Pulsars, Microwave Ovens and the Radio Sky
There have been two major revolutions in how we look at the sky – the shift beyond the optical to other wavelengths, particularly the radio, and the increasing attention paid to how objects change over time. We start with the discovery of pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, explore how a microwave oven bamboozled astronomers, and […]
Haunted London: Ghosts of The British Museum and Bloomsbury
London is an old and ghost ridden city. Join the London Fortean Society for an evening of talks on the ghosts that haunt some of London’s most famous landmarks: The British Museum and Senate House. Noah Angell – Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects When artist and […]
How Geography Explains Our World with Tim Marshall and Ritula Shah
Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography. Marshall’s principal argument is that without geography we cannot understand the world. Geography explains why Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea: to […]
Debate: Save Our Private Schools!
Britain has an education system that perpetuates inequality. Seven per cent of its children go to private schools and yet these institutions receive around three times the funding per student as the average state school. Privately educated people then go on to dominate our elite institutions. They are seven times as likely to win a […]
The World in 2024 with Niall Ferguson: Crisis, Conflict and Consequences
‘The point of studying the past is to understand our present predicament’ – Niall Ferguson There are few big thinkers better placed to explain global events than historian Niall Ferguson. He has not just a profound understanding of past crises, but also an exceptional ability to map out the longer term impact that present crises […]
The Road to Ethics: Freethinkers, Radicals and Non-conformists
Join guide Julie Chandler for a walking tour and discover some of London’s ethical history, from the birth of the Ethical Movement to the rise of radical freethinking. Hear the stories of some of the people who championed controversial causes such as religious, sexual and political freedoms, women’s rights and secular education – Quakers, the […]
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: Derek Gow In Conversation with Mary Colwell
Britain’s favourite maverick rewilding expert, Derek Gow, is joined by producer and campaigner Mary Colwell as he uncovers the mythology, mystery, and history of wolves in Britain in this lively in-conversation event and the launch of his new book, ‘Hunt for the Shadow Wolf.‘ Having helped return the beaver and many other lost species to […]
English Music Festival Gala Concert
Cellist Raphael Wallfisch, American tenor Brian Thorsett, violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Michael Dussek present a very special evening of music by leading British composers, to raise vital funds for the acclaimed English Music Festival. The English Music Festival was founded in 2004 to celebrate the music of British composers throughout the centuries with a […]
Archiving By Other Means: An Ethical Deconstruction of Filipa César’s Spell Reel
This Spring, Conway Hall is partnering with The CERA PROJECT to screen Filipa César’s award-winning documentary Spell Reel (2017). Winner of a José Saramago Foundation Award at Doclisboa International Film Festival, and screened at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, César’s film transports us to Guinea-Bissau through a post-colonial lens to revisit and reconstruct the revolutions of […]