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Deeper Than Dermis: Tattooing as Magical Ritual with Grace Howarth – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe. Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

Deeper Than Dermis: Tattooing as Magical Ritual

Deeper Than Dermis is an illustrated lecture exploring tattooing as a form of contemporary magical and ritual practice. Drawing on her MA research in Magic and Occult Science and her lived experience as a professional tattoo artist, Grace Howarth reframes tattooing not as decoration or subculture, but as an embodied rite shaped by intention, pain, consent, time, and transformation.

The talk approaches skin as a liminal threshold rather than a surface, and tattooing as a ritual act that alters the body, memory, and sense of self. Grace explores tattooing as spellwork and sigil craft, where repeated symbols, marks, and gestures act apotropaically, binding intention into flesh.

Themes include ritual mark making across cultures, the magical function of pain and endurance, the tattoo studio as a modern ritual chamber, and the ways vulnerability, altered states, and care arise through the tattoo process. The lecture also considers how tattoos continue to function long after their making, as living talismans carried through time.

This is not a technical lecture on tattooing, but an accessible and esoteric exploration of why humans mark themselves, how magic persists within contemporary secular spaces, and how the body becomes a site of ritual and transformation.

Grace Howarth is a UK based artist and professional tattooist working at the intersection of ritual, embodiment, and contemporary magical practice. She holds an MA in Magic and Occult Science, with a dissertation titled Deeper Than Dermis: Tattooing as a Magical Ritual. Her work approaches tattooing as an act of transformation, a deliberate rite shaped by intention, consent, pain, time, and care.

Her practice is informed by academic experience in archaeology, philosophy, teaching, and creative writing. These lineages shape how she understands the body as a site of inscription, how marks accumulate meaning across time, and how knowledge is transmitted through gesture, repetition, and language. Tattooing, for Grace, is a form of embodied authenticity. A way of thinking, remembering, and speaking through the skin. Marks become declarations, the body a living grimoire.

Working across multidisciplinary art forms and research led workshops, she treats skin as a threshold rather than a surface. Her work draws on sigil craft, apotropaic imagery, and ritual mark making, with a particular focus on bodily autonomy, chosen identity, and the quiet power of self authored transformation. Queerness enters her practice not as a theme but as a way of moving through the work, through the refusal of fixed narratives, the redefinition of symbols, and the holding of care as an active, embodied practice.

Alongside her tattoo practice, Grace develops lectures and workshops that explore ritual marking across cultures, the tattoo studio as a contemporary ritual chamber, and the ethics of vulnerability, attention, and consent. Her work is grounded in the belief that magic persists within everyday spaces, and that tattoos function as living talismans carried through time on the body. Her current work includes an upcoming artist residency at the Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, alongside sigil based workshops at the Copenhagen Occult Club’s Witches Camp, focused on mark making as embodied ritual process.

The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society is London’s best award-winning alternative cocktail bar hidden within The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. A drinker’s cabinet of wonder filled curious cocktails & extraordinary elixirs —The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour is truly a hidden treasure of East London. Opened by collectors, drinks historians & absinthe experts — Allison Crawbuck (Brooklyn) & Rhys Everett (London) in 2016, the duo bring with them a shared passion for the mysterious world of spirits & the macabre.

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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.

Foxtrot Echo & COUM Transmissions with Matthew Levi Stevens

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe. Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

Foxtrot Echo & COUM Transmissions with Matthew Levi Stevens

Before Coil and Carter-Tutti, before Psychic TV and Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, before even Throbbing Gristle, there was COUM Transmissions: an alchemical cauldron in which many of the personalities and later obsessions of these subsequent projects were explored for the first time.

COUM was more an anarchistic Art Gang than a commune, that at its very best combined latter-day Artful Dodgers and some decidedly Dodgy Artists, regardless of Age, Colour, Gender, or Sexuality. Like something between a love-affair and a cult, Monty Python meets Gilbert+George, hitches a ride with the Merry Pranksters to the nearest Acid Test.In their own words:

“Your local dirty banned, COUM are the folk-music of tomorrow, but there is no tomorrow. Made up of various people from all creative areas, post-psychedelic trash, vanguard for the Wild Boys, soon to become “Wreckers of Civilization.”

