Between iPods, building works, music-blasting restaurants and endless traffic noise, the place for quiet grows ever smaller. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasing sense that noise pollution is… Continue reading In Pursuit of Silence: George Prochnik talks to Dr Simon Lewis
Popular culture is littered with famous criminal men – from Robin Hood to Ronnie Biggs they’ve become folk heroes. But what about all the criminal women? Where are the highwaywomen,… Continue reading Caitlin Davies – Queens of the Underworld
A pop-up Play by Beth Shaw and Martin Bould. Re-enact our hero's life of radicalism, love and poetic rivalry. Take a part or join in as audience. To prepare for… Continue reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Local Poet and Sage of Highgate
Forgotten Wives examines the ways in which marriage has contributed to the ‘disremembering’ of women’s achievements. Ann Oakley examines the conventions of history and biography-writing using case studies of the… Continue reading Forgotten Wives – Ann Oakley
Tamar’s book examines the effects on us of touch, and of touch deprivation – what we feel when we are touched, what it means to us, and the fact that… Continue reading Tamar Swade – The Touch Taboo
Hunter Davies has lived close to Hampstead Heath for more than 60 years and has walked on it nearly every day he was in London. In this book he visits… Continue reading Hunter Davies – My year on Hampstead Heath
