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Chalke are delighted to welcome Mary Beard, Britain’s most celebrated classicist, and her son, award-winning historian and author of Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age, Raphael Cormack for a lively and thought-provoking conversation that explores how historians make sense of lives that can seem strange or distant to modern eyes.

Victor Mallet discusses his book Far-Right France with the Silencio Book Club.

Join Suraj Milind Yengde for a unique exploration of caste oppression and caste resistance around the world, from one of India’s leading public intellectuals.

Join Oliver Price and Ahana Datta Fasel at the Hereford Military History Festival to discuss their books, Enemy of the State: Political Surveillance in Twentieth-Century Britain and Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US–China Competition.

Join historian and writer Eleanor Medhurst for an in-conversation event exploring her acclaimed book Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion.

Historian Caitjan Gainty, Gareth Williams, former Dean of Medicine at Bristol University, immunologist Peter Openshaw and Professor Dorian Haskard explore how past societies made sense of epidemics and ask what their experiences can teach us today.

Do we trust medicine too much… or not enough? Historian Caitjan Gainty invites you to explore the long and often uncomfortable history of questioning healthcare.

Join Judge Theodor Meron as he discusses his new book, A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide, in conversation with journalist Zoe Flood. 

This event marks the publication of Caitjan Gainty’s Healthy Scepticism, a vital new account of medical distrust for our contentious times.

Join Dan Jackson, author of The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People, in conversation with Tom Holland at The Rest is History Festival. 

Join Sean Mathews for a discussion about his new book, The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East. 

Join Sean Mathews for a discussion hosted by Middle East Eye and moderated by Peter Oborne on his book, The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East.