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Last week the Haberdashers' Company hosted over 100 of our Haberdasher scholars at the Hall. We are proud and privileged to support more than 180 students at university with a range of awards, the majority of which are aimed at students from our academies in SE London and Shropshire.

   

 


The 2019 Golden Lecture was held at St Lawrence Jewry on 28th March and the speaker was the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Bishop of London.  The title of the Bishop’s Lecture was Seeking the Welfare of the City: The Role of the Church in Turbulent Times. Please see here for the transcript and more about the Golden Lecture: https://haberdashers.co.uk/golden-lecture


The 2019 Aske Lecture was given at Haberdashers' Hall on Thursday 31st January, by Professor Sir John Holman, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of York and Senior Education Adviser to The Gatsby Foundation. Its title was 'Career Guidance: what does it look like when it's good?'

Please click below to see the presentation. 

Find out more about the Gatsby Foundation here.


'This year I published Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Oxford University Press). 

 

The book is about the ways in which digital technology, from AI to the internet of things, will transform the nature of power, freedom, democracy and justice. I took time out of my practice as a barrister to embark on a book tour to the US, which took in Harvard, Stanford, and Microsoft among other destinations. Here in the UK I’ve been delighted to present my ideas at the LSE and the British Academy, as well as on the BBC’s Politics Live. The... Read More

Freeman Alessando Fisher has been chosen to join the prestigious scheme from 2018 to 2020. 

A graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he won joint first prize at the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. He sang Delmiro/Alindo (Hipermestra) at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival and current engagements include Lucano (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) at the 2018 Salzburg Festival, Bastien (Bastien und Bastienne) and Don Polidoro (La finta semplice) for Classical Opera, the title role in Dardanus and Bach’s B Minor Mass for English Touring... Read More