Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR
An online Reading Room discussion with author and journalist Joe Luc Barnes, hosted by Sophie Ibbotson.
2 June 2026, 18.00 BST
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Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land
Razeen Sally, 17 February 2026 14.00 GMT Online
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Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes from Central Asia
Caroline Eden is a writer and literary critic and author of the weekly newsletter Journey beyond borders Earlier this year, Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes, was published concluding my ‘colour trilogy’ set of books covering the food, history and culture of the Black Sea region, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Encompassing ten years…
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Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness
An online Reading Room discussion with award-winning travel writer Megan Eaves-Egenes, hosted by Sophie Ibbotson. 3 March 2026, 18.30 GMT
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Returning to Sri Lanka Through a Travel Memoir
Razeen Sally is the author of Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Island. He taught international political economy and international trade first at the LSE and then at the NUS. I am “half-half”, the firstborn of an Anglo-Welsh mother and Sri Lankan-Muslim father. They met on a ship in 1955; my mother came…
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From Osh to Dushanbe: Along the Silk Road
Christopher Wilton-Steer is a travel photographer, writer and the Global Lead for Communications at the Aga Khan Foundation There were perhaps 300 people waiting to cross at the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border. I estimated a six hour wait time. But, as elsewhere in Central Asia, as soon as I – a tourist – was spotted I was…
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Travelling the Silk Road: From London to Beijing
Christopher Wilton-Steer
19 September 2025
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Pakistan – An Era Past
Most recently a Director of VanEck in New York, Tom Butcher has travelled extensively, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. Fortunately, at a little after four in the morning during a severe thunderstorm, the sole policeman at an empty Zero Point in Islamabad flagged down one of the very few vehicles on the road and…
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From Madras to Bangalore: Picture Postcards as Urban History of Colonial India
This exhibition covers a selection of picture postcards from the Indian cities of Chennai and Bengaluru between 1900 and the 1930s; then known as Madras and Bangalore. They were the two most important colonial cities in British south India. By pairing these together, this exhibition tells a tale of how these two cities, although separated…
