The Royal Geographical Society is pleased to welcome Thomas Bird and Harvey Thomlinson to speak on “Luoyang: In Search of China’s Ancient Capital”. In this lecture, Messrs Bird and Thomlinson tell of their discoveries in the fantastic historic city of Luoyang in Henan Province, which was once the capital of 13 dynasties and 97 emperors. In Luoyang, they retrace Chinese history across the millennia from Confucius and Laozi, to Tang poets Li Bai and Baiyu Ji, as well as China’s only empress, Wu Zetian.