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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and their Impossible Choice

Name: The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and their Impossible Choice
Start: 2026-10-13T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-13T20:00:00.000Z
Location: Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution

11 South Grove

Tue 13 Oct · 20:00

London

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60m · Talk

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Speaker: Simon Parkin, author and journalist Simon Parkin will recount the story of the people who defended the world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad, which began in...

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