| Saturday 23rd October |
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| Little Amal, a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl is walking across Europe, and this weekend will be in London. |
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| Waterloo Uncovered present this unique exhibition offering the first chance to see a brand new and highly accurate diorama of the Battle of Waterloo. |
| 10am to 5pm |
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| Over 300 tattoo artists will be filling Alexandra Palace for the weekend. |
| 11am to 10pm |
| | Wood Green |
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| The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association annual flagship event. |
| 11am to 4pm |
| | Chelsea |
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| Step into the former home of Charles Dickens, and come face to face with the people he would have seen in the city around him. |
| 12:30pm to 4pm |
| | Clerkenwell |
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| A walking tour of the most fashionable Victorian burial ground-Kensal Green Cemetery |
| 2pm to 5pm |
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| Come shopping on a virtual tour through the history of some of the West End’s famous food and drink shops. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| A light display will once again illuminate the square, along with South Asian food stalls, Rangoli displays and a live-stream of entertainment. |
| 4pm to 10pm |
| | Trafalgar Square |
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| Novelist Chloe Aridjis, current writer in residence at Swedenborg House, will give a magic lantern presentation in Swedenborg Hall. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
| | Bloomsbury |
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| Sunday 24th October |
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| Little Amal, a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl is walking across Europe, and this weekend will be in London. |
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| This event features extensive bus displays, including rarely-seen early examples, as well as wonderful examples of other commercial transport such as taxis, military & emergency vehicles. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Weybridge |
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| Over 300 tattoo artists will be filling Alexandra Palace for the weekend. |
| 11am to 6pm |
| | Wood Green |
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| Guided walk through Kings Cross and St Pancras hearing the history and seeing the developments |
| 11am to 12:30pm |
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| The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association annual flagship event. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Chelsea |
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| The 35 acre Beale Arboretum consists of over 800 varieties of trees and shrubs, incl National Collection of Hornbeam cultivars. |
| 1pm to 4pm |
| | Barnet |
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| Author Victoria Price will present an intimate glimpse into her famous father’s life and career. |
| Starts at 1:30pm |
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| Donald MacKenzie, organist from London’s Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, accompanies the silent film 'Nosferatu' in this pre-Halloween event. |
| 3pm to 6pm |
| | Brentford |
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| Monday 25th October |
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| This lecture will look at how doctors (and parents) should talk their children about illness. |
| 1pm to 2pm |
| | Holborn |
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| An evening to explore the potential drag has to bring about social change and make people sit up and notice, based on the stories of the GLF and Bloolips. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
| | Stoke Newington |
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| Tuesday 26th October |
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| Matthew Hirst, Curator at Woburn, will discuss some of the highlights of Woburn Abbey’s interiors and collections along with the joys and challenges of helping to care for one of England’s finest country houses. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Sheila Binns will explore architectural decoration by delving into the model villages of Saltaire and Akroydon. |
| 7pm to 10pm |
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| In this event, Sir Roger joins Thomas Fink and Yang-Hui He on stage for a conversation about the man behind the science. We take a rare look into the workings of this singular mind. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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| A talk about William Simmonds, one of the lesser known members of the British Arts & Crafts Movement. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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| Just in time for Halloween, Professor Malcolm Gaskill shines a light on a decade rife with self-professed witchfinders in England and abroad |
| 7:30pm to 10:30pm |
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| Wednesday 27th October |
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| St Bride Foundation, located behind Fleet Street, houses the history of print and the skills that made Fleet Street the undisputed home of printing and publishing in London. |
| 11am to 1pm |
| | City of London |
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| In a presentation chiming with Old Lord Mayor's Show Day, City Guide Lester Hillman explores the legend and myth. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| In a presentation chiming with Old Lord Mayor's Show Day, City Guide Lester Hillman explores the legend and myth. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| A talk about the myths of cleanliness amongst poor people. |
| 5:15pm to 7pm |
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| Join a panel of nursing experts chaired by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to find out why patients need well-educated nurses. |
| 5:30pm to 7pm |
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| This lecture will look at novelists who raise plot to a literary art. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
| | Barbican |
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| Halloween tours of Horace Walpole's gothic castle, Strawberry Hill. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Twickenham |
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| Thursday 28th October |
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| Four open days in October to see around the former Archbishop of Canterbury's palace, which is now a school. |
| Starts at 1:30pm |
| | Croydon |
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| Explore the darker side of the 18th century’s pursuit of knowledge with the staff members of Benjamin Franklin House. |
