dir. Terence Davies
8:00pm - 10:00pm
May
19

Science Group: Florence Nightingale

8:00pm - 9:00pm
May
12

Gallery: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Ken Gallagher, John Mortimer, Anthony Taylor
May
6 - 19

Opera Circle: Samson et Dalila

Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
4

Film Society: Film Talk: Black Orpheus

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Apr
29

Film Society: Black Orpheus

Dir. Marcel Camus
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Apr
28

Lecture: The remarkable HMS Investigator

Keith Millar
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
26

Lecture: The Well-Gardened Mind

Sue Stuart-Smith
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
12

Fair: Handmade in Highgate – The Designer Maker Fair

11:00am - 5:00pm
Apr
10

Fair: Handmade in Highgate – The Designer Maker Fair

10:00am - 6:00pm
Apr
9

Fair: Handmade in Highgate – The Designer Maker Fair

5:00pm - 8:00pm
Apr
8

Science Group: Plant Taxonomy

Prof Mark Chase
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
7

Live at HLSI: William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience

Dir. Valerie Doulton
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Apr
6

Lecture: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate

Peter Parker
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
5

Lecture: Working Mothers, Past and Present

Helen McCarthy
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
29

Gallery: Shropshire in Highgate

Robert Cunning
Mar - Apr
25 - 7

Film Society: Film Talk: Salt of the Earth

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Mar
25

Film Society: Salt of the Earth

Dir. Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Mar
24

Lecture: Spirit of Cricket

Mike Brearley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
22

Live at HLSI: Live Chamber Music

String duos & trios
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Mar
16

Lecture: Burning the Books

Richard Ovenden
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
15

Science Group: Reaching net zero

Prof Jenny Nelson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
10

Opera Circle: Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas

Opera Circle & HGO
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
9

Lecture: The Films That Made Me

Peter Bradshaw
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
8

Library Event: Library Skills Sessions

Tom Pink
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
7

Gallery: Life after Life

Beyond the Likeness Group
Mar
4 - 17

Lecture: Life after life

Ian Dungavell
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
1

Film Society: HFS Special: Topsy-Turvy

Dir. Mike Leigh
2:00pm - 5:30pm
Feb
27

Film Society: The Double Life of Veronique

Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Feb
24

Lecture: ‘The Garden of Privatised Delights’

Madeleine Kessler
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
22

Debate: “No platforming” threatens free speech

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
17

Lecture: The Long Farewell

Simon Dixon / Cancelled
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
15

Science Group: Clerk Maxwell and the Second Great Unification

Jim Lloyd Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
10

Opera Circle: The Makropulos Case

Penny Chalmers
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
9

Lecture: Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases

Anne Johnson
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
8

Gallery: Members’ Art Exhibition

HLSI Members
Feb
4 - 17

Concert: A Festival of Song

HGO Singers
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Feb
2

Lecture: Pleasures Money Can’t Buy

Stephen Bayley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
1

Lecture: Social Mobility Prospects

Lee Elliot Major
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
25

Film Society: Film Talk: Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jan
21

Film Society: Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)

Dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jan
20

Lecture: Transport: hurtling towards 1.5 degrees

Jillian Anable
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
18

Science Group: Mitochondria and Glaucoma

Prof Garway-Heath
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
13

Opera Circle: Two ignored & unknown Baroque gems

Brian Hargreaves
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Jan
12

Lecture: Late Constable

Per Rumberg
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
11

Film Society: Film Talk: The Philadelphia Story

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dec
17

Film Society: The Philadelphia Story

Dir. George Cukor
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
16

Lecture: A Craze for Quizzing

Marcus Berkmann
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
14

Science Group: Maternal Health and Mitochondria

Catherine Williamson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
9

Lecture: The Artful Dickens

John Mullan
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
7

Fair: The HLSI Christmas Cracker Fair 2021

11:00am - 5:00pm
Dec
5

Opera Circle: L’Elisir d’Amore

Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
1

Lecture: ‘An Exaltation of Larks’: the immortal bel canto

Ross Alley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
30

AGM: Special General Meeting

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Nov
30

Film Society: Film Talk: A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Nov
26

