Saturday 18th September |
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A heritage day of events throughout Ewell Village including Bourne Hall, the Watch House and The Grove |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Epsom |
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Over forty vintage and futuristic vehicles will mark London’s world of wheels, as the Sheriffs and ritually robed Carmen brand each ‘cart’ with a red-hot iron – the origin of vehicle licensing. |
| 10:30am to 12:30pm |
| | City of London |
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Roughly monthly open day at a most unusual museum in an old barn. |
| 10:30am to 4pm |
| | Upminster |
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A street festival that will host a series of activities, workshops, live music, film screenings and performances. |
| 11am to 8pm |
| | Camden |
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A weekend festival of talks, performances, workshops, food and music, exploring home and belonging. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Bethnal Green |
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Visit the British Museum for a day of performances, workshops, talks, demonstrations and games to celebrate Chuseok – the Korean harvest festival. |
| 11am to 4pm |
| | Russell Square |
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Features up to 30 stalls - selling a good variety of Bus and Railway items. |
| 11am to 3pm |
| | Arkley |
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Members of Second Floor Studios & Arts community will open their workspace doors allowing the public to enter, view, and purchase original works of art |
| 12pm to 6pm |
| | New Cross |
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Bermondsey Street Festival is an annual celebration of music, dance, arts, cuisine and creativity |
| Starts at 12pm |
| | Southwark |
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Climb the 80 steps to the Ringing Chamber where you can see demonstrations of the ringing of church bells. |
| 1pm to 4pm |
| | Camberwell |
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Come and visit this green oasis in an urban setting it is a one of the many local green lungs in Forest Hill where you can find some interesting wildlife. |
| 2pm to 5pm |
| | Forest Hill |
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Sunday 19th September |
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A weekend festival of talks, performances, workshops, food and music, exploring home and belonging. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Bethnal Green |
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A note that there will be a flypast over East and Central London, likely to be by vintage aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. |
| 11:45am to 12:45pm |
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Members of Second Floor Studios & Arts community will open their workspace doors allowing the public to enter, view, and purchase original works of art |
| 12pm to 6pm |
| | New Cross |
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Open day with demonstrations, look around a fire engine, and use the fire hoses. |
| 12pm to 4:30pm |
| | Richmond |
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Big garden for London, thickly enclosed by ivy, roses and jasmine, crowded with plants, many unusual |
| 1pm to 5pm |
| | Stoke Newington |
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Join Suresh Singh and Bishopsgate Institute archivist Stefan Dickers to reflect on being born and bred in Brick Lane. |
| Starts at 2pm |
| | Whitechapel |
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Carl Hoffman will talk about his book – Savage Harvest - The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 |
| 8pm to 10pm |
| | Online |
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Monday 20th September |
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This talk will explore the quirky, social and scientific history behind this iconic skyline structure. |
| 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
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This talk will explore the quirky, social and scientific history behind this iconic skyline structure. |
| Starts at 12:30pm |
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This lecture looks at new results from the UAE’s Hope mission, China’s Tianwen-1 and NASA’s Perseverence. |
| 1pm to 2pm |
| | Holborn |
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Archivist Susan Snell and Prof. Colin Jones, discuss the life and times of pioneering dentist and freemason Bartholomew Ruspini. |
| 7:30pm to 8:30pm |
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There is a web of sites around the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall, that are often seen as places where the veil between the worlds is thin. |
| 8pm to 9:30pm |
| | Online |
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Tuesday 21st September |
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This talk will explore the development of the house and its collections. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Harley Street |
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Examining the old, dark, scary and more serious world of traditional British and Irish peoples who lived alongside fairies, elves, gnomes. |
| 8pm to 9:30pm |
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Wednesday 22nd September |
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Interested in Art History? Discover ways to approach the subject at the British Museum. |
| 5pm to 6pm |
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The talk will present the work completed on the redevelopment of the Shell Centre in Waterloo. |
| 6pm to 7:15pm |
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This lecture will introduce this series about these early missionary projects; why they mostly failed; and why they still matter. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
| | Barbican |
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Join us at Stanfords as we welcome the Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Wilson as he talks about his latest book Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
| | Soho |
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A talk on the eventful life and career of the late, great and quintessentially British film star David Niven. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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The Age of Genius explores the intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell the story of the 17th century in Europe. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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Thursday 23rd September |
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Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Acton |
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Prof. Pratik Chakrabarti will explore how the complex world of nature came to define the intellectual pursuits of British natural history. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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An online event with London mudlark Lara Maiklem and historian Dr Emily Cockayne |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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Join us on Zoom as Lara and Emily discuss Refuse, Reusue and Scavenging on the Thames Foreshore Lara Maiklem, author of Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames and A Field Guide to Larking: |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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Now that two decades have passed since the disaster of September 11th, 2001, and a new World Trade Center rises on the site, we can begin to remember what the original was like — “a city-within-a-city” that housed 50,000 employees. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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Historian Owen Davies will examine a panoply of macabre medical curiosities. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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For one night only, Illuminated River artist Leo Villareal will programme a dazzling light display on nine bridges across the Thames. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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Friday 24th September |
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Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Acton |
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An annual parade by the pupils and marching band of Christ's Hospital. |
| Starts at 12pm |
| | St Paul's |
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Listen to Illuminated River lighting designers, Jonathan Gittins and Elga Neimann, discuss the delivery of the world's longest public artwork. |
| 1pm to 2pm |
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This talk will look at how depictions of African people in British and Irish heraldry have changed over time |
| Starts at 6pm |
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Kate MccGwire is joined by Catriona McAra to explore the themes of the feminine grotesque that have come to characterize MccGwire's work |
| 8pm to 9:30pm |
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Saturday 25th September |
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A day of vintage shopping, bringing vintage traders selling fashion, menswear, jewellery, homeware, furniture, posters, maps, vinyl records, collectables and more |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Islington |
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A street party to celebrate the opening of the Northern line extension to Battersea. |
| 11am to 6pm |
| | South Lambeth |
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Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Acton |
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Occasional open day at a railway cutting nature reserve in Forest Hill. |
| 1pm to 4pm |
| | Forest Hill |
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