| 5pm to 8pm |
| | Trafalgar Square |
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| Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes joins Assyriologist Irving Finkel to discuss the concept of ghosts in the ancient world. |
| 5:30pm to 6:30pm |
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| This presentation will give an introduction to 507 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (Rail Infra), the rail industries sole Army Reserve unit. |
| 5:30pm to 7pm |
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| A special introduction to our new Holocaust Galleries, along with the launch of the accompanying book. |
| Starts at 5:30pm |
| | Southwark |
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| This lecture will look at how their study can be used to advance our knowledge of the intellectual history of the premodern world. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
| | Barbican |
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| Alexandra Sapoznik explores the cultural and religious significance of bees in the medieval world. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| There will be talks, themed drinks, drop-in workshops, DJ set with LuSinda, a protest art installation by Marcus Orlandi and David Lloyd himself signing V for Vendetta books! |
| 6:30pm to 10:30pm |
| | New Oxford Street |
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| Halloween tours of Horace Walpole's gothic castle, Strawberry Hill. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Twickenham |
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| In this online lecture, curator & arts consultant Mireille Galinou contrasts the Charterhouse Great Chamber with 17th century private painted rooms |
| 7pm to 8pm |
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| In this online lecture, curator, and arts and museums consultant Mireille Galinou proposes to re-position the Great Chamber by juxtaposing it to painted rooms of the seventeenth century. |
| 7pm to 8pm |
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| Join James Beacham as he reveals what would happen if you fell into a black hole and what's at the other end |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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| If the capacity of the planet’s rainforests to mitigate against global heating is weakened, how will humanity and nature be affected by the implications of climate change? |
| 7:30pm to 8:45pm |
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| Friday 29th October |
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| Line of Light is a festival to celebrate the communities that live above the new tunnels of the Northern line extension. |
| All day |
| | Bloomsbury |
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| Four open days in October to see around the former Archbishop of Canterbury's palace, which is now a school. |
| Starts at 1:30pm |
| | Croydon |
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| Join author and historian Anne Sebba as she brings to life Ethel Rosenberg’s tragic story with dramatic prison letters that Ethel exchanged with her husband, lawyer, and psychotherapist over a three-year period |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| The first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| A public light projection by artist Jenny Holzer will illuminate Tate Modern’s chimney. |
| 5:30pm to 10pm |
| | Southwark |
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| A chance to tour the Kilmorey Mausoleum in St. Margarets after dark. |
| 6pm to 9pm |
| | Twickenham |
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| A dramatically-lit Late casting light on the stories behind the Soane. |
| Starts at 6pm |
| | Holborn |
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| Open fire drinks on the roof of Brunel's Rotherhithe tunnel shaft. |
| 6pm to 10pm |
| | Rotherhithe |
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| Visit after hours this Halloween and explore the practice of magical home protection. |
| 6pm to 10pm |
| | Bethnal Green |
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| This paper discusses the early history of horror films on British television and examines some examples of scheduling choices made by broadcasters, focusing especially on the 1970s. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| Victorian era Magic Lanterns will shine into the hidden corners of the Pollock's Toy Museum collection over Halloween. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Tottenham Court Road |
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| Broadcaster and writer Robert Elms is joined by guests including artist Linett Kamala and former politician Alan Johnson, who documented his early years in North Kensington in This Boy. |
| 7pm to 8:15pm |
| | Camden |
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| Delve into regions dark and unexplored beneath the Old Royal Naval College with our ghoulish guides – including a Zombie cocktail to boost your courage. |
| Starts at 7pm |
| | Greenwich |
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| Saturday 30th October |
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| Line of Light is a festival to celebrate the communities that live above the new tunnels of the Northern line extension. |
| All day |
| | Bloomsbury |
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| A walking tour uncovering the saucy secrets and squalor of historic Soho |
| 11am to 12:30pm |
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| There will be a display of former bus types that have operated from the garage since 1981 alongside the current fleet. |
| 11am to 4pm |
| | Thamesmead |
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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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| A public light projection by artist Jenny Holzer will illuminate Tate Modern’s chimney. |
| 5:30pm to 10pm |
| | Southwark |
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| Open fire drinks on the roof of Brunel's Rotherhithe tunnel shaft. |
| 6pm to 10pm |
| | Rotherhithe |
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| Victorian era Magic Lanterns will shine into the hidden corners of the Pollock's Toy Museum collection over Halloween. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
| | Tottenham Court Road |
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| Delve into regions dark and unexplored beneath the Old Royal Naval College with our ghoulish guides – including a Zombie cocktail to boost your courage. |
| Starts at 7pm |
| | Greenwich |
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| Get an insight into what it’s really like to be an astronaut as Peake reveals the secrets, the science and the everyday wonders of how and why humans journey into space. |
| Starts at 7:30pm |
| | Southwark |
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