Film Society: A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Nov
25

Lecture: Stealing from the Saracens

Diana Darke
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
23

Lecture: Tom Stoppard: a life

Hermione Lee
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
16

Gallery: The Northern Line

East Finchley Open Artists
Nov
12 - 25

Science Group: NASA mission to Mars

Professor Sanjeev Gupta
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
11

Lecture: The Diet Myth: the real science behind what we eat

Tim Spector
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
9

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Winter Designer / Maker Fair

11:00am - 5:00pm
Nov
7

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Winter Designer / Maker Fair

10:00am - 6:00pm
Nov
6

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Winter Designer / Maker Fair

5:00pm - 8:00pm
Nov
5

Opera Circle: 19th Century Russian Opera

Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
3

Lecture: A Coup in Turkey

Jeremy Seal
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
2

Lecture: Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard

Martyn Bond
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
26

Interview: Interview

Isabel Raphael talks with Paul Kafno
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oct
24

Film Society: Film Talk: The Misfits

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oct
22

Film Society: The Misfits

Dir. John Huston
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oct
21

Science Group: The Voyage of the Beagle

Barry Mellor
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
20

Lecture: Albert & the Whale

Philip Hoare
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
19

Debate: Climate Change

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
14

Concert: Concert: Live Chamber Music

The Penserio Ensemble
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Oct
13

Lecture: The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

Jonathan Phillips
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
12

Opera Circle: The Marriage of Figaro

Opera Circle & HGO
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Oct
6

Lecture: The Case of the Married Woman

Antonia Fraser
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
5

Gallery: The Heath in the Waves

Rachael Weitzman
Oct
1 - 14

Lecture: Shadow State: mayhem and Russia’s remaking of the West

Luke Harding
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
28

Film Society: Radio Days

Dir. Woody Allen
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
23

Lecture: John Keats: a short life in nine poems and one epigraph

Lucasta Miller
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
21

Lecture: Losing Control: global security in the 21st century

Paul Rogers
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
14

Gallery: Beyond Confinement

Penny Elder
Sep
10 - 23

Gallery: Artist’s Talk: From the Olduvai to the HLSI

Cuillin Bantock
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
11

Gallery: Hiraeth

Cuillin Bantock
Jul
10 - 23

Gallery: Borders Exhibition – Artist’s Talk

Helen de Sybel
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Jul
6

Interview: One-to-One: Paul Kafno talks to Jane de Swiet

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jun
27

Gallery: Borders

Helen de Sybel
Jun - Jul
25 - 8

Theatre: The Walled-Up Woman

Georgina Lock
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
23

Lecture: The fall and rise of the Venice Campanile

Sarah Quill
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
22

Film Society: HFS Film Talk: Capernaum

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jun
18

Film Society: Capernaum

Dir. Nadine Labaki
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jun
17

Lecture: Living Without Architecture: the Prefabricated Home

Colin Davies
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
15

Gallery: Memories, Dreams, Visions – Earth and Beyond

Linda Landers
Jun
12 - 23

Opera Circle: Vivaldi

Brian Hargreaves
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Jun
9

Gallery, Lecture: 150 years of London Underground design

Mark Ovenden
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
8

Gallery, Lecture: Betjeman, the Metropolitan Line and the Romance of Trains

Andrew Martin
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
1

Gallery: Bodenpress: The Poetics of Print

Bodenpress
May - Jun
28 - 10

Concert: Live music returns with Narin Gylman

1:30pm - 2:15pm
May
25

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Spring Designer / Maker Fair

11:00am - 5:00pm
May
23

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Spring Designer / Maker Fair

10:00am - 6:00pm
May
22

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Spring Designer / Maker Fair

5:00pm - 8:00pm
May
21

Film Society: Graduation

Dir. Cristian Mungiu
8:00pm - 10:00pm
May
20

Lecture: The Printed Image in Britain before photography

Jasper Jennings
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
18

Interview: One-to-One

Isabel Raphael talks to John Caird
5:00pm - 6:00pm
May
16

Lecture: The Architecture of the Post-war City, 1945 – 1985

Mike Althorpe
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
11

Gallery: New Horizons

Tom Scase
May
7 - 20

Opera Circle: Elektra

Penny Chalmers and Isabel Raphael
7:30pm - 9:00pm
May
5

Lecture: Making Change: the decimalisation of Britain’s currency

Tom Hockenhull
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
4

Debate: Should the nations of Great Britain be allowed to go their own way?

