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Previous Events
Library Event: Open House Festival
11:00am - 3:00pm
Sep
15
Gallery: Space and Light
Cuillin Bantock
Sep
13 - 26
Gallery: Jean Ramsey: Prints & Drawings
Jean Ramsey
Jul
5 - 18
Library Event: Open Day 22 June
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Jun
22
Film Society: Belfast
Dir. Kenneth Branagh
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Jun
13
Gallery: Parson’s Pleasure and the Ponds
Duncan Montgomery & George Townsend
Jun
7 - 20
Opera Circle: Great Scenes in Opera
Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Jun
5
Library Event: Library Tour
Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
May
31
Science Group: Solar Geoengineering
Alistair Duffey
8:00pm - 9:00pm
May
23
Film Society: Saint Omer
Dir. Alice Diop
7:30pm - 10:00pm
May
16
Gallery: A Walk with Laurie
Bodenpress
May
10 - 23
Opera Circle: The Barber of Seville
Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
1
Quiz: Quiz 2024
HLSI v Highgate Society
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Apr
30
Library Event: Library Tour
Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Apr
26
Library: Chess Group
Andrew Costeloe
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Apr
24
Film Society: The Quiet Girl
Dir. Colm Bairéad
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Apr
18
Lecture: Beethoven Variations
Ruth Padel
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
16
Gallery: The Heart has its Reasons: Three Painters in Conversation
Toby Wiggins, Andrew James, Anthony Connolly
Apr
12 - 25
Lecture: Animals and Us
Keggie Carew
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
9
Science Group: Gazing at the Ceiling
Jerome Wynne
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
28
Lecture: The Fashion Industry & climate change
Nadia Scullion
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
26
Debate: Allowing Physician-Assisted Dying is necessary and overdue
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Mar
21
Concert, Live at HLSI: Wiggin-Wass Duo
7:30pm - 9:40pm
Mar
20
Lecture: Katherine Mansfield and London
Claire Harman
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
19
Film Society: Utama
Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Mar
14
Lecture: Russia and the West: The Long War
Keir Giles
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
12
Gallery: Heckel’s Horse Jr.
Edgeworth Johnstone
Mar
8 - 21
Opera Circle: The Fairy-Queen
The Opera Circle with Dame Emma Kirkby and HGO's artistic team
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
6
Lecture: A Woman’s Life on the Road
Sara Wheeler
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
5
Science Group: Clinical Genetics
Dr Angela Barnicoat
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
29
Lecture: My Experience of the Digital Revolution
Mike Smith
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
27
Film Society: HFS Special: England, My England
Tony Palmer
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Feb
25
AGM: Members’ meeting
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Feb
23
Lecture: What is Life?
Paul Nurse
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
20
Film Society: Everything went fine (Tout s’est bien passé)
Dir. François Ozon
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Feb
15
Lecture: Financial Services for an Ageing Society
Debora Price
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
13
Gallery: Bringing It All Back Home
Philip Diggle
Feb
9 - 22
Opera Circle: The Force of Destiny
Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
7
Lecture: Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History
Jonathan Kennedy
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
6
Concert, Live at HLSI: The Asaka Quartet
7:30pm - 9:40pm
Jan
31
Lecture: 8000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike
Kate Rawles
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
30
Science Group: Mathematics education
Peter Whitehead
Jan
25
Lecture: The Iron Curtain Then and Now
Tim Phillips
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
23
Lecture: Justice for Women
Harriet Wistrich
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
16
Opera Circle: Madam Butterfly
Barry Mellor
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Jan
10
Lecture: It’s OK to be strange
Sarah Chaney
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
9
Lecture: HLSI Spring 2024 Lecture Season Online Booking
HLSI Lecture Committee
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
9
Library Event: Children’s Event: Rumpel-tinsel-skin
Brooke & Hannah
11:00am - 12:00pm
Dec
16
Library Event: Library Tour
Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Dec
15
Science Group: Mathematics Education in England
Jeremy Hodgen
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
14
Debate: The ‘Elgin Marbles’ should be returned to Greece – new date
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Dec
13
Lecture: How to speak Whale
Tom Mustill
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
12
Live at HLSI: Members’ Christmas Party
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Dec
8
Film Society: Operation Mincemeat
Dir. John Madden
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Dec
7
Opera Circle: Falstaff
Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
6
Lecture: Bringing Down Goliath
Jolyon Maugham
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
5
Science Group: Higher, Faster, Further
Jim Lloyd Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
30
Concert, Live at HLSI: Apollo5
7:30pm - 9:40pm
Nov
29
Lecture: Harold Wilson – cancelled – see new lecture details
Nick Thomas-Symonds
