Thomas Halliday takes us on an epic, exhilarating tour of the world’s geological history and the evolution of life on earth. He shows us the past as we’ve never seen it before: a spectacular journey into the earth as it used to be and into the worlds that were here before ours.
We meet the mammoths of Ice Age Alaska, visit the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica with its colonies of giant penguins, hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the earth has ever known, and watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, leading to the age of mammals and the birth of humanity.
Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, Halliday gives us a mesmerising close-up encounter of how our world came to be the way it is, and how we came to be here.
Thomas Halliday is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He was raised in Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands, and now lives in London with his family.
Members: Free, Online or Victoria Hall (please book online only)
Guests: £10, Online or Victoria Hall (you will be admitted to the Hall at 7.50pm if there is room)
Please book to watch online by 1pm on the day of the event