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Wednesday 8 May at 7.30 pm
Charles Holland
How to Enjoy Architecture
In conversation with Travis Elborough
Thursday 16 May at 7.30 pm
Viv Groskop
One Ukrainian Summer
In conversation with Olia Hercules
Wednesday 29 May at 7.30 pm
Iain Sinclair
Pariah Genius
In conversation with John Rogers
Friday 31 May at 7.30 pm
Salena Godden
With Love, Grief and Fury
Wednesday 5 June at 7.30 pm
Laura Laker
Potholes and Pavements
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Conway Hall in person and online events supported by Newham Bookshop
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Sunday 28 April at 3 pm
Ethical Matters: The
Evolution Of Nostalgia
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Nostalgia
A History of a Dangerous Emotion
Wednesday 15 May at 6.30 pm
Ethical Matters: Abolish
the Super Rich?
Grace Blakeley
Vulture Capitalism
Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and
the Death of Freedom
Wednesday 15 May at 6.30 pm
Ethical Matters: Abolish
the Super Rich?
Luke Hildyard
Enough
Why It’s Time to
Abolish the Super-Rich
Sunday 19 May at 3 pm
Ethical Matters: The Price
of Life: In Search
of What We’re Worth
Jenny Kleeman
The Price of Life
In Search of What We’re
Worth and Who Decides
Sunday 2 June at 3 pm
Ethical Matters: The Undesirables:
The Law that Locked
Away a Generation
Sarah Wise
The Undesirables
The Law that Locked
Away a Generation
Saturday 22 June from 12 noon to 6 pm
London Fortean Society: Conspiracy
Theory and Culture
James Ball
The Other Pandemic
How QAnon Contaminated the World
Saturday 22 June from 12 noon to 6 pm
London Fortean Society: Conspiracy
Theory and Culture
Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge
Conspiracy
A History of Boll*cks Theories, and
How Not to Fall for Them
Saturday 22 June from 12 noon to 6 pm
London Fortean Society: Conspiracy
Theory and Culture
Chris French
The Science of Weird Shit
Why Our Minds
Conjure the Paranormal
Past events this year – most recent first
Past event held on Monday 15 April
London Fortean Society: The
Grand Illusion: Fighting the
Nazis with the Occult
Syd Moore
The Grand Illusion
Past event held on Wednesday 10 April
London Fortean Society: Haunted
London: Ghosts of The
British Museum and Bloomsbury
Noah Angell
Ghosts of the British Museum
A True Story of Colonial
Loot and Restless Objects
Past event held on Wednesday 10 April
London Fortean Society: Haunted
London: Ghosts of The
British Museum and Bloomsbury
Roger Luckhurst
Gothic
An Illustrated History
Past event held on Wednesday 10 April
London Fortean Society: Haunted
London: Ghosts of The
British Museum and Bloomsbury
Roger Luckhurst
The Mummy’s Curse
The true history of a dark fantasy
Past event held on Sunday 7 April
Ethical Matters: How Did We Talk Our
Way Out of the Stone Age?
Steven Mithen
The Language Puzzle
How We Talked Our Way
Out of the Stone Age
Past event held on Sunday 24 March
Ethical Matters: The Secret
History of Female Sleuths
Caitlin Davies
Private Inquiries
The Secret History
of Female Sleuths
Past event held on Thursday 21 March
Chris Packham, Lucy Siegle and
Lynne Jones discuss protest, the
climate and nature crises
Lynne Jones
Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency
The Nonviolent Struggle for
Our Planet’s Future
Past event held on Thursday 21 March
Chris Packham, Lucy Siegle and
Lynne Jones discuss protest, the
climate and nature crises
Chris Packham and Andrew Cohen
Earth
Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Past event held on Thursday 21 March
Chris Packham, Lucy Siegle and
Lynne Jones discuss protest, the
climate and nature crises
Lucy Siegle
Be the Ultimate Friend of the Earth
100 Questions to Boost Your
Climate and Nature IQ
Past event held on Tuesday 19 March
Reweirding: The Road: All That
Has Arisen Along the Way
Christopher Hadley
The Road
A Story of Romans and
Ways to the Past
Past event held on Wednesday 13 March
Ethical Matters: Why Women Grow:
Radical Gardening and Growth
Alice Vincent
Why Women Grow
Stories of Soil,
Sisterhood and Survival
Past event held on Wednesday 13 March
Ethical Matters: Why Women Grow:
Radical Gardening and Growth
Fiona Davison
An Almost Impossible Thing
Past event held on Thursday 7 March
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf:
Derek Gow In Conversation
Derek Gow
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf
The lost history of wolves
in Britain and the myths
and stories that surround them
Past event held on Sunday 3 March
Ethical Matters: Who Owns the Moon?
A.C. Grayling
Who Owns the Moon?
In Defence of Humanity’s
Common Interests in Space
Past event held on Sunday 25 February
Ethical Matters The Passengers: an
Oral History of Now
Will Ashon
The Passengers
Past event held on Sunday 4 February
Ethical Matters: Beyond the Hype:
Inside Science’s Biggest Media Scandals
From Climategate to Covid
Fiona Fox
Beyond the Hype
Inside Science’s Biggest
Media Scandals from
Climategate to Covid
Past event held on Sunday 7 January
Ethical Matters: Why Black
Lives in Britain Matter
Tomiwa Owolade
This is Not America
Why Black Lives in Britain Matter