| Saturday 6th November |
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| Likely to be a room filled with lots of tables piled up with transport collectables to buy. |
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| A showcase of 125 years of motoring including veteran, vintage, classic, and the very latest cars. |
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| A note that a steam train will pass through Southwest London in the late morning and return in the evening. |
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| Explore the Square Mile's Secret Gardens! |
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| Sunday 7th November |
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| A Muswell Hill running day is being organised for the 7th November to commemorate 30 years since closure of the garage. |
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| See around 300 veteran cars start their long trip to Brighton early in the morning. |
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| Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall on the first Sunday of the month. |
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| Walk the history-packed streets (and tiny alleys!) of the City of London |
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| A sale of an array of surplus stock, from duplicate books to printers’ furniture. |
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| Monday 8th November |
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| Join Marcus du Sautoy as he shows how mathematics can give us clever strategies for daily complex problems |
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| A special London launch event for comedian and writer, Robin Ince’s new book, ‘The Importance of Being Interested’. |
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| A talk about the cult of Mithras, an esoteric religion that existed in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th centuries CE |
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| Tuesday 9th November |
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| This talk examines the reasons why the physical building of the UK Parliament has decayed so much in recent years. |
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| In this talk, Chris Lawton (Skateboard GB) and Iain Borden (University College London) explore the rapidly developing world of skateboarding in relation to public space and urban design. |
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| The extraordinary world runner and adventurer - now in her 70's and still hasn't stopped! Rosie Swale-Pope, MBE is a British author, adventurer and marathon runner. |
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| Steve Condie, Liz Mermin, and series consultants Prof. Jon Davis and John Rentoul will be joined by Ed Balls to discuss the making of the recent BBC 2 series. |
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| A conversation exploring modern adaptations, translations and the timelessness of Fydor Dostoevsky’s work. |
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| Wednesday 10th November |
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| This illustrated lecture investigates their history and the continuing influence on our modern world. |
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| The Finnish Church will host a range of Nordic fare in their church over two weekends. |
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| Shopping/food events during the day and Christmas lights switch-on in the evening. |
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| In this event, listen live to the experiences of nurses involved in this historic undertaking. |
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| Global yachtswomen who skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy and was awarded an MBE honour. |
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| To mark the release of her latest book, historian and author Tessa Dunlop chairs an exclusive panel featuring some of the last surviving female soldiers of the Second World War. |
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| Celebrate recent contributions to the field of graphic design history, which seek to shake established narratives to expand the design canon. |
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| Art dealer and broadcaster Philip Mould presents "A Life in Art" - streamed live online. |
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| Exploring the phenomenon which entranced Victorian society |
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| Can't wait till next Halloween? Join Richard Suggett for a fascinating look at the people and places associated with witchcraft in Wales |
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| Thursday 11th November |
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| The Finnish Church will host a range of Nordic fare in their church over two weekends. |
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| The Guildhall Art Gallery will open until 8pm (last admission 7pm), with its free Noël Coward exhibition, the main art gallery, Roman Amphitheatre and the Heritage centre open. |
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| This talk explores the social and cultural world of the tea garden in early modern London. |
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| This talk starts by exploring psychiatric and sexological debates about perverted sexual desires from the late nineteenth century textbooks to diagnostic manuals in the twenty-first century. |
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| This talk is a whistle-stop tour of permanent way design principles, why railway alignments end up looking the way they do, and a pick of some of the extremes of good, bad and ugly of British permanent way. |
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| Join historian Dominic Selwood for an exploration of how treasures from the British Library’s collection reveal the changing identities of Britain. |
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| Travis Elborough discusses his eye-opening new history of spectacles |
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| Friday 12th November |
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| This symposium revisits art historian Linda Nochlin’s seminal question fifty years on. |
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| Meet a variety of rogues and their victims, and find how to tell a blowsabella from a toppin cove. |
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| Meet a variety of rogues and their victims, and find how to tell a blowsabella from a toppin cove. |
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| The Finnish Church will host a range of Nordic fare in their church over two weekends. |
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| A talk about incredible detail of the wedding but also its wider consequences for the Tudor family and for England. |
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| A talk about the incredible detail of the wedding but also its wider consequences for the Tudor family and for England. |
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| If going full fontal sounds like your type of fun, be bold and let the font of all knowledge Sarah Hyndman quiz you on typography in popular culture. |
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| Saturday 13th November |
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| Run by The South London Warlords, is the biggest independent one-day wargaming and gaming event in the UK. |
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| As is traditional on the day of the Lord Mayor's Show, St Paul's Cathedral will be free to visit. |
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| An annual grand parade through the City of London to welcome the new Lord Mayor of London. |
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| Hampton Court Model Railway Society’s model railway show, with 20 working layouts and supporting trade stands. |
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| A circular walk, starting from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral close to the statue of Queen Anne |
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| A circular walk, starting from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral close to the statue of Queen Anne |
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| The Finnish Church will host a range of Nordic fare in their church over two weekends. |
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| Join Dr Nick Crumpton and Dr Susannah Maidment for a dino-tastic event, full of prehistoric myth-busting and fabulous fossils |
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| Explore the paranormal in this reimagining of the historic National Laboratory of Psychical Research established by Harry Price, paranormal investigator in the 1920s. |
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