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| Saturday, 20th February |
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| Sunday, 21st February |
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| A one acre garden restored to its original 1920s design. |
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| In his book “Crow Country” – widely considered the best of the recent boom of nature writers - Cocker goes in search of crows, journeying from the cavernous, deadened heartland of South England to the hills of Dumfriesshire |
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| Join acclaimed performer Robert Lloyd Parry as he brings to life the beloved ghost stories of M.R. James |
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| Monday, 22nd February |
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| This presentation introduces the range of direct and indirect economic, social, political and cultural impacts of slavery connections on landed estates. |
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| This illustrated talk that will uncover some of the colourful and varied folklore of London. |
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| Tuesday, 23rd February |
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| This presentation explores the medieval commentary tradition regarding the raising of Samuel by the so-called Witch of Endor. |
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| This lecture explores attempts to create jokes from rules, and programs that create not-quite-relevant responses that hearers can make meaningful and comic. Will computers ever tell good jokes? |
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| This talk looks to highlight some of the key items of practicality related to bridge engineering on several schemes over the last 10-15 years, as experienced by the presenter. |
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| Join Dr Anna Feigenbaum as she examines the use of tear gas from the battlefields of World War I to the streets of colonial India, and beyond. |
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| One of the most tenacious mediaeval building myths is that many timber-framed buildings were constructed from salvaged ship timbers. And not just any old ships! |
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| Former Chair of the Victorian Society Geoff Brandwood analyses the architecture of an innovatory Gothic architect. |
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| The London we have lost and the London that never was. |
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| Wednesday, 24th February |
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| Join this webinar with John Osborne. He will discuss civil engineering studies and future plans for a 100km successor to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN including on-site investigations. |
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| This paper will examine the ways British railways have and continue to be celebrated by communities with regional connections to this industry’s history. |
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| How does the recent genre fiction of novelists like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell return us to the transgressive pleasures of Defoe’s criminal autobiographies? |
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| Learn about post-war London through the films of Ealing studios including The Blue Lamp and Passport to Pimlico |
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| Join Joint Chief Curator Lucy Worsley as she takes you on a whistle-stop tour, exploring everything you ever needed to know about Kensington Palace. |
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| A conversation with the television antiques expert about the collection in the Museum of Freemasonry. |
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| A line-up of experts, including US physician Dr Anthony Fauci and Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi MP, assemble to discuss vaccine hesitancy, described as one of the greatest challenges facing the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. |
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| Thursday, 25th February |
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| Take a virtual tour around the Roman domestic house and bathhouse that is under 101 Lower Thames Street in the City of London. |
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| This lecture explains the development and role of the Office of Rail and Road from its history right through to the challenges and changes which the future may bring. |
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| This 45-minute talk is a smorgasbord commemorating hidden queer histories from the Palace of Westminster. |
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| Explore Russia’s long history of mysticism and apocalyptic thought with author Gary Lachman |
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| Learn what your own ‘Molly name’ might be, the 18th century definition of ‘Queer’ and the significance of wooden spoons… |
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| The story of Jews in London. A virtual tour that takes you from the ghetto of the middle ages through to the East End shtetl of the 20th cen |
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| Curators Rebecca Newell and Tom Hockenhull tell the stories of how the capital’s cultural treasures were saved from the Blitz |
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| Dr. Cathy Ross will be sharing some of the new stories that have emerged from the Great Chamber project at Charterhouse. |
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| Friday, 26th February |
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| Join Dr Peter Johnston in conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Tim Purbrick as they mark 30 years since the ground phase of the Gulf War. |
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| Discover what gives a wafer the perfect snap, a crisp the perfect crunch, and the surprising similarities between steel and chocolate. |
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| Principal Records Specialist Mark Dunton examines how the government wrestled with the limits of frankness in a national public education campaign to address the AIDS epidemic. |
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| This film, produced by Peter Murray, explores the fact that the City of London was a walking city in medieval times. |
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| The life and times of hundreds of women who made their way across the sea and changed history. |
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| A talk from Royal Observatory astronomer Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder on the science of the 1999 film The Matrix, written adn directed by the Wachowski sisters. |
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| Saturday, 27th February |
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