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
28
Lecture: The Barclay Dynasty
Jane Martinson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
28
Library Event: Library Tour
Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Nov
24
Lecture: Adam Smith Reconsidered
Dr Eamonn Butler
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
21
Gallery: King’s Cross – All Change
Marianne Fox Ockinga
Nov
17 - 30
Film Society: Lunana, a Yak in the Classroom
Dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Nov
16
Lecture: Confessions from a broadcasting career
Edward Stourton
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
14
Lecture: Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Hugh Brody
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
7
Opera Circle: Hansel & Gretel
Opera Circle and HGO’s artistic team
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
1
Lecture: Otherlands: A World in the Making
Thomas Halliday
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
31
Science Group: Space Exploration
David Parker
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
26
Lecture: Ten Thinking Mistakes
Kit Barton
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
24
Film Society: Casque D’Or
Dir. Jacques Becker
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Oct
19
Lecture: Mudlark’d: Hidden Histories from the River Thames
Malcolm Russell
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
17
Gallery: Beauty Amidst Hardship
Pamela Willoughby
Oct
13 - 26
Concert, Live at HLSI: Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
11
Lecture: The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story
Jessie Childs
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
10
Opera Circle: Don Giovanni
Robert Lloyd
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
4
Lecture: Puritans or Profligates?
Anne Summers
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
3
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Designer Maker Fair
Sep - Oct
29 - 1
Science Group: Search for the Source of the Nile
Barry Mellor
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
28
Lecture: How Woke Won
Joanna Williams
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
26
Film Society: Parallel Mothers
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Sep
21
Lecture: The Waste Land : A Biography of a Poem
Matthew Hollis
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
19
Lecture: HLSI Autumn 2023 Lecture Season Online Booking
The Lecture Committee
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep - Dec
19 - 12
Gallery: Transformations
Rosalind Whitman
Sep
15 - 28
Library Event: Children’s Storytelling
Brooke Dunbar
10:30am - 12:00pm
Sep
9
Library Event: Library Tour
Librarian
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Jul
28
Gallery: Describing Landscape
Lyn Melville-James
Jul
7 - 20
Film Society: Mandabi
Dir. Ousmane Sembène
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Jun
15
Psychosomatic, a film performance by Richard Layzell
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Jun
14
Gallery: Verdance
Maggie Jennings
Jun
9 - 22
Opera Circle: Don Carlos
Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:45pm
Jun
7
AGM: HLSI Annual General Meeting
8:00pm - 9:00pm
May
23
Film Society: Flee
Dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen
7:30pm - 10:00pm
May
18
Gallery: The World Slips By
Heather Libson
May
12 - 25
Opera Circle: Agrippina
Opera Circle and HGO’s artistic team
7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
3
Science Group: Mycology
Lee Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
27
Gallery: A restless mind at work and play
Tom Scase
Apr - May
21 - 4
Film Society: The Father
Dir. Florian Zeller
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Apr
20
Lecture: Ethel Rosenberg
Anne Sebba
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
18
Lecture: The Mercenary River
Nick Higham
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
4
Lecture: Different ways of writing lives
Ann Oakley
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
28
Science Group: The Space of Possible Minds
Philip Ball
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
23
Concert, Live at HLSI: The Kosmos Ensemble
The Kosmos Ensemble
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
22
Lecture: Fun & Irony in Art History
Estelle Lovatt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
21
Gallery: Dreamscapes and Landscapes
Nathaniel Boyd
Mar
17 - 30
Film Society: Parasite
Dir. Boong Joon-ho
7:30pm - 10:15pm
Mar
16
Lecture: The Island of Extraordinary Captives
Simon Parkin
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
14
Opera Circle: Naples in the Baroque
Brian Hargreaves
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
8
Lecture: The Making of the Rhine
Giles MacDonogh
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
7
Lecture: From Colindale to Wuhan: an epidemiologist’s progress
John Watson FRCP FFPH
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
28
Lecture: The 1980s Literary Circus
John Walsh
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
21
Film Society: Nomadland
Dir. Chloe Zhao
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Feb
16
Lecture: The Troubled Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
14
Gallery: Rough and Smooth
Elspeth Hamilton
Feb
10 - 23
Opera Circle: Singing in Rosenkavalier
Penny Chalmers
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
8
Lecture: Portable Magic: a history of books and their readers
Emma Smith
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
7
Concert, Live at HLSI: The Fibonacci Quartet
The Fibonacci Quartet
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Feb
1
Lecture: One hundred years on – why read Ulysses?
