Friday 1st January
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Saturday 2nd January
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Sunday 3rd January
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Monday 4th January
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Tuesday 5th January
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We will also ask: why are bells bell-shaped? What properties of this shape create the sound of a bell, and by what amount should we scale the size of a bell to produce changes in pitch?
Hear the story of how Music Hall developed in London and about some of the people who were part of this
This talk explores the intersection of queer and Holocaust history through the example of an enforced relationship between two women, a guard and a Jewish woman, in a concentration camp in winter 1945.
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Wednesday 6th January
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This lecture explores how high-risk professionals can share insights relevant to medicine, helping clinicians to develop essential skills.
A talk by Brian Parsons who, with Hugh Meller, has completed a new edition of their well-known compendium of London Cemeteries
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Thursday 7th January
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Dr Wallis will discuss post-mortems in private homes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
There are a surprising number of closed railway lines and stations in London. Join Stephen to explore some lost and forgotten railways.
A talk about how the UK secured fuel supplies during WW2.
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Friday 8th January
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Join David Crane online as he discusses the forgotten story behind the making of the cemeteries of the First World War.
In this 2-part online course, Mary Wild will turn to psychoanalytic theory to establish the interpretive framework of David Bowie’s music videos and filmography.
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Saturday 9th January
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In this 2-part online course, Mary Wild will turn to psychoanalytic theory to establish the interpretive framework of David Bowie’s music videos and filmography.
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Sunday 10th January
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Let Viktor Wynd tuck you into bed and tell you strange Irish Fairy Tales with a changeling, Mermaid, talking corpse & of course real fairies
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Monday 11th January
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ICE archivist, Carol Morgan, relives the history of the Institution and its famous headquarters.
This lecture will look at the role of the so-called 'perverse jury' in acquitting defendants where the law, or the charge itself, is deemed unjust.
The story of Jews in London. A virtual tour that takes you from the ghetto of the middle ages through to the East End of the 20th century
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Tuesday 12th January
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This paper will discuss the role and significance of the lecherous Jew in eighteenth-century British print culture.
The interconnectivity of living organisms and the planet is brought to light through the development of digital intelligence of the planet.
Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.
Based on a new approach and using new sources, this talk will demonstrate how Jewish women and men performed countless acts of resistance in Nazi Germany proper between 1933 and 1945.
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Wednesday 13th January
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Join Professor Cristina Lo Celso as she looks at Leukaemia and blood stem cells under the microscope
This talk will consider the situations where screening can help, where it does harm, and why these are usually predictable.
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Thursday 14th January
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The need for good quality affordable housing is critical. This webinar focuses on best practice examples being delivered across London.
This talk by City Guide Robert Stephenson examines their construction and the secret of their enduring fascination with examples from abroad, the UK and in London.
De Morgan curator, Sarah Hardy, will give an overview of De Morgan artwork and tell us more about the thrilling and little-known history of the De Morgan Collection.
Hear about the conservation treatments carried out on an extraordinary music collection.
At this seminar Jack Straw will reflect on the role of Foreign Secretary with Sir David Manning, foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair from 2001 to 2003.
Explore the challenges for regulators and participants in the fast moving and dynamic world of influencer marketing and use of social media.
Amelia Dyer was one of the most prolific murderers in Victorian Britain. She made a living as a “baby farmer”, or someone paid to care for unwanted or abandoned infants – except she killed around 400 of them.
A Closer Look at Commemorative Options for Agnes Baden-Powell, the First Girl Guide.
Vicky Pope describes what goes into a cutting-edge climate model, how it is used to provide information on how and why the climate is changing and how it might change in the future.
A talk about some of the fascinating African/Caribbean presence and stories on, in and around the river.
A talk by 10 people on what they gain from visits to the St Bride's printing library.
An evening of Dolly! with Sarah Smarsh, who will be talking about her new book, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs with Professor Sarah Churchwell.
An online slideshow & Q&A about the folklore of vegetables.
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Friday 15th January
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Saturday 16th January
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Sunday 17th January
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Monday 18th January
A notice that the Thames Barrier and the Barking Barrier will have their monthly test closures today.
2021-01-18
10am to 12:30pm
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A talk about the distinctive (and controversial) stone work of 15 Clerkenwell Close.
This paper explores the story of an English engineer and art collector, who lived between England, Italy and India, working on different railway projects on the behalf of the English crown.
This lecture considers what factors have made certain films and their makers ‘classic’; and why the fifty-year reign of Citizen Kane was ended in 2012 by Hitchcock’s eerie melodrama Vertigo.
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Tuesday 19th January
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Max Fordham will bring together speakers to explore the crucial role of retrofitting in achieving net zero carbon buildings.
Iain Dale editor of ‘The Prime Ministers: 55 Leaders, 55 Authors, 300 Years of History’, will discuss this new book.
Join Dr Martin Brazeau to hear how new fossil discoveries are providing a unique window into the ancestry of vertebrate animals
This paper explores the politics of remembrance through a case study of Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s.
This talk will explore the highs and lows of an extraordinary life and career in the context of performance history and star production in 18th-century Britain.
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Wednesday 20th January
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An introduction to Japan’s most famous alcoholic drink, sake, or, as it is known in Japan, nihonshu.
This talk by City Guide Jill Finch explores that medieval precinct, the buildings it contained and the events it saw that made history.
