Suffragette City: an alternative history
One Day Course – talk and guided walk 100 years ago, a majority of women in Britain won the Vote. Who was responsible – the government or the people? Was it the victory of a united or a divided movement? What forms did the struggle take? Did men play a role too? What happened after […]
Sunday Assembly: How To Get A Lemon Into Space
Imagine you have a lemon that you really want to get into Space. How do you go about it? How much fuel do you need? Where exactly is Space? With a lemon for a visual aid, scientist, awesome communicator and space cadet, Vijay Shah will be joining us to answer all these questions and more, […]
Sunday Assembly Lates: 5 Rhyming Lines For Better Sexual Times
We are so excited to launch our first ever Sunday Assembly Lates fundraiser! This is an adult only, evening gathering, with a glass of wine (if you like), which is ticketed to raise funds for Sunday Assembly London! If you sometimes struggle to get up on a Sunday (or know someone who does) and would […]
Addiction and insanity, ‘spirituality’ and neuroscience
The processes of addiction and recovery can be very hard to understand from the perspectives of common-sense, clinic and theory. But today, ideas from Alcoholics Anonymous, psychology and neuroscience fit neatly together to form a coherent explanation of these perplexing phenomena. The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have “lost the power […]
Concert of chamber music for piano and winds
After a busy 2017, Harmoniemusik’s six core players return to Conway Hall to showcase the breadth of the group’s repertoire and musical styles. PROGRAMME: CPE Bach Trio Sonata in C major Schumann Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Hallam Dance Suite Frost Sextet for Piano and Wind Handel Trio Sonata in F major Farrenc Sextet […]
Talk To Your Baby
Talk To Your Baby Prioritising early language development: how and why? Why is the critical importance of early language currently receiving so much attention from politicians and policy-makers? We will be looking at why early language is being prioritised across the UK and what it means for those of us working across early years and […]
Climate Change and Us: More feet more heat?
Population Matters is pleased to host a timely and important public conference examining a critically neglected contributor to global warming: global population growth. With global temperatures looking set to breach the 1.5 degree target set in the Paris Agreement, urgent action is required to minimise emissions as soon as possible. Global population is expected to […]
Save the Honeybee?
“Save the honeybee” stories are never far from the news, but is the species really under threat? And should environmentalists be interested in them at all? Queen bees are traded around the world, and honeybee populations are dependent on the work of beekeepers — they arguably shouldn’t even be seen as wildlife. Whilst honeybees are […]
No Gods No Masters – 8 week course
London’s radicals, secularists, suffragists and pacifists. This 8 week course will look at some remarkable people and movements who spoke up and campaigned for progressive ideas and social change in London from the 1790s-1940s. It will tell their individual and collective stories, explore how they popularised their ideas, and influenced each other, visit sites of […]