Past Events

Past Events at the Bloomsbury Institute

In the past, we've hosted some incredible authors, books and special guests. Our literary events encompass a vast array of topical issues, important trends and the latest and greatest new reads. Attend an event with us and see what's upcoming at the Bloomsbury Institute.

2018

OCTOBER 25th: Inside Bloomsbury Publishing for Editors and Proofreaders

OCTOBER 11th: Mohammed Hanif and Red Birds at the London Library

OCTOBER 9th: Writing revolutionary plays with Hannah Khalil and Sabrina Mahfouz

SEPTEMBER 27th: Founding Bloomsbury: The Inside Story

SEPTEMBER 13th: A Murderous Legacy: The Storytelling Secrets of Agatha Christie

AUGUST 30th: Inside Bloomsbury Publishing for Illustrators

JULY 12th: The Secrets to a Successful Fashion Show with Gill Stark

JULY 5th: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes with Diane Atkinson at the London Library

JUNE 21st: The Stories of My Life with Kamila Shamsie and Kamin Mohammadi

MAY 31st: Julius Caesar and Me with acclaimed British actor Paterson Joseph

MAY 1st: Funding Women in Film: Time's Up with Lizzie Francke, Anna Bogutskaya, Dr. Shelley Cobb and Pamela Hutchinson

APRIL 24th: On Beginning and Writing for the Stage with David Eldridge

APRIL 19th: An evening of real cheese tasting with Bronwen Percival, Francis Percival and Steven Lamb

APRIL 12th: Running the Marathon with Anita Bean, Paul Hobrough, John Brewer and Claire Maxted

MARCH 20th: Murdering Stereotypes: Real Women in Crime Fiction with Eva Dolan, Emma Flint and Danuta Kean

MARCH 8th: Transform Your Career with Better Sleep, presented by Vicki Culpin

MARCH 1st: An evening with Celia Imrie

FEBRUARY 27th: The Value of Being Misunderstood with Ziyad Marar and Roman Krznaric

FEBRUARY 21st: Fashion Design: The Must-Have Skills with Aisling McKeefry and RIXO London

JANUARY 24th: The Future of Playwriting: Caroline Jester, Charlene James and Dan Rebellato

2017

NOVEMBER 21st: Caroline Brothers and Anita Sethi on writing about conflict in troubled times

NOVEMBER 15th: Deborah Cadbury on Queen Victoria's Matchmaking

NOVEMBER 9th: How to publish creatively: inside Bloomsbury Publishing, in partnership with the Society of Young Publishers

OCTOBER 31st: James Graham and Dan Rebellato discussed writing politics for the stage

OCTOBER 26th: The Enduring Popularity of Gothic Ficton with Laura Purcell, Joanna Briscoe, Jeremy Sheldon and Danuta Kean.

OCTOBER 19th: The Story of My Second Sight by Vanessa Potter for the Bloomsbury Festival 2017

OCTOBER 10th: Raising Girls: A day of the girl panel for mothers2mothers with Anna Williamson, Juliet McGrattan, Emma France and Harriet Minter

SEPTEMBER 21st: Design as a Force for Social Change with Dr Catharine Rossi, Professor Alan Male, Dr Russell Bestley and Catherine Flood for London Design Festival 2017

SEPTEMBER 12th: An evening with Lucy Worsley

AUGUST 17th: Where next for Fantasy Fiction with Natasha Pulley and Samantha Shannon

JULY 11th: How to Read a Dress with Lydia Edwards and Barbara Brownie

JUNE 27th: Philip Lymbery in conversation with Bill Oddie on the myths of factory farming

JUNE 15th: Oliver Ford Davies and Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall on Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters.

MAY 18th: Julia Hobsbawm in conversation with Viv Groskop on being Fully Connected.

MAY 4th: Jenny Landreth and Vivienne Rickman-Poole on female swimming pioneers and Swell: A Waterbiography.

APRIL 27TH: Tim Pears in conversation with Alex Clark

MARCH 23rd: Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen, in partnership with the British Spanish Society.

JANUARY 24th: Bloomsbury Book Club: The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan and Gideon Rachmann

2016

NOVEMBER 24th: Sarah Crossan in conversation with Tanya Landman

NOVEMBER 16th: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre

OCTOBER 11th: Day of the Girl: An event with Womankind

OCTOBER 6th: Teaching Classics in the Modern World

SEPTEMBER 8th: The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol Adams in conversation with Sara Pascoe

JULY 13th: Object Lessons: a conversation about the hidden meaning of ordinary things

JUNE 26th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Kate Summerscale

JUNE 20th: IZA World of Labor Brexit Debate

JUNE 16th: Addicted To The Game: A sports writing salon with Simon Barnes & Emma John

