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| Saturday, 6th February |
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| Sunday, 7th February |
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| A beautiful historic parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with Edwardian gardens in Reigate, Surrey. |
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| Join Miriam Margolyes, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and the Charles Dickens Museum to celebrate the birthday of Charles Dickens. |
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| Dr.Graham guaranteed both ecstasy and fertility to the users of his infamous 18th Century Celestial Bed, Zoom lecture with Lydia Syson |
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| Monday, 8th February |
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| As Darwin “exalted” his favourite flowers, the orchids, he also narrowed the once-unimaginably wide gap between plants and animals, thus making it easier for his readers to imaginatively bridge the much smaller distance between humans and apes. |
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| This illustrated talk will consider some of the amazing sites already protected and others that might merit our consideration. |
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| Learn about how male sex symbol, masculinity and popular cinema converge! |
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| Tuesday, 9th February |
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| Sanjeev Gupta and Mark Sephton discuss the aims and approaches taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover and what they expect it to discover. |
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| This lecture explores how mathematical ideas have been interpreted in fiction, and discusses the unlikelihood, mathematically, of realms such as Brobdingnag and Lilliput, or the room-sized spiders of Hogwarts. |
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| London and Gin - delve into the fascinating history of the city and the drink |
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| A talk about how the increased visibility of an ageing Queen changed society's views of ageing itself. |
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| Prof.Hutton Will examine our Magnificent Pre-Christian Heritage and examine how much of this it is possible to recover |
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| Wednesday, 10th February |
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| Wood Work is the Building Centre's online lunch-time talks series, featuring international designers and their wood inspired projects. |
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| The link between art and literature is crucial to an understanding of much of the art of the past. |
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| A new project which aims to record the state and development of highways as the network developed from one serving primarily local agricultural markets to one fit for an emerging industrial economy. |
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| This lecture will consider several aspects of the science and public debate about vaccines. |
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| A talk about the grand, and sometimes despised funerals of French Kings. |
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| Victorian Society Chair Hilary Grainger discusses Ernest George's major houses. |
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| This talk will focus on the planned Lottery-funded renovation of the Park and the challenges of preserving and adapting its historic landscape. |
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| Sathnam Sanghera’s new book, Empireland, looks at how profoundly our imperial past has shaped modern Britain. In conversation with Samira Ahmed, Sanghera discusses why it is so important to look honestly at our past, to understand who we are and what unites us. |
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| Thursday, 11th February |
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| This webinar will present lessons learned from the last 15 years of culture-led development in the capital. |
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| What can picture postcards tell us about the history of nursing, and images and stereotypes of nursing over the years? Join historian Julia Hallam to find out more. |
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| A look at the trust behind the legend of Mata Hari |
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| Friday, 12th February |
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| Discover the role played by King George V during and after the First World War in this online talk with Alexandra Churchill. |
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| Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s cocktail bar invite you to join them behind the bar for a virtual cocktail making workshop. |
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| This illustrated talk will consider how the garden has evolved to offer the contemporary visitor beauty and relevance while still retaining the original ideas and intentions of its creators. |
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| Saturday, 13th February |
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| Avril Nanton's is a historian who delves into the unknown history of black people in and around London. |
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