Saturday 1st August
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Sunday 2nd August
Monthly open day at Gatton Park, the core 250 acres of the estate originally laid out by Capability Brown.
![Gatton Park's monthly open day]()
Here is an oasis in Camden’s urban density, where resourceful planting outflanks challenges of space and shade and Mrs Dickens, who once lived here, is an amiable ghost.
![Visit a garden - 70 Gloucester Crescent (Camden)]()
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Monday 3rd August
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Tuesday 4th August
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Wednesday 5th August
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Thursday 6th August
Online events / webinars
Your presenter takes you on a guided 360° virtual tour. You will have a detailed look inside several rooms including the Commons Chamber, Lords Chamber and Central Lobby with its magnificent octagonal ceiling.
![Guided online tour of the Palace of Westminster]()
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Friday 7th August
Roy Vickery will lead this walk taking a look at the wide range of wildflowers growing in the beautiful Streatham Cemetery (in Tooting!).
![Wildflower Walk – Streatham Cemetery, Tooting]()
Online events / webinars
Emma Major delivers this highly illuminating talk on 18th Century gin crazes. Meet gin-dispensing cats and Old Toms, as you learn who drank gin and how, and why there was a gin craze.
![The Gin Craze]()
Join Emma Major to find out about the eighteenth-century gin craze.
![What's Online: The Gin Craze: Drink, Crowds, and Talking Cats]()
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Saturday 8th August
Online events / webinars
Live online Zoom talk. Rosalind McCutcheon and Jill Williams cover the story of Ireland.
![1169 and All That - Ireland's Tumultuous History]()
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Sunday 9th August
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Monday 10th August
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Ideas for living that aid physical and mental health, from homes for heroes and key worker housing to communal dwellings that improve wellbeing.
![Build Back Better, embracing better living]()
Introduced by Interpretation Manager Jane Nielsen, join Curator, Mark Dennis, as he uses examples from our collection to illustrate this unique art form born out of conflict.
![Art from the trenches]()
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Tuesday 11th August
Online events / webinars
Join our expert-led webinar that will give you guide you through all the basics to get started with discovering your family history within half an hour.
![Top Level Tips: Discovering your family history]()
Hear fascinating and unexpected tales of London's great West End stores, from Selfridges to John Lewis via Liberty, HMV and many others
![Virtual Tour - West End stories - untold tales of London's great shops]()
These talks will explore not only the mirage of safety and control presented by nurses, but also the toll this mask of resilience took upon the human being behind it.
![Emblems of Resilience: Nurses, ‘Spanish Influenza’ and lessons for Covid-19 (virtual event)]()
Stuck at home? Get to know Rome in an hour with a professional tour guide and lover of art, Olga Cuckovic.
![Panoramic Tour of Rome with Olga]()
Using results from the most powerful telescopes and particle colliders, Katie Mack describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different predictions of how the Universe will end.
![The end of everything]()
A lecture about the diplomacy and science needed to understand the origins and hazards associated with Mount Paektu, a large volcano on the border of the North Korea and China.
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Wednesday 12th August
Online events / webinars
Simon Fowler talks on Zoom about the life that paupers lived in the 1800s.
![Paupers]()
Professor Dany Nobus will reflect upon the enduring legacy of one of Freud’s most controversial texts, gauge its value for our contemporary living conditions, and open some new perspectives for revisiting this absolute classic of Freudian psychoanalysis.
![Narcissism and the Pleasures of Extinction]()
Stuck at home? Come along to this virtual tour of Art Deco New York with author Anthony Robins.
![ART DECO METROPOLIS - virtual tour of NY with Anthony Robins]()
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Thursday 13th August
Online events / webinars
Join historian Yasmin Khan in conversation with journalist and author Shrabani Basu as they discuss India’s role in the Second World War.
![Capturing a Story: Inspiring Photography]()
Florence Nightingale apparently loathed having her photograph taken. Why then did she accept to sit for these images?
![The mysteries behind Florence Nightingale’s iconic photographs]()
This online slideshow followed by a Zoom Q&A is a nice start on a journey through the ritual year.
![An Introduction To The Pagan Calendar]()
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Friday 14th August
Family open weekend at the gardens of Chiswick House
Online events / webinars
A talk about the nature of erotic writing in the 16th century from book burning to the Renaissance.
Join General Lord Richards, President of the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League, in conversation with Dr Peter Johnston as they explore the contribution of Commonwealth soldiers during the Far East campaign.
![Commonwealth Contribution in the Far East]()
James Sumner (Manchester University) discusses the challenges that brewers faced in promoting new innovations to an often justifiably suspicious public.
![“You cannot put stinking fish into beer”: the controversies of brewing science around 1800]()
In 1809 a London brewery was prosecuted for the unusual offence of trying to remove cloudiness from its beer by dosing it with an extract of fish-skins.
