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Royal Society Anniversary Lecture with Bill Bryson
By Karen | 18 February 2010
Royal Society Anniversary Lecture: An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Great Hall, Guildhall
30 September 2010, 6 pm
Celebrated author Bill Bryson will give a lecture in the Great Hall at the Guildhall in honour of the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society.
Bill Bryson is the internationally bestselling author of many books, including Mother Tongue, Notes from a Big Country, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Aventis Prize for Science Books in 2004 and was awarded the Descartes Science Communication Prize in 2005.
Admission is free but reservations are required.
See http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=882 to book this event.
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