The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk from Here to There
Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. By 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes. It is Jack’s hope that the result, his book The […]
Autism and ADHD: Living and Loving on the Spectrum
** In person tickets for this event have now SOLD OUT – livestream tickets are still available ** There are way more autistic and ADHD, and many other neurodivergent people, out there. As diagnosis increases, society is getting an ever-deepening understanding of the differing minds within us. This Ethical Matters conversation brings together autistic and […]
Polly Toynbee – My Family and Other Radicals
While for generations Polly Toynbee‘s ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own […]
Travellers Through Time: A Gypsy History
Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; Jeremy Harte vividly portrays the hardships of the travelling life, the skills of woodland crafts, the colourful artistic traditions, the mysteries of a lost language and the flamboyant displays of weddings and funerals, which are all still present in this secretive […]
V: A Celebration of the Vulva and Vagina
Florence Schechter, creator of the world’s first Vagina Museum, is here to take you on a journey towards celebrating, understanding, and appreciating your (or someone else’s) vagina. And once you set off, you’ll never look back. She wants you to be ready to talk about the vulva shame-free, to discover art that admires the vulva and […]
The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain
Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Developing through the Ethical Union (1896), the Rationalist Press Association (1899), the British Humanist Association (1963) and Humanists UK (2017), Humanists sought to reduce religious privilege but increase humanitarian compassion and human rights. After pioneering legislation on blasphemy laws, […]
Art and Artificial Intelligence
In June 2022, Cosmopolitan revealed its cover for its AI issue. The image was generated by an artificial intelligence app and ‘Only took twenty seconds.’ The excitement about the possibilities of AI creativity became balanced with the ethical and creative concerns about how these images are generated and what it means for the future of […]
Tony Robinson Meets Peter Frankopan
Rich soil and bumper harvests have built empires. Drought and famine have fanned the flames of war and rebellion. Storms and floods, earthquakes and eruptions have buried civilisations. The way that humans have interacted with the natural world and with the climate has shaped and will change our world – but this story has gone […]
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
In 2020, statues across the world were pulled down in an extraordinary wave of global iconoclasm. From the United States and the United Kingdom to Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, India, Bangladesh, and New Zealand, Black Lives Matter protests defaced and hauled down statues of slaveholders, Confederates, and imperialists. Edward Colston was hurled into the […]