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Absinthe Drink & Draw: Tangled

The Last Tuesday Society invites you join us for our monthly Life Drawing Salon paired with traditional Absinthe

Tattoo: An Art History with Dr Matt Lodder

Paired with Navy Strength Rum

Absinthe+Life Drawing Salon: the Art of Japanese Rope Bondage

Explore the relationship between bunny and rigger, body and rope, pleasure and pain

Austin Osman Spare: A Lecture on London's Lost Artist SOLD OUT

Société Drink & Draw

Absinthe & l'Androgynie

Sebastian Horsley: Dandy in the Underworld

with Fenella Hitchcock

A Society Séance with Philipp Oberlohr

An Interactive Illusion of the Greatest Kind + Victorian-era Cocktails to Pair

Thursday Nights at The Last Tuesday Society!

Half Price Museum Admission + FREE Aperitivo with Each Cocktail Ordered Every Thursday!

Société Drink & Draw

Absinthe, Paraphernalia & Regalia of Alchemy and The Occult

Illuminating Darkness: Aleister Crowley, Poetry and the Equinox

Lecture by Matthew Levi Stevens & paired with some one of the occultist's very own cocktail creations

Int'l Absinthe Day: Special Tasting Menu + Reptiles

The Last Tuesday Society invites you to celebrate International Absinthe Day Sunday 5th March at The Last Tuesday Society with a tasting menu of traditional Absinthes + Reptiles to pair!

Fat Tuesday: Decadence, Debauchery & Desire

Join us on the last Tuesday of February for a Feast of Irresistible Desires and Overindulgent Sin

Peculiar Cocktail's for Miss Peregrine's Release

Launch of New Peculiar Cocktail Menu created for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Characters

The Pleasure's All Mine

A Valentine's Lecture on the History of Perverse Sex with Julie Peakman paired with Glass of Bubbly & Chocolate Anus

Société Drink & Draw

A Valentine's Special + Absinthe Pairing featuring Two Models for this Life Drawing Salon

Decadence with The British Library

A Talk on the Literary Anthology with Jon Crabb of The British Library

Société Drink & Draw: The Absinthe Drinker

Curse of the Green Fairy

A Lecture on Absinthe & Impressionism by Jad Adams followed by an Introduction to the Belle Epoque Style of Drinking the Notorious Green Spirit with Jade Absinthe

Gossamer Days - Spiders, Humans and Their Threads, with Eleanor Morgan

What happens when one making animal meets another? Gossamer Days explores the strange web of spider-human relationships.

The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare

The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare, with Jonathan Allen

Ecstasies of Darkness

The History of Witches’ Ointments, with Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Halloween Séance with Philipp Oberlohr.

"Tonight we create a séance. Tonight we create contact with the spirits. Don't be afraid . . ."

Tiger Woman – Betty May

Tiger Woman – Betty May, Aleister Crowley, Belle Époque Paris & Bohemian London, with Celine Hispiche.

'Oscar Wilde and the Mummy's Curse, and Other Tales of the Egyptian Macabre', with Eleanor Dobson

At the fin de siècle ancient Egyptian jewellery was all the rage, but some believed that these objects plundered from the tombs of the dead might confer bad luck upon their modern owners.

Top Hats and Tail coats with Spirit Bath House

New Orleans Voodoo

Lotus Blossoms and Dragon Ladies: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, with Jasper Sharp

The world’s first Chinese-American movie legend Anna May Wong (1905–1961) uncomfortably straddled two cultures.

Secret Teachers of the Western World, with Gary Lachman

This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwaller de Lubicz.

Wake the Dead!

An evening of Necromancy, delving into the dark and macabre practice of calling up the dead. Why its done? how its done? and what's used to do it? from working with the ancestors to employing the departed to undertake tasks and answer questions. We'll examine rites and rituals from around the world, explore the potions, charms and tools to execute necromantic operations and experiments and gain insight into how the dead are called on to benefit us in our day to day lives.

British Sex and Violence in the ‘70s, with Justin Harries

Coming down from the so-called Swinging Sixties, ’70s Britain finally had to confront the fact that it was no longer a game changer in global affairs, just a small, seemingly overburdened nation with a closet full of skeletons and infused with an inability to swim against the tide of change.

Swinging Paris: Renoma, Les Minets, and La Bande du Drugstore, with Vadim Kosmos

Rock ‘n’ Roll hit France late and not without resistance.

Rebellious Spirits: the history of illicit spirits, with Ruth Ball

When we think of illicit spirits we think of prohibition America but our own isle also has hundreds of years of experience in dodging the law when it comes to strong drink.

A Ghost’s Story, with Lorna Gibb

Blurring fact and fiction, belief and illusion, desire and madness, Lorna Gibb presents an uncannily authoritative fictionalised autobiography of Katie King – the most famous ghost of the last two centuries...

Alice in Wonderland: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll, with Mark Richards

An exploration of how Lewis Carroll's dream-child has inspired the wilder sides of popular culture. In this very visual talk, Mark Richards explores Alice's pervasive influence with a particular focus on the fringes of everyday life and culture, observing how a child of the Victorian nursery finds her way into the most unlikely places.

Tessa Farmer & Petra Lange-Bernt

Swarming Fever: A Film Reel about Insects and Fairies The Artist Tessa Farmer in conversation with the Academic, Petra Lange-Berndt

Drink through History with Rebellious Spirits

Daring smugglers, bold black marketeers and hidden distilleries. Get a taste of the naughtier side of drink history with Rebellious Spirits. Author and drink historian Ruth Ball will be serving up six historical cocktails, accompanied by stories of the wild and wonderful world of illicit spirits drawn from her new book Rebellious Spirits.

