| Saturday 18th February |
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| A note that a steam train will leave Paddington in the morning, returning again in the evening. |
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| Sunday 19th February |
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| A tour covering the whole of the Gardens, including the sites of the earlier houses, the Walled Garden and a large part of the existing Mansion. |
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| Monday 20th February |
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| I think eating a bacon based meal the evening before pancake day is a tradition that should be restored. |
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| Tuesday 21st February |
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| This all-day event highlights the latest developments in the use of digital technology and virtual reality to bring heritage properties and landscapes back to vivid life. |
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| This lecture will consider the normal heartbeat, the causes of the heart going too fast or slowly and how it is treated when it does. |
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| Learn how Victorian Britain dealt with pandemics and how sanitary reform influenced interior design |
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| Wednesday 22nd February |
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| Get hands on with medical history at a lunchtime handling session. |
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| Tour David Kirkaldy's world-famous Testing & Experimenting Works for a taster evening tour. |
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| This lecture will consider Wren’s contributions to astronomy and how Wren’s appreciation of and contributions to art and design, and science and engineering, were fully integrated in his life and made him a polymath on a par with Leonardo da Vinci. |
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| In a world brimming with brands devoted to production and consumption and a design industry in service to the brands, how can design make a difference in a world beset with crises? |
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| Thursday 23rd February |
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| With tour guide and a glass of prosecco in hand, travel through five centuries of scandal, royal dramas, deaths and terrifying hauntings. |
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| This lecture describes an alternative narrative of ancient communities, and presents a more positive and inclusive story – a Stonehenge re-imagined for modern Britain. |
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| Join a panel of experts as they reflect on the current war in Ukraine and its potential legacy. |
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| The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England |
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| This talk with Dr Helen Frisby, author of the Shire book Traditions of Death and Burial, explores English death and burial customs from the Norman Conquest right through to the present day and the impact of Covid-19. |
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| Friday 24th February |
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| Join Clare Mulley as she examines the lives of two female pilots, offering a fascinating insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes to women, class and race. |
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| Kris Manjapra explores how the meaning of “treason” was reconfigured by Black liberation struggles during the Age of Abolition |
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| Prof. Yang-Hui uncovers why geometry has always been about far more than the measurement of shapes. It is at the heart of physics. |
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| Saturday 25th February |
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| Who is Britain’s greatest monarch? Join us at Southwark Cathedral as several historians make their case for who they believe should take the crown |
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| Home to Hodge our rambunctious cat, we are delighted to be hosting our annual Stories of Cats day all about our feline friends |
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| An opportunity to discover the history of Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park and the areas of Highgate and North London. |
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| An occasional chance to see inside a metal church in Kilburn - now used by the Sea Cadets and as a community centre. |
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| Uncover the cutting-edge science used to look at black holes. |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| He built an empire that stretched across the world. Rode across the sky on a flying chariot. And descended to the bottom of the sea in a glass bell. Or did he? (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | Through some of our country’s most provocative artists, this exhibition presents an alternative perspective on modern Britain. (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | A major exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition. (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | Delve into the dreamlike relationship between Surrealism and design in this century-spanning celebration of surrealist objects of desire. (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | See portraits of the full England football squad and manager by artist Matt Small. (Ends on Sun, 19th Feb) | | From Lucian Freud to Kiki Smith, life drawing to minimalism and etching to collage, this exhibition spans an intriguing range of styles and techniques used in art on paper from 1960 to today. (Ends on Sat, 25th Feb) | | Tate Britain celebrates the return of Yiadom-Boakye's 2020 major survey which was sadly cut short by lockdown (Ends on Sun, 26th Feb) | | Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. (Ends on Sun, 26th Feb) | | An immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace brings past and present together to explore this question and to celebrate a new chapter of British Beauty for the 21st century. (Ends on Sun, 26th Feb) | | An installation of six large-scale clay columns inspired by traditional architectural practices in Chile, by Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez (Ends on Tue, 28th Feb) | | This virtual rhino will be roaming in a digital world within the Museum’s Jerwood Gallery as part of a new art exhibition from artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. (Ends on Tue, 28th Feb) | | The Cost of Living Crisis has the whole of England feeling like we're living in a madhouse so we’re looking back to the master of wacky solutions W. Heath Robinson himself! (Ends on Wed, 1st Mar) | | This exhibition examines Dickens’s interest in the paranormal, his ‘hankering after ghosts’, and how he became a master ghost story teller publishing over 20 spooky tales. (Ends on Sun, 5th Mar) | | Back bigger and better than ever for 2023, Kew Gardens’ much-loved Orchid festival returns to the Princess of Wales Conservatory. (Ends on Sun, 5th Mar) | | Eight pieces of artwork, curated in partnership with Light Art Collection, will be on display both outdoors and inside the Power Station. (Ends on Sun, 5th Mar) |
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