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
29

Lecture: Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and ‘The Lighthouse’

Caroline Radcliffe
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
27

Interview: One-to-One

Bill English talk to Isabel Raphael
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Apr
25

Film Society: HFS Film Talk: BLACKkKLANSMAN

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Apr
23

Science Group: Covid Statistics Part 2

John Ryan
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
22

Lecture: Animal Navigation

David Barrie
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
20

Gallery: Here and Now: Tathandlung

Philip Diggle
Apr
16 - 29

Lecture: Uncovering Britain’s secret archives

Grace Livingstone
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
13

Lecture: Searching for Lost Tombs in Egypt and Archives

Chris Naunton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
30

Interview: One-to-One

Catherine Budgett-Meakin talks with Bill English
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Mar
28

Science Group: Materials for the Ages

Dr Hannah Stern
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
25

Lecture: People Like Us

Hashi Mohamed
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
23

Film Society: HFS Film Talk: Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Mar
19

Opera Circle: Grand Opera in Paris

David Conway
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Mar
17

Lecture: Chaucer’s European Life

Marion Turner
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
16

Theatre: Lady in a Veil

Georgina Lock
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Mar
14

Lecture: Illusions of Thought

Peter Ayton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
9

Lecture: Titian: Love, Desire and Death

Thomas Dalla Costa
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
2

Interview: One-to-One

Michael de Swiet talks with Maureen Foulkes
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Feb
28

Science Group: Travel after the Pandemic

Professor David Metz
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
25

Lecture: Faber & Faber, the untold story

Toby Faber
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
23

Film Society: HFS Film Talk: Sink or Swim

Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Feb
19

Lecture: A Journey through the Thames Estuary

Caroline Crampton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
16

Opera Circle: Opera Circle Quiz

Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Feb
10

Lecture: The Lives of Lucian Freud

William Feaver
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
9

Debate: Debate: Identity Politics

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
4

Lecture: The Two Histories of Lauderdale House

Nick Peacey
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
2

Interview: One-to-One

Michael de Swiet talks with Geoff Hunt
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Jan
31

Lecture, Science Group: Science Talk: The World of AI-Powered Creativity

Arthur I. Miller
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
28

Lecture: The future of shared intelligence

Geoff Mulgan
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
26

Film Society: Woman at War POSTPONED

Discussion Group Continues
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jan
22

Lecture: Women Resisting Fascism

Caroline Moorehead
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
19

Lecture: The Missing: the True Story of my Family in World War II

Michael Rosen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
12

Film Society: Pavarotti CANCELLED

Dir. Ron Howard
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
17

Lecture: Christmas Myths and Legends

Judith Flanders
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
15

Science Group: The Entangled World of Gin and Tonic

Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
10

Lecture: The King of the World: Louis XIV

Philip Mansel
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
8

Concert: A Journey in Music and Words

Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Dec
6

Gallery: Places, People and Light

Philip Sanderson
Dec
4 - 15

Quiz: HLSI Christmas Quiz

Elizabeth Duff and Julia Stevens
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Dec
1

Interview: One-to-One

Martyn Bond with Jean Coussins
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Nov
29

Lecture: Can artificial intelligence make government better?

