| Saturday 5th February |
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| A talk about the impact and history of morris dancing, mumming and sword dancing. |
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| Sunday 6th February |
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| Monthly open day at the museum to London's first international airport - in Croydon. |
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| Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall on the first Sunday of the month. |
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| In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Zoe Cormier, science communicator and author of Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science, will share some amusing anecdotes which reveal deeper truths about human desire. |
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| Over 60 of the very best dealers in vintage and antique fashion, textiles and accessories. |
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| Monday 7th February |
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| What did it mean to live in urban environments in nineteenth-century France? |
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| A talk about the revival of the voluntary Civil Defence during the Cold War to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear attack. |
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| This talk will explore how professional footballers experienced the First World War. |
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| Explore why venture capital is spreading globally. |
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| Ash Kotak will mainly be talking about the Project to raise a memorial to the people who have lived and died of HIV/AIDS. |
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| Tuesday 8th February |
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| What will the coronavirus do next? Could there be another pandemic in the future? |
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| Explore what actually works to address inequality and exclusion in different country settings. |
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| Writer and presenter Dr Loyd Grossman CBE explores the idea that the celebrated Baroque carver Grinling Gibbons was ‘The British Bernini’ |
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| Did you know that butterfly wings are actually transparent? or that butterflies taste with their feet? |
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| This talk looks at the infrastructure of Georgian lodging, how a newcomer to Georgian London found a room, and what life was like in a crowded house shared with strangers who were there to subsidise the landlord’s/lady’s household budget. |
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| This fully-illustrated talk will uncover the locations of Roman London's burial grounds, the cultural beliefs that surrounded death and burial in the Roman Empire |
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| Join curator Kieran McCarthy and author Francesca Cartier Brickell online for a look at the relationship between the two master jewellers of the era. |
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| Wednesday 9th February |
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| Andrew Mottram, Chief Programme Engineer at Ford, will present insights into the technology and development processes required to develop and launch an all-electric version of Britain’s best-selling commercial vehicle. |
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| Explore the lessons about political violence, war and revolution to be learned from ten major thinkers. |
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| Join us to hear from LGBT History experts on intersections between sexuality and politics: peace, AIDS awareness and local activism. |
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| The lecture will ask how much input Prince Albert had into these buildings and their decoration. |
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| Thursday 10th February |
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| The digital domain is now an increasingly significant geopolitical battleground. Kaja Ciglic from Microsoft discusses the roles of norms in regulating cyberspace. |
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| A talk about how Trans-people in the 1950s and beyond had to travel around for treatment. |
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| This presentation will examine many centuries of Irish diets, focusing on the interplay between consumption and colonial oppression and resistance. |
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| Join Kathryn Harkup as she explores how realistic the ways Shakespeare found to kill off his characters really are. |
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| The editors Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell will introduce the book to us, and the authors, Elizabeth Darling and Jane Stevenson, will talk about some significant C20 queer spaces and their remarkable stories. |
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| Friday 11th February |
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| Join Tim Strickland as he recounts the story of his father, Major-General EVM Strickland, charting his rise through the British Army. |
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| In this paper we analyze the names of almost 200,000 merchant ships that operated in England from the late thirteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| Immerse yourself in London’s Caribbean culture with music, talks, and creative workshops. |
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| Saturday 12th February |
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| Valentines at the Museum is back for two evenings of romantic fascination covering animal courtship, copulation and everything in between. |
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