| Saturday 23rd July |
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| Join Professor Martha Carlin for this talk on medieval poet John Gower, friend of Chaucer and Resident of Southwark Priory |
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| Join author and Dickens descendant Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, for the launch of her new book Dickens and Travel. |
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| A number of art events will take place around the Aldgate area for one night only. |
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| Sunday 24th July |
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| Free running day on vintage buses and coaches from Victoria Coach Station. |
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| Ice Sunday is the one day of the year when the Canal Museum can take visitors down into the Victorian ice wells beneath the ground floor. |
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| Explore Tottenham's hidden heritage and see the magnificent 1888 engine in action. |
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| Alongside the Classic Gathering is the AutoJumble with around 100 stalls and car boot sellers offering all manner of goods from the traditional autojumble through to gifts. |
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| A garden filled with mature, different and unusual plants not normally encountered in England |
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| Monday 25th July |
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| Tuesday 26th July |
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| The talk will capture the Duke of Wellington’s life from his birth in 1769 to his state funeral in 1852. |
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| Join historian Iain MacGregor as he unpicks the legend of ‘The Lighthouse’, a story of heroic struggle at the heart of the Battle of Stalingrad. |
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| What was Faraday's innovative process? And how can we learn to innovate from Faraday's work? |
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| Wednesday 27th July |
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| A screening of the film with live music accompaniment. |
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| Thursday 28th July |
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| An evening tour through a Hackney's most historic house, including the chance for a welcome drink (optional). |
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| This panel discussion explores our food systems from the perspective of farming and growing communities, with an in-depth look at where our food actually comes from. |
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| Come for a canter through London's extraordinary history of the horse - in an actual Horse Hospital. |
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| Explore behavioural and neuroscientific research on animal sleep, with philosophical theories of dreaming. |
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| Friday 29th July |
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| Join Daniel Whittingham as he explores the nature of counterinsurgency both in principle and practice. |
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| This talk will focus on Domesday’s life over the past nine centuries, its uses, and anecdotes from its later life in the Public Record Office - all through the lens of our collection. |
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| Saturday 30th July |
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| Annual open day at the local model railway club showing off their trains. |
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| This popular community harvest, and London’s only Pick Your Own Lavender event, will be eld at the three acre Carshalton Lavender field at Stanley Road Allotments. |
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| A fleet of yachts mark the end of their round the world voyage with an afternoon of events in the Royal Docks. |
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