Welcome to Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub!
Greenwich SitP is currently the only branch of SitP in South East London. The idea is simple: Once a month, we all meet up in a pub to hear a guest speaker and enjoy a drink or three.
Our regular meet-up spot will change as of the start of 2025. We’ll now be gathering at The Duke of Greenwich (91 Colomb St, SE10 9EZ) on the second Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise noted. Talks will begin at 7:30pm. Although the talks are free and open to all, we would appreciate a small contribution towards covering speakers’ expenses (suggested donation: £4).
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We look forward to seeing you at one of our informal gatherings soon!
Our Next Talk
Memory and Injustice:
Wrongful Accusations in the United Kingdom
Dr Kevin Felstead
8 January 2025 Wednesday 19:30
The Duke of Greenwich
91 Colomb St, Greenwich – SE10 9EZ
Over the past 30 years in the UK thousands of ordinary people have been accused of crimes based on “recovered memories” resulting in thousands of false accusations. In this talk, Kevin describes the origins of sex panics with reference to several thousand case files formerly housed in the archive of a registered charity, the British False Memory Society which was operative from 1993 to 2023. He describes the catastrophic impact of false memories in the criminal justice system, which has seen families torn apart, and hundreds of innocent people imprisoned for crimes which did not happen based on fantastical accusations by individuals caught up in the repressed memory epidemic.
In 2001 Kevin Felstead was awarded a doctorate from Keele University where he taught an undergraduate course on the history of crime and punishment in England and Wales. He was later employed in the field of community safety, neighbourhood crime and justice. From 2014 to 2023, Kevin was the communications director for the British False Memory Society. He has been interviewed for multiple press releases about false/distorted memory and the myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse. He is a visiting external lecturer for several UK Universities. In 2018, Kevin gave a TEDx talk at Newcastle University. Kevin has featured on BBC London News, and he has contributed to a broadcast by the BBC World Service. He is the author of Justice for Carol: The Creation of a Satanic Myth in the United Kingdom (2014) and Memory and Injustice – Wrongful Accusations in the United Kingdom (Amazon, 2024). Kevin holds the rank of Rokudan (6th Dan) in Shotokan karate.
Greenwich SitP gratefully acknowledges the support of Goldsmiths, University of London. All views expressed are those of individual speakers and are not necessarily endorsed by Goldsmiths.