{"title": "How we Lost America Exhibition", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "An exhibition on show at a historic house in Brentford, free to enter with no booking needed. 'How We Lost America' explores the dawn of American Independence through a British lens, uncovering hidden histories of female revolutionaries, enslaved soldiers who fought for their liberty and a radical arsonist who bombed Portsmouth Harbour. It was created by Aurora Metro Arts & Media with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, and visits Boston Manor House before touring other venues until spring 2027. Its run is accompanied by talks by leading academics and readings of Howard Ginsberg's play Jefferson & Adams.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/how-we-lost-america-exhibition-35032/", "official_url": "https://bostonmanorhouse.org/event/how-we-lost-america-exhibition/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57dbc145912295239b18708579fcb08f6e9395ab8e831263364dd2b591aacb58-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "How we Lost America Exhibition", "start": "2026-09-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hogarth's House", "address": "Hogarth Lane, W4 2QN London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": [], "description": "'How We Lost America' is an exhibition exploring the dawn of American Independence through a British lens. 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The book, published by Aurora Metro Books and presented by Aurora Metro Arts & Media with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, explores the events leading up to the American War of Independence and its aftermath. With contributions from historians, journalists and artists, it delves into hidden histories of underrepresented individuals, from British politicians and dissenters to enslaved people and women revolutionaries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/how-we-lost-america-a-new-perspective-on-american-independen-35033/", "official_url": "https://bostonmanorhouse.org/event/how-we-lost-america-a-new-perspective-on-american-independence-book-launch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/981d8345a5c37fbdfd1ef949db7a9be52abce0a3e306441c35388368cb54f675-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Science Museum", "address": "London", "price": "free, ticketed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/guides", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["science"], "description": "Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation is a free, ticketed exhibition at a museum in South Kensington, on level 2 of the building and recommended for ages 11 and up. It was made by the Science Museum with support from Griffin Catalyst as title funder, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Covering the 1760s to the 1790s, it reveals how science shaped, and was shaped by, the land, peoples and power that led to the emergence of the United States, connecting colonial scientific ambition with the knowledge of enslaved and free African-descended peoples and Indigenous practices. Through maps, paintings, instruments and artefacts — including a rare surviving 1776 print of the Declaration of Independence, a microscope made for King George III, a dugout canoe built with traditional Indigenous methods, and the first known chart of the Gulf Stream — it explores the scientific undercurrents of this tumultuous period.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/becoming-america-how-science-shaped-a-nation-70014/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5bcc567004fe5dfdc2f41a7b76caaae3eda9e030b52482fb7654f401cfef7bd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spooky Storytelling", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Benjamin Franklin House", "address": "Craven Street 36, WC2N 5NF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spooky-storytelling-tickets-1998899066918?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An evening of eerie storytelling held in the historic Benjamin Franklin House, featuring ghostly tales and chilling poems performed under candlelight. The night includes a special demonstration of Franklin's Glass Armonica. It takes place at the world's only remaining home of Benjamin Franklin, and dressing up in Georgian-inspired attire is encouraged but not required. Performers for the night include Alexandra Beaumont, Bessie Fallon, Catrin Lawrence, Cyn Grace Sylvie, Georgia Nicholson, Grace-Marie, Jay Rose Ana and Lara McClure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spooky-storytelling-34934/", "official_url": "https://benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spooky-storytelling/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b9b87247fe15222b8a09f29116f7607517df05fcff4b9fa241437356973154f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lost Worlds by Luxmuralis", "start": "2026-11-06T17:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "£22 (Adults), £16.50 (Concessions), £68 (Family)", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/category/61042", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art", "history"], "description": "Lost Worlds is an immersive light and sound experience, a walking journey through the Old Royal Naval College's baroque buildings and grounds, including the Painted Hall, Chapel, Undercroft and Colonnades. It is created by Luxmuralis, the artistic duo of artist and sculptor Peter Walker and composer David Harper, following their earlier show Time at the same site. The experience invites visitors to discover imagined and historical lost worlds, from the mythical cities of Atlantis and Troy to the age of dinosaurs, prehistoric cave art, and the vivid worlds of knights, castles and illuminated manuscripts. As part of the Painted Hall's 300th anniversary, bespoke projections reimagine Sir James Thornhill's masterpiece onto Sir Christopher Wren's dome, transforming the landmark into a canvas of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lost-worlds-by-luxmuralis-37516/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c47e3e7f50f154d92d28111b38a7951f1f0b9590a9586630d2d6ccb357bf844-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "FREE admission. Suggested donation of £5.