COUM urinate down the handrails of your subconscious, and are a nice evening out for the family” (even if the Manson Family!)“COUM are fab and kinky. And never forget that infamous and nasty COUM guarantee of disappointment, sweetie.”

Foxtrot Echo was a key member of COUM, alongside Genesis P-Orridge & Cosey Fanni Tutti. He was the first to meet Monte Cazazza, the first to take nude photos of Cosey, and bridged the move from Hippy Happenings & Street Theatre to later Transgressive & Body Art: also the move to London, and meeting with Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson.

Tonight, Matthew Levi Stevens will explain the salient background, and then invite Foxtrot Echo himself to help unpack the deeper stories, with the help of anecdotes from his rich history, and rare images from his personal archive (many of which have not previously been seen in public.)

Matthew Levi Stevens is the author of The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs (Mandrake of Oxford, 2014) and various related texts, as well as a range of print and online articles for Beatdom, FANEmag, The Fenris Wolf 12, Furfur, Reality Sandwich, Soft Need 23, and others. He has also spoken at The Last Tuesday Society, The Occult Conference (Glastonbury), The Atlantis Bookshop, Treadwells, and The Horse Hospital.”

The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society is London’s best award-winning alternative cocktail bar hidden within The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. A drinker’s cabinet of wonder filled curious cocktails & extraordinary elixirs —The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour is truly a hidden treasure of East London. Opened by collectors, drinks historians & absinthe experts — Allison Crawbuck (Brooklyn) & Rhys Everett (London) in 2016, the duo bring with them a shared passion for the mysterious world of spirits & the macabre.

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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.

Magical Recipes- An Online course: Food, Potion, and Power in Old Norse & Folk Magic – Lena Heide Brennand – Zoom

Magical Recipes- An Online course: Food, Potion, and Power in Old Norse & Folk Magic

This one-night, fully practical online workshop is about making two complete, historically grounded Viking recipes from start to finish: a Viking herbal honey bread and a traditional-style Viking mead, prepared live in your own kitchen using simple, accessible ingredients.

By the end of the evening, every participant will have baked a finished loaf of herbal honey bread and begun a real mead preparation that continues fermenting after the session, alongside a clear understanding of why bread, honey, herbs, fermentation, and time were understood as powerful and magical in the Norse and Northern folk world.

In Viking and folk tradition, magic was not abstract. It was kneaded, brewed, heated, tasted, shared, and remembered. Bread and mead sat at the heart of both daily survival and ritual life, carrying meanings of hospitality, protection, abundance, oath-making, and community. Fermentation itself was understood as a living process, something that transformed sweetness into strength through patience and care.

During the session, participants will be guided step by step through the preparation of a historically inspired, kitchen-safe Viking herbal honey bread, using grain, honey, and simple herbs rooted in Northern tradition. Alongside this, participants will learn how to prepare a traditional-style Viking mead using honey, water, and yeast, following principles drawn from historical and archaeological evidence rather than modern commercial recipes. The bread will be fully prepared and baked during the live session, while the mead will be mixed, activated, and set aside to ferment at home.

Alongside the practical cooking and brewing, the workshop explores how these recipes functioned as ritual technologies. Participants will learn how intention was built through timing, repetition, touch, and attention; why kneading, stirring, heating, and spoken words mattered; the symbolic and practical roles of honey, grain, herbs, water, and fermentation; and how food and drink moved fluidly between nourishment, medicine, celebration, and ritual power. The session also addresses how to adapt these techniques responsibly for modern kitchens while respecting historical reality.

All ingredients are non-toxic, food-safe, and easily sourced from ordinary supermarkets. Ingredient lists and clear instructions will be provided in advance.

The workshop is designed as an intimate, hands-on experience. Participants are encouraged to bake and brew along on camera, ask questions, and share their process, though cameras remain optional. No prior baking, brewing, or magical experience is required.

Places are strictly limited to preserve a practical, interactive, and genuinely communal atmosphere.

Come knead. Come brew. Come taste the old magic.

You will leave with warm bread, living mead in the making, and a deeper understanding of how magic once lived in the hearth and the cup.

