Saturday 27th May |
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Lots of shops in Chelsea and Belgravia decorated their pavements for one week only in a free display. |
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A chance to visit the museum inside the prison that's not usually open to the public. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Wandsworth |
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Europe's biggest independent motorcycle show, celebrates the creativity of the new-wave and cafe-racer custom motorcycle culture, with over 300 curated custom motorcycles on display. |
| 10am to 8pm |
| | Wapping |
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A restoration project has bought the mill back to working order for the first time since 1935, and it's now open to the public. |
| 10am to 4pm |
| | Upminster |
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Once a month open day at a nature reserve that sits alongside the railway in Forest Hill. |
| 1pm to 4pm |
| | Forest Hill |
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The Doctor Who store will be joined by Patrick O'Kane, Richard Price and Simon Carew for photograph signings. |
| 1pm to 3pm |
| | East Ham |
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Some of the UK’s leading scientists will take to their soapboxes to showcase cutting-edge research in this free live event. |
| 1pm to 4pm |
| | Southwark |
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Sunday 28th May |
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Lots of shops in Chelsea and Belgravia decorated their pavements for one week only in a free display. |
| All day |
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A chance to visit the museum inside the prison that's not usually open to the public. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Wandsworth |
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The Hayes Canal Festival 2023 offers boat trips, activities, food and live music. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Hayes |
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Europe's biggest independent motorcycle show, celebrates the creativity of the new-wave and cafe-racer custom motorcycle culture, with over 300 curated custom motorcycles on display. |
| 10am to 6pm |
| | Wapping |
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A restoration project has bought the mill back to working order for the first time since 1935, and it's now open to the public. |
| 10am to 4pm |
| | Upminster |
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A chance to hear a working Merlin Engine, the type that would have been used in an Avro Lancaster. |
| 10:30am to 4:30pm |
| | Colindale |
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A WW2-era history attraction that's open to the public once a month. |
| 10:30am to 4pm |
| | Watford |
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Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top. |
| 2pm to 4:30pm |
| | Hackney |
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Jeremy Harte offers vivid insights into the hidden world of England’s large Gypsy population. |
| 3pm to 4:30pm |
| | Lewisham |
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A note that a large cruise ship will pass through Tower Bridge in the evening. |
| 6:30pm to 7pm |
| | Southwark |
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Monday 29th May |
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A chance to hear a working Merlin Engine, the type that would have been used in an Avro Lancaster. |
| 10:30am to 4:30pm |
| | Colindale |
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Tuesday 30th May |
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Join the IWM London to discuss historian and author Sarah Louise Miller’s latest book, The Women Behind the Few and experience the Second World War Galleries after hours. |
| 6pm to 8pm |
| | Southwark |
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Love cheese and want to learn the science behind its moreishness? Join us for a talk and tasting rolled into one. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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Wednesday 31st May |
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Experience live stone carving by stonemasonry apprentices and students, have-a-go at lettering and carving in stone. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Barbican |
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Step back in time with author and historian, Helen Amy, on an exploration of Victorian London, the beating heart of an empire at its peak. |
| 7:30pm to 8:30pm |
| | Online |
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Thursday 1st June |
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Experience live stone carving by stonemasonry apprentices and students, have-a-go at lettering and carving in stone. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Barbican |
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Bombproof vaults, a cavernous library and shelves upon shelves of natural history treasures. A behind-the-scenes tour. |
| 2pm to 3:30pm |
| | Picadilly |
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Join curators Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell as they introduce the context, scope, themes and highlight objects of the extraordinary Citi exhibition, China’s hidden century. |
| 4:30pm to 5:30pm |
| | Online |
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A monthly late opening of the restored Roman temple found near Bank in the City of London in the 1950s, and recently restored to its original subterranean location. |
| 5pm to 8pm |
| | City of London |
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On the first Thursday of the month, Holborn's Novelty Automation has a bar in the store for their late-night opening. |
| 6pm to 9pm |
| | Holborn |
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This talk will consider Dance’s scheme and its visual afterlives not simply as relics of a failed planning exercise, but as examples of a ‘paper architecture’ that helped to configure expectations about London’s future form. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
| | Euston |
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Former Christmas Lecturer Helen Czerski explores on of the earth's most complex systems: the ocean. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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Dr Clare Smith will be examining the depiction of murder and murderers in art, and considering art that has been produced by murderers. |
| 7pm to 8:15pm |
| | Covent Garden |
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Friday 2nd June |
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Experience live stone carving by stonemasonry apprentices and students, have-a-go at lettering and carving in stone. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Barbican |
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Once a month from June to September, the normally private gardens at Lambeth Palace are opened to the public. |
| 12pm to 4pm |
| | Southwark |
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Professor Juliette Pattinson explores the formation of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and its service during the First World War. |
| 12pm to 1pm |
| | Chelsea |
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Contemporary Specialist Mark Dunton draws on our rich archival sources to take you through the year, 60 years ago, when the Sixties truly started to swing. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
| | Online |
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Discover the revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you see the world around you differently. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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Join some of the most influential voices in the food family for a lively discussion exploring why food is such a powerful tool for queer community building, resistance and celebration. |
| 7:15pm to 8:30pm |
| | Camden |
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Saturday 3rd June |
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A few weeks before the King's official birthday parade, there's a rehearsal of the Trooping the Colour. |
| 9am to 1pm |
| | Whitehall |
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Ffree entry to the Musical Museum all day to launch the 1980s exhibition. |
| 10am to 4pm |
| | Brentford |
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Occasional open day at a museum of domestic "clutter" housed in an old farm barn. |
| 10:30am to 4pm |
| | Upminster |
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