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Lecture: Puritans or Profligates?
Anne Summers
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
3
Lecture: How Woke Won
Joanna Williams
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
26
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
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
Lecture: Fun & Irony in Art History
Estelle Lovatt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
21
Lecture: The Island of Extraordinary Captives
Simon Parkin
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
14
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
Lecture: The Troubled Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
14
Lecture: Portable Magic: a history of books and their readers
Emma Smith
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
7
Lecture: One hundred years on – why read Ulysses?
Toby Brothers
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
31
Lecture: My Inside Story
Chris Atkins
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
24
Lecture: The Amur River
Colin Thubron
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
17
Lecture: A History of Palestine in Twelve Photographs
Roger Hardy
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
10
Lecture: My Year on the Heath
Hunter Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
13
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
Lecture: Reading Proust: Perspective and Plurality
Adam Watt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
22
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
Lecture: Brexit and the next General Election
Denis MacShane
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
1
Lecture: Francis Bacon in Moscow
James Birch
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
25
Lecture: How to Love Animals
Henry Mance
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
18
Lecture: William Kentridge: artist, performer and filmmaker
Rose Thompson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
11
Lecture: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (Replacement lecture)
Dawn Ades
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
4
Lecture: George Eliot’s Marriage Question
Clare Carlisle
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
27
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
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
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
Lecture: Spirit of Cricket
Mike Brearley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
22
Lecture: Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
15
Lecture: The Films That Made Me
Peter Bradshaw
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
8
Lecture: Life after life
Ian Dungavell
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
1
Lecture: ‘The Garden of Privatised Delights’
Madeleine Kessler
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
22
Lecture: The Long Farewell
Simon Dixon / Cancelled
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
15
Lecture: Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases
Anne Johnson
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
8
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
Lecture: Transport: hurtling towards 1.5 degrees
Jillian Anable
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
18
Lecture: Late Constable
Per Rumberg
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
11
Lecture: A Craze for Quizzing
Marcus Berkmann
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
14
Lecture: The Artful Dickens
John Mullan
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
7
Lecture: ‘An Exaltation of Larks’: the immortal bel canto
Ross Alley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
30
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
Lecture: The Diet Myth: the real science behind what we eat
Tim Spector
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
9
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
Lecture: Albert & the Whale
Philip Hoare
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
19
Lecture: The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
Jonathan Phillips
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
12
Lecture: The Case of the Married Woman
Antonia Fraser
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
5
Lecture: Shadow State: mayhem and Russia’s remaking of the West
Luke Harding
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
28
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
Lecture: The fall and rise of the Venice Campanile
Sarah Quill
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
22
Lecture: Living Without Architecture: the Prefabricated Home
Colin Davies
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
15
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
Lecture: The Printed Image in Britain before photography
Jasper Jennings
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
18
Lecture: The Architecture of the Post-war City, 1945 – 1985
Mike Althorpe
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
11
Lecture: Making Change: the decimalisation of Britain’s currency
Tom Hockenhull
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
4
Lecture: Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and ‘The Lighthouse’
Caroline Radcliffe
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
27
Lecture: Animal Navigation
David Barrie
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
20
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
Lecture: People Like Us
Hashi Mohamed
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
23
Lecture: Chaucer’s European Life
Marion Turner
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
16
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
Lecture: Faber & Faber, the untold story
Toby Faber
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
23
Lecture: A Journey through the Thames Estuary
Caroline Crampton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
16
Lecture: The Lives of Lucian Freud
William Feaver
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
9
Lecture: The Two Histories of Lauderdale House
Nick Peacey
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
2
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
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
Lecture: Christmas Myths and Legends
Judith Flanders
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
15
Lecture: The King of the World: Louis XIV
Philip Mansel
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
8
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
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
Lecture: Mussolini and Fascism – a programme or just a leader?
Martyn Bond
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
20
Lecture: The Battles Women Fought To Become Doctors
Carol Lovelidge
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
13
Lecture: Derek Jarman’s Amazing Garden on Dungeness Beach
Peter Webb
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
6
Lecture: What We Need To Do Now For A Zero Carbon Future
Chris Goodall
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
29
Lecture: Belonging And Not Belonging
Monica Bohm-Duchen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
22
Lecture, Science Group: POSTPONED The scientific discoveries of Captain Cook’s voyages
Barry Mellor (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
May
14
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
Lecture: CANCELLED East End to West End: Jews at the London opera 1750-1850
David Conway
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
31
Lecture: Van Gogh: a life in places CANCELLED
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
24
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
Lecture: Soho in the Eighties
Christopher Howse
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
10
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
Lecture: Climate Change and the BBC
Roger Harrabin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
18
Lecture, Science Group: Health Intelligence 24/7
Prof Björn Schuller (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
13
Lecture: Women vs Capitalism: why we can’t have it all in a free market economy
Vicky Pryce
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
11
Lecture: The Delightful Art of Engineering
Jane Wernick
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
4
Lecture: Great books of China
Frances Wood
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
28
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
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
Lecture: Feeding Britain
Tim Lang
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
3
Lecture: The Rise and Fall of the European Sleeper Train
Andrew Martin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
26
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
Lecture: From Chaucer to Auden
Richard Stokes
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
5
Lecture: The Vory – Russia’s Super Mafia
Mark Galeotti
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
29
Lecture: Comparing health care systems
Nicholas Mays
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
22
Lecture: In Byron’s Wake
Miranda Seymour
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
15
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
Lecture: Ravenna and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Michael Starks
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
1
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