| 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. |
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| Over 300 tattoo artists will be filling Alexandra Palace for the weekend. |
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| The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association annual flagship event. |
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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. |
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| A walking tour of the most fashionable Victorian burial ground-Kensal Green Cemetery |
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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. |
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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. |
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| Novelist Chloe Aridjis, current writer in residence at Swedenborg House, will give a magic lantern presentation in Swedenborg Hall. |
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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. |
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| Over 300 tattoo artists will be filling Alexandra Palace for the weekend. |
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| Guided walk through Kings Cross and St Pancras hearing the history and seeing the developments |
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| The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association annual flagship event. |
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| The 35 acre Beale Arboretum consists of over 800 varieties of trees and shrubs, incl National Collection of Hornbeam cultivars. |
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| Author Victoria Price will present an intimate glimpse into her famous father’s life and career. |
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| Donald MacKenzie, organist from London’s Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, accompanies the silent film 'Nosferatu' in this pre-Halloween event. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| Sheila Binns will explore architectural decoration by delving into the model villages of Saltaire and Akroydon. |
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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. |
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| A talk about William Simmonds, one of the lesser known members of the British Arts & Crafts Movement. |
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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 |
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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. |
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| In a presentation chiming with Old Lord Mayor's Show Day, City Guide Lester Hillman explores the legend and myth. |
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| In a presentation chiming with Old Lord Mayor's Show Day, City Guide Lester Hillman explores the legend and myth. |
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| A talk about the myths of cleanliness amongst poor people. |
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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. |
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| This lecture will look at novelists who raise plot to a literary art. |
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| Halloween tours of Horace Walpole's gothic castle, Strawberry Hill. |
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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. |
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| Explore the darker side of the 18th century’s pursuit of knowledge with the staff members of Benjamin Franklin House. |
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| Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes joins Assyriologist Irving Finkel to discuss the concept of ghosts in the ancient world. |
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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. |
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| A special introduction to our new Holocaust Galleries, along with the launch of the accompanying book. |
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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. |
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| Alexandra Sapoznik explores the cultural and religious significance of bees in the medieval world. |
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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! |
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| Halloween tours of Horace Walpole's gothic castle, Strawberry Hill. |
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| In this online lecture, curator & arts consultant Mireille Galinou contrasts the Charterhouse Great Chamber with 17th century private painted rooms |
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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. |
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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 |
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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? |
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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. |
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| Four open days in October to see around the former Archbishop of Canterbury's palace, which is now a school. |
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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 |
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| The first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. |
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| A public light projection by artist Jenny Holzer will illuminate Tate Modern’s chimney. |
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| A chance to tour the Kilmorey Mausoleum in St. Margarets after dark. |
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| A dramatically-lit Late casting light on the stories behind the Soane. |
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| Open fire drinks on the roof of Brunel's Rotherhithe tunnel shaft. |
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| Visit after hours this Halloween and explore the practice of magical home protection. |
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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. |
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| Victorian era Magic Lanterns will shine into the hidden corners of the Pollock's Toy Museum collection over Halloween. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| A walking tour uncovering the saucy secrets and squalor of historic Soho |
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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. |
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| Occasional open day at a railway cutting nature reserve in Forest Hill. |
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| A public light projection by artist Jenny Holzer will illuminate Tate Modern’s chimney. |
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| Open fire drinks on the roof of Brunel's Rotherhithe tunnel shaft. |
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| Victorian era Magic Lanterns will shine into the hidden corners of the Pollock's Toy Museum collection over Halloween. |
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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. |
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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. |
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