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Welcome to my weekly email of lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random miscellany which Ian hopes would be of interest.

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Saturday, 31st October

'A Huge Pack of Witches': A Witch scare in 17th Century Lancashire

In November 1633, a little boy telling tall tales about witches in his local community in Lancashire sparked a witch hunt so shocking that no lesser body than the Privy Council decided to investigate.

10:30am to 11:30am

Online

Death and Resurrection: The Resurrection Men

Alec Tritton tells us about resurrection men - they supplied fresh corpses in the 19th century to Anatomical Schools.

2pm to 3pm

Online

Halloween Late

Haunting ghost stories, live music, and food and drinks available from the Painted Hall Café and the Old Brewery.

Starts at 7pm

Greenwich

Halloween Horror Story

London- City of the Dead. City of Horror. Ghosts and horror in this Halloween Virtual Tour

8pm to 9pm

Online

Sunday, 1st November

Monthly open day at Croydon Airport museum

Monthly open day at the museum to London's first international airport - in Croydon.

All day

Croydon

Monthly cheap entry to the Painted Hall

Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall on the first Sunday of the month.

10am to 5pm

Greenwich

Monthly open day at the Kirkaldy Testing Museum

A monthly opening of the Victorian museum of industrial testing equipment.

11am to 5pm

Southwark

Monday, 2nd November

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

Professor Pittock will ask what kind of man was Charles, what were his ideas and day to day life like, what might have happened if he had won in 1745, and what even in defeat his legacy changed for Britain and its Empire.

1pm to 2pm

Online

Cracking Ancient Codes: Understanding Early Writing

Join Irving Finkel and Andrew Robinson as they show us how we unlocked the secrets of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, and how many ancient writings remain mysterious today.

Starts at 7pm

Islington

Tuesday, 3rd November

Royal Docks Virtual 'On Location' - Enterprise Zone and Global Gateway

A virtual 'On Location' event that will explore the progress made in the docks over the past few years.

2pm to 3pm

Online

Royal Docks Virtual 'On Location' - A New Place for People

A virtual 'On Location' event that will explore the progress made in the docks over the past few years.

3:20pm to 4:30pm

Online

Is science writing the solution?

A panel discussion hosted by Professor Alice Roberts, followed by the announcement of the winner of the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.

6pm to 7pm

Online

Wednesday, 4th November

Online Talk: Pre-Raphaelite Painters & Poets

In this illustrated talk, Pete Smith traces the development of a movement that revolutionized the nineteenth-century art scene and scandalized conventional Victorian society.

2pm to 3pm

Online

Ruling Passions: The Architecture of the Cecils

Father and son, William and Robert Cecil, not only dominated politics for much of Elizabeth I and James I reign but dominated architectural fashion.

6pm to 7pm

Online

The brothers Bell: emotion, war and surgical identity in late Georgian Britain

This talk will explore the life and work of two of the most influential surgeons of early nineteenth-century Britain.

Starts at 6:30pm

Online

Thursday, 5th November

Science Breaks: Unseen organisms and unsung heroes

The role of natural ecosystems and biodiversity in agriculture and food security.

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Online

Friday, 6th November

1970: We've Only Just Begun

In this illustrated talk, Mark Dunton takes you through the year 1970, fifty years on, a year which saw the election of Edward Heath’s Conservative Government, a bizarre episode involving Bobby Moore, and a dramatic aircraft hijacking.

2pm to 3pm

Online

Late opening at the Garden Museum

Late-night opening of the museum along with the Derek Jarman exhibition and a floodlit church.

5:30pm to 8pm

Southwark

Saturday, 7th November

The National Whisky Festival of Scotland: London Edition

Each session will showcase an extensive range of whiskies to try - all of which are included in the ticket price.

All day

Clapton

Sit inside a kaleidoscope filled with plants

There's a pop-up thingymajig which seems to be a pyramid box filled with plants and mirrors that you can sit inside.