MAY 17th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Alexei Sayle

MAY 10th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Erwin James

MAY 5th: Does Philosophy Matter? Professor MM McCabe, Constantine Sandis and chaired by Liza Thompson

APRIL 19th: Don't Stop Me Now: Vassos Alexander

MARCH 17th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Meg Rosoff

FEBRUARY 23rd: An Evening with Stephen Poliakoff

2015

DECEMBER 12th: Bloomsbury Book Club with John Lahr

NOVEMBER 25th: Women, Literature and Feminism with Jacqueline Rose, Georgina Harding and Laura Bates

NOVEMBER 17th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Adam Sisman

NOVEMBER 10th: An evening with Willy Russell

NOVEMBER 4th: Writing Salon with Karen Campbell and Michelle Roberts

OCTOBER 14th: Greeks versus Romans: A Classics Debate

OCTOBER 7th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Stephen Kelman

SEPTEMBER 29th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Justin Cartwright

JULY 9th: Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: On Diversity in Literature

JUNE 23rd: Bloomsbury Book Club with Hannah Rothschild

MAY 14th: Bloomsbury Book Club with Polly Samson

APRIL 15th: Sophie and the Sibyl: Book Club with Patricia Duncker

MARCH 24th: The Bloomsbury Set: Book Club with Priya Parmar

FEBRUARY 25th: Short Story Evening with Jon McGregor, Eliza Robertson and Lucy Wood

JANUARY 29th: Salon on Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption

Every past guest of the Bloomsbury Institute

A.C. Grayling	Gabrielle Walker	Lucy Wood	Simon Russell Beale
Abigail Rokison-Woodall	Geoffrey Charles Van Orden	Lucy Worsley	Stella Rimington
Adam Sisman	Geoffrey Colman	Lydia Edwards	Stephen Kelman
Adrian Lester	Germaine Greer	Lynn Barber	Stephen Poliakoff
Aisling McKeefry	Gervais Williams	Margaret Atwood	Suzanne Joinson
Alan Male	Graeme Obree	Mark Haddon	Tanya Landman
Al Alvarez	Guy Standing	Meg Rosoff	Tena Stivicic
Alex Heminsley	Hannah Rothschild	Mia Freedman	Tim Pears
Alexei Sayle	Harriet Minter	Michael Dobson	Tom Campbell
Allie Renison	Harry Eyres	Michael Frayn	Tom Kerridge
Aminatta Forna	Howard Jacobson	Michael Hutchinson	Tom McLaughlin
Andrea Stuart	James Graham	Michele Roberts	Tom Wilkinson
Anita Bean	James Runcie	Nadine Gordimer	Vanessa Gebbie
Anita Sethi	Jane Rushbridge	Natasha Pulley	Vassos Alexander
Ann Morgan	Jenny Landreth	Nick Lake	Vicki Culpin
Anne Zouroundi	Jeremy Sheldon	Oliver Ford Davies	Viv Groskop
Anna Williamson	Joanna Briscoe	P.D. Smith	Vivienne Rickman-Poole
Barbara Brownie	John Lahr	Patricia Duncker	Will Self
Ben Macintyre	John Mullan	Patrick McGrath	William Boyd
Bill Oddie	Jon McGregor	Peter Frankopan	William Dalrymple
Catharine Rossi	Jon McGregor	Phil Coggan	Willy Russell
Catherine Flood	Jonathan Aitken	Philip Lymbery	Ziyad Marar
Carlos Acosta	Jonathan Portes	Polly Samson
Carol J. Adams	Julia Hobsbawm	Priya Parmar
Caroline Brothers	Julie Corbin	Raymond Blanc
Celia Imrie	Juliet McGrattan	Reni Eddo-Lodge
Charles Saumarez Smith	Justin Cartwright	Rob Doyle
Claire McGowen	Kamila Shamsie	Roman Krznaric
D.W. Wilson	Karen Campbell	Roshi Fernando
Daisy Buchanan	Kate Colquhoun	Romesh Gunesekera
Damian Barr	Kate Summerscale	Russell Norman
Dan Rebellato	Khaled Hosseini	Russell Bestley
Danuta Kean	Kwasi Kwarteng	Sally Brampton
Deborah cadbury	L. Alan Winters	Sally Gardner
Edmund White	Laura Purcell	Samantha Shannon
Eliza Robertson	Laurens de Groot	Sara Pascoe
Elizabeth Gilbert	Lawrence Norfolk	Sarah Crossan
Emma John	Leo Hollis	Scott Jurek
Emma France	Liars' League	Selina Hastings
Emma Claire Sweeney	Lolita Chakrabarti	Sheila Hancock
Erwin James	Liz Jensen	Simon Barnes
Esther Freud	Lucie Whitehouse	Simon Stephens