What's on
Browse our in-person and online events, including our Monday night lectures, regional events and teacher CPD sessions. You can also watch a selection of our past talks.
Earth Photo 2025 exhibition
Earth Photo 2025 - visit the Society to see a stunning selection of the selected and winning images from this years competition.
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A history of polar exploration in 50 objects - Exeter
Writer, biographer and researcher Anne Strathie shares stories of objects from key periods in polar exploration history, from Cook鈥檚 circumnavigations in the 1770s to the aviation age of the early 1930s.
Public space for all - Pippa Catterall
Have you ever entered a space, a room, a building and felt that you do not belong there, or you do not feel safe? Too much public space marginalises rather than includes, whilst safety features are often designed more to protect property than people.
A history of polar exploration in 50 objects - Falmouth
Writer, biographer and researcher Anne Strathie shares stories of objects from key periods in polar exploration history, from Cook鈥檚 circumnavigations in the 1770s to the aviation age of the early 1930s.
A year in the woods: Montalto through the seasons
Author and broadcaster Paul Clements discusses his time living at one of Northern Ireland鈥檚 most historic estates, and how its landscape, wildlife and gardens change over the seasons.
How British imperialism has shaped the globe
Sathnam Sanghera's ground-breaking 'Empireland' revealed how Empire continues to shape life in Britain today. Now he joins us to explore its lasting impact on the rest of the globe.
Walking the mountains of Spain
Phil Lawler talks about walks he has discovered, or created, in three Spanish regions.
School Member lecture: Inequality - the next crisis and children 鈥� Danny Dorling
School and Student Members are invited to come along to this lecture to hear from leading academic, Danny Dorling, on the topic of inequality. This event is being held exclusively for the Society's School and Student Members only.
The rise of green finance: can banks prevent climate disaster?
Dr Liam Clegg explores if financial institutions at local, national and international level help to mitigate climate change.
Oman - The Jewel of Arabia: a 30-day journey to Arabia Felix
Lecture on The Jewel of Arabia expedition: 30 days on foot, by camel and 4x4 in Oman in the 1927 footsteps of British Explorer Bertram Thomas.
Humanitarian aid in a changing world
Former Major General Rob Thomson from The HALO Trust, the world鈥檚 largest mine clearing NGO, will discuss how a changing geopolitical order marked by great power competition, increased conflict, and the retreat of multilateralism is affecting human development and security.
Lightning at sea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The 2025 EGR Taylor lecture, by Dr Sara Caputo, will use a range of printed and archival sources from Britain and western Europe to discuss how lightning shaped the maritime world to an extent that is yet to be fully recognised.
EGR Taylor lecture supper 2025
Post-lecture supper on 9 October following the EGR Taylor lecture by Dr Sara Caputo. Spaces are limited, book in advance by 12.00pm on Thursday 2 October.