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  • Andrew Martin at London Transport Museum Friday Lates

    17th May 2013

    Visitors can enjoy twilight tours of the Museum’s latest exhibition Poster Art 150 – London Underground’s Greatest Designs, and listen to author Andrew Martin discussing his latest book Underground, Overground - an anecdotal and humorous take on the...


  • Profile authors at Hay Festival 2013

    23rd May - 2nd June 2013

    Hay Festival in Wales celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. This year the festival will run from...


  • Lucy Moore on Nijinksky at Museum at Nights event

    17th May 2013

    Nijinsky is considered the best male ballet dancer of the 20th century. The evening will be chaired by the Senior Lecturer of Dance at the University of Northampton and will feature a demonstration of ballet...


  • Victoria Glendinning at the Charleston Book Festival

    18th May 2013

    Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) and General Gordon (1833-1885) were maverick Imperialists, powerful and successful men of action, yet both their endings were sad. Victoria Glendinning’s ‘marvellously readable, personally illuminating and highly entertaining’ (The Guardian) life...


  • Jonathan Dimbleby at Fowey Festival

    18th May 2013

    Jonathan Dimbleby will be giving an illustrated talk about his acclaimed book Destiny in the Desert and about his career in the media, after which there will be an opportunity to ask him questions. Visit the...


  • Polly Morland talks to Peter Tatchell at Bristol Festival of Ideas

    19th May 2013

    Are brave people somehow fundamentally different from the rest of us, or is courage something that we can learn? In 1942 a pianist from Manhattan convened the inaugural meeting of an extraordinary new fraternity, which...


  • Polly Morland: How To Be Brave at The School of Life

    21st May 2013

    In the 1940s a New York pianist called together fellow performers suffering from stage fright to form a fraternity they called The Society of Timid Souls. Its aim was to dissolve their fear. It was...


  • Polly Morland, Renata Salecl at How The Light Gets In philosophy festival

    23nd May - 2nd June 2013

    Polly Morland, author of The Society of Timid Souls will be speaking at three events during How The Light Gets In philosophy festival which takes place in Hay on Wye, from 23nd May to 2nd June 2013. Polly’s...


  • Simon Garfield at London Literature Festival 13

    2nd June 2013

    Maps fascinate many of us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google...


  • Renata Salecl at TEDGlobal 2013

    Thursday 13th June, 2013

    Few sensations feel better than when your mind does a backflip and, all of a sudden, you are suddenly able to see things in new and unexpected ways. At TEDGlobal 2013, themed “Think Again,” you’ll...



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