An evening with Jonn Elledge - Basingstoke

Join us for an evening with Jonn Elledge as we discuss his latest book 31 Inventions that Built our World.
After the talk, there will be a Q & A with the audience followed by a signing.
Tickets:
£28 Book + Ticket
£7 General admission
£4 Waterstones Plus card holders

For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.

But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart - actually come to be?