Pulp & Pumpkins I Spooky Family Disco

It's not over yet... Bring your kids, your nan and all your pals with little monsters to our SPOOKY Halloween Disco party!

This is a guaranteed afternoon of fun including lots of dancing - gruesome games (all the old faves including musical statues, sleeping zombies...) fancy dress and dance like your granny competition! Horrible snacks and devilish potions will be on sale too.

You'll be in safe hands with our zombie hosts so...

Radical Abundance: Author Event with Left Bank's Radical Reading Room!

Join us for our next author event! 

Radical Abundance Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront ecological limits we can no longer ignore. Radical abundance is the antithesis of bullshit abundance. It is producing more of what we need and less of what we don't; more free time, more biodiversity, more services owned by those who use them.

Thackray Insights: The Science of Song

Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye­ opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.

From asylum bands to chapel choirs, smoking concerts to orchestras, there was a rich and misunderstood musical tradition in 19th century asylums. Music was a source of entertainment and occupation, and a means of solace, self-control and for contact with the outside world. Professor Rosemary Golding’s talk explores the place of music in the dangerous and overcrowded world of Victorian Asylums.

Thackray Insights: Religion and Medicine

Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye­ opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.

Should medicine treat the mind, body and soul? In the early modern period, there was a belief in that a human being was made of a physical body and an immortal soul, and to heal an ill body required care of both. Join Dr Sophie Mann as she explores the body and the being, and how religion was a fundamental part of curing the sick.

Thackray Insights: The Living Dead

Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye­ opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.

The cemetery worker exists in a transitional space — overseeing the dead to their final resting place. It’s a life that confronts the reality of death in unexpected ways. Join Dr Aoife Sutton-Butler as she digs up the dirt on what it’s really like to work the graveyard shift and how we can preserve our relationship with the departed.

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