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| Saturday, 1st May |
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| Sunday, 2nd May |
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| A beautiful historic parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with Edwardian gardens in Reigate, Surrey. |
 | 12pm to 5pm |
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| A garden with unusual architectural features including Oriental Tea House overlooking carp pond |
| 2pm to 6pm |
| | Muswell Hill |
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| Monday, 3rd May |
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| Tuesday, 4th May |
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| This lecture looks at great winners (and losers) from the past and clarifies the ideas behind the annual competition. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| This talk will explore negotiations between planners and the public by focusing on attempts to reorganise London’s teaching hospital system in the post-war period. |
| 4pm to 5:15pm |
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| Lance corporal Rusty Firmin will be telling the full story of Operation Nimrod and his own involvement. |
| 6:15pm to 7:30pm |
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| To coincide with the bicentenary of Napoleon’s death, this lecture will review Sir John Soane’s interest in Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Join Mark Solms as he explores the mechanisms behind the dreaming brain and what they really mean. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Historian and curator Barry Bergdoll examines transformations in French architectural culture through the lens of the Vaudoyer dynasty. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
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| Join Professor Alyce Mahon to trace how the Marquis de Sade became an icon of free expression and explore his influence on Surrealist art |
| 7:30pm to 9pm |
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| Wednesday, 5th May |
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| In this webinar, we hear from the team behind New Cooper Point, a recently completed 24-storey tower part of the wider Elephant Park masterplan to present the detailed design, specification and engineering of this building. |
| 10am to 11:30am |
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| You are how you eat: Dr Melisa Morales Garcia will show us how jaws of mammals can reveal their diets. |
| 12:30pm to 1:15pm |
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| London’s garden squares are now seen as much needed green oases in the bustling modern city, but this has not always been the case |
| 6pm to 7:30pm |
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| Join Janet Hartley for a rich exploration of the Volga that reveals the river's vital place in Russian history. |
| 6pm to 7:30pm |
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| Lance corporal Rusty Firmin will be telling the full story of Operation Nimrod and his own involvement. |
| 6:15pm to 7:30pm |
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| Thursday, 6th May |
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| Geoffrey Hollis will talk about the 1951 Battersea Pleasure Gardens – ‘Art and Elegance in Abundance’. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Join Alison Weir on Zoom for a magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| Join a panel of experts to discuss the recent exciting findings from the LHCb experiment at CERN. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| A talk about the creation of Laurence Bradshaw’s Karl Marx memorial in Highgate Cemetery. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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| Friday, 7th May |
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| Join Gavin Mortimer as he considers what society today can learn from the Second World War generation. |
| Starts at 12pm |
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| An event celebrating the festival and explore some of the most exquisite, evocative and unique collections held at The National Archives and The Southbank Centre Archive. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| Dr Philip Mansel, author of King of the World: the life of Louis XIV (2019) will explore how the King used the gardens he created at Versailles to attract and impress foreign visitors |
| 6pm to 7:30pm |
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| Saturday, 8th May |
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| Visit the garden surrounding the centre designed by world-famous Dutch Landscape Architect Piet Oudolf. |
| 10am to 2pm |
| | Belmont |
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| Joanna Banham, freelance curator, lecturer and writer, will explore the history and production of Morris’s wallpaper. |
| Starts at 3pm |
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