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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) - philosopher, theologian, scientist & mystic.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) - philosopher, theologian, scientist & mystic.
Due to exceptional demand - the shortlisted programme for SFF2025 taking place at CURZON SOHO* (*hired venue) on Saturday 6 December 2025, will now take place in Screen 1 at the updated time of 1.30pm-4.30pm (previously 6pm-9pm).
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Due to exceptional demand - the shortlisted programme for SFF2025 taking place at CURZON SOHO* (*hired venue) on Saturday 6 December 2025, will now take place in Screen 1 at the updated time of 1.30pm-4.30pm (previously 6pm-9pm).
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
BOOKING NOW OPEN for Swedenborg Film Festival 2025! Shortlisted films will be taking place at CURZON SOHO* on Saturday 6 December 2025, 6pm-9pm.
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
*Curzon Cinema has been hired as the venue and this is not part of the Curzon programme.
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
*Curzon Cinema has been hired as the venue and this is not part of the Curzon programme.
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
BOOKING NOW OPEN for Swedenborg Film Festival 2025! Shortlisted films will be taking place at CURZON SOHO* on Saturday 6 December 2025, 6pm-9pm.
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
*Curzon Cinema has been hired as the venue and this is not part of the Curzon programme.
FREE (£3 admin fee): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swedenborg...
*Curzon Cinema has been hired as the venue and this is not part of the Curzon programme.
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 7 November 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm where we will be launching the limited 50th anniversary edition of Iain Sinclair’s classic text, 'Lud Heat' (Swedenborg House Editions, 2025):
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November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 7 November 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm where we will be launching the limited 50th anniversary edition of Iain Sinclair’s classic text, 'Lud Heat' (Swedenborg House Editions, 2025):
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 16 October 2025 6.30pm-9pm for the launch of the latest publication in the Swedenborg Archive Series: 'Hereafter', edited by Simon Moretti.
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/herea...
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/herea...
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 16 October 2025 6.30pm-9pm for the launch of the latest publication in the Swedenborg Archive Series: 'Hereafter', edited by Simon Moretti.
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/herea...
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/herea...
#smallpublishersfair25 - our participation will promote the publication of Gifts Returned by the River, ed. Iain Sinclair (2025) in a new paperback edition, along with other recent titles such as Swedenborg’s Lusthus (2024) & the expanded paperback edition of Homero Aridjis, An Angel Speaks (2025).
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
#smallpublishersfair25 - our participation will promote the publication of Gifts Returned by the River, ed. Iain Sinclair (2025) in a new paperback edition, along with other recent titles such as Swedenborg’s Lusthus (2024) & the expanded paperback edition of Homero Aridjis, An Angel Speaks (2025).
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 17 October 7pm-8.30pm for 'Close Readings Live: Fiction and the Fantastic'. Live podcast with Marina Warner, Adam Thirlwell and Edwin Frank:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/close...
Image: Leonora Carrington,‘Dogs of the Sleeper’,1942.Courtesy of Viktor Wynd
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/close...
Image: Leonora Carrington,‘Dogs of the Sleeper’,1942.Courtesy of Viktor Wynd
October 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 17 October 7pm-8.30pm for 'Close Readings Live: Fiction and the Fantastic'. Live podcast with Marina Warner, Adam Thirlwell and Edwin Frank:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/close...
Image: Leonora Carrington,‘Dogs of the Sleeper’,1942.Courtesy of Viktor Wynd
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/close...
Image: Leonora Carrington,‘Dogs of the Sleeper’,1942.Courtesy of Viktor Wynd
For the first time, Swedenborg House will be taking part in the Small Publishers Fair 2025 on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October 11am-7pm!
For more information please visit: smallpublishersfair.co.uk
@smallpublishers.bsky.social
For more information please visit: smallpublishersfair.co.uk
@smallpublishers.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
For the first time, Swedenborg House will be taking part in the Small Publishers Fair 2025 on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October 11am-7pm!
For more information please visit: smallpublishersfair.co.uk
@smallpublishers.bsky.social
For more information please visit: smallpublishersfair.co.uk
@smallpublishers.bsky.social
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 30 October 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'MUSICAL DARK FAIRY TALES FROM VIKTOR WYND & THE BLACKSHORE COLLECTIVE'.
Tickets £20: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/music...
Tickets £20: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/music...
September 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 30 October 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'MUSICAL DARK FAIRY TALES FROM VIKTOR WYND & THE BLACKSHORE COLLECTIVE'.
Tickets £20: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/music...
Tickets £20: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/music...
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 18 September 6pm-9.30pm for the private view of our upcoming exhibition 'Elective Affinities'.
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/elect...
