{"title": "Online Talk: Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps with Inderbir Bhullar", "start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-28T19:30:00Z", "place": "William Morris Society", "address": "Upper Mall 26, W6 9TA London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://williammorrissociety.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "An online talk on Charles Booth and his famous poverty maps of London, given by the William Morris Society. The speaker is Inderbir Bhullar, Curator for Economics and Social Policy at LSE Library, who works closely with the Charles Booth archive and wrote a chapter for the 2019 book Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps. He will cover Booth, his poverty map and his own research on the subject. 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Photographer Charlie Phillips, who documented the West Indian community in London across the 1960s, 70s and 80s, joins Paul Goodwin in conversation, chaired by Isaac Huxtable. The book gathers his era-defining street photography, from musicians, street life and parties to British Caribbean funerals and cultural traditions, capturing a changing London and Britain. 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It is led by the museum's scientists, joined by filmmakers from Passion Planet who made the documentary Wild London, which features Sir David Attenborough and the museum's gardens. They share behind-the-scenes stories about bringing London's lesser-spotted wildlife to the screen and discuss why urban wildlife matters, followed by a live question-and-answer session. Onsite tickets include a free drink, the event is recommended for ages 12 and over, and it is wheelchair accessible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dig-deeper-37304/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/events/dig-deeper-talks.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f04b1051d29b6d384b80c3b69ec61ab3d2eb14c5b74f398840ded8a157ae350-1200.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": "Our Planet Saved", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "community"], "description": "Our Planet Saved is a discussion event in North Kensington about caring for the natural environment. It is hosted by Toby Laurent Belson, a multidisciplinary community artist, designer and educator who has run the community arts group Brownbaby in North Kensington since 2007. A guest panel talks about what they are doing in North Kensington for the environment, as part of a series of discussions with guest panellists under the title Our Eco Action.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-planet-saved-37423/", "official_url": "https://northkensingtonlibrary.org/our-library-saved-event/our-planet-saved/149", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7bdac0aad00125cfb06a1badfd83d11d991c98d0947b42a5f5170403bd6fc7e4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The harms of extreme wealth: launching the evidence review", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/inequality"], "description": "A public talk asking how much wealth is too much and whether trillionaires should be able to exist. 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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. 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Guests will speak about new development changes in the area and their effects, with recent local flooding that closed the Children's Library and the loss of mature plane trees in Holland Park among the concerns. 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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"}]}