Toby Brothers
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
31
Science Group: Financial Crime
Edna Young
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
26
Lecture: My Inside Story
Chris Atkins
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
24
Film Society: The Perfect Candidate
Dir. Haifaa Al Mansour
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Jan
19
Lecture: The Amur River
Colin Thubron
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
17
Debate: King Charles should be our last Monarch
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Jan
12
Opera Circle: Tannhäuser
Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Jan
11
Lecture: A History of Palestine in Twelve Photographs
Roger Hardy
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
10
Science Group: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn
Richard Ellis
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
15
Lecture: My Year on the Heath
Hunter Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
13
Film Society: Film Talk: Blue Jasmine
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dec
9
Film Society: Blue Jasmine
Dir. Woody Allen
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
8
Opera Circle: Humours of Opera
Robert Lloyd
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
7
Lecture: Demolishing Babel
Keith Kahn-Harris
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
6
Lecture: The Pablo Neruda Paradox: a poet’s passion for science
Adam Feinstein
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
29
Science Group: Manned powered flight
James L. Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
24
Concert, Live at HLSI: Festival of Classical Guitar Music
Royal College of Music Virtuosi
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Nov
23
Lecture: Reading Proust: Perspective and Plurality
Adam Watt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
22
Film Society: Film Talk: The Edge of Heaven
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Nov
18
Film Society: The Edge of Heaven
Dir. Fatih Akin
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Nov
17
Lecture: John of Gaunt: A European Prince
Helen Carr
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
15
Lecture: Van Gogh: A Life in Places
Juliet Heslewood
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
8
Gallery: Sandy Laing
Nov
4 - 17
Debate: Private cars should be banned from inner London
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Nov
3
Opera Circle: The Cunning Little Vixen
Opera Circle & HGO
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
2
Lecture: Brexit and the next General Election
Denis MacShane
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
1
Science Group: The Liverpool-Manchester Railway
Barry Mellor
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
27
Lecture: Francis Bacon in Moscow
James Birch
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
25
Film Society: Film Talk: Caramel
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oct
21
Film Society: Caramel
Dir. Nadine Labaki
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oct
20
Lecture: How to Love Animals
Henry Mance
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
18
Live at HLSI: The Medea String Quartet
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Oct
12
Lecture: William Kentridge: artist, performer and filmmaker
Rose Thompson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
11
Gallery: Looking In/Looking Out
Marilyn Simler
Oct
7 - 20
Opera Circle: Turandot
Barry Mellor
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
5
Lecture: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (Replacement lecture)
Dawn Ades
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
4
Library Event: Catherine Budgett-Meakin book launch
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sep
30
Lecture: George Eliot’s Marriage Question
Clare Carlisle
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
27
Film Society: After Love
Dir. Aleem Khan
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
22
Lecture: Russian Popular Prints in the Pre-Revolutionary Period
Faith Wigzell
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep
20
Lecture: HLSI Autumn Tuesday Lecture Season – Book Now
Lecture Committee
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Sep - Dec
20 - 13
Gallery: Allegories and Metaphors
Anne McNeill Pulati
Sep
16 - 29
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Designer Maker Fair
Sep
9 - 11
Gallery: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?