12pm to 6:30pm

Whitechapel

Exhibitions closing shortly

Among the Trees (Southwark)

By turns poetic, adventurous and thought-provoking, this group exhibition explores our relationship with trees and forests. (Ends on Sat, 31st Oct)

Turner and the Thames: Five Paintings exhibition (Twickenham)

An exhibition of J.M.W. Turner’s original oil paintings in the house he designed for himself. (Ends on Sat, 31st Oct)

Atelier Picasso (Mayfair)

This exhibition reimagines Picasso’s Cannes Studio as an immersive experience within the gallery (Ends on Sat, 31st Oct)

The King's Man Experience (Chelsea)

The King’s Man Experience is an immersive exhibition featuring costumes, props and behind-the-scenes material from the movie of the same name. (Ends on Sat, 31st Oct)

Grayson Perry: The MOST Specialest Relationship (Hanover Square)

An exhibition of Grayson Perry works inspired by his TV series on Channel 4 (Ends on Sat, 31st Oct)

Masculinity (East Finchley)

Othello De'Souza-Hartley presents different representations of masculinity while questioning what it means to view gender and society through a present-day lens. (Ends on Sat, 31st Oct)

Grace (Hackney)

Grace is a collection of unseen paintings that have been created over the course of a few years and a unique insight into street artist, Alo's time spent in London and Paris. (Ends on Sun, 1st Nov)

Evolution (Southwark)

Annual exhibition of glassworks by Peter Layton (Ends on Sat, 7th Nov)

Angus Taylor Immanence | Transendence (Chelsea)

In this exhibition, Taylor turns his attention to the female form with an empathy that comes from really looking and really seeing. (Ends on Sat, 7th Nov)

Kara Walker (Southwark)

Acclaimed artist Kara Walker presents one of the most ambitious Hyundai Commissions to date (Ends on Sun, 8th Nov)

Andy Warhol (Southwark)

A new look at the extraordinary life and work of the pop art superstar (Ends on Sun, 15th Nov)

Beatrix Potter's Fairyland (South Kensington)

From ‘honey dew’ drinking parties to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, discover Beatrix Potter’s response to the world of fairies and fairytales. (Ends on Sun, 15th Nov)


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How Tilbury in Essex benefits from HS2 to Birmingham The Port of Tilbury out beyond the east of London is being highlighted as a beneficiary of HS2 when it opens, even though it's nowhere near HS2.
Tickets Alert: Sit inside a kaleidoscope filled with plants There's a pop-up thingymajig which seems to be a pyramid box filled with plants and mirrors happening next week in Shoreditch.
London’s Alleys: Alderman’s Walk, EC2 This is an alley close to Liverpool Street station, and can be found next to St Botolph's without Bishopsgate church, and while dating to roughly when the church was built, its notable history only starts in the 17th century.
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Tickets Alert: Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall The restored Painted Hall in Greenwich -- the UK’s own Sistine Chapel -- is starting an offer that sees the first Sunday of every month offer a big discount on the entry fee.
Ten London venues get £22 million in funding Ten venues across London have received £22.3 million in government funding, as part of a wider £75 million funding package for the cultural sector.
Half price tickets to the View from the Shard The View from the Shard - the viewing floors at the top of the skyscraper are offering open-dated tickets at half price for a couple of weeks.
London’s weekly railway news A weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news…
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Take in an arctic adventure at the British Museum An exhibition about the Arctic that opens with a warning that the lands you are about to visit are rapidly vanishing might sound like it's going to be a bit of a downer, but this exhibition is really quite uplifting.
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Westminster Abbey lifts its ban on photography Photography has long been banned in Westminster Abbey, but they have finally joined the other major cathedrals in London, and relaxed the ban.
Londoners facing higher council taxes to bail out TfL Part of the cost of funding trains and buses could be higher council taxes across London, on top of higher fares and a wider congestion charge.
The chess frontage of Simpsons in the Strand Have you ever wandered down Strand and noticed two large hanging chess pieces outside a famous restaurant?

IanVisits, London, UK

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