{"title": "Black Books Society Lecture: Heraldry and Lincoln's Inn - a lecture by Mark Scott, Somerset Herald", "start": "2026-10-29T17:45:00Z", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", "place": "Lincoln's Inn", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/shop/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A lecture on heraldry at Lincoln's Inn, given by Mark Scott, Somerset Herald at the College of Arms. It looks at the heraldry on display around the Inn, found on panels and windows in the Great Hall and Old Hall, on building exteriors and even in the Chapel windows. The talk covers historical and legal developments in heraldry, which once served practical purposes and still follows its own rules and language. 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The event is hosted by the Society of Antiquaries and presents the work of early career researchers and collections professionals. It examines how images shape knowledge production and circulation, mediate encounters with lost and extant objects and buildings, and contribute to the study of the material past, from early modern prints to contemporary graphic practices. The keynote, 'Towers and Transformations: 40 years of printmaking by Anne Desmet RA', spans her career as artist-printmaker, and attendees can also visit curated displays at the library of either the Royal Academy of Arts or the Linnaean Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lines-of-enquiry-graphic-arts-and-the-afterlives-of-material-38657/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/lines-of-enquiry/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7db67b77575aa91c39629348415212837d9c42d8f7d5ace48bea44c9b8f4b718-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Inaugural Lectures: Professors Andrea Billè & Alan…", "start": "2026-11-11T16:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "place": "Guy’s Campus", "address": "Great Maze Pond, London SE1 1UL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine"], "description": "Inaugural Lectures by professors Andrea Billè and Alan, held at King's College London's Gordon Museum of Pathology. 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Visitors can encounter bellarmine \"spirit houses\", hexing bottles, books of spells, Renaissance occult philosophy that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and a physician's notebook with 17th-century recipes, chiromancy and astrology. Artist Sarah Newson leads an unconscious drawing activity and helps participants create protective amulets using worldwide symbols of luck and protection. Geoffrey Munn OBE FSA presents a 16th-century charmstone used for \"spirit tapping\", and Hear We Here We (Rory Harvey and Cale Donia) offer a soundscape and live performance; the ticket includes a spooky cocktail, all ages are welcome, and tickets are for hourly slots running from 5-8pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spellbound-at-the-society-of-antiquaries-38653/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/spellbound/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/453b597baf65deda6e16e20da018845d88a0b0cd91c1c8631d645d435d99c4ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mindful Art Observations", "start": "2026-11-02T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T10:45:00Z", "place": "Barts North Wing", "address": "St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE", "price": "Free, no booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Mindful Art Observations is a short drop-in session exploring the William Hogarth paintings through 'slow looking', a technique that invites you to slow down and dive deeper into the paintings through mindful observations. 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The tour explores the lives of past Londoners, covering the dissolution of the monasteries, the plague and public executions, and hears stories of William Wallace, Henry VIII and even Sherlock Holmes. Stops include the Charterhouse, St-Bartholomew-the-Great, one of London's oldest churches, and the famous meat market.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-around-smithfield-market-49194/", "official_url": "https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/in-around-smithfield-market/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/59e59e3b9930bc40ed110fc879a5cd29a5c22c6739e62e69a6855314ba65cbf0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Pre-Concert Talk: An English Baroque Journey begins", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque", "history/early-modern"], "description": "A pre-concert talk held ahead of the opening concert of Arcangelo's English Baroque Journey series at Wigmore Hall. Nicholas Kenyon, Kirsten Gibson and Julian Forbes introduce a new illustrated companion book to the series, offering new perspectives and the latest research on one of the great periods of national creativity. Copies of the book will be on sale in the Foyer. The event lasts approximately 45 minutes and takes place in the David Wolf Kaye Room.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pre-concert-talk-an-english-baroque-journey-begins-40315/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202610301800", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3d70f60513174f70840c02449922104af1c85838ef0eb216e1f24ce7125fa9c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Soane Museum Study Group: Harry Adams", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.soane.org/collections/tours-and-events/products/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams-wednesday-11-november-2026-18-00-19-30", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A talk in the Soane Museum Study Group, an open forum where scholars present new research in architectural history or on the museum's collection. Dr Harry Adams, a curatorial and cataloguing trainee at Sir John Soane's Museum, reappraises John Soane's designs for the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Portugal Street, a building of 1821-25 that Dickens made famous as a 'badly lighted and worse ventilated' symbol of harsh insolvency laws. New cataloguing of the court's drawings reveals the compromises in its design and execution, and the talk asks whether it was really as bleak as its reputation. Afterwards, relevant drawings can be viewed in the Soane Museum Research Library.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams-38609/", "official_url": "https://www.soane.org/whats-on/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b6ba4d5c9211dbddfdc5525b7dddb98bec00e1cd54bcfcd62699e0b5a678f6a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Guided tours", "start": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Museum of the Order of St John", "address": "St John's Lane, EC1M 4DA London", "price": "£15pp and £11.25 for Art Pass holders", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/religion"], "description": "Guided tours at the Museum of the Order of St John take visitors behind the scenes to explore historic rooms otherwise closed to the general public. The museum, which tells the story of an ancient religious military Order from eleventh century Jerusalem to its modern role with St John Ambulance, runs the tours. Its collection includes tours of St John's Gate, the lost medieval priory, and the Victorian St John Ambulance, some with audio description, BSL interpretation or Deaf-led guidance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/guided-tours-37224/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d81f5ad6b12b5984795118c74e2db5ec46197363ed0ae75ae55a85dd356a699-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Audio Descriptive Talk: The Last Prior", "start": "2026-11-04T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Order of St John", "address": "St John's Lane, EC1M 4DA London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-ages", "religion/christian"], "description": "An audio descriptive talk lasting about 30 minutes, held in the crypt, for blind and partially-sighted visitors and their companions. Visitor Experience Assistant Maggie Sotiriou leads an exploration of the effigy of William Weston, a Knight Hospitaller who was Prior of the medieval Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem when Henry VIII closed down the Priory in 1540. The free ticketed event has limited spaces and no step-free access.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/audio-descriptive-talk-the-last-prior-78892/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cdd15e171fd4d174debf5e9908dab0f0557813cf50a6f74f5bc6a4f3ace68a1a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Themed Seminar Autumn 2026", "start": "2026-10-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-03T17:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A themed seminar series on truth, asking what it is for a sentence to be true and building towards a picture theory of language in the style of the Tractatus. 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