Picturing Nonconformity: LGBT Humanist Heritage
Experience a landmark exhibition celebrating LGBT Humanists, revealing their rich archival holdings from Bishopsgate and Conway Hall. This printed ephemera will be complemented by LGBT artists’ illustrations of figures from further back in history whose religious, gender and sexual nonconformity inspires us today. Through photographs, news media, and ephemera of all kinds, the LGBT Humanists […]
Flag Institute Spring 2024 Conference
We’re delighted to announce the Flag Institute Spring 2024 Conference will be held in the Library Room, Conway Hall, on Saturday 18 May, 10am–4.30pm. Doors open at 9.30am. Tickets: £15. The programme will feature our usual mix of contemporary and historical vexillological presentations. SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED… Graham Bartram FFI FVAST, Chief Vexillologist, Flag Institute A […]
Sorry For The Inconvenience, But This Is A Climate Emergency
As floods, fires and unprecedented heatwaves rage across the planet, more and more people are turning to nonviolent action to achieve political change. Can it work? Join Chris Packham, Lucy Siegle, and Dr Lynne Jones at Conway Hall as they discuss protest and the climate crisis, marking the publication of Lynne’s book ‘Sorry for the […]
Pulsars, Microwave Ovens and the Radio Sky
There have been two major revolutions in how we look at the sky – the shift beyond the optical to other wavelengths, particularly the radio, and the increasing attention paid to how objects change over time. We start with the discovery of pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, explore how a microwave oven bamboozled astronomers, and […]
Haunted London: Ghosts of The British Museum and Bloomsbury
London is an old and ghost ridden city. Join the London Fortean Society for an evening of talks on the ghosts that haunt some of London’s most famous landmarks: The British Museum and Senate House. Noah Angell – Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects When artist and […]
How Geography Explains Our World with Tim Marshall and Ritula Shah
Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography. Marshall’s principal argument is that without geography we cannot understand the world. Geography explains why Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea: to […]
Debate: Save Our Private Schools!
Britain has an education system that perpetuates inequality. Seven per cent of its children go to private schools and yet these institutions receive around three times the funding per student as the average state school. Privately educated people then go on to dominate our elite institutions. They are seven times as likely to win a […]
The World in 2024 with Niall Ferguson: Crisis, Conflict and Consequences
‘The point of studying the past is to understand our present predicament’ – Niall Ferguson There are few big thinkers better placed to explain global events than historian Niall Ferguson. He has not just a profound understanding of past crises, but also an exceptional ability to map out the longer term impact that present crises […]
The Road to Ethics: Freethinkers, Radicals and Non-conformists
Join guide Julie Chandler for a walking tour and discover some of London’s ethical history, from the birth of the Ethical Movement to the rise of radical freethinking. Hear the stories of some of the people who championed controversial causes such as religious, sexual and political freedoms, women’s rights and secular education – Quakers, the […]