Helen Margetts
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
24

Lecture: On Chapel Sands

Laura Cumming
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
17

Science Group: Smoking and Nicotine Addiction

John Britton
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
12

Lecture: Artemisia Gentileschi

Lucy Chiswell
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
10

Lecture: Island Stories: Britain and its history in the age of Brexit

David Reynolds
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
3

Lecture: East End to West End: Jews at the London opera 1750-1850

David Conway
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
27

Interview: One-to-one

Martyn Bond talks with Lynne Featherstone
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Oct
25

Film Society: Shoplifters

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oct
22

Lecture: Mussolini and Fascism – a programme or just a leader?

Martyn Bond
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
20

Gallery: Where We Meet

Susie Breen
Oct
17 - 29

AGM: Annual General Meeting

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
14

Lecture: The Battles Women Fought To Become Doctors

Carol Lovelidge
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
13

Debate: Debate

Paul Mason / Gervais Williams
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
8

Lecture: Derek Jarman’s Amazing Garden on Dungeness Beach

Peter Webb
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
6

Gallery: A Shared Landscape

Ariella & Jonathan Green
Oct
2 - 15

Science Group: Fusion Power… Within our Grasp?

Robin Stafford Allen
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
1

Lecture: What We Need To Do Now For A Zero Carbon Future

Chris Goodall
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
29

Film Society: A Streetcar Named Desire

Dir. Elia Kazan
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
24

Lecture: Belonging And Not Belonging

Monica Bohm-Duchen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
22

Gallery: What’s in a Jug?

Jason Sumray
Sep
11 - 24

Interview: One-to-One

Martin Adeney talks with Anne Burley
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Aug
9

Tuesday Talk: The Colony? Immigrants in Birmingham

Richard Vinen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Aug
6

Tuesday Talk: Victorian Bradford: portrait of a boom town

Munro Price
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Aug
4

Tuesday Talk: The Art and Architecture of the Danube Valley

Tim Blanning
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
28

Theatre, Tuesday Talk: My Life in Lockdown

Maureen Lipman
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
21

Debate: The BBC is a national treasure that we all need to pay for

Martyn Bond / Paul Kafno
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Jul
16

Tuesday Talk: Monet’s Garden at Giverny

Peter Webb
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
14

Tuesday Talk: Songs from Parnassus

Isabel Raphael
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
7

Tuesday Talk: Zaha Hadid, Architectural Superstar

Colin Davies
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
30

Tuesday Talk: Hallé, a man and his Orchestra

Mark Elder
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
23

Tuesday Talk: Who do I think I am?

Simon Callow
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
16

Lecture, Science Group: POSTPONED The scientific discoveries of Captain Cook’s voyages

