Saturday 19th October |
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The Autumn Welsh Market is a vibrant marketplace that brings the heart of Wales to the London Welsh Centre. |
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There’ll be more than 50 hand-picked vintage dealers on each day |
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A monthly display of classic cars in Waterloo - usually attracting around 20 vehicles. |
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Activities on the day will include apple inspired crafts, apple bird feeders, carving apple creatures. There will also be apple tasting, apple pressing, and apple-inspired culinary delights. |
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Volunteers from Barnet Museum open the Barnet Physic Well, giving everyone free access to this little known part of Barnet's heritage. |
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Author Ariane Bankes discusses the extraordinary life of her mother and her aunt, the remarkable Paget sisters. |
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NASA's Mark Clampin shares his experiences designing the James Webb Space Telescope, and what the future of astrophysics has in store. |
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Sunday 20th October |
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This event features extensive bus displays, including rarely-seen early examples. |
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A walk along the Deptford Creek at low tide. |
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There’ll be more than 50 hand-picked vintage dealers on each day |
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Monday 21st October |
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Explore the drawing collection and the exterior of the Natural History Museum with the expertise of their curators. |
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Tuesday 22nd October |
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This lecture concentrates on those artists who have used their art to communicate ideas, opinions and fears about their world and, in doing so, tell us a great deal about the period in which the works of art were created. |
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This lecture looks back to the Victorian era and will explain the shift to owner-occupation and council housing after the First World War. |
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A Bloomsbury “lantern show” this evening with author and academic Maggie Humm to celebrate the publication of The Bloomsbury Photographs. |
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Wednesday 23rd October |
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This new tour tears back the layers of respectability and explore the seedier side of Victorian London. |
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Luke Honey discusses the fight to save Westminster’s gas lamps, their historic importance and the story of gas lighting in London. |
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, discusses her husband’s fearless memoir about the price he paid for his beliefs. |
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Thursday 24th October |
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MADE London the design & craft fair introduces 100+ exhibitors for its annual event at One Marylebone, a grand former church beside Regents Park. |
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Lester Hillman explores a watery network that transformed transport and the late eighteenth century world of Dr Johnson. |
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Join Gregory Salter as he discusses how we might look at Francis Bacon's art from the 1950s and 1960s through a queer lens. |
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Explore the world of human dissection with a talk from Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving, followed by an opportunity to explore the museum after-dark. |
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Join the Museum of the Home for their next Late celebrating the objects, personal stories and histories found throughout our new Rooms Through Time galleries. |
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Drawing on his new book The Shortest History of Migration, Ian Goldin will show how, from the ancient peopling of the planet to the present, migrants have been at the heart of advances in society. |
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Join Alexander Evans, Elizabeth Ingleson, Kathleen McNamara and Mona Paulson as they discuss whether current geopolitics means the age of free markets is really coming to an end. |
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Friday 25th October |
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MADE London the design & craft fair introduces 100+ exhibitors for its annual event at One Marylebone, a grand former church beside Regents Park. |
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Join Colonel Dennis Vincent as he explores the career of General Sir Alan Cunningham, one of Britain's most celebrated military commanders in 1941, but virtually unknown by the end of the Second World War. |
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Using never-before-seen material, Damien Lewis uncovers the shocking realities of Nazi controlled France and the triumph of Allied resolve during the Second World War. |
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Step into the shadows of Chelsea Physic Garden, this Halloween season, for an evening tour that will awaken your senses and ignite your curiosity. |
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An evening of poetry, music and marine science exploring coral reefs, their extraordinary biodiversity, and the threats they face. |
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Dava Sobel will discuss her new book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science at Hatchards, Piccadilly. |
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Join surgeon and scientist, Pankaj Chandak as he gives a Discourse on the future of organ transplantation using novel technologies and innovations. |
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Saturday 26th October |
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MADE London the design & craft fair introduces 100+ exhibitors for its annual event at One Marylebone, a grand former church beside Regents Park. |
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Expect to see the latest systems based on the RockChip and Raspberry Pi, plus historic machines from Acorn's past such as the BBC Micro |
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On the theme of ‘spoken word’, the National Poetry Library’s annual poetry day features readings and a workshop, and shows off the collection’s hidden gems. |
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This illustrated talk explores Dickens’s lifelong fascination with the neighbourhood of St-Giles-in-the-Fields. |
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Dacres Wood Nature Reserve occupies 2.5 hectares to the east of the main railway line between Forest Hill and Sydenham stations. |
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Research conducted by Rebecca Preston and Andrew Saint has shed new light on the history of this fascinating area and the lives of those who lived in the place that has become the heart of London. |
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Tour of the Victorian testing machine museum and a demonstration of the Universal Testing Machine. |
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