Double Bill Offer: Book for the Jewish Book Week events in St Pancras Room and Hall One tonight – ‘Insiders / Outsiders’ at 7pm and ‘The Curious Case of Being Human’ at 8.30pm – to receive a 20% discount. 

Please note, this offer cannot be combined with other Jewish Book Week offers.

Insiders / Outsiders examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom.

In every field, emigres arriving from Europe in the 1930s introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes. At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, Insiders / Outsiders serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life.

With Anna Nyburg, Daniel Snowman and Monica Bohm-Duchen.

Insiders/Outsiders is published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name running from March 2019 until March 2020.

We believe we are exceptional, but is there really anything special about humans that makes us different from other animals?

In this entertaining tour of life on Earth, scientist and broadcaster Dr Adam Rutherford’s The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us examines what, if anything, sets us apart in the animal kingdom.