Christina Eberhart
Jul
1 - 14
Film Society: Film Talk: Genevieve
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jun
17
Film Society: Genevieve
Dir. Henry Cornelius
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jun
16
Gallery: London Dreams
Tina Leslie
Jun
10 - 23
Debate: Ukraine and the role of Nato – CANCELLED
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
26
Science Group: Science Talk: Robert Paul’s Instruments
Ian Christie
3:00pm - 5:00pm
May
25
Gallery: Special Exhibition: Before Hollywood – Robert Paul’s Invention of Cinema
Robert Paul
May
21 - 28
Film Society: Special Exhibition & Talks
Before Hollywood – Robert Paul’s Invention of Cinema
1:00pm
May
21 - 28
Film Society: Film Talk: Distant Voices, Still Lives
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
May
20
Film Society: Distant Voices, Still Lives
Dir. Terence Davies
8:00pm - 10:00pm
May
19
Science Group: Florence Nightingale
8:00pm - 9:00pm
May
12
Gallery: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
Ken Gallagher, John Mortimer, Anthony Taylor
May
6 - 19
Opera Circle: Samson et Dalila
Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
4
Film Society: Film Talk: Black Orpheus
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Apr
29
Film Society: Black Orpheus
Dir. Marcel Camus
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Apr
28
Lecture: The remarkable HMS Investigator
Keith Millar
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
26
Lecture: The Well-Gardened Mind
Sue Stuart-Smith
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
12
Fair: Handmade in Highgate – The Designer Maker Fair
11:00am - 5:00pm
Apr
10
Fair: Handmade in Highgate – The Designer Maker Fair
10:00am - 6:00pm
Apr
9
Fair: Handmade in Highgate – The Designer Maker Fair
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Apr
8
Science Group: Plant Taxonomy
Prof Mark Chase
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
7
Live at HLSI: William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
Dir. Valerie Doulton
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Apr
6
Lecture: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate
Peter Parker
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
5
Lecture: Working Mothers, Past and Present
Helen McCarthy
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
29
Gallery: Shropshire in Highgate
Robert Cunning
Mar - Apr
25 - 7
Film Society: Film Talk: Salt of the Earth
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Mar
25
Film Society: Salt of the Earth
Dir. Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Mar
24
Lecture: Spirit of Cricket
Mike Brearley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
22
Live at HLSI: Live Chamber Music
String duos & trios
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Mar
16
Lecture: Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
15
Science Group: Reaching net zero
Prof Jenny Nelson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Mar
10
Opera Circle: Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas
Opera Circle & HGO
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
9
Lecture: The Films That Made Me
Peter Bradshaw
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
8
Library Event: Library Skills Sessions
Tom Pink
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
7
Gallery: Life after Life
Beyond the Likeness Group
Mar
4 - 17
Lecture: Life after life
Ian Dungavell
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
1
Film Society: HFS Special: Topsy-Turvy
Dir. Mike Leigh
2:00pm - 5:30pm
Feb
27
Film Society: The Double Life of Veronique
Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Feb
24
Lecture: ‘The Garden of Privatised Delights’
Madeleine Kessler
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
22
Debate: “No platforming” threatens free speech
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
17
Lecture: The Long Farewell
Simon Dixon / Cancelled
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
15
Science Group: Clerk Maxwell and the Second Great Unification
Jim Lloyd Davies
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Feb
10
Opera Circle: The Makropulos Case
Penny Chalmers
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
9
Lecture: Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases
Anne Johnson
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
8
Gallery: Members’ Art Exhibition
HLSI Members
Feb
4 - 17
Concert: A Festival of Song
HGO Singers
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Feb
2
Lecture: Pleasures Money Can’t Buy
Stephen Bayley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
1
Lecture: Social Mobility Prospects
Lee Elliot Major
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
25
Film Society: Film Talk: Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jan
21
Film Society: Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)
Dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jan
20
Lecture: Transport: hurtling towards 1.5 degrees
Jillian Anable
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
18
Science Group: Mitochondria and Glaucoma
Prof Garway-Heath
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Jan
13
Opera Circle: Two ignored & unknown Baroque gems
Brian Hargreaves
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Jan
12
Lecture: Late Constable
Per Rumberg
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
11
Film Society: Film Talk: The Philadelphia Story
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Dec
17
Film Society: The Philadelphia Story
Dir. George Cukor
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
16
Lecture: A Craze for Quizzing
Marcus Berkmann
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
14
Science Group: Maternal Health and Mitochondria
Catherine Williamson
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
9
Lecture: The Artful Dickens
John Mullan
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
7
Fair: The HLSI Christmas Cracker Fair 2021
