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Revisiting the Dolgarrog dam disaster after 100 years
On 2 November 1925, a catastrophic flood swept through Dolgarrog village in north Wales, depositing enormous boulders and killing 16 people. In 2025, what have we learnt from this flood disaster?
Multiple deprivation in England, 2004 to 2025
Join us for a lunchtime webinar discussing the release of the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation. Explore how deprivation varies across England and how the use of this report can shape policy interventions and reduce spatial inequalities.
Bound by water: linking Amazonian diversity and climate vulnerability
In this lecture, National Geographic Explorers Julia Tavares and Thiago Silva will explore how they are combining cutting-edge methods in plant morphology and functional ecology, environmental monitoring, drone remote sensing and 3D laser scanning (LiDAR) to address a central question: How are different Amazonian forests being affected by climate change?
Challenging maps and exploration symposium
Join us for a day of expert panels discussing the connections, historical and contemporary, between maps and exploration. Event sponsored by the Sunderland Collection.
Zen in the art of geography
The RGS Neville Shulman Challenge Award was created 25 years ago to support ambitious expeditions. Neville Shulman CBE, explorer and writer, will explain his philosophy behind the programme. The 2023 recipients of the Award, Karolina Gawonicz and Michal Lukaszewicz will give a richly illustrated account of their 60-day unsupported canoe expedition across the Barren Lands of Canada.
Environmental justice and climate action: victims of the ‘war on woke’?
Professor Laura Pulido explores how the 'war on woke' promoted by dominant figures in the US Republican Party is harming climate action and environmental justice in the US and far beyond.
Rude or robust? Rehabilitating a 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Join speakers John P Cooper and Kumail Rajani as they discuss their interpretation of the 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from the Society's Collections.
The North Pole: the history of an obsession
Join explorer Erling Kagge to hear tales of wild imaginings, broken hearts, melting ice, and life dreams achieved at 50 degrees below. The legends, motivations, physical challenges and the nature of exploration at large.
Lightning at sea in the 18th and 19th centuries
The 2025 EGR Taylor lecture, by Dr Sara Caputo, will use a range of printed and archival sources from Britain and Western Europe to discuss how lightning shaped the maritime world to an extent that is yet to be fully recognised.
The library of lost maps
James Cheshire spent three years uncovering the treasures of a long-forgotten map library for his book The Library of Lost Maps. Sharing the contents of this archive, he will reveal the power of maps and their makers to transform our world.
An elephant never forgets
A behind-the-scenes, illustrated talk from Sophy Roberts about her new Sunday Times bestseller, A Training School for Elephants, which weaves past and present in travels that take her from Iraq to India, the DRC and Tanzania, finishing up at a convent with an elephant on Lake Tanganyika.
A sentimental African journey and an incorruptible gift
With work and travel roots in Central and Southeast Africa, Peter Newsham returns half a century later, inspired by nostalgia and aiding the advancement of literacy in Zambia.