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Noam Chomsky @ British Library
The much admired linguist, author and public intellectual Professor Noam Chomsky appeared with journalist Jonathan Freedland at the British Library on 19th March 2013, for a wide-ranging discussion that began with a focus on political propaganda. Noam Chomsky spoke to a capacity crowd, and you know it’s a hot ticket when there are Oscar winning actors rubbing shoulders […]
Outsider II: Brian Sewell @ V & A
December 10, 2012
Art historian and Evening Standard critic Brian Sewell appeared in the V & A‘s gorgeous Lydia & Manfred Gorvy theatre on Friday 7th December, to promote the second instalment of his autobiography, Outsider II: Always Almost: Never Quite. Sewell entertained the audience with all the witty asides, personal snipes and colourful anecdotes that we have come to expect from the […]
Stellan Skarsgård @ Curzon
June 26, 2012
The prolific and versatile Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, star of films including Breaking the Waves, Taking Sides, and Mama Mia, was in London last week to promote his latest film, King of Devil’s Island. We caught up with him at a preview screening and Q & A at the Curzon Soho cinema. King of Devil’s Island is a small […]
IQ2: The Parthenon Marbles debate
June 12, 2012
Several hundred people gathered at Cadogan Hall last night, 11th June 2012, to hear a lively Intelligence Squared debate over the sculptures popularly known as the Elgin Marbles, which have been housed in the British Museum for just under 200 years. The topic was, ‘Send them back: the Parthenon marbles should be returned to Athens’. The debate (rather […]
Andrea Wulf @ Royal Society
May 10, 2012
A capacity crowd gathered to hear Andrea Wulf talk about her latest book, Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens, at the Royal Society library on Friday 4th May 2012. The podcast of Andrea Wulf’s lecture, which I highly recommend, will soon be available here. A transit of Venus is a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus […]
Claire Tomalin & John Carey @ LSE
March 6, 2012
This being the 200th anniversary of the birth of English national treasure Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), there are more celebratory London events going on than you can poke a stick at. The study of Dickens’ work was once considered unfashionable in academic circles, and he was dismissed as a popular entertainer. How times have changed! On Friday […]
The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour
April 16, 2011
The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour has become something of an institution in London. Running for many years in various locations and guises, it settled into its current home at the British Library in 2004, where readings are now held roughly once a month. Josephine Hart (below), an author with a background in the publishing world, hosts […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
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