Previous events
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JUN 27
Book Launch: Not Guilty - A New Oral History
Join us as we celebrate the publication of Not Guilty: Queer Stories from a Century of Discrimination by Sue Elliott and Steve Humphries. Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 changed that in part, sparking a chain of social reforms that altered the face of British society for ever. But it was only the beginning...
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JUN 21
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World
Post-truth is bigger than fake news and social media. This is the story of bullshit: what’s being spread, why it works – and how we can tackle it.
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JUN 16
Spring Mischief Festival: R&D Work in Progress Sharing - #WeAreArrested
The R&D work in progress sharings are a chance to see inside the creative engine room of The Other Place where the RSC explores new ideas and exciting theatrical opportunities. Our sharings for the festival include #WeAreArrested written by journalist Can Dündar. This is his enthralling account of his arrest and subsequent exile from Turkey following his newspaper’s decision...
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JUN 08
Fact, Fiction And The Rise Of Fake News
Last year saw a vote for Brexit, the election of Trump as US President and an unprecedented rise of fake news. Mulling over actual vs alternative facts, author James Ball, comedian Dara Ó Briain, experimental psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky, NASA’s former Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan and writer and producer Eliane Glaser attempt to make sense of the dawn of a post...
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JUN 06
E. J. Clery at John Smith Southampton
Emma Clery is a professor here at Southampton University and specialises in Eighteenth Century Literature. She has a captivating new book that gives an intriguing and fresh insight into the world of Jane Austen. Emma is a well-respected expert in this field and already has a few book titles under her belt including the best-seller The Rise of Supernatural...
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MAY 13
Ann Clwyd at Waterstones Cardiff
During these exciting and uncertain political times, Waterstones are hugely excited and proud to host an event with Welsh Labour Party politican Ann Clwyd, who will be in store promoting her book 'Rebel With a Cause' Saturday afternoon.
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APR 19
The Summer of Brexit: Harry Mount in conversation with Joy Lo Dico
In the three short weeks between the EU referendum on 23 June and Theresa May’s entrance to Downing Street on 13 July, Brexit morphed into a murderous monster, swallowing David Cameron and George Osborne whole. Michael Gove stabbed fellow Brexiteer, Boris Johnson, squarely in the back, while Jeremy Corbyn was deserted by more than twenty Shadow Cabinet...
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MAR 05
Matti Friedman at Jewish Book Week
In an astute and moving exposé of war’s futility – part memoir, part reportage – award-winning writer and journalist Matti Friedman, in conversation with Hugo Rifkind recounts in his nonfiction work Pumpkinflowers the fate that befell an Israeli military outpost on the Lebanese borders in the 1990s. A lyrical yet devastating insight into the day-to-day...
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JAN 19
Is Anything Happening? An Evening with Robin Lustig in conversation with Rosie Goldsmith
During a career spanning more than forty years, the award-winning journalist and broadcaster Robin Lustig has lived in, worked in and reported from more than eighty countries. He was in Berlin on the day Germany was re-unified, and in Moscow for the final day of the Soviet Union. He also met some of the world's most revered, and reviled, political leaders...
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DEC 12
Book launch of Black Flag Down, with author Liam Byrne and Michael Gove
The New Statesman presents: Exclusive book launch of Black Flag Down – featuring a riveting debate on the battle against ISIS with author Liam Byrne MP and Michael Gove MP. Liam Byrne warns the Government must not 'dither in the face of danger’ as a ‘new age of ISIS’ threatens Britain. He makes this compelling case in a new book, Black Flag Down, which...
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