![What's Online: Stinking fish, beer and brewing controversies around 1800]()
Brighton is not just the sea front, pier and pavilion. Let Stephen show you the many sides of the city often called London by the Sea
![Virtual Tour - Bright n Breezy - an outing to London by the Sea]()
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Saturday 15th August
Family open weekend at the gardens of Chiswick House
Look to the skies, as the Red Arrows will fly over London in the late-afternoon.
![Red Arrows flypast over central London]()
Online events / webinars
Join historian Julie Summers and Geoff Gill from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in conversation with Emma Mawdsley on the treatment and conditions of prisoners of war working on the Thai-Burma Railway.
![Memories of the Burma Railway]()
This talk describes the development of the aircraft and eventual need to have a “standoff missile“ capable of allowing the aircraft to stay clear of the target area.
A virtual lecture on the Arms of the City of London and its diverse ancient and modern Livery Companies
![Arms of the City of London and its Livery Companies]()
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Sunday 16th August
This garden takes vertical planting to new heights – but is not for those who are afraid to walk a gangplank.
1pm to 5:30pm
Upper Norwood
![Visit a garden - 4 Becondale Road (Gipsy Hill)]()
Unusual walled and paved garden with different compartments on 2 levels, substantially restructured since previous opening in 2008.
![Visit a garden - 36 Melrose Road (Wandsworth)]()
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Monday 17th August
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Tuesday 18th August
Online events / webinars
Hear about Taziker Engineering’s approach, the challenges and the solutions.
![Refurbishing the UK's tallest rollercoaster]()
Should governments be allowed to reduce consumer food choice by legislating that food producers and retailers supply exclusively healthy foods from sustainable food systems?
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Wednesday 19th August
See around 100 luxury cars on display in central London
![London Concours]()
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Online events / webinars
The event will also cover Blue Roofs - engineering for multifunctionality and integrating SuDS into highway schemes and working with below ground constraints.
![Green urbanisation and resilience from the roof to the road]()
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Thursday 20th August
See around 100 luxury cars on display in central London
![London Concours]()
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Online events / webinars
Artist Mary Branson discusses her contemporary light sculpture 'New Dawn'. Commemorating the women's suffrage campaign, this was the first piece of abstract art commissioned for permanent display in the Palace of Westminster.
!['New Dawn' with artist Mary Branson]()
A talk about why, in 1066, for the first time, multiple foreign powers invaded England.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
![From One Theatre to Another: Soldiers and the Stage]()
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Friday 21st August
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
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Saturday 22nd August
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
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Sunday 23rd August
Open days usually feature the restored engines in operation, a light railway trip, and walks around the Victorian buildings.
10:30am to 4pm
Abbey Wood
![Open day and steaming at the Crossness pumping station]()
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
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Monday 24th August
Online events / webinars
Did you know that freemasons have supported schools for the children of members for over 200 years?
![We're going back to school]()
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Tuesday 25th August
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Emily Levesque reveals the hidden world of the professional astronomer. She celebrates an era of ingenuity and curiosity, and asks us to think twice before we cast aside our sense of wonder at the universe.
![The last stargazers]()
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Wednesday 26th August
A heads up that the bookings page for London Open House weekend opens today.
![Open House London bookings open today]()
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Online events / webinars
Consultant gynaecologist Sir Marcus Setchell, reflects on the royal connections at Barts, which go back 900 years to Rahere and Henry VIII
![Royal Barts, Royal Babies & Royal Doctors]()
Join Gabriella Swaffield to time- travel back 600 years at the Charterhouse.
![Travel back 600 years at the Charterhouse]()
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Thursday 27th August
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Online events / webinars
Experience a day in the life of a virus scientist in this livestreamed event for all the family, hosted by BBC presenter Greg Foot.
![A Day in the Life of Testing for Coronavirus]()
Curator and author Joanna Banham will be delving into the colourful history of Victorian wallpapers.
![A Passion for Pattern: Victorian Wallpapers]()
Uncover the long-standing relationship between the Army and artists past and present in this live online discussion.
![Artists and the Army: A Relationship Built over Centuries]()
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Friday 28th August
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
![In Memoriam]()
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This talk shows how the theory and methods of space syntax can help historians find new ways of using maps and town plans as sources in urban social history.
![The value of maps in urban history research]()
Croydon isn't just boring 1960s office blocks and shops. Join Stephen to learn the fascinating story of a little old town with big ambition.
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Saturday 29th August
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Visit this green oasis in a urban setting it is a one of the many local green lungs in Forest Hill where you can find some interesting wildlife.
![Garthorne Road nature reserve open days]()
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
![In Memoriam]()
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Sunday 30th August
The museum has it's first open day with some engines in steam since the lockdown started.
![Reopening day at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum]()
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
![Transport Museum open days at the Acton depot]()
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
![In Memoriam]()
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Bank Holiday Monday
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
![In Memoriam]()
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