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| Saturday, 22nd February |
| This day of talks will look at different aspects of how the Victorians amused themselves. |
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| With the eyes of the world on Tokyo 2020, Japan Now returns for its finale, exploring the big issues with writers, translators, filmmakers and artists. A keynote day of talks. |
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| Sunday, 23rd February |
| 50th anniversary green bus running service centered on the Epping Ongar railway. |
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| A monthly open day at a quirky transport museum housed in an old water pumping building. |
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| Three floors filled with teddy bears in this annual show and fair. |
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| A free community event marking 200 years since the Cato Street Conspiracy plot was discovered. |
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| Monday, 24th February |
| Eat bacon on the day before Shrove Tuesday. |
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| David Sainsbury will set out a new theory of economic growth which explains why the G7 countries have experienced slowing rates of labour productivity over the last twenty five years |
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| A series of lectures exploring the imaginative conservation and reuse of historic buildings |
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| Tuesday, 25th February |
| See lots of people from the City of London's livery companies, in their full regalia running around Guildhall tossing pancakes. |
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| Wednesday, 26th February |
| A lecture by medieval history expert Lucy Beckett on the Charterhouse and Carthusian order. |
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| Robots are going to take our jobs eventually – in fact it’s already started. This is a comical, yet real, look at what the future looks likes and ways to future-proof yourself and your business. |
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| Bestselling author and historian Julie Summers reveals how the identity of 'Vogue' magazine was forged in the Second World War. |
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| A talk about Lucian Freud by William Feaver, for many years the art critic for The Observer |
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| Authors Leyla Daybelge & Magnus Englund will be giving an illustrated talk about the story of the Isokon, the Pritchards artistic network and the legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. |
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| Thursday, 27th February |
| A panel discussion on the British monarchy’s use of mass media from the 1930s. |
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| Explore the orchid festival after dark in these evening events taking you into the world of Kew and Indonesia. |
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| Diarmaid MacCulloch introduces his ground-breaking biography of Thomas Cromwell, the self-made statesman who sent the kingdom on a Protestant course for centuries. |
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| Friday, 28th February |
| Former Scots Guards officer Hugo Clarke discusses the project he led while serving in Iraq to establish a new Basrah museum. |
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| Hyperloop is potentially a revolutionary means of future passenger and freight transportation system. |
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| Explore the orchid festival after dark in these evening events taking you into the world of Kew and Indonesia. |
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| Party like it’s 1999 and you’re dancing in a disused Underground station. |
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| To mark the publication of his biography, One of Them, an "in conversation" about his extraordinary life. |
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| Saturday, 29th February |
| Occasional open day of the eclectically designed home of artist, Stephen Wright. |
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| This immersive session explores attitudes to and experiences of poverty in Britain from the 1834 Poor Law Reform Act to the mid-twentieth-century introduction of the Welfare State. |
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| Update on the project to build Gresley class P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales – Britain’s most powerful steam locomotive |
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| Come and meet Jeff Jones who tells the extraordinary story of the birthplace of boxing in London's East End. |
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