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24-04-2023

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Throughout history, people have sought to reduce suffering, eliminate disease and enhance desirable qualities in their children. In the Victorian era eugenics, a full-blooded attempt to impose control over unruly biology, began to grow among the powerful and quickly spread to dozens of countries around the world. But these ideas are not merely historical: today, with new gene editing techniques, conversations are happening about tinkering with the DNA of our unborn children to make them smarter, fitter, stronger. Control offers a vital account of one of the defining – and most destructive – ideas of the 20th century.

Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at UCL and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the Radio 4 programme Inside Science.

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26-04-2023

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Did you know that you can find north by looking at the bark of a London Plane tree? Or that the veins on a leaf can help you find water?

In How to Read a Tree, you’ll discover the signs trees are giving you about their past and the landscape that surrounds it. And you’ll learn rare skills that can be applied every time you pass a tree, whether you are in a town or a wilder spot.

As the author of the international bestsellers The Walker’s Guide and How to Read Water, Tristan Gooley knows how to uncover the phenomena worth looking for. He has been instructing people in the art of reading trees for two decades. Unlike other books of this ilk, Tristan shifts the focus to what you can see. Once you have learned to see these things it is impossible to unsee them – you will never look at a tree the same way again!

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10-05-2023

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Jane Lovett is known for her straightforward, speedy recipes that work equally well for midweek suppers as they do for easy (and stress-free) entertaining.
Her latest book Deliciously Simple is a collection of over 100 recipes – from starters to puddings, with everything in between – which are deceptively straightforward without any compromise on taste, and all with an emphasis on speed.

From flash in the pan suppers (spicy coconut chicken); to recipes where the oven does all the work (haddock, potato and fennel traybake); along with sharing platters (cheat’s Coronation chicken, roasted spiced cauliflower with butternut squash and maftoul salad); these are all recipes that are sure to become firm family favourites, and save you time whilst keeping flavour at the heart of every recipe.

Jane will be demonstrating a recipe from her book at this event.

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08-06-2023

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Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII’s six wives, she has inspired books, documentaries and films, and is the subject of intense debate even today, almost 500 years after her violent death. Dramatic though this story is, of even greater interest – and significance – is the relationship between Anne and her daughter, the future Elizabeth I.

Elizabeth was less than three years old when her mother was executed. There is compelling evidence that her mother exerted a profound influence on her character, beliefs and reign. Piecing together evidence from original documents and artefacts, Tracy Borman tells the story of Anne Boleyn’s relationship with, and influence over her daughter Elizabeth. In so doing, it sheds new light on two of the most famous and influential women in history.

Tracy Borman is joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust.

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19-04-2021

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Acclaimed by Philip Larkin as the era’s own Jane Austen, this engrossing and shrewdly observed biography of Barbara Pym is the first to make full use of the Pym archives and sheds dramatic new light on both Pym the woman and the writer.

She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at her most sophisticated. She became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, with an unparalleled ability for revealing the inner workings of domestic life. But who was Barbara Pym and why is this English writer – one of the great chroniclers of the human heart – not more widely known?

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym brings Pym back to centre-stage as one of the great English novelists: a courageous writer and brave woman with a hilarious sense of fun.

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