Upcoming Events
British Academy Book Prize: 2025 shortlist
Join the shortlisted authors of this year's prize for a dynamic conversation exploring the issues that define our time. These imaginative writers will share insights from their groundbreaking books that deepen our understanding of peoples, cultures and societies, offering fresh perspectives on global challenges, both past and present.
This in conversation will be chaired by award-winning journalising Rosie Goldsmith.
Afterwards there will be opportunities to purchase copies of the shortlisted books from London Review Bookshop and book signing with the authors.
The British Academy
10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tuesday 21st October 2025
6pm–8pm
A Toxic Embrace: Russia’s Church and State through the Centuries
Sherborne Historical Society
For 1000 years Russia’s Orthodox Church has sought to ensure its survival, its influence and its wealth - whatever the moral cost. It has done the bidding of Muscovy princes, imperial tsars, Politburo members and now Putin whose actions are at odds with the Orthodox faith he claims to hold. His invasion of Ukraine has brought to the fore an angry yearning for a revival of Slav Christian supremacy. Other Eastern Orthodox churches have denounced his vision of Moscow as a Third Rome as a sacrilegious form of nationalism.
Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne.
Thursday 6th November 2025
8pm