11:00am - 5:00pm
Dec
5
Opera Circle: L’Elisir d’Amore
Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
1
Lecture: ‘An Exaltation of Larks’: the immortal bel canto
Ross Alley
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
30
AGM: Special General Meeting
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Nov
30
Film Society: Film Talk: A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Nov
26
Film Society: A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Nov
25
Lecture: Stealing from the Saracens
Diana Darke
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
23
Lecture: Tom Stoppard: a life
Hermione Lee
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
16
Gallery: The Northern Line
East Finchley Open Artists
Nov
12 - 25
Science Group: NASA mission to Mars
Professor Sanjeev Gupta
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
11
Lecture: The Diet Myth: the real science behind what we eat
Tim Spector
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
9
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Winter Designer / Maker Fair
11:00am - 5:00pm
Nov
7
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Winter Designer / Maker Fair
10:00am - 6:00pm
Nov
6
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Winter Designer / Maker Fair
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Nov
5
Opera Circle: 19th Century Russian Opera
Bill English
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
3
Lecture: A Coup in Turkey
Jeremy Seal
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
2
Lecture: Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard
Martyn Bond
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
26
Interview: Interview
Isabel Raphael talks with Paul Kafno
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oct
24
Film Society: Film Talk: The Misfits
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Oct
22
Film Society: The Misfits
Dir. John Huston
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oct
21
Science Group: The Voyage of the Beagle
Barry Mellor
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Oct
20
Lecture: Albert & the Whale
Philip Hoare
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
19
Debate: Climate Change
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
14
Concert: Concert: Live Chamber Music
The Penserio Ensemble
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Oct
13
Lecture: The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
Jonathan Phillips
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
12
Opera Circle: The Marriage of Figaro
Opera Circle & HGO
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Oct
6
Lecture: The Case of the Married Woman
Antonia Fraser
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
5
Gallery: The Heath in the Waves
Rachael Weitzman
Oct
1 - 14
Lecture: Shadow State: mayhem and Russia’s remaking of the West
Luke Harding
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
28
Film Society: Radio Days
Dir. Woody Allen
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
23
Lecture: John Keats: a short life in nine poems and one epigraph
Lucasta Miller
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
21
Lecture: Losing Control: global security in the 21st century
Paul Rogers
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
14
Gallery: Beyond Confinement
Penny Elder
Sep
10 - 23
Gallery: Artist’s Talk: From the Olduvai to the HLSI
Cuillin Bantock
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
11
Gallery: Hiraeth
Cuillin Bantock
Jul
10 - 23
Gallery: Borders Exhibition – Artist’s Talk
Helen de Sybel
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Jul
6
Interview: One-to-One: Paul Kafno talks to Jane de Swiet
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jun
27
Gallery: Borders
Helen de Sybel
Jun - Jul
25 - 8
Theatre: The Walled-Up Woman
Georgina Lock
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
23
Lecture: The fall and rise of the Venice Campanile
Sarah Quill
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
22
Film Society: HFS Film Talk: Capernaum
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jun
18
Film Society: Capernaum
Dir. Nadine Labaki
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jun
17
Lecture: Living Without Architecture: the Prefabricated Home
Colin Davies
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
15
Gallery: Memories, Dreams, Visions – Earth and Beyond
Linda Landers
Jun
12 - 23
Opera Circle: Vivaldi
Brian Hargreaves
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Jun
9
Gallery, Lecture: 150 years of London Underground design
Mark Ovenden
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
8
Gallery, Lecture: Betjeman, the Metropolitan Line and the Romance of Trains
Andrew Martin
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
1
Gallery: Bodenpress: The Poetics of Print
Bodenpress
May - Jun
28 - 10
Concert: Live music returns with Narin Gylman
1:30pm - 2:15pm
May
25
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Spring Designer / Maker Fair
11:00am - 5:00pm
May
23
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Spring Designer / Maker Fair
10:00am - 6:00pm
May
22
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Spring Designer / Maker Fair
5:00pm - 8:00pm
May
21
Film Society: Graduation
Dir. Cristian Mungiu
8:00pm - 10:00pm
May
20
Lecture: The Printed Image in Britain before photography
Jasper Jennings
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
18
Interview: One-to-One
Isabel Raphael talks to John Caird
5:00pm - 6:00pm
May
16
Lecture: The Architecture of the Post-war City, 1945 – 1985
Mike Althorpe
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
11
Gallery: New Horizons
Tom Scase
May
7 - 20
Opera Circle: Elektra
Penny Chalmers and Isabel Raphael
7:30pm - 9:00pm
May
5
Lecture: Making Change: the decimalisation of Britain’s currency
Tom Hockenhull
6:00pm - 7:00pm
May
4
Debate: Should the nations of Great Britain be allowed to go their own way?
