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| Saturday, 24th April |
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| Rummage through a selection of salvaged treasures from 30 handpicked vintage traders. |
 | 11am to 6pm |
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| Sunday, 25th April |
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| From shade specialists to plants for pollinators, meet the growers and pick their brains on what will flourish in your garden, balcony or allotment. |
| 10:30am to 5pm |
| | Southwark |
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| Rummage through a selection of salvaged treasures from 30 handpicked vintage traders. |
| 11am to 6pm |
| | Stoke Newington |
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| Spectacular in spring, when 2000 tulips bloom among Camellias, irises and tree peonies. |
| 12pm to 5pm |
| | Clapham |
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| London’s smallest botanical garden, densely planted with 500 labelled species grown in themed borders. |
| 1pm to 5pm |
| | Herne Hill |
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| This garden will surprise you with its unexpected length (160ft) and beautiful individual ‘rooms’ on different levels. |
| 2pm to 6pm |
| | New Cross |
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| A woodland garden at its peak in spring, with rhododendrons, flowering dogwoods, early roses, bulbs, ferns and rare exotics. |
| 2pm to 6pm |
| | Notting Hill |
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| Karen Averby reflects on the architecture and design from this golden age of hotel building and shares stories from her research of the people associated with these fashionable places. |
| 3pm to 4:15pm |
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| Monday, 26th April |
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| City Guide Jill Finch’s talk look back at that history and at the street today. From literary lions to waxworks and a pub that crossed the road, Fleet Street still has a tale or two to tell. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| Join Dr Brett Kahr to learn what Freud—having lived through WWI, the Spanish Flu, and Nazi occupation—can teach us in this new pandemic |
| 8pm to 9:30pm |
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| Tuesday, 27th April |
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| This talk is the fourth in our online series exploring current archaeology with a 17th century bias on Tues @ 10 from April 6th |
| 10am to 11:30am |
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| The Green Man: A review of the many theories that attempt to explain his origin and meaning. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| Dr Anjna Chouhan examines Shakespeare’s contradictory narratives of the sea. |
| 5:15pm to 6:30pm |
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| Using many unpublished illustrations, historian Philip Mansel shows that Napoleon was not, as Hegel called him ‘the world soul on horseback’, but above all a monarch. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| The story of Westminster before 1512 |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| The Cosmic Shambles Network are hosting a night at the Royal Institution to celebrate the 'Father of the Nuclear Age', Ernest Rutherford. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Learn all about the remarkable Pinwill sisters who worked as professional woodcarvers in Victorian Ermington and then Plymouth. |
| 7pm to 10pm |
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| Dave Goulson will explain why insects are in decline, and suggest how we can all help to tackle this crisis, by turning our gardens and urban greenspaces into oases for life. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Wednesday, 28th April |
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| To celebrate the release of Simply Raymond: Recipes from Home, the official cookbook to the ITV series, coming out on 29th April. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Elain Harwood will talk about cinemas, seaside buildings, factories and other buildings in this most fantastic of styles. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Dr Denis Sivkov and Makar Tereshin speak on how the heritage of the Soviet space project is maintained and engaged with in regional museums across Russia. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Amy Hare explores how hand embroidery looked to the past and to the future by creating the Art of the moment. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Thursday, 29th April |
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| A presentation about the upgrade works to the Isle of Wight Railway. |
| 5:30pm to 7pm |
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| Listen as the team delve into the horrors of surgery before the arrival of anaesthesia and antiseptics that helped pave the way to our modern medical procedures. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| A talk and recreation of how amputations used to be carried out in the Old Operating Theatre. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| Join Stephen Walker, in conversation with celebrated British travel writer Colin Thubron, as he speaks about his new book, Beyond - the history of the first human to leave our planet. |
| 6pm to 7:30pm |
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| Naomi Games will talk about her father’s work on the Festival of Britain symbol following the story from the designer’s brief, development of his ideas, to winning the competition. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Pay a visit to the toilet with historians Lee Jackson and Simon Fowler as they plumb the depths of London's lavatory legacy. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
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| There will be filming and pyrotechnics in the Thames around the area of the Millenium Dome in North Greenwich. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Greenwich |
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| Once British, Always British is a collection of two 30-minute audio dramas exploring migration to British port cities by Yemeni and Indian sailors during the 1920s. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
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| This talk will illuminate works by some leading figures such as ElLissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, Moholy-Nagy and Piet Zwart, as well as lesser known designers like Johannes Molzahn, Walter Dexel and Max Burchartz. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Simon Saville will describe Butterfly Conservation’s new “Big City Butterflies” project, which will run for four years from 2021. |
| 7:30pm to 8:30pm |
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| Friday, 30th April |
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| Christine Hallett challenges some of the popular myths surrounding the allied nurses of the First World War. |
| 12pm to 1pm |
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| Peter Daniel talks about the Cato Street Conspiracy, a daring plot to assassinate the British Prime Minister and his cabinet. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
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| Learn about one of the protagonists of the Cato Street Conspiracy, a daring plot to assassinate the British Prime Minister and his cabinet. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
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| How accurate are science fiction films? Separate fact from fiction with astronomers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich |
| Starts at 7pm |
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| Saturday, 1st May |
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