Saturday 19th March |
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There will be a vintage bus running along TfL bus route 42 between Muswell Hill and Islington Angel, fundraising for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. |
| 9am to 4pm |
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Expect 40 working layouts hand-picked by the Model Railway Club, plus over 100 traders. |
| 9:30am to 5pm |
| | Wood Green |
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Kempton Steam Museum and the London Museum of Water & Steam will both have steam engines running this weekend. |
| 10:30am to 4pm |
| | Feltham |
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A handmade products fair being held in an arch underneath Waterloo station. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Southwark |
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From penny dreadfuls to psychic investigations, Clive Bloom will interrogate the attraction of Gothic London. |
| Starts at 2pm |
| | Southwark |
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An afternoon of experiencing and learning about the origins, stories and ceremonies surrounding tea. |
| Starts at 3pm |
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Sue Sanders will talk here about her experience of campaigning for LGBT+ rights over the last 40 years. |
| Starts at 3pm |
| | Barbican |
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Writer A J West will discuss his own research into a sceptics research into these phenomena. |
| Starts at 4pm |
| | Southwark |
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In this show Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker will use their authentic Triunial Magic Lantern, combining three projectors in a single device, to create a fast-moving show featuring the most spectacular effects the lantern can produce. |
| Starts at 7:30pm |
| | Southwark |
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Sunday 20th March |
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Expect 40 working layouts hand-picked by the Model Railway Club, plus over 100 traders. |
| 9:30am to 4:30pm |
| | Wood Green |
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Kempton Steam Museum and the London Museum of Water & Steam will both have steam engines running this weekend. |
| 10:30am to 4pm |
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The London Gaming Market is a place to buy retro video-games, board games and merchandise all in one place |
| 11am to 4pm |
| | Euston |
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Come hunt for personal treasures, rummage for bargains, and refresh your living space with unique finds from a hall of salvaged olde things. |
| 11am to 6pm |
| | Stoke Newington |
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In this illustrated talk, author Roger Luckhurst will trace the path across the decades of this distinctive strand of the Gothic ethos. |
| Starts at 4pm |
| | Southwark |
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Monday 21st March |
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This lecture will discuss the uneasy interplay between the concept of the rule of law and the enforcement of segregation legislation |
| 6pm to 7pm |
| | Holborn |
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Tuesday 22nd March |
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Modern humans evolved in Africa and successfully colonised the globe only in the last 100,000 years or so, a feat made possible by cultural and genetic adaptation. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
| | Holborn |
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Victoria Schofield explains why Field Marshal Earl Wavell was chosen as Viceroy of India, a position he held from 1943-47 during the critical years of the negotiations leading up to India and Pakistan's independence. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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Explore recent developments in British foreign policy. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
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How do historians assess a long and intricate period of history, like that known by the label of Georgian Britain? |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Tottenham Court Road |
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Join the debate about the future of ageing in the latest session in the Designing for Your Future Self talks series, curated by Design Age Institute. |
| 6:30pm to 8:30pm |
| | Kensington |
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This event explores the extraordinary career and legacy of electronic music pioneer, Wendy Carlos on the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange. |
| 7:30pm to 8:45pm |
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Wednesday 23rd March |
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Dr Nicola Tallis will explore the life of Lady Margaret Beaufort, an independent and vibrant character who would risk everything to become queen in all but name. |
| Starts at 6pm |
| | Picadilly |
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Journey into the brain with an evening of head-bending science, from psychedelic medicine to how our online lives affect our mental health. |
| 6pm to 9pm |
| | South Kensington |
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Dr Gemma Bowsher will contextualise the role of the RAF within global health through the history of the RAF Institute of Pathology and Tropical Medicine. |
| 6pm to 8pm |
| | Picadilly |
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A lecture about controlling infections through touch and air. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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John Grindrod and Catherine Croft, Director of the Twentieth Century Society will be discussing John's new release ICONICON: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Picadilly |
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Join Leonard Mlodinow as he discusses extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience that have proven that emotions are as critical to our wellbeing as thinking. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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Thursday 24th March |
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This event brings together a high-profile panel of international central banks and supervisors to discuss the implications of biodiversity loss for their operations and next steps. |
| 1pm to 2:30pm |
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An overview of the capital’s many fascinating customs and observances. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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What can ancient DNA tell us about how people lived in the time of Stonehenge? |
| 5:30pm to 6:30pm |
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Historian Dr Susan Williams will be discussing Lady Lucy Baldwin’s campaign to improve women’s care during childbirth. |
| Starts at 6pm |
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A panel discussion with Selma James, founder of the WFH Campaign which co-ordinates the Global Women’s Strike (GWS), and Margaret Prescod, co-founder of Black Women for WFH and co-ordinator of Women of Colour GWS. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
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Two of Ireland’s finest writers, Anne Enright and Eimear McBride come together to share thoughts and feelings on the great modernist masterpiece of literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Camden |
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Mudlarking, Criminal Queens and the deep City. An evening of short films and talks where we reweird London. |
| 7pm to 10pm |
| | New Cross |
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This talk looks at the history of medical interventions into the case of victims of sexual assault in Britain from the 1830s. |
| 7pm to 8pm |
| | Southwark |
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Two speakers explore the musical and theatrical legacy of two of the most famous of the River Thames islands. |
| Starts at 7pm |
| | Clerkenwell |
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A talk about the original London Charterhouse – before it was repurposed as a Tudor mansion, and then a school and almshouse. |
| 7pm to 8pm |
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Friday 25th March |
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An all-day event exploring the prominent and controversial figure of the clown between tradition and innovations. |
| 9:45am to 4pm |
| | Euston |
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Join Professor Holly Furneaux as she explores the truces that took place during the Siege of Mafeking and considers their impact on British-Boer relations. |
| Starts at 12pm |
| | Chelsea |
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Explore the romantic and glamorous world of roses in fashion at this Up Late evening at the Gardem Museum. |
| 6pm to 9pm |
| | Southwark |
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A special evening of gaming, inspired by science and the natural world, Lates: Playful by Nature. |
| 6pm to 9:30pm |
| | South Kensington |
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Tate Modern opens its doors overnight for an exclusive event exploring the dreamlike world of Surrealism |
| Starts at 10pm |
| | Southwark |
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Saturday 26th March |
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Watch around 400 crews row up the Thames from Mortlake to Putney - one of the largest river races on the Thames. |
| 10am to 1:30pm |
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An open day at the theatre for the public to access areas in the building, and to see special content from behind-the-scenes. |
| 10am to 4pm |
| | Sloane Square |
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A demonstration of Victorian medical surgery in an old operating theatre. |
| Starts at 10am |
| | Southwark |
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A running day recreating bus route 101 in East London with RTs and Routemasters. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Southwark |
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A chance to visit the Hermitage barge moorings close to Tower Bridge and tour some of the boats. |
| 11am to 4pm |
| | Wapping |
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