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| Saturday, 3rd October |
| London Craft Week themed tour around the history of St Paul's Cathedral |
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| All the fun of the classic big tent circus arrives for a few days in Peckham. |
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| The garden is 80ft x 23ft on three levels with an ornamental pond, patio area with shrubs and perennials, many in pots. |
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| Light projections in celebration of new life, nature and optimism will light up Marble Arch from sunset |
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| Sunday, 4th October |
| All the fun of the classic big tent circus arrives for a few days in Peckham. |
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| The annual event where the Thames Barrier is closed for the whole day. |
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| A monthly opening of the Victorian museum of industrial testing equipment. |
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| Monthly open day at Gatton Park, the core 250 acres of the estate originally laid out by Capability Brown. |
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| A lecture about the high mortality from disease during the Crimean War. |
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| Light projections in celebration of new life, nature and optimism will light up Marble Arch from sunset |
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| Monday, 5th October |
| This UK City Dialogue brings together Manchester, London and Birmingham for a discussion about the health of our city centres as we move through the recovery from COVID-19. |
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| A talk about Darwin's four enormous books on barnacles, used to earn credit in scientific circles |
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| Tuesday, 6th October |
| An evening with Catherine Belton who will be discussing her critically acclaimed book ‘Putin’s Russia’. |
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| Explore with us what SpaceX has to offer and what lies ahead - is humanity to finally become a true space-faring species? |
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| On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, his biographer Tristram Hunt looks at how both Engels and Karl Marx were deeply affected by their time in London in the second half of the 19th century. |
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| Sean B Carroll tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world. |
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| Joanna Ebenstein will trace the history of death in art, with a special focus on the bubonic plague epidemic |
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| Wednesday, 7th October |
| This lecture will consider how stargazing with imperfect, non-linear human eyes can accomplish important contributions to elucidating the phenomena of nova detonations in our galaxy. |
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| Alec Tritton looks at some of the occupations that employed the working man and the aspiring middle classes in the 19th century. |
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| This lecture will chart the history of patient data and statistics to monitor healthcare performance and how patients use healthcare services. |
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| This lecture draws on a ten-year collaboration with a Savile Row tailor to explore ‘bespoke’ as a metaphor for clinical practice. |
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| Along with consideration of some of the best known buildings of the time, gain insights into some of the lesser known places and architects and some new discoveries. |
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| Dr Elma Brenner devotes attention to responses to the deadly Sweating Sickness in London, and also considers the rich material culture of death and pestilence. |
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| Trevor Barnes gives a talk about one of the Cold War’s most notorious spy cases - the Portland Spy Ring |
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| Thursday, 8th October |
| Join Professor Gareth Collins for Science Breaks: The dinosaur-dooming asteroid and how we stop the next one. |
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| This talk by Pete Smith tells the story of his close and often fraught collaboration with a range of talented artists, and points to the detailed clues in their illustrations that a modern reader might easily miss. |
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| Anna Garvey is a tattoo artist with 15 years experience. One of her specialist fields is post-mastectomy tattooing. |
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| In this talk, learn about some of the challenges faced by overhead line engineers and how a rebranding exercise could help to repair the reputational damage incurred from some more recent projects. |
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| Friday, 9th October |
| Periodicals have been produced by and for Black people in Britain for more than two hundred years. In this talk, S.I. Martin will introduce a handful of the more prominent titles. |
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| Saturday, 10th October |
| Adele Emm tells us how gas and electric lighting affected our ancestors’ home lives. |
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| The first ever Chelsea Physic Garden Houseplant Market, with market stalls, talks and visits to the Victorian glasshouses. |
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| Open day at a wood and nature reserve that's next to the railway at Forest Hill. |
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