Upcoming Events

March 2016

So you want to be a Surgeon?!

Date(s): 31 March 2016

Time: 11am, 1pm, 3pm

Cost: £3.50 per child (must be accompanied by an adult)

Age Restrictions: 9+

Booking Link: http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/so-you-want-to-be-a-surgeon

EMERGENCY! There’s been a motorcycle accident and the driver has been brought to hospital. Scrub up like a surgeon and learn how to treat them. By using real surgical instruments and real surgical techniques, YOU will treat their injuries. Have you got it in you to save a life? This is a family activity where adults and children can work toget…

‘Inadmissable and Cruel’: Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post-War Fluoride Debate

Date(s): 30 March 2016

Time: 4 PM to 5:30 PM

Booking Link: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/inadmissable-and-cruel-fear-and-risk-in-britains-post-war-fluoride-debate-tickets-18430493101

Speaker: Prof Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University) After WWII, British doctors and politicians thought that they could import the perfect solution for dental illness: drinking water fluoridation. But the campaigns they faced brought together the libertarian Right, the socialist Left, advocates of ‘real foods’ and the nascent Green movement. Ant…

So you want to be a Surgeon?!

Date(s): 29 March 2016

Time: 11am, 1pm, 3pm

Cost: £3.50 per child (must be accompanied by an adult)

Age Restrictions: 9+

Booking Link: http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/so-you-want-to-be-a-surgeon

Go home and sit still: the Scottish Women's Hospitals in the First World War

Date(s): 26 March 2016

Time: 1400-1500

Cost: Free

Booking Link: http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/go-home-and-sit-still-the-scottish-womens-hospitals-in-the-first-world-war

In partnership with the Scottish Parliament and Surgeons’ Hall Museums A fascinating talk about the pioneering Edinburgh-born Dr Elsie Inglis who in 1914 offered the War Office a female-staffed hospital unit and was told to Go Home and Sit Still. She didn't. Instead, Dr Inglis established the Scottish Women's Hospitals, which were welcomed by the…

The Other Mrs Walker

Date(s): 9 March 2016

Time: 18.30-20.30

Cost: Free

Booking Link: http://bit.ly/theothermrswalker

Golden Hare Books and Pan Macmillan are delighted to announce the launch of one of the most hotly anticipated fiction debuts of 2016: The Other Mrs. Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis. The Other Mrs. Walker is at once a gripping and unique detective story and a moving and profound meditation on memory, identity and loss; it sparked a bidding war among se…