| Saturday 24th September |
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| Serried ranks of vintage coaches will occupy the principal running bays at VCS – for one day only. |
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| Come along to explore the fascinating history of Egypt through craft activities and tours of the collections. |
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| Projekt Mkt – the UK’s ONL* specialist vintage poster market – is returning to Copeland Gallery in Peckham for three days. |
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| A demonstration of Victorian surgery techniques in an old operating theatre. |
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| Occasional open weekend of the London Transport Museum's Acton depot. |
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| A spectacular showcase of the very best of British-grown flowers, foam-free sustainable floristry, and the design creativity of the UK’s leading floral designers. |
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| The Friends of the London Fire Brigade Museum in conjunction with London Design Festival and their ‘The Running Towards’ exhibition, will be displaying historic fire appliances, uniforms and innovative new ephemera. |
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| A festival showing off the culture and food from Japan's Okinawa |
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| At dusk, an illuminated flotilla of over a hundred and fifty boats, including Gloriana The Queen’s Rowbarge, will float down the River Thames through central London from Chelsea to Tower Bridge. |
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| Sunday 25th September |
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| Throughout the day, Freemen of the City of London will be taking sheep across London Bridge, and there will be a livery fair around the Monument. |
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| Occasional open weekend of the London Transport Museum's Acton depot. |
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| Projekt Mkt – the UK’s ONL* specialist vintage poster market – is returning to Copeland Gallery in Peckham for three days. |
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| A spectacular showcase of the very best of British-grown flowers, foam-free sustainable floristry, and the design creativity of the UK’s leading floral designers. |
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| Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top. |
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| Monday 26th September |
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| Explore the successes and failures of all the world’s major empires and countries. |
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| Tuesday 27th September |
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| Learn how single women lived in London in the interwar years by looking at their lives in fiction, biography and memoir. |
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| Cross-dressed to Kill - Women Who Went to War Disguised as Men by Vivien Morgan answers the question of why young women dressed as men to fight as soldiers in the 17th to 20th centuries. |
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| A rare opportunity to view Avenue House from top to bottom and learn more of its 138-year history. |
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| Hear from former Audience Development Manager Rachel Morrison about the restoration of Marble Hill house |
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| Explore the technology behind autonomous vehicles and the measures needed to ensure safety and accountability. |
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| This talk is designed to consider those interactions, and the representations since 1700 of Druids as patriotic heroes, sages and scholars. |
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| Wednesday 28th September |
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| Thursday 29th September |
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| A talk about the plans to upgrade the Piccadilly line on the London Underground. |
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| A talk by Jordan Osserman about his recent book, short art performances by Martin O’Brien and FYTA, and discussion with Professor Lisa Baraitser. |
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| Is craft an essential means of artistic expression or merely a posh luxury signalling uneven glaze on an overpriced ramen bowl, fake etsy sellers flogging ‘hand-made’ tat, and the fetishisation of manual labour? |
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| An evening with Rob Wilkins, author of Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, to celebrate the publication of this biography on the day of its release. |
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| Discover the paradox of aiming to prevent impairments, yet believing that life with impairments can be good. |
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| Friday 30th September |
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| Join Professor Andrew Hoskins and Dr Matthew Ford as they discuss how digital devices have shaped the ways in which contemporary war is viewed, understood and fought. |
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| Saturday 1st October |
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| RT buses dating from 1939-1954 will be running alongside the normal daily service on route 37, Putney Heath to Peckham. |
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| Monthly behind the scenes tours of the local theatre. |
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| The newly restored chapel will be ‘unveiled’ to the public with a free weekend of activities and events. |
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| Artists and craftspeople across the borough of Lambeth will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. |
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| An eclectic display of domestic items from the last century as well as agricultural machinery inside an old barn. |
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| Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine. |
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