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March 31, 2022 · 10:18 am

Event: Special screening of How to Marry Millionaire + talk by me, Sunday 10 April 15.30pm, Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley

Book now for a special screening of How to Marry a Millionaire followed by a spectacle-related chat by me link here:

https://phoenixcinema.co.uk/PhoenixCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14023185

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March 29, 2022 · 10:23 am

Pictures: Some photographs of the Laugharne Festival 2022

Silly Games - Dennis Bovell in Brown's Hotel - Laugharne Festival 2022
Up on my flickr page

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March 22, 2022 · 1:46 pm

Event: Laugharne Festival Weekend 25-27 March

I will be appearing at the Laugharne Festival, speaking to Will Burns and Emma Stonex about their novels and telling the story of vinyl and the LP with the aid of a few records from my collection.

Full details of the programme here:

https://www.thelaugharneweekend.com/programme

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March 15, 2022 · 9:08 am

Picture: Interviewing Will Sergeant and Richard Balls at the Penderyn Prize event at The Boogaloo

Picture by @jo_bartlett
Photo by @JessicaGulliver

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February 9, 2022 · 7:20 pm

Event: What’s Up Doc? film screening and spectacle-movie talk, Friday 25 Feb, The House of Cinema, E17

‘Our homage to the late and great director Peter Bogdanovich is his classic screwball comedy, still absolutely fabulous in this, it’s 50th year. Heavily influenced by the Hollywood comedies of the 1930s & 40s, this sharp-witted and wacky delight not only embraces nostalgia but also breaks new ground.
We are also delighted to be welcoming back Travis Elborough, a renowned freelance writer, author and cultural commentator, who will be discussing his latest book “Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles” so expect lots of film references.’

Book tickets here: https://ticketlab.co.uk/events/stowfilmlounge.com#/

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January 7, 2022 · 12:04 pm

Video: Clip here of me interviewing Chris Schüler at the Bookseller Crow, Crystal Palace about his book The Wood That Built London

Visit the shop online at https://booksellercrow.co.uk/

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January 4, 2022 · 9:51 am

Event: Salon in the City: London Eyes – Specs and the City, Travis Elborough and Tom Bolton, 27 January, 7pm, online

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/salon-no89-london-eyes-specs-and-the-city-tickets-234250879687

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Picture: Authors’ Club Lunch event menu

https://www.authorsclub.co.uk/events/

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December 23, 2021 · 4:36 pm
November 23, 2021 · 4:38 pm

Event: Author’s Club Lunch, 17 December 12.30 am at National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HE

Full details here: https://www.authorsclub.co.uk/events/authors-club-lunch-with-travis-elborough/

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November 5, 2021 · 10:35 am

Event: Through the Looking Glasses (Virtual) at the London Library, 11 November, 7.30 pm

Travis Elborough, ‘one of country’s finest pop culture historians’ (the Guardian) discusses his eye-opening new history of spectacles, from their inception as primitive visual aids for monkish scribes right through to today’s designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass. Along the way are encounters with ingenious medieval glassmakers, myopic Renaissance rulers, Samuel Pepys and Dr Johnson, popstars, movie stars, feminist icons and literary heroes – both fictional and real. A visionary examination of what might just be humanity’s greatest invention.

Book here:

https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/131-through-the-looking-glasses?date=2021-11-11-19-30

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