{"title": "12.11| The Men Who Made Menswear – lecture by Russell Nash.", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A lecture titled The Men Who Made Menswear given by Russell Nash, held in the Sala Malinowa. It tells the story of men's tailoring over the past 200 years through the lives of the men who commissioned, created and wore it. 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It is given by Sofia Gallucci, a theatre director, dramaturg and PhD researcher whose work includes productions with the RSC, Shakespeare's Globe and in the West End. The talk, \"A Georgian Guide to Getting Laid: Sex, Scandal and Harris's List\", explores Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, an annual 18th-century bestseller that catalogued women working in London's sex trade. Gallucci leads a walk through the streets of Georgian London, from brothels and taverns to theatres and courtrooms, centered on the women whose private lives became public entertainment; 10% of ticket sales go towards her new production 'HUSSY'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pints-of-knowledge-a-georgian-guide-to-getting-laid-50418/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31623b114dfb41007ba2ac800cae29a9bc9433f97f6fa500519db242aa1ac992-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Arthur Boyd Presents 'Madder'", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jamboree", "address": "St Chad's Place 6, London", "price": "£14 advance", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arthur-boyd-madder-tickets-2003420949992", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/fashion", "music/folk"], "description": "Arthur Boyd Presents 'Madder' is a fashion presentation and folk miscellany of music, poetry and performance. Inspired by British ecology, seasonality and the culture and music arising from their intertwining, it is an honouring of slowness and deliberate attentive craft. It showcases a collection of garments made over the past year and a half, with cloth hand-dyed in partnership with Frankie Tobin using foraged plants from London and Oxfordshire. The show features traditional and contemporary folk music and poetry from performers including Michael Rice, Lileth Chinn, Hani Hooper, Holly Kirkby and D.R.R. Sidaway, with special guests still to be announced.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arthur-boyd-presents-madder-60802/", "official_url": "https://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/events/arthur-boyd-presents-madder/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/165bd597193e61acae2085b873311976cc5c6390198d22dbc5fa3d1e2e192d87-600.webp"}, {"title": "Through the Keyhole: Daily Life in Georgian England Revealed", "start": "2026-11-12T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T11:00:00Z", "place": "Benjamin Franklin House", "address": "Craven Street 36, WC2N 5NF London", "price": "£8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-the-keyhole-daily-life-in-georgian-england-revealed-tickets-1998900254470", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/georgian", "literature"], "description": "A talk at Benjamin Franklin House called Through the Keyhole: Daily Life in Georgian England Revealed. It draws on the diary of country clergyman James Woodforde, whose journals span more than forty years, to show what everyday Georgian life was really like. It explores his vivid record of travel, food, social networks, philanthropy and gossip, including the American Revolution news he noted. 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A storytelling tour through the galleries led by an 18th-century 'Covent Garden Lady' introduces the real people behind his famous images, followed by a talk by speaker Maria on the facts, figures and case studies of the trade, with a bar serving Mother's Ruin. Contains themes some may find triggering and is suitable for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hogarth-and-the-18th-century-sex-trade-36535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d329cb605afe081ee6704b9e9a7c19765d4b71e217a669cdfc3651e24fc24d45-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exploring History through Creativity", "start": "2026-11-10T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Poplar Union", "address": "Cotall Street 2, E14 6TL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/n4nJYc1kbo0slj4o5q3x", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "Free creative sessions exploring East End history through collage, photography, movement, singing, soundscapes and performance. They are facilitated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, a working-class Bangladeshi-British artist, theatremaker and activist from Poplar. Topics range from industrialisation, the dock strike and the match girls strike to the 1921 Poplar rates rebellion, London's first Chinatown, the closure of the docks and gentrification. Participants are invited to learn, explore and share their own stories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exploring-history-through-creativity-76781/", "official_url": "https://poplarunion.com/event/exploring-history-through-creativity-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5c76c0955c5c805baaf8f696b98cfb96488c7969381c7253b9835346617cdf4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mill Makers", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Mill", "address": "Coppermill Lane 7-11, E17 7HA London", "price": "Suggested donation £1, 50p for a hot drink, payable by cash or card", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "Mill Makers is a monthly craft evening at The Mill where people come together to make things. It offers a supportive and welcoming space to chat, drink tea and share skills. The evening is run by The Mill, a community place on Coppermill Lane, with Lindsey as the contact. The Mill is a community space whose motto is 'People making things happen'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mill-makers-65740/", "official_url": "https://themille17.org/events/mill-makers-3-2026-05-07-2026-06-04-2026-07-02-2026-08-06-2026-09-03-2026-10-01-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6ed03decbe4c1862313a7d849756d9634b7d955858fb880ffe21ed9beb5fd4b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dame Rosalind Savill Memorial Lecture 2026", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.wallacecollection.org/event-tickets/80943", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history/france"], "description": "The Dame Rosalind Savill Memorial Lecture 2026 is an annual talk at the museum, held in its Theatre and broadcast live online via Zoom, followed by a drinks reception. This year's speaker is Wolf Burchard, Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the lecture 'The World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle: Piecing together Louis XIV's Grande Galerie Savonnerie carpets'. He tells how, in 1668, Louis XIV commissioned 92 enormous Savonnerie carpets for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, woven over 25 years and never laid out there; after the French Revolution many were stripped of royal emblems, segmented, sold and dispersed, and curators from the Mobilier national and The Met are now piecing them together. In February 2026 the Mobilier national showed 32 of these carpets together at the Grand Palais in Paris, and from September 2026 The Met will stage the first ever exhibition devoted to the Savonnerie in the United States. The lecture honours Dame Rosalind Savill, Director of the Wallace Collection from 1992 to 2011, who transformed the under-visited institution into a cultural landmark.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dame-rosalind-savill-memorial-lecture-2026-39905/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/dame-rosalind-savill-memorial-lecture-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c86e408329886372e483913eb56043a0a3b926a651387a36ad5078d550318ff-1200.webp"}]}