Saturday 23rd July |
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Join Professor Martha Carlin for this talk on medieval poet John Gower, friend of Chaucer and Resident of Southwark Priory |
| 11am to 12pm |
| | Southwark |
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Join author and Dickens descendant Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, for the launch of her new book Dickens and Travel. |
| Starts at 2pm |
| | Clerkenwell |
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A number of art events will take place around the Aldgate area for one night only. |
| 6pm to 11pm |
| | Whitechapel |
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Sunday 24th July |
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Free running day on vintage buses and coaches from Victoria Coach Station. |
| 9:30am to 5pm |
| | Sloane Square |
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Ice Sunday is the one day of the year when the Canal Museum can take visitors down into the Victorian ice wells beneath the ground floor. |
| 10am to 4:30pm |
| | Islington |
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Explore Tottenham's hidden heritage and see the magnificent 1888 engine in action. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Stoke Newington |
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Alongside the Classic Gathering is the AutoJumble with around 100 stalls and car boot sellers offering all manner of goods from the traditional autojumble through to gifts. |
| 2pm to 5pm |
| | Weybridge |
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A garden filled with mature, different and unusual plants not normally encountered in England |
| 2:30pm to 5:30pm |
| | Chiswick |
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Monday 25th July |
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Tuesday 26th July |
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The talk will capture the Duke of Wellington’s life from his birth in 1769 to his state funeral in 1852. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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Join historian Iain MacGregor as he unpicks the legend of ‘The Lighthouse’, a story of heroic struggle at the heart of the Battle of Stalingrad. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Chelsea |
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What was Faraday's innovative process? And how can we learn to innovate from Faraday's work? |
| Starts at 7pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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Wednesday 27th July |
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A screening of the film with live music accompaniment. |
| Starts at 7:30pm |
| | Whitechapel |
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Thursday 28th July |
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An evening tour through a Hackney's most historic house, including the chance for a welcome drink (optional). |
| 6:30pm to 8:30pm |
| | Homerton |
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This panel discussion explores our food systems from the perspective of farming and growing communities, with an in-depth look at where our food actually comes from. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Richmond |
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Come for a canter through London's extraordinary history of the horse - in an actual Horse Hospital. |
| Starts at 7pm |
| | Clerkenwell |
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Explore behavioural and neuroscientific research on animal sleep, with philosophical theories of dreaming. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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Friday 29th July |
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Join Daniel Whittingham as he explores the nature of counterinsurgency both in principle and practice. |
| 12pm to 1pm |
| | Chelsea |
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This talk will focus on Domesday’s life over the past nine centuries, its uses, and anecdotes from its later life in the Public Record Office - all through the lens of our collection. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
| | Online |
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Saturday 30th July |
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Annual open day at the local model railway club showing off their trains. |
| 10am to 4pm |
| | Hounslow |
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This popular community harvest, and London’s only Pick Your Own Lavender event, will be eld at the three acre Carshalton Lavender field at Stanley Road Allotments. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Carshalton |
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A fleet of yachts mark the end of their round the world voyage with an afternoon of events in the Royal Docks. |
| 12pm to 9pm |
| | Victoria Dock |
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