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Featured events
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Thu 11
Eliza Manningham-Buller
Duke of Gloucester Lecture: Ethics and Intelligence. Literary Dinner SOLD OUT
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Fri 12
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones Interviewed by Nick Higham
Jeopardy: The Danger of Playing It Safe On The Path To Success
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Fri 12
Chris Thorogood
Weird Plants
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Fri 12
Jeremy Robson, Jacqui Dankworth and Charlie Wood Interviewed by Suzi Feay
Under Cover: A Poet’s Life in Publishing with Music and Song
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Fri 12
John Blair
Building Anglo-Saxon England
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Fri 12
Lucca Festival Singers SOLD OUT Introduced by Andrea Colombini
Puccini at The Palace
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Sat 13
Jonathan Ray
Drink More Fizz
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Sat 13
Sam Willis and James Daybell
Histories of the Unexpected
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Sat 13
David Reynolds
Gibraltar Lecture: Kremlin Letters – Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
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Sat 13
Judith Mackrell
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice SOLD OUT
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Sat 13
Adam Sisman Interviewed by Suzi Feay
More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Sat 13
Robert Daws
Wodehouse in Wonderland by William Humble
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Sat 13
Jo Caulfield
Lord’s Taverners and Lady Taverners Blenheim Palace Dinner
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Sun 14
Nicholas Parsons and Gyles Brandreth
Two Raconteurs: Stories of Life in Television and Radio
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Sun 14
David Lough
Darling Winston: Forty Years of Letters Between Churchill and his Mother
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Sun 14
Nino Strachey
Rooms of their Own: Eddy Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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Sun 14
Caroline Langrishe, Adrian Lukis, Camilla Pay and Rosie Lomas
An Afternoon with Jane Austen
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Sun 14
Peter Conradi
The King’s War
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Sun 14
Esi Edugyan
Washington Black CANCELLED
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