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "history"], "description": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK is a major touring exhibition about the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Presented by William Morris Gallery, it was developed in partnership with Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, Blackwell – The Arts & Crafts house in Bowness-on-Windermere, and Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, who work together as Four Lanterns as part of Art Fund's Going Places programme. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, it highlights individuals and communities who defied conventions and the homes they created to realise new visions of society, including William Morris's Red House, Charleston, Benton End, Prospect Cottage and Dial House. Curated by Hadrian Garrard, Linsey Young and Tayyabah Tahir, it also considers the role that money and class have played in access to these spaces and in imagining new ways of living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earthly-paradise-radical-living-in-the-uk-42812/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4606a47388641a9b47a51a7aac5b10ca924738564d500267f04b92c99fd67335-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stolen! Theft in the archives", "start": "2026-10-12T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-18T19:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/archives", "society/crime"], "description": "\"Stolen! Theft in the archives\" is an exhibition at the LSE Library Gallery, open to all. It is hosted by LSE Library and curated by an international team, including Hannah Boroudjou, Daniel Brambilla-Payne, Chelsea Collison, and Silvia Gallotti. The exhibition explores theft in different forms: wealth taken by others, ideas obscured by the published record, and robbed legacies, showing how theft shapes what we remember and what we forget. It features stories on Harriet Taylor Mill, documents from the investigation into the murder of socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti, student research on Marxism, Hansa Mehta's possible connection to LSE, the Fabian Society, AI, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stolen-theft-in-the-archives-37075/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed61683bee0719d155b5dab914a666bd4712cc8f6b612d04395b93da2e902193-600.webp"}, {"title": "Free Community Group Tours: Earthly Paradise", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Free guided tours for community groups of the exhibition Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK. The William Morris Gallery offers these tours to local community groups, faith groups and charities, for groups of 10 to 20 people. The exhibition explores the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years, highlighting individuals and communities who challenged social conventions and created new ways of living, working and imagining society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise-40318/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/961365502e1e4d8bc486274302d0ab68a8adf9f15d0c676286343240de4c0d62-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cornwallis Cloth: Championing untold stories of WW2 in the Caribbean", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "Free (Booking Required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/category/61042", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "An evening at the Visitor Centre with a viewing of the Cornwallis Cloth exhibition and film installation, followed by a panel discussion. Sweet Patootee Arts and the Old Royal Naval College Interpretation Team explore how oral testimony and creative research can break through archival silence to restore long silenced histories of British Caribbean lives during the Second World War. From 6pm to 7.30pm visitors can view the exhibition, with the talk and Q&A running from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Admission is free, though booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cornwallis-cloth-championing-untold-stories-of-ww2-in-the-ca-37528/", "official_url": "https://ornc.org/whats-on/cornwallis-cloth-talk/", "image": ""}, {"title": "LOST & FOUND", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "LOST & FOUND is an exhibition by artist Ryan Blackwell, opening with a private view at ANNEX. It explores London through its waste, asking what the objects we leave behind reveal about how we live. Across four interconnected photographic works, it examines the discarded things at the edges of our attention. Blackwell, originally from Liverpool and based in London, spent five years investigating the city's discarded materials.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lost-found-42451/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/lost-and-found-ryan-blackwell", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09524116b79845b3c43f0579dc3555bcc53c5d44d1b73b79f883328c7d25b6c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Decolonising Kingston: The Living Archive", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00Z", "place": "Kingston History Centre", "address": "", "price": "FREE Admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "The Living Archive is a community led exhibition exploring how history is recorded, who is remembered and how local people can become active authors of Kingston's story. It was developed through a partnership between the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Kingston Race and Equalities Council, local residents and artists, authors, curators and researchers Jaixia, Rong, and Jacqueline from Sharp Raiser Limited, and is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The exhibition celebrates the borough's diverse communities and addresses the underrepresentation of marginalized perspectives within local heritage archives, while honouring half a century of Kingston Race and Equalities Council's dedication to race equality, grassroots leadership, and cultural advocacy. Visitors can discover poems, personal stories, interviews, memories and artworks created during the project and contribute something of their own to Kingston's growing Living Archive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/decolonising-kingston-the-living-archive-36790/", "official_url": "https://www.kingstonheritage.org.uk/events/decolonising-kingston-living-archive", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce984631e8a6026bf07e259daf9699c69bfd68247f8eeca955640f22353b8582-600.webp"}]}