Participant Preparation

During the Workshop

The bread will be fully prepared and baked live

The mead will be mixed, activated, and set aside to ferment

Fermentation continues at home after the session

Important Notes

No prior baking or brewing experience required

Instructor Bio

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

This is a participation workshop only, if you are unable to attend please request a refund as this course will not be recorded

The Philosophers’ Stone Is Real: How Chemistry Shaped Alchemical Allegory – Sergei Zotov – Zoom

The Philosophers’ Stone Is Real: How Chemistry Shaped Alchemical Allegory

Early modern alchemists did not invent their imagery in a vacuum. It emerged from engagement with real chemical and metallurgical processes observed in laboratories. This lecture explores how such processes generated the weird and often disturbing allegorical language of alchemy: hybrid bodies, hermaphrodites, cannibalistic kings, green lions, and Christ-eagles. I argue that these strange images often functioned as visual models for thinking about matter, transformation, and causality before the modern chemical theory of elements.

Drawing on illustrated alchemical manuscripts and albums from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, the talk shows how allegory became a practical cognitive tool — a way to stabilise, remember, and communicate experimental knowledge in a world without standardised chemical notation.

Speaker Bio:

Sergei Zotov is a historian of science and visual culture specialising in alchemy, magic, and iconography in medieval and early modern Europe (c. 1400–1800). He received his doctorate from the University of Warwick and is currently an Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute (University of London). His research has been supported by major international fellowships held in Baltimore, Glasgow, Berlin, Gotha, Wolfenbüttel, and Überlingen, and has involved extensive archival work across more than 100 collections worldwide. Sergei has published in leading journals, including Nuncius and the British Journal for the History of Science, and is the author of five books on early modern iconography, two of which have received prestigious prizes and others shortlisted for major awards.

Curated & Hosted by:

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day

Dwell with Osiris – Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt – Dr Chris Naunton – Zoom

Dwell with Osiris- Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt

What happens when you die?

The ancient Egyptians developed a rich and complex set of beliefs about death, the afterlife, and the journey beyond the horizon. Among the most vivid and influential of these is the Amduat — an Egyptian term meaning “That Which Is in the Netherworld.”

The Duat was the hidden, underground realm through which the sun god travelled each night, dying with the setting sun and being reborn at dawn. This nocturnal journey was not his alone. It was also the path taken by the spirit of the king, who hoped to dwell eternally within the Amduat alongside Osiris, the mythic first king — and yet also to emerge renewed, transformed, and reborn into a perfected next life.

This lecture follows that perilous passage: through darkness and transformation, danger and renewal, as we trace one of humanity’s earliest and most compelling maps of death, rebirth, and cosmic order.

Speaker Bio:

Dr Chris Naunton is a British Egyptologist, author, and public historian, widely respected for his ability to bring the beliefs, texts, and lived realities of ancient Egypt vividly to life. He holds a PhD in Egyptology and is particularly known for his work on Egyptian religion, funerary literature, and conceptions of the afterlife, including the Amduat, Book of the Dead, and related underworld texts.

He has served as Director of the Egypt Exploration Society, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious Egyptological organisations, and has been closely involved with research, fieldwork, and scholarly outreach connected to major collections such as those of the British Museum. Alongside his academic work, Naunton is a prolific communicator, appearing frequently in documentaries, lectures, podcasts, and radio programmes, where he bridges rigorous scholarship with compelling storytelling.

Naunton is the author of several acclaimed books, including Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt and The Story of Egypt, which combine archaeology, history, and cultural analysis to explore how ancient Egyptians understood their world — and how we continue to interpret it today. His lectures are known for their clarity, depth, and narrative power, guiding audiences through complex religious ideas while remaining firmly grounded in historical evidence.

With a rare talent for making ancient texts feel urgent, strange, and profoundly human, Dr Chris Naunton is one of the leading contemporary voices interpreting Egypt’s gods, dead, and eternal landscapes for modern audiences.

Curated & Hosted by:

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day

Haunted Waters: River Spirits, Drowned Ghosts & Water-Witches – Lena Heide Brennand – Zoom

Haunted Waters: River Spirits, Drowned Ghosts & Water-Witches

Where something ancient watches from beneath the surface—hungry, patient, and older than the land itself.