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
29
Lecture: Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and ‘The Lighthouse’
Caroline Radcliffe
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
27
Interview: One-to-One
Bill English talk to Isabel Raphael
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Apr
25
Film Society: HFS Film Talk: BLACKkKLANSMAN
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Apr
23
Science Group: Covid Statistics Part 2
John Ryan
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Apr
22
Lecture: Animal Navigation
David Barrie
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
20
Gallery: Here and Now: Tathandlung
Philip Diggle
Apr
16 - 29
Lecture: Uncovering Britain’s secret archives
Grace Livingstone
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Apr
13
Lecture: Searching for Lost Tombs in Egypt and Archives
Chris Naunton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
30
Interview: One-to-One
Catherine Budgett-Meakin talks with Bill English
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Mar
28
Science Group: Materials for the Ages
Dr Hannah Stern
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
25
Lecture: People Like Us
Hashi Mohamed
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
23
Film Society: HFS Film Talk: Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Mar
19
Opera Circle: Grand Opera in Paris
David Conway
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Mar
17
Lecture: Chaucer’s European Life
Marion Turner
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
16
Theatre: Lady in a Veil
Georgina Lock
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Mar
14
Lecture: Illusions of Thought
Peter Ayton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
9
Lecture: Titian: Love, Desire and Death
Thomas Dalla Costa
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Mar
2
Interview: One-to-One
Michael de Swiet talks with Maureen Foulkes
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Feb
28
Science Group: Travel after the Pandemic
Professor David Metz
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
25
Lecture: Faber & Faber, the untold story
Toby Faber
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
23
Film Society: HFS Film Talk: Sink or Swim
Film Discussion Group
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Feb
19
Lecture: A Journey through the Thames Estuary
Caroline Crampton
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
16
Opera Circle: Opera Circle Quiz
Geoff Hunt
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Feb
10
Lecture: The Lives of Lucian Freud
William Feaver
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
9
Debate: Debate: Identity Politics
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
4
Lecture: The Two Histories of Lauderdale House
Nick Peacey
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Feb
2
Interview: One-to-One
Michael de Swiet talks with Geoff Hunt
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Jan
31
Lecture, Science Group: Science Talk: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Arthur I. Miller
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
28
Lecture: The future of shared intelligence
Geoff Mulgan
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
26
Film Society: Woman at War POSTPONED
Discussion Group Continues
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Jan
22
Lecture: Women Resisting Fascism
Caroline Moorehead
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
19
Lecture: The Missing: the True Story of my Family in World War II
Michael Rosen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jan
12
Film Society: Pavarotti CANCELLED
Dir. Ron Howard
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
17
Lecture: Christmas Myths and Legends
Judith Flanders
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
15
Science Group: The Entangled World of Gin and Tonic
Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Dec
10
Lecture: The King of the World: Louis XIV
Philip Mansel
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Dec
8
Concert: A Journey in Music and Words
Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Dec
6
Gallery: Places, People and Light
Philip Sanderson
Dec
4 - 15
Quiz: HLSI Christmas Quiz
Elizabeth Duff and Julia Stevens
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Dec
1
Interview: One-to-One
Martyn Bond with Jean Coussins
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Nov
29
Lecture: Can artificial intelligence make government better?
