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Past Events

Here are the most recent events we had listed at Royal Geographical Society, to give you a flavour of what goes on there

November

  • Damien Lewis: SAS The Great Train Raid

September

  • Speaking My Mind - Leo Varadkar
  • Robert Macfarlane Meets Elif Shafak - Rivers of Life
  • Professor Tim Spector - The Life Changing Power Of Microbes

July

  • Al Murray and James Holland - Victory ‘45
  • Trump 2.0 Will Make The World A Safer Place
  • Dexys' Kevin Rowland - A Life Story In Conversation

May

  • Caroline Darian, Daughter of Gisèle Pelicot - Live In Conversation
  • The Iranian Embassy Siege - The True Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama Ben Macintyre
  • Robert Macfarlane

March

  • Yung Pueblo - How To Love Better Diego Perez
  • Philippa Perry Meets Becky Barnicoat - On Parenting
  • Poetry Pharmacy - Live!
  • Courtney Love and Todd Almond - On Bob Dylan

February

  • Sahil Bloom: The 5 Types of Wealth
  • Tom Holland: The Lives of the Caesars

January

  • Sathnam Sanghera: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
  • Sara Davies: How to be an Entrepreneur

December 2024

  • Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins in A Very Merry Hitchmas
  • Marcus Wareing - On Food and Life
  • Gyles Brandreth: A Magical Tour of Our Mother Tongue

November 2024

  • Winston Churchill - The 150th Anniversary

October 2024

  • Rebecca Kuang – Yellowface

September 2024

  • David Olusoga and Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire Professor David Olusoga
  • Oliver Burkeman, Author of Four Thousand Weeks - How to Make Time for What Counts
  • Nate Silver - Live in Conversation

June 2024

  • Fareed Zakaria – The Age of Revolutions
  • Naomi Klein – Into the Mirror World

March 2023

  • Gordon Buchanan - 30 Years In The Wild

September 2022

  • Saba Douglas-Hamilton - In The Footsteps Of Elephants

December 2019

  • One Wild Night with Steve Backshall & Friends

May 2019

  • Edward W. Said London Lecture: Is Justice Still Possible?

April 2019

  • Huw Cordey, Patrick Morris, Stephen Sackur

December 2018

  • How To Change The World Conference 2018

October 2018

  • Galapagos Day 2018: Conservation Breakthroughs and Innovations

July 2018

  • An Evening With Christo

March 2018

  • Amira Hass
  • Simon Armitage
  • Geographical Journeys: Microlectures
  • Sarah Dunant, Bettany Hughes, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb

February 2018

  • Discovering Places: Georgia
  • Henry Rollins

January 2018

  • Works on Paper Fair James Alexander-Sinclair, Bunny Guiness, Tom Stuart-Smith, Joe Swift, Cleve West…

November 2017

  • Climbing Mount Everest film screening
  • Professor Alice Roberts

October 2017

  • Liz Bonnin
  • British Wine Tasting
  • Steve Backshall
  • Sir Ranulph Fiennes

September 2017

  • Chris Packham

July 2017

  • John Sergeant
  • Mike Gunton, Fredi Devas

June 2017

  • Cuban Nights Summer Garden Party

May 2017

  • Preservation During Conflict: Seizing The Moment To Protect The Middle East’s Cultural Heritage

April 2017

  • Naomi Wilkinson

March 2017

  • Geographical Journeys Microlectures
  • Discovering People Shappi Khorsandi

February 2017

  • Discovering Places Travel Evening: Papua New Guinea

November 2016

  • Sir David Tang, Andrew Marr
  • Steve Backshall
  • Discovering Places: Kazakhstan Nick Fielding

October 2016

  • Finding Franklin - Searching And Science In The Canadian Arctic Andrew Lambert

September 2016

  • Oliver Curtis: Volte-Face

June 2016

  • Space Party
  • Life Off The Ladder
  • Emerald Street Literary Festival

May 2016

  • Discovering Senegal
  • Saving Shackleton’s and Scott’s Huts
  • Gardens Illustrated Talk
  • Michaela Strachan
  • Saba Douglas-Hamilton

April 2016

  • Clumps & Concrete: 300 years of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
  • Neil MacGregor

March 2016

  • World Monuments Fund: The World’s Largest Archaeological Project

February 2016

  • Works On Paper Fair
  • The 5x15 Food Fight George Monbiot

January 2016

  • Caitlin Moran, Jo Brand, Sandi Toksvig, Catherine Mayer

November 2015

  • Heritage & Conflict: Syria’s Battle to Protect its Past
  • Roger Harrabin

October 2015

  • Mary Beard

September 2015

  • Sarah Weldon
  • Lord Adonis, Pippa Crerar , Bridget Rosewell OBE, Jules Pipe CBE

May 2015

  • Gardens Illustrated Lecture

March 2015

  • Made In Britain?

February 2015

  • Through The Poeple's Lens: Talk
  • Through The People's Lens
  • Laurie Lee – The Artist

October 2014

  • Air Quality For All
  • Wildscreen Photography Festival
  • Thomas Heatherwick
  • Discovering Cuba
  • Monty Don

September 2014

  • Open Bethlehem: Melvyn Bragg interviews Leila Sansour
  • Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Karren Brady, Mike Goody, Mick Ebeling , Pam Warhurst
  • The Sustainable Retail Debate
  • Professor Brian Cox

June 2014

  • Leo Hollis

May 2014

  • Gardens Illustrated Talk

April 2014

  • Michael Lewis , Dominic Lawson
  • Homes And Antiques Reader Lecture

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