Halloween Sceance, with Philipp Oberlohr

“Tonight we create a séance. Tonight we create contact with the spirits. Don’t be afraid . . .” Séance doesn’t prove that spirits exist. Séance doesn’t prove that spirits don’t exist. Séance will make you doubt your perception and question your beliefs. This is séance, an interactive illusion.

Theatre of Fashion Summer Lectures

June 16th - The Politics of Fashion with Tansy Hoskins & The Imperial War Museum's Laura Clouting. July 7th - Shoes - from Sport to Sex. September 15th Sex, Scent & Curious Cosmetics - an Immersive History

Dressing for Pleasure: John Willie’s Bizarre and the Golden age of Kink Press, with Fenella Hitchcock.

English artist John Coutts, better known by his nom de plume of John Willie, is arguably one of the most influential figures of the sexual underground of the Twentieth Century. As the mastermind behind mid-century fetish magazine Bizarre, Willie was one of the first to transpose the spirit of European kink press to a North American audience, presenting a blossoming fetish community with home-grown smut of their very own. In its brief and sporadic run, Bizarre was able to showcase a range of forms for non-normative sexual self-display, drawing material from myriad sources (including fashion magazines of the day) with a particular focus on body modification and BDSM.

Hell Époque: Death Themed Cabarets of Paris, with Vadim Kosmos

The late 19th Century brought many curious sights to Montmartre – Paris’ dangerous, debauched and surreal bohemian underbelly – none more so than Cabaret L’Enfer; its malevolent maw threatening to devour all who dared to step within its damnable interior. But how did this most macabre of nightclubs come to be, what went on within and why was Belle Epoque Paris so death fixated? From the North West of England to Coney Island to the Moulin Rouge, this is an epic international saga, full of surprising connections and featuring the origins of Mass entertainment from spiritualism to cinema to stage magic.

The Science of Hedonism with Zoe Cormier

Author Zoe Cormier’s first book Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science, published by Profile, celebrates everyone’s favourite unholy trinity. Over 300 pages she explores how our supposedly “base” and “primitive” pursuits are not only crucial components of the human condition, but also how hedonistic impulses have informed our highest intellectual pursuits.

Viktor Wynd's Guided Tour of His Museum

Join the founder of The Museum for a personal & Intimate tour of his Museum

Sex, Scent and Curious Cosmetics: An Immersive History

Julian Walker will give a brief overview of the past 600 years of cosmetic history before exploring a few problematic areas: destructive cosmetics, concepts of fraud and male castigation of female cosmetics, cosmetics as empowerment, reading the face, inviting the body-entering gaze, and facial prosthetics & Odette Toilette invites you to experience the 20th century in perfume form, from the blockbuster perfumes we all love to the hidden stories of how scent has been created, promoted and used. Discover the strange tales of maverick entrepreneurs 'scent bombing' American cities in the 1940s, pickup artistes flogging scent to disaffected housewives, and Edwardian actresses using perfume to gear up for their salacious roles on the stage.

Charles Waterton, his famous travels and eccentric taxidermy, with Pat Morris.

Charles Waterton was a traveller, a 'larger than life' person and an inventive taxidermist, now regarded as one of Britain's great eccentrics. His activities, and the aggravation he caused, continue to fascinate, inspire and amuse even 150 years after his death. His famous book Wanderings in South America, published in 1825, described his travels at a time when few people made such journeys. Taxidermy was his passion. He used his skill to fabricate imaginary creatures, forming three-dimensional religious and political cartoons, lampooning issues and people that attracted his ire.

Shoes - From Sport to Sex

Dr Thomas Turner will explore how tennis shoes fit into a wider Victorian world of goods and leisure, and consider what this new type of footwear meant to the young men and women who wore them & Helen Persson will be exploring our obsession with shoes and their cultural importance as identifiers of status, privilege, seduction and sexual preference.

Bones: Soviet X Ray Discs - Stephen Coates

Many older people in Russia remember seeing strange vinyl type flexi-discs when they were young. The discs had partial images of skeletons on them and were called ‘Bones’ or ‘Ribs’.

The History & Symbolism of Freemasonry with Henrik Huthoff

Few societies are shrouded in as much mystery as the Freemasons. Renowned for their secrecy and mystical symbolism as well as prominently featuring in every conspiracy theory known to man, who are these people donning aprons and exchanging secret handshakes? Contrary to popular belief, Freemasonry is not a secret society restricted to influential men and members can speak freely about its activities. Hendrik Huthoff will discuss the principles of the order, its history, rituals, symbolism and its place in today’s society.

Austin Spare, Surrealism and the Occult Underground of 1890s & 1990s London

Nadia Choucha traces the evolution of Surrealist ideas and situates them within the occult currents of fin-de-siècle European culture.

The Politics of Fashion: Tansy Hoskins and the Imperial War Museum

Fashion is often dismissed as superficial and ephemeral, but tonight we look at the economics and politics behind the glamour with author and campaigner Tansy Hoskins, and Terry Charman, historian for Fashion on the Ration at the Imperial War Museum'

Art & Madness / Victoria Tischler

Why are we so fascinated by the relationship between madness and art? Tonight we look at the origins of the use of art both diagnostically and therapeutically in the history of mental health care.

Caspar Henderson - The Book of Barely Imagine Beings

From Axolotl to Zebrafish, meet a world of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often stranger and more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary.