What's on
Browse our in-person and online events, including our Monday night lectures, regional events and teacher CPD sessions. You can also watch a selection of our past talks.
RGS Explore Weekend 2025
Book your tickets for this year's RGS Explore Weekend. Connect with leading explorers and field practitioners, and learn everything you need to make your expedition a success.
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RGS Explore Weekend 2025
Book your tickets for this year's RGS Explore Weekend. Connect with leading explorers and field practitioners, and learn everything you need to make your expedition a success.
The geographies of resistance and re-existence
Dr Ana Laura Zavala Guillen will present her body of work describing the geographies of resistance and re-existence in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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?
Monday night lecture supper - 3 November
Stay for supper at the Society on 3 November after our Monday night lecture and meet other members and their guests.
Working on coasts and estuaries in a changing climate
This panel discusses a range of views from across the coastal and estuarine sector to examine the challenges and best practice.
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.
Beyond geograhy: enabling place-based change for future generations
Ian Richardson explores how stewardship of river catchments can contribute to environmental stability.
UK child poverty: the state we’re in
Join leading experts to explore the geography, causes, and consequences of child poverty in the UK today, and what urgent actions are needed to build a fairer future.
Traveller into unknown lands
Hilary Bradt will cover her experiences travelling to remote and lesser-known locations, by hitchhiking and bus, before the days of mass travel. She will reflect on the experience of starting a guidebook series introducing travellers to places less visited and her thoughts on sustainable travel in today’s very different environment.
Guided tour of Lowther Lodge - November
Join us for a guided tour of Lowther Lodge as we delve into the stories, contexts and interpretations of the objects on display throughout the Society’s building. This tour offers a unique opportunity to engage with our Collections in a meaningful and thought-provoking way.
Bradt Latin America travel festival
A full day of entertaining events focused on Latin America travel including inspiring talks, panels, expert-led breakout sessions, one-to-one advice, book signings and competitions.
A 19th-century odyssey from the Potomac to the Nile
Andrew Rhodes, FRGS, will present on the topic of Alexander Macomb Mason (1841-1897): a naval officer, a mercenary, an explorer, and a diplomat whose remarkable career put him on the scene at many of the late 19th century’s most dramatic events.