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Friday, 16 October 2026 at 18:00
SOAS University of London / KLT
History talks in London
129 upcoming History talks, debates, and seminars
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Friday, 16 October 2026
Discourse: CERN - the past, present and future
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 18:20
Speaker: Mark Thomson
Royal Institution Theatre, LondonThe Architecture of Lies – Panel Discussion
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Mariusz Szczygieł, Stanley Bill, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJIn Conversation with Mariusz Szczygieł
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Professor Stanley Bil
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
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, HolbornThe Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present (Symposium)
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeDid Neanderthals hum? The musicality of early humans
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Steven Mithen
Royal InstitutionReforming the British royal family: how the House of Windsor can survive the 21st century
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Andrew Lownie
London School of Economics
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Book Talk: 'We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West' with Dr Hanna Notte
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Hanna Notte
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonItinerant Sailors and Displaced Ayahs - The West India Docks During Wartime
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryThe Purpose of Parahistory in Postsocialist Vietnam
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01The good, the black and the boujee: how black Britain became middle class
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Symeon Brown, Aamna Mohdin, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Coretta Phillips
London School of EconomicsMichael Lewis: Blockers
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis
Royal Festival HallMichael Lewis on Musk, Trump and the Deep State
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis, Elizabeth Day
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
London’s Villages: Deptford
FreeWednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall Library'Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity', Coleen Morgan (Carena Seminar)
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: 'Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity', Coleen Morgan (Carena Seminar)
21 October 202615:30—17:00
Thursday, 22 October 2026
Barbon and the First Fire Insurance
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryBetween History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 15:30
Speaker: Between History and Memory: Writing Speculative Lives
22 October 202614:30—17:00The Naval War in the Baltic, 1914-1915
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Mark Harris
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonPlato on Truth, Lies and Power
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeSlow Looking: Jameisha Prescod on Frida Kahlo
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 19:00
Tate ModernTalk 90sto Me Normski, Vinca Petersen & Poulomi Desai
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 19:00
Tate BritainPalestine. The expansion of the Prison Web
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Dr. Stéphanie Latte Abdallah
OnlineAn Evening with Pachinko author Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Min Jin Lee
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AGAn Evening with Pachinko author Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Min Jin Lee
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Friday, 23 October 2026
Saturday, 24 October 2026
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Monday, 26 October 2026
Book talk: 'Twelve Days that Shook the Middle East'
Monday, 26 October 2026 at 18:30
Paul Webley Wing, Senate House, SOAS / Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)Women of the world unite: the UN Decade for Women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now
Monday, 26 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Sumi Madhok, Durba Mitra, Imaobong Umoren, SM Rodriguez
London School of Economics and Political Science
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
"Houses of health" and monastic infirmaries: communal health in premodern South and Southeast Asia
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 12:00
OnlineFrida: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Talk
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 13:00
Tate ModernThe Art and Scandalous Lives of the Bloomsbury Group
FreeTuesday, 27 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryBook Talk: 'Minutes of Empire Dutch West India Company Politics, 1618–1648' with Prof Alexander B. Bick
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 18:15
Speaker: Prof Alexander B. Bick
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonMaking sense of the many Chinas: a dialogue between Xiaolu Guo and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 19:00
Paul Webley Wing / Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
In-Person Only: History and Treasures of Guildhall Library (Halloween)
FreeWednesday, 28 October 2026 at 14:00
Guildhall LibraryHarold Moody Lecture 2026/2027
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Her Excellency Toyin Ojora Saraki
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonAround the World with Indian Cinema
FreeWednesday, 28 October 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeLubaina Himid in conversation
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Lubaina Himid RA, CBE, Louisa Buck
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens and online
Thursday, 29 October 2026
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Saturday, 31 October 2026
Monday, 2 November 2026
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