On Demand
Watch recordings of our previous events and talks on the Conway Hall Player.
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![Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel]()
Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel
What do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. Dr Zoë McGee reveals how Jane Austen, Frances Burney and their now-overlooked contemporaries used their stories to try to change society's mind about sexual coercion - and to reassure survivors they were not alone.
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![The Extraordinary Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women]()
The Extraordinary Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women
What was life really like for women in the ancient and medieval periods? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear their stories? Join historians Hetta Howes and Daisy Dunn as they reveal some extraordinary women of the past.
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![The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore]()
The Haunted Landscape: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do to lift this curse? Take a lengendary trip through the Haunted Landscape at London Fortean Society’s day of expert talks on British ghosts, magic and folklore.Watch the 2023 annual Haunted Landscape event from London Fortean Society on demand.
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![Changing Power Imbalances at Home]()
Changing Power Imbalances at Home
Why do women who outearn their male partners still do more housework and childcare? Science journalist Melissa Hogenboom interviewed dozens of female breadwinners, stay-at-home dads and same-sex couples, to show how the closer we look, the easier it is to see the influence of power structures all around us.
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![Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural]()
Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural
Ben Machell uncovers the archives of psychic researcher Tony Cornell and his investigations into ghosts, poltergeists and psychic powers. Between 1950 and 2010 he became perhaps the world's most prolific investigator of psychic phenomena and paranormal events. Ben is in conversation with artist and researcher Sarah Sparkes.
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![The Migration Question]()
The Migration Question
Who are the migrants? Do they steal our jobs? Do border controls improve security? Are open borders desirable? Through empirical research including original surveys and interviews, Leila Simona Talani and Matilde Rosina suggest new thinking to the migration question.
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![Trans Joy Matters]()
Trans Joy Matters
Trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and love. Caroline Litman and T. C. Oakes-Monger invite us to explore how trans lives, and trans joy, matter.
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![8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Françoise Vergès: There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present]()
8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Françoise Vergès: There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present
As part of their inaugural event of the 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground, The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed political theorist, writer, activist, independent curator and political educator, Françoise Vergès to Conway Hall as the keynote speaker for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation.
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![Chelsea Green: How to Fall in Love with the Future]()
Chelsea Green: How to Fall in Love with the Future
There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—quantum threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in.
