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Past Events
Here are the most recent events we had listed at The Idler Academy, to give you a flavour of what goes on there
October 2013
- Dr Matthew Green
December 2012
- Mike Grenier, Carl Honoré
November 2012
- David Bramwell
- John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Leni Neumann, Tim Ackroyd
- Barney Hoskyns on Led Zeppelin
- Crispin Hunt
October 2012
- John Tallents
- Lucia Stuart
- Boff Whalley
- Oliver James
- Lucia Stuart
- Dominic West, Jim Mallinson
September 2012
- Robin Harford
- Will Self
- Introduction to Bluetongue Harmonica
August 2012
- Nicholas Lezard
July 2012
- Geza Fabri, Tunde Ivanovics
- The Forgotten Woman, Attracta Courtney
- Sunday School For Adults With Mark Vernon
June 2012
- Craig D Lyons
- Hugh Barker
- Cooking with Flowers: A Father's Day Event With Lucia Stuart
- Harry Mount
- Robin Harford
May 2012
- Wine Tasting With Rowley Leigh
- Candythief
- Michael Horovitz, Molly Parkin, Adam Horovitz, Sophie Parkin
- Hugh Warwick
- Hidden History of Glamour Part Two
- Robin Harford
- The Ministry of Angels: Celestial Music, Society of Strange & Ancient Musical Instruments
- Charles Hazlewood
- Alex Williams, Liz Hodgkinson, Naim Attallah
April 2012
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Dr Richard Barnett
- Stephen Taylor
- Robin Harford
- The Africa Series: Tusk Trust, Sir Timothy Ackroyd
- The Art of Cloud Collecting
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney
- Michael Tyack, Jennifer Bennett, Tom Hodgkinson
- The Africa Series: African Stories, Sir Timothy Ackroyd
March 2012
- The Africa Series: The Battle of Isandhlwana, Sir Timothy Ackroyd
- Mike Lousada
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Brian Sewell, Sir Timothy Ackroyd
- Cooking with Flowers: A Tea Time Event
- Art Lecture: Marianne Stokes (1855-1927), Magdalen Evans
- Toby Young
- Michael Tyack, Danny Wootton, Jennifer Bennett, The Idler Ukulele Orchestra
- Marina Warner
February 2012
- The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Evening of Rhetoric with Sam Leith
- Wine Masterclass: Wines for Valentines
- Roman Krznaric
- Sarah Bakewell
- David Bramwell
January 2012
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Wine Masterclass: Natural Wines - Justin Knock MW
- Jessica Douglas-Home
- Sandy Burnett
December 2011
- The Signalman by Charles Dickens
- Wine Tasting : Christmas Sparkle
- Ronald Hutton
- Will Self
- Jennifer Bennett
- Diddley Bow Workshop
- The Beauty of Transgression: A Berlin History
- Theo Simon
November 2011
- Sir Roy Strong
- Julia Neuberger
- Amphion Consort
- Alex Bellos
- John Nicholson
- What Is A Hedgehog With Hugh Warwick
- Mr Gwynne's Grammar Masterclass
- Wine Masterclass & Tasting: Pinot Noir
- John-Paul Flintoff
- Robert Bauval
- John Nicholson
- Dr Matthew Green
- Dr Mark Vernon
- David Bramwell
- Lucy Cooke
October 2011
- Giles Abbott
- Ukulele Course with Danny Wootton
- Iain Sinclair
- Louis Theroux
- Robin Harford
- Wine Masterclass & Tasting: Chardonnay
- John Nicholson
- Tamsin Thorne
- Robin Harford
- Noel 'Razor' Smith
- Timothy Ackroyd
- Louis Theroux
September 2011
- Michael Tyack