In every culture on earth, water is a threshold—a mirror, a mouth, a silent witness—and often, a predator. This immersive lecture journeys through the world’s most haunting aquatic folklore, from the still pools of rural China where drowned maidens rise for revenge, to the river-goddesses of West and Central Africa who demand offerings, to Japan’s kappa lurking beneath bridges with a child’s laugh and a demon’s appetite.

Meet the Slavic Rusalka whose beauty kills; the Nøkken of Scandinavia who sings travellers to their deaths; the storm-witches of the Baltic who can raise waves with a whisper; and the restless river-ghosts of Eastern Europe and East Asia, forever tied to the waters that claimed them.

Drawing on global folklore, mythic ecology, and the anthropology of water-spirits, we reveal why lakes, rivers, wells, estuaries, and shorelines are universally feared as borders between worlds. Discover the ritual offerings once cast into sacred springs, the ceremonies performed to calm offended rivers, and the bone-deep belief that the drowned do not sleep—they linger.

A night of mythology, terror, beauty, and the uncanny pull of the deep: a lecture on the ancient, living waters that have shaped human imagination for thousands of years

Speaker Bio:

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day

Ossian 2: James Macpherson’s Epic Journey – Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart – Zoom

Ossian 2: James Macpherson’s Epic Journey

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the landscape of Scotland and the way of life of its inhabitants were changing fast, under the influence of the Enlightenment and the ingenious innovators of the Agricultural Revolution. In thinking about and trying to understand these changes, contemporary Scots turned to accounts from other lands, and accounts from history, in the hope that these comparisons might tell them about themselves and where they stood.

Lowland thinkers also looked at their neighbours in the Highlands. Some of them at least viewed the Scottish Gaels who lived there as ‘contemporary ancestors’, the original Scots, supposedly still living in a patriarchal, primitive, semi-barbarian clan-based society. But how to find out more about the mysteries of their history?

In 1760 the literary nation was electrified by the claims of a twenty-four-year-old from Badenoch in the eastern Highlands: that in his native Gaelic oral tradition he had collected fragments of an epic dating back one and a half millennia. Over the next three years James Macpherson would publish what he claimed were authentic prose translations of these ancient poems, telling of fierce, heroic battles fought by Highland warriors in a gloomy, sublime landscape. But Macpherson’s characters, women as well as men, were strangely contemporary too: noble, sensitive, emotional, even civilised. These warriors fought, and died, for love as well as for glory. With his poems of Ossian, it seemed that Macpherson had given Scotland, and all of northern Europe, literature to rival the Mediterranean classical epics of Homer and Vergil.

In this talk we’ll investigate the life, work, and legacy of James Macpherson. How did he create his epics – and who helped him? What poems did he draw upon for inspiration, from his own Gaelic culture? What impact did Macpherson’s poems have, in Britain and beyond—and on Scottish Gaelic culture too? And, of course, how did the fierce Ossianic controversy over the epic’s authenticity first begin?

Speaker Bio:

From the Isle of Lewis, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart is a leading scholar of Scottish Gaelic language, folklore, and oral tradition. He is Associate Professor at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands, where he lectures in Scottish Highland history and material culture, and Gaelic literature and folklore. He has written numerous academic articles, and is often interviewed on radio and television.

Curated & Hosted by:

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day

The Surreal world of Maeve Gilmore with Dr Lucy Scholes

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe. Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm.

The Surreal world of Maeve Gilmore with Dr Lucy Scholes

Join Dr Lucy Scholes at The Last Tuesday Society for an illustrated talk exploring surreal world of Maeve Gilmore.

Inspired by the immediate and often predominately domestic environment around her, Maeve Gilmore (1917-1983) mined both her imagination and her lived experience in pursuit of her work as a painter and muralist. This lecture will examine the way in which her paintings exist as a record of both her external and internal worlds. Produced from a distinctly feminine and very personal perspective, they’re shot through with the world of the imagination: sometimes whimsical, sometimes nightmarish, but always in some shape or form uncanny.

