Events

In March 1603, Elizabeth I lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen's ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor.

In March 1603, Elizabeth I lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen's ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor.

Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains create, change and can even restore our identity.

With over 30 years' experience in conflict zones and fragile states, Arthur Snell travels from the heat of the Sahel to the Arctic Circle to show how climate change is coinciding with a breakdown in geopolitical order, increasing conflict and economic crises.

Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers. As the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real.

The fifteenth century was a turbulent age and each of the five queens who appear in this book were caught up in wars that changed the courses of their lives.

For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today.

How often do we stop to think: Where do the things we buy actually come from? Charting byzantine journeys taken by everyday items to reach us, Your Life is Manufactured reveals the seismic impact manufacturing has had on our lives and the natural world.

In our special panel event, renowned historian Vernon Bogdanor and journalist Andy Beckett discuss the careers of politicians who have had a huge impact on Britain without (yet, or ever) achieving the highest office.

Selected from Crace’s much-loved Guardian column, The Bonfire of the Insanities lights up a new chapter of governmental absurdity with mordant wit and caustic humour.

Selected from Crace’s much-loved Guardian column, The Bonfire of the Insanities lights up a new chapter of governmental absurdity with mordant wit and caustic humour.