Know Before You Go: Gauguin & Impressionism

Gauguin in the morning: 10.30am - 12.00pm
Impressionism in the afternoon: 1.30pm - 3.00pm...read more

Exhibition: Tamara Karsavina, A Photographic Portrait

This photographic exhibition tells the story of Russian dancer Tamara Karsavina, her career at the Russian Imperial Ballet, her solo tours, and her pioneering work with the Ballets Russes. Organised in association with the Hampstead and Highgate Festival...read more

Art Nouveau and Art Deco

These two lectures spread over a day will explore these popular and highly collectable styles....read more

How to be Divorced Successfully!
with Dr Glenn Barruw and Caron Barruw

Just as marriage needs to be worked on, so does divorce. A marriage does not end because a paper is signed, in the same way that ‘happily ever after’ is only in fairytales. It takes hard work and effort to be divorced....read more

Harry Mount:
Walking Tour of Hampstead

This event is now SOLD OUT

(Limited to 20 people) Walkers will meet at Ivy House.

Join Harry Mount, author of A Lust for Window Sills - a Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash, a funny, anecdotal history of architecture, for his personal view of Hampstead....read more

John Lanchester
talks to
Stephanie Flanders:
Whoops!

John Lanchester's latest book Whoops! (Penguin Press, October 2010) explains the worldwide financial crash in accessible terms....read more

Ruth Padel:
Where the Serpent Lives

Ruth Padel is a prizewinning poet, writer and broadcaster. She will be talking about and reading from her first novel Where the Serpent Lives (Little Brown, February 2010). Set over one year in London, Devon and the jungles of India, it is a brilliantly woven meditation on motherhood, marriage and our relations with the natural world....read more

Stephen Games:
Pevsner: The Early Life:
Germany and Art

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who lived for 50 years in Hampstead, was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century....read more

10 Books to Read Before You Die:
John Mullan,
Joanna Briscoe,
Louise Doughty
and Andrew O’Hagan
Chaired by Dawn Moore

Our expert panel will inspire, motivate and inform you about their top ten choices from the world of literature....read more

Giles Coren & Guy Walters: In Conversation

Giles Coren is an award-winning restaurant critic and columnist for The Times.

Guy Walters is the author and editor of nine books, which include four wartime thrillers, the critically acclaimed Berlin Games and his latest work, Hunting Evil....read more