Myth vs Reality with Natalie Haynes

Join the 'Rock Star Mythologist' on a journey through the shifting powers of myths, taboos, and feminist retellings. How does feminist myth inform our real world lives, and how would Natalie Haynes Stand Up for Mary Wollstonecraft? Find out all this and more at the Wollstonecraft Society Lecture 2026, with Natalie Haynes in conversation with Bee Rowlatt.

This friendly and uplifting event will be followed by book signings. All proceeds go to support the human rights education work of the Wollstonecraft Society, registered charity number 1181867

Please note there will be photography and filming throughout the event. If you have any accessibility requirements please make us aware of this at the time of your booking.

Doors from 5.30pm, event starts sharp at 6.30pm!

Regent Street Cinema, London W1B 2HW

Natalie Haynes is a Sunday Times bestselling author; broadcaster and – according to the Washington Post – a rock star mythologist. Her books include Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myth, Stone Blind, and now the acclaimed No Friend To This House. This extraordinary reimaging of the myth of Medea is “an illuminating and often thrilling work of feminist reclamation” (The Guardian). Natalie is a regular on BBC Radio 4 and her show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, is now in its 11th series.

Bee Rowlatt is a writer whose books include One Woman Crime Wave, and In Search of Mary, a travelogue inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft that won the Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust award. She programmes cultural events at the British Library and is a former broadcast journalist for BBC World Service. She is Chair and founding Trustee of the Wollstonecraft Society, and was recently awarded an MBE for services to women’s rights.

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