All welcome, but RSVP required to rsvp@swedenborg.org.uk
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/elect...
All welcome, but RSVP required to rsvp@swedenborg.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 18 September 6pm-9.30pm for the private view of our upcoming exhibition 'Elective Affinities'.
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/elect...
All welcome, but RSVP required to rsvp@swedenborg.org.uk
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/elect...
All welcome, but RSVP required to rsvp@swedenborg.org.uk
Please join us at Swedenborg House Wednesday 22 October 7pm-9pm for DEAD HAMLETS: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, IAIN SINCLAIR + LUD HEAT'. Tickets £12.50.
Whilst the event is fully booked, please email info@acuriousinvitation.com to be added to the waiting list.
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Whilst the event is fully booked, please email info@acuriousinvitation.com to be added to the waiting list.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House Wednesday 22 October 7pm-9pm for DEAD HAMLETS: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, IAIN SINCLAIR + LUD HEAT'. Tickets £12.50.
Whilst the event is fully booked, please email info@acuriousinvitation.com to be added to the waiting list.
londonmonthofthedead.com/deadhamlets....
Whilst the event is fully booked, please email info@acuriousinvitation.com to be added to the waiting list.
londonmonthofthedead.com/deadhamlets....
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 25 September 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'BUILDING A WINDMILL | KEN WORPOLE & MELISSA BENN IN CONVERSATION.'
FREE. For more information please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/build...
@kgeorgew.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
FREE. For more information please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/build...
@kgeorgew.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Thursday 25 September 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for 'BUILDING A WINDMILL | KEN WORPOLE & MELISSA BENN IN CONVERSATION.'
FREE. For more information please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/build...
@kgeorgew.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
FREE. For more information please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/build...
@kgeorgew.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
As part of Totally Thames Festival 2025 join Iain Sinclair at Southwark Cathedral Thursday 4 September 6.30pm-7.30pm where he will discuss his latest collaboration with Swedenborg House, 'Gifts Returned by the River' (Swedenborg House Press, 2025). Tickets £5: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/gif...
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
As part of Totally Thames Festival 2025 join Iain Sinclair at Southwark Cathedral Thursday 4 September 6.30pm-7.30pm where he will discuss his latest collaboration with Swedenborg House, 'Gifts Returned by the River' (Swedenborg House Press, 2025). Tickets £5: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/gif...
Swedenborg House is delighted to welcome aspiring writers to our fortnightly writing group in the Bookshop. Starting Tuesday 23 September 6pm-8pm.
Whether you are a writer of short stories, novels, poetry or scripts, to register an interest please email Adam Skipper info@swedenborg.org.uk
Whether you are a writer of short stories, novels, poetry or scripts, to register an interest please email Adam Skipper info@swedenborg.org.uk
August 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Swedenborg House is delighted to welcome aspiring writers to our fortnightly writing group in the Bookshop. Starting Tuesday 23 September 6pm-8pm.
Whether you are a writer of short stories, novels, poetry or scripts, to register an interest please email Adam Skipper info@swedenborg.org.uk
Whether you are a writer of short stories, novels, poetry or scripts, to register an interest please email Adam Skipper info@swedenborg.org.uk
We are delighted to announce that Swedenborg House will participate in Open House 2025! On Saturday 13 September Swedenborg House will be open to the public from 10am-5pm. Free admission/no booking required! For more details please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/open-...
August 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We are delighted to announce that Swedenborg House will participate in Open House 2025! On Saturday 13 September Swedenborg House will be open to the public from 10am-5pm. Free admission/no booking required! For more details please visit: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/open-...
Swedenborg House is delighted to announce that Spiracle Audiobooks, in collaboration with the Swedenborg Society, will be releasing a free audiobook of the Swedenborg's Society title 'An Angel Speaks' by Homero Aridjis on Thursday 26 June: www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiob.../an...
June 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Swedenborg House is delighted to announce that Spiracle Audiobooks, in collaboration with the Swedenborg Society, will be releasing a free audiobook of the Swedenborg's Society title 'An Angel Speaks' by Homero Aridjis on Thursday 26 June: www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiob.../an...
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 4 July 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for the launch of the latest publication in the Three Impostors Press series, London Adventures: 'Haunting the Ghost; or, a Year in the City' by Victor Rees.
More information here:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/three...
More information here:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/three...
June 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 4 July 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm) for the launch of the latest publication in the Three Impostors Press series, London Adventures: 'Haunting the Ghost; or, a Year in the City' by Victor Rees.
More information here:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/three...
More information here:
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/three...
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Saturday 12 July 6.30pm-9pm (doors open 6pm) for an evening of music & poetry inspired by the vision and writings of Emanuel Swedenborg with the Alchemy collective.
