Events

Join Richard McLauchlan at the Boswell Book Festival as he discusses his new book, The Bagpipes.

Join Diana Darke as she discusses the themes of her new book, ‘Islamesque’, at the 2025 Lewes Speakers Festival.​ A Q&A session will follow.

Join the award-winning journalist and author Cathy Scott-Clark as she discusses her new book, ‘Russia’s Man of War’, at the 2025 Lewes Speakers Festival.​ A Q&A session will follow.

A family matter? Two historians, Mary Beard and Raphael Cormack, happen to be mother and son. Join them for an extraordinary exploration of their recent books — but also questions of why history is important and how you get into it.

Join Danny Dorling at Hay Festival for a talk about his ‘searing’ (Polly Toynbee) and ‘essential’ (The Observer) new book, ‘Seven Children’ – an immersive, surprising and thought-provoking analysis of children’s life chances in contemporary Britain.

Join author and historian Raphael Cormack as he explores death, religion, science and social crisis in his startling history of the occult between the world wars.

Join “A Drink with the Idler” as we chat to the Idler’s Head of Philosophy Mark Vernon about William Blake’s importance for today.