Dementia-Friendly Concerts
We are delighted to welcome back Songhaven for another dementia-friendly concert as part of our Summer Programme. Each 45-minute performance features much-loved songs from stage and screen, performed by a trio of professional, classically trained musicians. These free concerts are open to everyone and provide a warm welcome to people living with dementia, along with […]
Summer Season Ticket 2025
Enjoy a 15% discount off admission to all Sunday Concerts in the Summer Season when you buy a Season Ticket. This Summer, Conway Hall’s programme draws special focus on the string quartet. The much-loved Maggini Quartet plays the first concert, in their much-awaited return to Conway Hall. We also present a number of exciting, up-and-coming […]
Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern day. Helen King examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women’s organs. Was the clitoris ever truly lost? Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and – occasionally – women themselves, […]
A Woman’s World
History is not the full story and half of it has never been told. Join us at Conway Hall for an afternoon of women’s history. Hear the news of murderous early modern women, traitorous wives, greedy mistresses and spiteful witches. Stories of the queens and warrior women who ruled vast swathes of the African continent. […]
Surviving the Manosphere
Presenter, campaigner and activist Jess Davies has questions. Are we still asking for it because of our outfits? Our routes home? Our profile picture? Our social media posts? Or can we finally admit that there might be something wrong with… men and masculinity? James Bloodworth delved into the array of bizarre and harmful underground subcultures, […]
No Such Thing as Normal
We are diagnosed and treated for mental disorders more than ever, despite increasing evidence that environmental factors play a far greater role than biological ones. Dr Marieke Bigg asks: how can we heal when psychiatry rests on the belief that mental distress is explained by brain structures, chemical imbalances and genetics? Treatments from lobotomies to […]
Catastrophe Ethics
An urgent, thought-provoking answer to the question we are all secretly asking: individually, how should we act in the face of the climate emergency? Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right […]
The Uncertain Science of Certainty
From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how we prove things – to ourselves and others – has never felt more urgent. But there is far more to proof than axioms, theories and scientific […]
Why We’re Getting Poorer
As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has never seemed more relevant. Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks? Did […]