The story of birds: From the Jurassic to today
Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steve Brusatte
Royal Institution
History talks in London
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Saturday, 26 September 2026
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Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature
FreeWednesday, 30 September 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Professor Marion Turner
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornScreening + Q&A: Palestine 36
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Billy Howle, Leila Molana-Allen
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Ancient Korean Culture & Architecture
Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 12:00
Speaker: You Hong-june, Director of the National Museum of Korea.
Senate House, SOAS University of London / Senate Chamber (S219)Book Talk: 'Asian Crucible: Globalisation, Geopolitics and the Contest for the Future' with Prof Nick Bisley
Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Prof Nick Bisley
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonShakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language
FreeThursday, 1 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín
Barnard's Inn HallAmerica as a revisionist power (and what it means for the rest of the world)
Thursday, 1 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Phillips O'Brien, Peter Trubowitz
London School of Economics (LSE)
Saturday, 3 October 2026
Monday, 5 October 2026
What is the Purpose of Yoga: Transcendence or Transformation?
FreeMonday, 5 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Professor Sir Jim Mallinson
Barnard's Inn HallAmerican Overthrow: Moscow’s Endgame in Its Long War with Washington
Monday, 5 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Keir Giles
Bush House North East Wing, Room 1.03, Strand Campus, London
Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Frida: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Talk
Tuesday, 6 October 2026 at 13:00
Tate ModernWilliam Tyndale
FreeTuesday, 6 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryExplorations in South and Southeast Asian photography: A roundtable discussion on three ongoing research projects
Tuesday, 6 October 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now
Tuesday, 6 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now
6 October 202618:30—20:00
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories
Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / Wolfson Lecture TheatreBeno Rothenberg Memorial Lecture 2026: From Mine to Masterpiece
Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Dr Siran Liu
What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century
FreeWednesday, 7 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Volker Remmert
Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Man’s Real Best Friend: Horses, Art and History
FreeThursday, 8 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryUnveiling Vermeer: The Man and his Masterpieces, with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RLUnveiling Vermeer: The Man and his Masterpieces, with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Conway HallUnveiling Vermeer: The Man and his Masterpieces, with Andrew Graham-Dixon
Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RLPrize Money in Nelson’s Navy
FreeThursday, 8 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Grahame Aldous
King's Building, Strand Campus, London
Friday, 9 October 2026
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Monday, 12 October 2026
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
The People's Emperor:The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III
FreeTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryInside the World of The Beatles, with Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon & Tom Holland
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Gary Kemp, Simon Halfon, Tom Holland
Conway Hall, Main Hall
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Kate Hill
Barnard's Inn Hall‘Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum ...
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeCourts and Constitutions: Judicial Review 250 Years After Independence
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Prof David Feldman and Denis Edwards
UCL LawsCollections Focus: Crime Broadsides
FreeWednesday, 14 October 2026 at 18:00
Guildhall Library
Thursday, 15 October 2026
The Turner Prize
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryA History of the World in Four Algorithms
FreeThursday, 15 October 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Sarah Hart
Binks Hall, St John's College DurhamBook Talk: 'Peace Makers: Shaping the modern world - the men and women of the Foreign Office in WWII' by Lord Peter Ricketts
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:45
Speaker: Lord Peter Ricketts
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonTransmission as a Creative Act: Pluriversalizing contemporary art’s relationship/s to the past
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS and Online / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Lower Ground FloorIconic Women of the Hayward Gallery
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:45
Purcell RoomLeslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 20:00
Speaker: Corrêa do Lago, Antonio Patriota
King's Building, Strand Campus, London
Friday, 16 October 2026
Saturday, 17 October 2026
Monday, 19 October 2026
Why Europe Needs to Take Back the Diversity Principle: From Humboldt and Mill to America's Diversity
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 13:00
'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
TBCThe Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Melissa Lane, Quentin Skinner, Jane Shaw
Barnard's Inn Hall, HolbornDid Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steven Mithen
Royal InstitutionThe Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham College
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