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** Here are just a few of our highlights for the Spring:
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** 28th April 2022 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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The Art of Life Writing
Frances Wilson Meets Howard Jacobson, Alba Arikha, Kathryn Schulz
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Biographer Frances Wilson meets three extraordinary memoirists: Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson, Pulitzer Prize winner Kathryn Schulz, and author and songwriter Alba Arikha.
GO TO EVENT (https://howtoacademy.com/events/the-art-of-life-writing/?mc_cid=44693ba00e&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 29th March 2022 - 6:30pm BST
Online
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A Night in with Michael Rosen
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Join the former Poet Laureatea and Cariad Lloyd for this virtual event as Michael shares his story, alongside thoughts on his fragile health and shifting mind-set.
GO TO EVENT (https://www.fane.co.uk/michael-rosen?mc_cid=44693ba00e&mc_eid=UNIQID)

** 30th March 2022 - 6:30pm BST
Free Online
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Ukraine and Russia – The History of the Conflict
Simon Sebag Montefiore In Conversation With Luke Harding
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In this free, livestream event, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and former Guardian Moscow bureau chief Luke Harding look at the deep history behind the headlines.
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** 30th March 2022 - 7:30pm ET
Online
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Fashion Icons: Bobbi Brown in Conversation with Fern Mallis
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How did ten simple lipsticks launch a billion-dollar beauty brand?
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** Podcasts
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Yanis Varoufakis Meets David Wengrow – The Dawn of Everything
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** How To Academy Podcast
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The collaborator of the late, legendary anthropologist David Graeber joins Yanis Varoufakis to overturn everything you think you know about the history of human civilisation.

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** Long Read
The New Yorker
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Should Leopards Be Paid for Their Spots?
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** Rebecca Mead
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Style-setters from Egyptian princesses to Jackie Kennedy to Debbie Harry have embraced leopard prints. Proponents of a “species royalty” want designers to pay to help save endangered big cats.
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** Long Read
National Geographic
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Stan the T. rex found! World’s most expensive fossil finds home in a new museum
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** Michael Greshko
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Mystery shrouded the dinosaur’s future after an anonymous buyer paid $31.8 million in 2020. Now Abu Dhabi confirms a new museum will house the prized skeleton.
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** 26th May - 5 June 2022
Festival
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Hay Festival 2022
Stephen Fry, David Olusoga, Deborah Levy, Mariana Mazzucato, George Monbiot, and more
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Hay Festival is one of the worlds’ leading art and literature festivals, bringing readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in events live and online.
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** Museums and Galleries
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Four Women Who Helped Shape Art History
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** National Gallery
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Maria Alambritis and Imogen Tedbury shine a light on some of the lesser-known women who played a crucial role in Renaissance and Early Modern artists’ studios.
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