{"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. 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Actor James Swanton, known for screen and BBC horror roles, tells the tales, which follow a railway signal-man haunted by a warning figure and a man tormented by a murdered enemy's spectre. The horror writer Ramsey Campbell called the double bill an unforgettable experience. 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With Elly Griffiths.", "start": "2026-11-11T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Charles Dickens Museum", "address": "Doughty Street 48-49, WC1N 2LX London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://dickensmuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/83533", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/crime"], "description": "A free talk at the Charles Dickens Museum, held in person and on Zoom with a live Q&A. Author Elly Griffiths joins Lucinda Hawksley, Dickens's great great great granddaughter, in conversation. She discusses her new novella The Case of the Christmas Card, in which Charles Dickens travels to 2024 and visits his former home at 48 Doughty Street, along with time travel, crime fiction, her series 'The Frozen People' and writing about Christmas. The event lasts about 60 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/time-travelling-with-dickens-with-elly-griffiths-35244/", "official_url": "https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/in-conversation-with-elly-griffiths", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab5b9d6ffab9f0d3aafd0c16e954b99dc8594c1fb1969ea0542060b83be5ba45-600.webp"}, {"title": "Historical Building Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Oxford House", "address": "Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG London", "price": "7.50", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/heritage-preservation"], "description": "A guided one-hour tour of Oxford House, a listed Victorian building in Bethnal Green. It is run by Oxford House, set up in 1884 as one of the world's first 'settlement houses', as part of its heritage project Made in the East End. Visitors hear untold stories from the archives, see a 'secret chapel', learn about Gandhi's 1930s visit and the building's role in both World Wars, and enjoy 360-degree rooftop views over East London, weather permitting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/historical-building-tour-41802/", "official_url": "https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/event/historical-building-tour-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/173564660e5700d4b5960632ee3da95f41b2062e7845274a1b4773cdbad3ebfa-600.webp"}]}