| Saturday 12th February |
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| Valentines at the Museum is back for two evenings of romantic fascination covering animal courtship, copulation and everything in between. |
 | 6:45pm to 10:30pm |
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| Sunday 13th February |
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| Expect over 30 tables, including indie record labels, record stores, used/collector/hifi dealers, vinyl cleaning, and local vinyl enthusiasts. |
| 11am to 5pm |
| | Walthamstow |
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| A live music accompanied screening of the Buster Keaton classic - as he is torn between love for a girl, or a train. |
| 2:30pm to 5pm |
| | Brentford |
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| Monday 14th February |
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| A theatrical lantern-lit Valentine’s voyage through the literary, convivial world of Dr Johnson’s London, beginning with a tour of Dr Johnson’s preserved townhouse at 17 Gough Square. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
| | Holborn |
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| Come along and hear this account of rural customs by folklorist Mark Norman. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| Valentines at the Museum is back for two evenings of romantic fascination covering animal courtship, copulation and everything in between. |
| 6:45pm to 10:30pm |
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| Tuesday 15th February |
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| An evening PechaKucha presenting the latest primary school projects and educational spaces around London. |
| 6pm to 8pm |
| | Kings Cross |
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| In this year’s Fred Halliday lecture, Sophie Harman will argue that there are three powerful forces in the contemporary world that threaten any progress in stopping women from dying when they don’t have to. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
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| Explore ubiquitous yet mysterious burn marks in historic buildings with archaeologist James Wright. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| This talk, by the funerary historian Dr Julian Litten, will explain how that myth came to be and what the real Victorian funeral comprised of. |
| Starts at 7pm |
| | Highgate |
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| Join psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane in conversation, as she reveals the latest thinking about how memories are made and how they make us. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Wednesday 16th February |
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| Explore how we need to rethink preparing and managing global health risks. |
| 5pm to 6pm |
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| A talk about one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city’s centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city. |
| 5:30pm to 7pm |
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| A talk about the life and work of some photographic geniuses: Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Tony Snowdon and Annie Leibovitz. |
| Starts at 7pm |
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| A talk about William Addison Dwiggins, best known as a designer of printing types and books. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Thursday 17th February |
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| The Florence Nightingale Museum will be open for two days in February, to coincide with half-term. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Southwark |
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| A talk about one of the great painters of the Victorian era Atkinson Grimshaw. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| In this online panel, academics from across UCL will discuss the unfinished business of securing full membership and belonging of society and its institutions for all women. |
| 4:30pm to 5:30pm |
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| Learn more about the National Fairground and Circus Archive (NFCA) in this session. |
| 5:30pm to 7pm |
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| A virtual event exploring some fascinating and potentially challenging collections highlighting the long, rich and inspiring history of LGBTQ+ lives. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| Explore how the lives of LGBTQ+ people, and attitudes to sexual and gender diversity, are reflected in the archive, heritage library and museum collections of the Royal College of Physicians. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| Explore what the “father of science fiction” might teach us about the history of British socialism. |
| 6:30pm to 8pm |
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| Join Richard Firth-Godbehere as he draws on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, art, and religious history to explore emotions. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Hanover Square |
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| Palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday will give a talk about his debut book, Otherlands. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
| | Soho |
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| Friday 18th February |
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| The Florence Nightingale Museum will be open for two days in February, to coincide with half-term. |
| 10am to 5pm |
| | Southwark |
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| Join Robert Sackville-West as he reveals the stories of those who searched for missing British soldiers after the First World War. |
| Starts at 12pm |
| | Chelsea |
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| A world of love affairs, tragedy, marriage and death; join author, Jan-Marie Knights in conversation about her latest book, The Tudor Socialite. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| Join author, Jan-Marie Knights in conversation about her latest book, The Tudor Socialite. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| This paper focuses on women's businesses in the fashion trades, exploring their roles as linen drapers, milliners, mercers, haberdashers, and hosiers in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London and Westminster. |
| 5:30pm to 7pm |
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| Discussion and book launch that uncovers the true extent of slavery in 17th-century England through the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people in London. |
| 6pm to 7:30pm |
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| Live audio-visual presentations to show how long-hidden ancient Greek worlds can be reimagined and brought to life. |
| 7:30pm to 9pm |
| | South Kensington |
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| Saturday 19th February |
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