FREE - BOOK HERE: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/alche...
Image: Kenny photographed by Azulible
FREE - BOOK HERE: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/alche...
Image: Kenny photographed by Azulible
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Saturday 12 July 6.30pm-9pm (doors open 6pm) for an evening of music & poetry inspired by the vision and writings of Emanuel Swedenborg with the Alchemy collective.
FREE - BOOK HERE: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/alche...
Image: Kenny photographed by Azulible
FREE - BOOK HERE: www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/alche...
Image: Kenny photographed by Azulible
Thank you to Iain Sinclair, contributors and everyone who attended the special book launch of 'GIFTS RETURNED BY THE RIVER EDITED BY IAIN SINCLAIR'.
Order your copy here £20 (PLUS P&P):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/gift...
Order your copy here £20 (PLUS P&P):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/gift...
June 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thank you to Iain Sinclair, contributors and everyone who attended the special book launch of 'GIFTS RETURNED BY THE RIVER EDITED BY IAIN SINCLAIR'.
Order your copy here £20 (PLUS P&P):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/gift...
Order your copy here £20 (PLUS P&P):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/gift...
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Tuesday 20 May 11am-3pm for 'TWOFOLD VISION: NEWTON'S DARK AND GOETHE'S LIGHT'.
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twofold-vi...
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twofold-vi...
May 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Tuesday 20 May 11am-3pm for 'TWOFOLD VISION: NEWTON'S DARK AND GOETHE'S LIGHT'.
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twofold-vi...
For more information and to book your FREE place please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twofold-vi...
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 30 May 2025 6.30pm-9pm for the launch of 'GIFTS RETURNED BY THE RIVER EDITED BY IAIN SINCLAIR'.
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org, or book via Eventbrite)
Book design and photography: The Quinn Fizzlers
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org, or book via Eventbrite)
Book design and photography: The Quinn Fizzlers
May 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Friday 30 May 2025 6.30pm-9pm for the launch of 'GIFTS RETURNED BY THE RIVER EDITED BY IAIN SINCLAIR'.
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org, or book via Eventbrite)
Book design and photography: The Quinn Fizzlers
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org, or book via Eventbrite)
Book design and photography: The Quinn Fizzlers
#NationalWalkingMonth!
‘The roads on which we walk are ideas within the mind.’ Swedenborg.
Image: 'Skylark', Samuel Palmer, 1850, The Met.
‘The roads on which we walk are ideas within the mind.’ Swedenborg.
Image: 'Skylark', Samuel Palmer, 1850, The Met.
May 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#NationalWalkingMonth!
‘The roads on which we walk are ideas within the mind.’ Swedenborg.
Image: 'Skylark', Samuel Palmer, 1850, The Met.
‘The roads on which we walk are ideas within the mind.’ Swedenborg.
Image: 'Skylark', Samuel Palmer, 1850, The Met.
This week is Royal Horticultural Society #NationalGardeningWeek!
Image: 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lily', ca. 1825, William Blake, The Met.
Learn about Swedenborg's influence on Blake here: www.swedenborg.org.uk/about-us/abo...
Image: 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lily', ca. 1825, William Blake, The Met.
Learn about Swedenborg's influence on Blake here: www.swedenborg.org.uk/about-us/abo...
May 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This week is Royal Horticultural Society #NationalGardeningWeek!
Image: 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lily', ca. 1825, William Blake, The Met.
Learn about Swedenborg's influence on Blake here: www.swedenborg.org.uk/about-us/abo...
Image: 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lily', ca. 1825, William Blake, The Met.
Learn about Swedenborg's influence on Blake here: www.swedenborg.org.uk/about-us/abo...
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Tuesday 29 April 12pm-1pm for 'THE HYSTERICAL CHORUS LIVE | SHARON YOUNG & TRINITY LABAN PERFORMERS'.
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-h...
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-h...
April 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Please join us at Swedenborg House on Tuesday 29 April 12pm-1pm for 'THE HYSTERICAL CHORUS LIVE | SHARON YOUNG & TRINITY LABAN PERFORMERS'.
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-h...
FREE (please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org):
www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/the-h...
#OTD 1821: Birth of the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). It’s likely that Baudelaire first encountered Swedenborg’s work through the novelist Honoré de Balzac. Image: 'Sans cesse a mes cotes s'agite le demon', Odilon Redon, 1890, National Gallery of Art.
April 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#OTD 1821: Birth of the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). It’s likely that Baudelaire first encountered Swedenborg’s work through the novelist Honoré de Balzac. Image: 'Sans cesse a mes cotes s'agite le demon', Odilon Redon, 1890, National Gallery of Art.