Helen Margetts
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
24
Lecture: On Chapel Sands
Laura Cumming
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
17
Science Group: Smoking and Nicotine Addiction
John Britton
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Nov
12
Lecture: Artemisia Gentileschi
Lucy Chiswell
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
10
Lecture: Island Stories: Britain and its history in the age of Brexit
David Reynolds
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Nov
3
Lecture: East End to West End: Jews at the London opera 1750-1850
David Conway
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
27
Interview: One-to-one
Martyn Bond talks with Lynne Featherstone
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Oct
25
Film Society: Shoplifters
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oct
22
Lecture: Mussolini and Fascism – a programme or just a leader?
Martyn Bond
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
20
Gallery: Where We Meet
Susie Breen
Oct
17 - 29
AGM: Annual General Meeting
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
14
Lecture: The Battles Women Fought To Become Doctors
Carol Lovelidge
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
13
Debate: Debate
Paul Mason / Gervais Williams
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
8
Lecture: Derek Jarman’s Amazing Garden on Dungeness Beach
Peter Webb
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Oct
6
Gallery: A Shared Landscape
Ariella & Jonathan Green
Oct
2 - 15
Science Group: Fusion Power… Within our Grasp?
Robin Stafford Allen
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
1
Lecture: What We Need To Do Now For A Zero Carbon Future
Chris Goodall
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
29
Film Society: A Streetcar Named Desire
Dir. Elia Kazan
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
24
Lecture: Belonging And Not Belonging
Monica Bohm-Duchen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sep
22
Gallery: What’s in a Jug?
Jason Sumray
Sep
11 - 24
Interview: One-to-One
Martin Adeney talks with Anne Burley
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Aug
9
Tuesday Talk: The Colony? Immigrants in Birmingham
Richard Vinen
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Aug
6
Tuesday Talk: Victorian Bradford: portrait of a boom town
Munro Price
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Aug
4
Tuesday Talk: The Art and Architecture of the Danube Valley
Tim Blanning
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
28
Theatre, Tuesday Talk: My Life in Lockdown
Maureen Lipman
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
21
Debate: The BBC is a national treasure that we all need to pay for
Martyn Bond / Paul Kafno
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Jul
16
Tuesday Talk: Monet’s Garden at Giverny
Peter Webb
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
14
Tuesday Talk: Songs from Parnassus
Isabel Raphael
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jul
7
Tuesday Talk: Zaha Hadid, Architectural Superstar
Colin Davies
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
30
Tuesday Talk: Hallé, a man and his Orchestra
Mark Elder
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
23
Tuesday Talk: Who do I think I am?
Simon Callow
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Jun
16
Lecture, Science Group: POSTPONED The scientific discoveries of Captain Cook’s voyages
Barry Mellor (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
May
14
Opera Circle: POSTPONED Grand Opera in Paris
7:30pm - 9:30pm
May
6
Lecture: POSTPONED Uncovering Britain’s Secret Archives
Grace Livingstone
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Apr
28
Lecture: On Chapel Sands
Laura Cumming
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Apr
21
Lecture: CANCELLED Searching for Lost Tombs in Egypt and Archives
Chris Naunton
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Apr
7
Concert: Kosmos Ensemble / POSTPONED
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Apr
1
Lecture: CANCELLED East End to West End: Jews at the London opera 1750-1850
David Conway
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
31
Debate: Highgate Debates: CANCELLED
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
26
Lecture: Van Gogh: a life in places CANCELLED
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
24
Fair, Library: Children’s Book Fair / POSTPONED
10:00am - 1:00pm
Mar
21
Lecture: Faber & Faber, the untold story CANCELLED
Toby Faber
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
17
Lecture, Science Group: Operation Overlord: The Machinery of Invasion
Jim Davies (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
12
Opera Circle: Fidelio
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
11
Lecture: Soho in the Eighties
Christopher Howse
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
10
Gallery: Organic Origins
Keith Hammond
Mar
6 - 17
Concert: The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Mar
4
Lecture: Napoleon: the man behind the myth
Adam Zamoyski
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Mar
3
Lecture: The Handmaid’s Tale: its serialization and sequel
Jackie Shead
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
25
Film Society: Cold War
Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Feb
20
Lecture: Climate Change and the BBC