A virtual tour of this new exhibition exploring some of our never-seen-before curiosities revealing previously hidden stories from the history of medicine and beyond.
As automatic and interactive computer theorem provers become more powerful, should mathematical researchers begin to worry that they will soon be out of a job?
Drawing on the personal papers of both the star and the director, this illustrated talk explores the remarkable personal and professional relationship that endured for decades
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Thursday 21st January
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A talk about the early computer pioneers in Australia.
Explore our history and discover the secret of our iconic building in our free online talk.
This online discussion explores the subject with acclaimed artists Bharti Kher, Sutapa Biswas, Penny Slinger and Prafulla Mohanti.
Join us for a roundtable event with the researchers from the Florence Nightingale Comes Home project at the University of Nottingham.
A presentation of the Barking Riverside Extension project.
Battersea Industrial Riverfront talk
Science Museum Group Chief Executive Sir Ian Blatchford is joined in conversation by Labour MP Chris Bryant, author of a new book which tells the story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history.
See both well known buildings as well as those which you might not have come across, and although many of the photographs have been taken during 2020.
Join Brian Christian as he explores everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the people that will fix them.
The Tottenham Outrage was a two-hour police chase through North London that occurred after a bank robbery.
The Tour will stop by the graves of many of the interesting people laid to rest in Abney Park Cemetery.
An evening lecture to discover the Victorian Society’s annual Top 10 Endangered Buildings Campaign.
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Friday 22nd January
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From humble origins, Emma Hamilton rose to fame as a model and actress, became a political operator and networker, and, with Lord Nelson, became one of the most epic love stories of all time.
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Saturday 23rd January
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Sunday 24th January
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Monday 25th January
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This talk will emphasize the way in which Derek Jarman's garden at Prospect Cottage was for him an act of integration.
This lecture takes as its starting point the complex personal history of Mary Howard, a devout Catholic and Jacobite sympathiser, who shocked society by separating from her husband in 1730.
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Tuesday 26th January
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Anna Rood explains how the natural balancing acts of rocks can help us estimate the amount of ground shaking caused by large earthquakes.
The art of the three main ‘Bloomsbury’ artists (Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry) cannot be separated from their astonishing lives.
Secret passages, ship timbers and spiral staircases - find out the truth behind the legends
Join Rohin Francis as he discusses where we are now with medical science, what might come next and the blurred boundary between life and death.
Using nineteenth-century prints and photographs from archive collections, Ian Dungavell tries to see Highgate Cemetery as the Victorians did.
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Wednesday 27th January
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This paper focusses on the deployment of Ancient Greek and Roman imagery on civic cultural artefacts during and after the Great War.
Professor Björn Schuller charts the history of human-centred AI focusing on aspects of artificial, emotional and health intelligence.
Professor Ian Chapman and his colleagues are working to make fusion power a reality, and with the advent of ITER, the largest science experiment humankind has ever undertaken, they hope to demonstrate fusion power on a commercial scale.
Lucy Worsley is joined by Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife and historic buildings curator Jane Spooner to explore the truth behind some of the Tower of London's most famous myths and legends.
A talk about the Mulberry Garden Project at the William Hogarth Trust.
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Thursday 28th January
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This webinar will present lessons learned from the last 15 years of retail-led development in the capital and how the sector is planning to face future flux.
Join our panel of expert speakers to discuss the collaborative global effort of the scientific community over the past year to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
A book related talk on the failure of many western countries to control the Coronavirus, and what it exposes about the weaknesses of their systems of government.
A talk by Caroline Eden on her book Red Sands which navigates a course from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the sun-ripened orchards of the Fergana Valley.
Science broadcaster Dr Hannah Fry is joined by a panel of experts to explore the big question: how will climate change affect our future?
Included in this webinar is a miscellany of sites, from the disused tube stations to secret central government and military bunkers.
See well known buildings as well as those you might not have come across and some of the best interiors of that decade.
The unexpected delights and fascinating characters of the West End's hidden village.
Two guides will discuss Smithfields use as a public execution ground.
Archivist, Tudor Allen will use photographs, art works and archives, many from Camden’s own collections, to reveal the colourful history of Swiss Cottage.
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Friday 29th January
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With the escalating need for action to reduce emissions, both carbon and air pollution, the majority of employees now working from home full-time poses a concern for many businesses.
This discussion brings together four architects whose designs for dachshunds and beagles are featured in the exhibition and open-source network Architecture for Dogs.
Frances Houghton explores how British veterans have remembered, understood and shared their experiences of the Second World War.
Hugh Smith is the Senior Wildlife Officer at the Royal Parks talks about his work in the parks.
Dan Stone discusses what the British found at Belsen in April 1945 and how they understood the camp, in the immediate post-liberation period.
Hear the story of the pioneering composer whose scores for Bogart, Bette Davis and others paved the way for modern film music
A talk about how Alexander Pope establised the new national style which you will explore through his own garden at Twickenham and other gardens he influenced.
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Saturday 30th January
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Adèle Emm, author of Tracing your Female Ancestors, tells us about the women and their struggle for female emancipation.
Gary Lachman will give a book launch talk, part of a series of pocket introductions providing accessible essays on key Swedenborgian themes.
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Sunday 31st January
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Join Sam Lee and Viktor Wynd for a nightcap, let them tuck you into bed, tell you fairy tales, sing ballads and a sweet lullaby on zoom
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