HYBRID: The 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture
Streamed live on Wednesday 22 October 2025
Join us for the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture, featuring Dr Harriet Baker.
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is very pleased to announce that Dr Harriet Baker will be giving the 2025 Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 5.30pm. Her subject is 'Sylvia Townsend Warner's Old Teapot: Archives, Objects and Life-Writing'. The lecture will take place at UCL, at the Institute of Advanced Studies in UCL, Room G11 Ground Floor, South Wing Wilkins Building, Gower Street WC1E 6BT.
Harriet Baker is a writer, critic, and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Paris Review, New Statesman, and the Financial Times. Her first book, Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann, was published by Allen Lane in 2024. It was awarded the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize and the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.
Previous Sylvia Townsend Warner Lectures have been given by Maud Ellmann (2017), Peter Swaab (2019), David Trotter (2021) and Claire Harman (2023), and later published as open access publications by UCL Press in the Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society. Previous lectures can also be viewed on the journal site.
This is a hybrid event and will be live-streamed as well as face-to-face. The link for the online presentation will be posted shortly ahead of the event and the lecture will be given onsite at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies at Common Ground, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/downloads/campus-map-2014.pdf).
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. The event is supported by UCL Press, the UCL English Department and the Institute for Advanced Studies.
This event is free and all are welcome to attend by reserving a spot on Eventbrite. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need assistance on the day, and follow this FAQ link for more information and to read our virtual events code of conduct.
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For those wishing to sign up for the live-streamed event, please book tickets through this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-the-2025-sylvia-townsend-warner-lecture-online-tickets-1764144968089?aff=oddtdtcreator
