Granny’s Attic & Maddie Morris
Conway Hall is excited to present superb folk trio, Granny’s Attic for a special evening, supported by rising star Maddie Morris. With exceptional musicianship and boundless energy, Granny’s Attic are going from strength to strength. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (melodeon, anglo concertina, vocals), George Sansome (guitar, vocals) and Lewis Wood (violin, vocals) have honed their skills touring […]
Condoms, Sponges and Syringes: The 19th century pioneers of family planning
National Secular Society historian Bob Forder introduces the 19th century secularist freethinking pioneers of family planning. Hosted in Conway Hall’s historic Library, this talk will accompany a unique display, featuring a fascinating collection of documents from the National Secular Society’s archive, associated with Charles Bradlaugh’s and Annie Besant’s 1877 trial for republishing Charles Knowlton’s pioneering […]
Flowers of the Seasons: Politics, Power & Poverty
Join Electric Voice Theatre and music historian Oskar Jensen for an informal evening of songs, poetry and story-telling at Conway Hall’s historic Library, celebrating the music of Eliza Flower (1803–1846) in the context of her contemporaries, Franz Schubert and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. This is a unique opportunity to be among the first people to hear her […]
Autumn Season Ticket 2023
Enjoy a 15% discount off admission to all Sunday Concerts in the Autumn Season when you buy a Season Ticket. This season we will present an offering of well-loved repertoire, including Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms, as well as the works of a number of excellent but unsung composers, among them Madeleine Dring, Josephine Lang […]
Grassroots Protest – Activism from Below
Change begins from below. Conway Hall and Bloomsbury Festival host two grassroots activists as they describe their protests and outcomes of their campaigning. Join Leila Hassan and Andy Worthington, as they discuss marching against racism in the 1980s, protesting the New Cross Fire murders, seeking justice for British Guantanamo detainees and much more. Leila Hassan […]
She Who Struggles – Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World
Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones, and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao, and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men. In this talk, activists Sorcha Thomson and Marral Shamshiri set the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the […]
Thinking in Pictures – Adventures in Trying to be Smart
Why think in pictures? Short answer: because the words seem to need help. If you sample the many big ideas books to hit the shelves recently, they all promise a smarter, more rational you. But if the books are that good, why are there so many? Using illustrations and photographs, Michael Blastland shows how pictures […]
Free and Equal – What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
Taking a humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, Daniel Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for a progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better. Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it – rich or poor, man or woman, gay […]
CANCELLED: Hysterical – Exploring the Myth of Gendered Emotions
*We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the speaker being unwell.*