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| Saturday, 16th January |
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| Sunday, 17th January |
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| Monday, 18th January |
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| A notice that the Thames Barrier and the Barking Barrier will have their monthly test closures today. |
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| A talk about the distinctive (and controversial) stone work of 15 Clerkenwell Close. |
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| 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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| 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. |
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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. |
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| Iain Dale editor of ‘The Prime Ministers: 55 Leaders, 55 Authors, 300 Years of History’, will discuss this new book. |
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| Join Dr Martin Brazeau to hear how new fossil discoveries are providing a unique window into the ancestry of vertebrate animals |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| This talk by City Guide Jill Finch explores that medieval precinct, the buildings it contained and the events it saw that made history. |
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| 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? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Explore our history and discover the secret of our iconic building in our free online talk. |
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| This online discussion explores the subject with acclaimed artists Bharti Kher, Sutapa Biswas, Penny Slinger and Prafulla Mohanti. |
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| Join us for a roundtable event with the researchers from the Florence Nightingale Comes Home project at the University of Nottingham. |
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| A presentation of the Barking Riverside Extension project. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| The Tottenham Outrage was a two-hour police chase through North London that occurred after a bank robbery. |
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| The Tour will stop by the graves of many of the interesting people laid to rest in Abney Park Cemetery. |
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| Join Brian Christian as he explores everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the people that will fix them. |
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| 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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