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Attend: Coming Up

Festival of Ideas

Wed 3 Nov 2021, 19:00 — 20:00

Waterstones | £8 / £6

How Do You Decolonize and Diversify Your Bookshelf? Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay
Festival of Ideas

Thu 4 Nov 2021, 19:00 — 20:00

Waterstones | £8 / £6

What Can the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s Teach Us Today? Sheila Rowbotham
Festival of Economics

Festival of Economics: 17-19 November

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Working-Class Writers Festival

Mon 25 Oct 2021

Queen of Crime Val McDermid
Festival of the Future City

Tue 19 Oct 2021

How Would Cities Be Different if They Were Designed by Women? Panel discussion
Festival of the Future City

Tue 19 Oct 2021

What Do We Do Now to Protect Future Generations? Kim Stanley Robinson

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Read

Homes for Heroes 100

Wed 27 Oct 2021

Council Estate Memories: The Rhondda Valleys
Festival of the Future City

Fri 22 Oct 2021

State of the City 2021
Film2021

Tue 19 Oct 2021

Friese-Greene: Protofeminist? Part 2

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Festival of Ideas

Wed 22 Feb 2017

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds Daniel Dennett
Festival of Ideas

Mon 17 Oct 2016

Forty Years a Feminist
Festival of Ideas

Fri 23 Sep 2016

The Good Immigrant

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