MAEVE GILMORE (1917-1983) was a painter and muralist who drew inspiration from her domestic environment which she shared with her husband – the artist and writer Mervyn Peake – and their three children.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr Lucy Scholes is a writer and critic known for her work in rediscovering and championing overlooked female voices. Specialising in women’s literature, art and cultural history. Lucy regularly writes for the Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Paris Review Daily, and New York Times Book Review, and is an editor at McNally Editions.

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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today. The Last Tuesday Society’s curious Monday night lecture series is sponsored by Devil’s Botany.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances. Please note, the museum of curiosities is not opened on Mondays during our lectures.

 

Self-Portrait, 1938
oil on canvas
Photo: Michael Brzezinski
Courtesy Alison Jacques
© Maeve Gilmore Estate

Untitled: Gated Path, c.1942
oil on canvas
Photo: Michael Brzezinski
Courtesy Alison Jacques
© Maeve Gilmore Estate

Beauty Esotericism: Ritual & Identity with Charlotte Logue – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe. Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

Beauty Esotericism: Ritual, Practice and the Psychology of Identity Formation with Charlotte Logue

In this illustrated talk, Charlotte Logue will explore beauty esotericism as a philosophical and psychological framework in which beauty practices function through symbolic rituals shaping identity, perception, and the self. Moving beyond aesthetic surface-level interpretations, the talk examines beauty as a deeper practice of self-discovery, centred in exploration of one that draws on esoteric traditions, ritual theory, and depth psychology.

Developing on the ideas of figures like Eleanor Kirk who used beauty as a form of practical esotericism to help women achieve spiritual and social ascent. By framing contemporary beauty practices (skincare, adornment, cosmetic ritual, and bodily discipline) as symbolic acts, this lecture aims to reveal how beauty can operate as a site of transformation. The session bridges theory and practice, offering insight into how beauty rituals mediate identity construction, power, agency, and embodiment.

Charlotte Logue is a lecturer within the Department of Art and Music at Solent University. As an academic, she is centred in the field of beauty, identity and aesthetics often informed by her previous industry experience including positions in make-up artistry, shoot co-ordination, and art direction. Charlotte’s current academic work aims to combine theory and practice by integrating references to visual culture, the cosmetic body, and psychology. The focus of this work is to deepen our understanding of how beauty ideologies influence social constructs, practices and identities. These perspectives are intertwined with her own research pathways which centre on redefining the role of beauty in connection to the cosmetic body, feminine identity and ritual through a more esoteric lens.
The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society is London’s best award-winning alternative cocktail bar hidden within The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. A drinker’s cabinet of wonder filled curious cocktails & extraordinary elixirs —The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour is truly a hidden treasure of East London. Opened by collectors, drinks historians & absinthe experts — Allison Crawbuck (Brooklyn) & Rhys Everett (London) in 2016, the duo bring with them a shared passion for the mysterious world of spirits & the macabre.

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Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today. The Last Tuesday Society’s curious Monday night lecture series is sponsored by Devil’s Botany.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances. Please note, the museum of curiosities is not opened on Mondays during our lectures.

The Dead Who Walk in Dreams: A Global History of Dream-Ghosts – Lena Heide Brennand – Zoom

The Dead Who Walk in Dreams: A Global History of Dream-Ghosts

When the dead step into your sleep: messages, warnings, and mythic encounters.

Across millennia, the dead have visited the living in dreams: to warn, to guide, to accuse, to soothe—or simply to remind us they remain. Drawing on her upcoming book Dreamwalking, Lena Heide-Brennand explores dream-ghosts from ancient Mesopotamia to Viking Age Norway, from Arctic spirit-visitations to Victorian séances held entirely in sleep.

Travel through the shadowy terrain of hypnagogic visions, ancestor-dreams, revenant-warnings, and the strange psychological landscapes where love, grief and the supernatural blur.

Discover why so many cultures believed the dream-soul leaves the body at night, how the newly dead communicate through symbolic dream language, and what it means when someone you’ve lost appears at your bedside at 3am.

This lecture blends folklore, anthropology, psychology, and the occult—illuminating the secret nights of humanity.

Speaker Bio:

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day