Barry Mellor (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
May
14

Opera Circle: POSTPONED Grand Opera in Paris

7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
6

Lecture: POSTPONED Uncovering Britain’s Secret Archives

Grace Livingstone
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Apr
28

Lecture: On Chapel Sands

Laura Cumming
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Apr
21

Lecture: CANCELLED Searching for Lost Tombs in Egypt and Archives

Chris Naunton
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Apr
7

Concert: Kosmos Ensemble / POSTPONED

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Apr
1

Lecture: CANCELLED East End to West End: Jews at the London opera 1750-1850

David Conway
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
31

Debate: Highgate Debates: CANCELLED

8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
26

Lecture: Van Gogh: a life in places CANCELLED

8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
24

Fair, Library: Children’s Book Fair / POSTPONED

10:00am - 1:00pm
Mar
21

Lecture: Faber & Faber, the untold story CANCELLED

Toby Faber
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
17

Lecture, Science Group: Operation Overlord: The Machinery of Invasion

Jim Davies (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
12

Opera Circle: Fidelio

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
11

Lecture: Soho in the Eighties

Christopher Howse
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
10

Gallery: Organic Origins

Keith Hammond
Mar
6 - 17

Concert: The Fitzwilliam String Quartet

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
4

Lecture: Napoleon: the man behind the myth

Adam Zamoyski
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
3

Lecture: The Handmaid’s Tale: its serialization and sequel

Jackie Shead
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
25

Film Society: Cold War

Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Feb
20

Lecture: Climate Change and the BBC

Roger Harrabin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
18

Gallery: Workshop with Printmakers Council

Printmakers Council
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Feb
16

Lecture, Science Group: Health Intelligence 24/7

Prof Björn Schuller (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
13

Opera Circle: The Flying Dutchman

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
12

Lecture: Women vs Capitalism: why we can’t have it all in a free market economy

Vicky Pryce
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
11

Gallery: Talks with Printmakers Council

Printmakers Council
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Feb
9

Gallery: Time

Printmakers Council
Feb
7 - 20

Lecture: The Delightful Art of Engineering

Jane Wernick
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
4

Debate: This House Believes That Sponsorship Compromises Art

8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
30

Lecture: Great books of China

Frances Wood
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
28

Film Society: Lion

Dir. Garth Davis
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jan
23

Lecture: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

Julian Jackson
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
21

Lecture, Science Group: Who benefits from my data – me, the state or corporations? (panel-led discussion)

Simon Briscoe, Prof Richard Webber, Peter Mouncey
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
16

Opera Circle: Agrippina (including the Annual Meeting)

7:15pm - 9:30pm
Jan
15

Lecture: Handel in London: the making of a genius

Jane Glover
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
14

Lecture: Around the World … in less than 40 days

Catherine Budgett-Meakin
3:15pm - 5:00pm
Jan
12

Lecture, Science Group: The Science of Magic

Dr Gustav Kuhn
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
19

Lecture, Science Group: Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver

Professor Graham R Foster
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
12

Lecture: Squirrel Pie & Other Slices of Life

Elizabeth Luard
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
10

Fair: Christmas Cracker Fair 2019

11:00pm - 5:00pm
Dec
7

Film Society: Faces Places

Dir. Agnès Varda
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
5

Opera Circle: Fifty Years of Opera

Robert Lloyd
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
4

Lecture: Feeding Britain

Tim Lang
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
3

Concert: Beethoven Quintet

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
29

Debate: Highgate Debates

8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
28

Lecture: The Rise and Fall of the European Sleeper Train

Andrew Martin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
26

Film Society: Denial

Dir. Mick Jackson
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Nov
21

Lecture: Humanitarian Logistics

Maggie Heraty
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
19

Lecture, Science Group: Forensic Botany – Murder most florid

Dr Mark Spencer
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
14

Lecture: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

Diana Atkinson
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
12

Gallery: Abstraction and Emotion

Samantha Laub, Jason Sweidan, David Taylor
Nov
8 - 21

Opera Circle: La Bohème

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
6

Lecture: From Chaucer to Auden

Richard Stokes
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
5

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Fair

11:00am - 5:00pm
Nov
3

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Fair

10:00am - 6:00pm
Nov
2

Fair: Handmade in Highgate Fair

5:00pm - 8:00pm
Nov
1

Lecture: The Vory – Russia’s Super Mafia

Mark Galeotti
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
29

Film Society: Les Gardiennes

Dir. Xavier Beauvois
8:00pm - 10:30pm
Oct
24

Lecture: Comparing health care systems

Nicholas Mays
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
22

Debate: Highgate Debates

8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
17

Lecture: In Byron’s Wake

Miranda Seymour
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
15

Gallery: Shadowman

Patrick Hourihan
Oct
11 - 24

Lecture, Science Group: How DNA makes us who we are

Professor Robert Plomin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
10

Lecture: Antony Gormley, Sculptor

Lucy Chiswell
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
8

Opera Circle: Peter Grimes

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
2

Lecture: Ravenna and the Fall of the Roman Empire

Michael Starks
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
1

Film Society: Shakespeare Wallah

Dir. James Ivory
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
26

Lecture: A Political Mixed Marriage

Sally and Andrew Gimson
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Sep
24

Lecture, Science Group: How DNA can personalise health care

Dr Paul Debenham
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Sep
19

Gallery: Facades

Susanna Storch
Sep
13 - 26

Gallery: Cityscapes and Landscapes

Liz Sutherland
11:00am - 5:00pm
Jun - Jul
28 - 11

Film Society: Highgate Film Society: THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT

8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jun
20