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| Saturday, 10th April |
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| A virtual workshop where we will be sharing our top tips and tricks to get your growing herbs this spring. |
 | 11am to 1pm |
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| A beautiful country cottage style garden, designed by Sam Aldridge of Eden Restored. |
| 2pm to 5pm |
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| Sunday, 11th April |
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| Diverse garden dominated by a gigantic perry pear forming part of one of the East Dulwich orchards. |
| 1pm to 5pm |
| | Forest Hill |
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| A beautiful country cottage style garden, designed by Sam Aldridge of Eden Restored. |
| 2pm to 5pm |
| | South Croydon |
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| Monday, 12th April |
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| City Guide Courtney Plank leads a virtual walk through the Barbican, looking at the very different churches of St Giles Cripplegate, St Botolph without Aldersgate and Jewin Welsh Church. |
| 2pm to 3:15pm |
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| Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. |
| 7:30pm to 9pm |
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| Tuesday, 13th April |
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| An update on the key trends and challenges at universities across London, exploring the new campus developments. |
| 10am to 11am |
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| Excavations within the Great Kitchen of Westminster Abbey. Lecture by Joe Brooks, Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| Landscape architect Kim Wilkie will trace this development through looking at some of the projects he has worked on. |
| Starts at 6:30pm |
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| Join Naomi Oreskes as she explores what we need to consider when we want people to trust the science. |
| 7pm to 8pm |
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| Oliver Caroe, surveyor of St Paul’s Cathedral, discusses his descent from the Victorian and Edwardian architect W. D. Caroe. |
| 7pm to 9pm |
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| Wednesday, 14th April |
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| At the 550th anniversary Lester Hillman, explores the victors and vanquished, the dramas and the tragedies including the perspectives of City commentators like Shakespeare, writing a century later. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| This lecture pursues the gift of Gothic to later novelists, seeing how great Victorian novelists like Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens were entranced by the supernatural. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| Come and enjoy a talk on the eventful life and career of the late, great and quintessentially British film star David Niven. |
| 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
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| In this talk Dr Susan Kay-Williams will reveal some of The Royal School of Needlework's visitors from Queen Victoria herself to foreign heads of state. |
| 7pm to 8:15pm |
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| Join art director and movie poster designer, Art Sims, to discover how he captures the essence of a 90 minute feature film in one frame image to get a person excited to see it in the 10 second window that they are likely to see the printed image. |
| 7pm to 8:30pm |
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| Join Alison Weir as she discusses the fifth novel in her Six Tudor Queens series, Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen. |
| 7:30pm to 1am |
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| Thursday, 15th April |
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| A notice that the Thames Barrier and the Barking Barrier will have their monthly test closures today. |
| 9:30am to 1pm |
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| A talk about the challenges of deploying new technology and examine the balance between investing in new innovation and maintaining existing technology all while securing the trust of customers. |
| Starts at 2:30pm |
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| See examples of historic repairs to documents and learn why it is important for conservators to study old repairs. |
| 4pm to 5pm |
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| Rebecca Earle traces the history of the potato from the Andes to everywhere, revealing the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and why we have such an ambivalent relationship with government dietary guidelines. |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| As we begin to think about renewing and rebuilding in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, how can the humanities help? |
| 6pm to 7pm |
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| Join Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos |
| 7pm to 8pm |
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| Joining us from Chicago, Lehrer speaks with Audrey Niffenegger about her memoir Golem Girl, an extraordinary story of tenacity and creativity. |
| 7pm to 8pm |
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| A talk will provide the audience with a fresh approach to designing and planting their gardens along with a host of tips on rejuvenating tired plants, lawns and patios. |
| 7:30pm to 8:45pm |
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| Friday, 16th April |
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| John Professor Murray Pittock as he discusses the battle and its legacy. |
| 12pm to 1pm |
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| In this talk Chaucer enthusiasts Euan Roger and Henry Eliot dig deeper into the true story of Chaucer’s life, discussing the people and places that inspired his work. |
| 2pm to 3pm |
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| Saturday, 17th April |
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| Five gardens in a housing estate only open to the public through the National Garden Scheme. |
| 10am to 4pm |
| | Paddington |
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| Get a taste of the Royal College of Physicians fascinating 500-year history and award-winning architecture in a live virtual guided tour. |
| 1pm to 1:30pm |
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| Museums are full of the belongings of the dead! Come and see some remarkable objects and hear some incredible stories. |
| 7pm to 8:15pm |
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