Events
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23rd May - 2nd June 2013
Profile authors at Hay Festival 2013 -
23nd May - 2nd June 2013
Polly Morland, Renata Salecl at How The Light Gets In philosophy festival -
26th May 2013
Alex Danchev on Cézanne at the Charleston Festival -
26th May 2013
Simon Garfield presents On the Map at Brighton Festival 2013 -
Thursday 20th June
Tony Juniper at Bristol Festival of Ideas -
2nd June 2013
Simon Garfield at London Literature Festival 13 -
Sunday 16th June
Sam Leith at Borders Book Festival -
Thursday 13th June, 2013
Renata Salecl at TEDGlobal 2013 -
Wednesday 12th June
Bernie Krause TEDGlobal talk -
Monday 13th June
Jonathan Dimbleby at the National Army Museum -
Sunday 23 June
Andrew Martin on Travel Around London at Kings Place -
Sunday 23 June
Simon Garfield at Proms at St Jude’s -
Sunday 23rd June
Simon Garfield & Chris Schüler: Mapping the World -
Monday 24 June
Not a Day for Soundbites: The Craft of the Political Speech -
30th June 2013
Polly Morland at Chalke Valley History Festival 2013 -
Tuesday 2nd July
David Hendy at Bristol Festival of Ideas -
Thursday 4th July
Victoria Glendinning at Beaminster Festival
‘Calories and Corsets’ – the antidote to New Year New You
09 January 2012
Feeling the excesses of Christmas a little too keenly? You are not alone! Dieting has been an obsission for over 2,000 years. Award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft has been making readers think twice about their new year’s resolutions this week with the launch of her ‘amusing and illuminating’ (Sunday Times) Calories and Corsets: A History of dieting over 2,000 years.
See her on BBC Online’s Meet the Author, read about the first celebrity dieter at the BBC News Magazine, the weirdest diets ever at the New Scientist and We Love This Book and get an overview of the alarming and fascinating history of slimming over at the Express.
Louise is appearing at the School of Life on Thursday 12 January to discuss the ‘battle of the bulge’ through the ages.
More info and tickets on the website.
