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Mar
5
Sat
Children’s Book Fair @ HLSI
Mar 5 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Bring your bear along to meet Hugless Douglas, lovable creation of children’s book writer and illustrator David Melling, at this year’s Children’s Book Fair on Saturday 5th March at HLSI .

There will be secondhand books and home-made cakes and biscuits for sale, children’s activities, face-painting, and competitions.

Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop will be here selling Hugless Douglas books.

Oct
8
Sat
Book Fair @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

HLSI’s annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books. Thousands of good quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature, travel and much more, priced from 50p. Collections this year include art, photography, map books and special/antiquarian editions. Seriously good bargains.

Oct
13
Thu
Highgate Debates: “SELECTIVE STATE SCHOOLS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD” @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Oct 13 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

THE MOTION This house believes that…

“SELECTIVE STATE SCHOOLS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD”

WHEN Thursday 13 October 2016, 8.00pm, doors open at 7.30pm

WHERE Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, London N6 6BS

HOW Free and open to all.

Reservations may be made in person, by phone or by email:

tel: 020 8340 3343; email: admin@hlsi.net

Proposing the motion

KIRI TUNKS is Head of Global Perspectives in a Tower Hamlets comprehensive

school and has been teaching since 1993. She is currently Junior Vice-President of the

National Union of Teachers. She is critical of free schools, arguing that they detrimentally

affect education for all.

Opposing the motion

TOBY YOUNG is an author and currently an Associate Editor of The Spectator. He was a

lead proposer and founder of West London Free School, the first free school to secure a

funding arrangement with the government, and has controversially questioned the

notion of ‘inclusion’ in state schools.

The Debate is free and open to the general public. The Chairman always invites

contributions from the floor.

Mar
24
Sat
Guided Walk in Highgate @ highgate society
Mar 24 @ 1:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Guided walk around Highgate and tea afterwards at 10A

Oct
5
Sat
BOOK FAIR @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Oct 5 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
BOOK FAIR @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution

Annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books.  Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature and much more, all at bargain prices. Collections this year include art and special editions.