Roger Harrabin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
18
Gallery: Workshop with Printmakers Council
Printmakers Council
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Feb
16
Lecture, Science Group: Health Intelligence 24/7
Prof Björn Schuller (Science Lecture)
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
13
Opera Circle: The Flying Dutchman
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Feb
12
Lecture: Women vs Capitalism: why we can’t have it all in a free market economy
Vicky Pryce
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
11
Gallery: Talks with Printmakers Council
Printmakers Council
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Feb
9
Gallery: Time
Printmakers Council
Feb
7 - 20
Lecture: The Delightful Art of Engineering
Jane Wernick
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Feb
4
Debate: This House Believes That Sponsorship Compromises Art
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
30
Lecture: Great books of China
Frances Wood
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
28
Film Society: Lion
Dir. Garth Davis
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jan
23
Lecture: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Julian Jackson
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
21
Lecture, Science Group: Who benefits from my data – me, the state or corporations? (panel-led discussion)
Simon Briscoe, Prof Richard Webber, Peter Mouncey
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
16
Opera Circle: Agrippina (including the Annual Meeting)
7:15pm - 9:30pm
Jan
15
Lecture: Handel in London: the making of a genius
Jane Glover
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Jan
14
Lecture: Around the World … in less than 40 days
Catherine Budgett-Meakin
3:15pm - 5:00pm
Jan
12
Lecture, Science Group: The Science of Magic
Dr Gustav Kuhn
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
19
Lecture, Science Group: Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver
Professor Graham R Foster
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
12
Lecture: Squirrel Pie & Other Slices of Life
Elizabeth Luard
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
10
Fair: Christmas Cracker Fair 2019
11:00pm - 5:00pm
Dec
7
Film Society: Faces Places
Dir. Agnès Varda
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dec
5
Opera Circle: Fifty Years of Opera
Robert Lloyd
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Dec
4
Lecture: Feeding Britain
Tim Lang
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Dec
3
Concert: Beethoven Quintet
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
29
Debate: Highgate Debates
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
28
Lecture: The Rise and Fall of the European Sleeper Train
Andrew Martin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
26
Film Society: Denial
Dir. Mick Jackson
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Nov
21
Lecture: Humanitarian Logistics
Maggie Heraty
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
19
Lecture, Science Group: Forensic Botany – Murder most florid
Dr Mark Spencer
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
14
Lecture: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
Diana Atkinson
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
12
Gallery: Abstraction and Emotion
Samantha Laub, Jason Sweidan, David Taylor
Nov
8 - 21
Opera Circle: La Bohème
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Nov
6
Lecture: From Chaucer to Auden
Richard Stokes
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Nov
5
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Fair
11:00am - 5:00pm
Nov
3
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Fair
10:00am - 6:00pm
Nov
2
Fair: Handmade in Highgate Fair
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Nov
1
Lecture: The Vory – Russia’s Super Mafia
Mark Galeotti
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
29
Film Society: Les Gardiennes
Dir. Xavier Beauvois
8:00pm - 10:30pm
Oct
24
Lecture: Comparing health care systems
Nicholas Mays
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
22
Debate: Highgate Debates
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
17
Lecture: In Byron’s Wake
Miranda Seymour
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
15
Gallery: Shadowman
Patrick Hourihan
Oct
11 - 24
Lecture, Science Group: How DNA makes us who we are
Professor Robert Plomin
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
10
Lecture: Antony Gormley, Sculptor
Lucy Chiswell
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
8
Opera Circle: Peter Grimes
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Oct
2
Lecture: Ravenna and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Michael Starks
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Oct
1
Film Society: Shakespeare Wallah
Dir. James Ivory
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Sep
26
Lecture: A Political Mixed Marriage
Sally and Andrew Gimson
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Sep
24
Lecture, Science Group: How DNA can personalise health care
Dr Paul Debenham
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Sep
19
Gallery: Facades
Susanna Storch
Sep
13 - 26
Gallery: Cityscapes and Landscapes
Liz Sutherland
11:00am - 5:00pm
Jun - Jul
28 - 11
Film Society: Highgate Film Society: THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Jun
20