{"title": "'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England': EK Myerson in conversation with Hope Doherty-Harrison", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "Free (registration required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/65712", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-ages", "literature"], "description": "A book launch and conversation marking the publication of 'The Desire for Syria in Medieval England'. EK Myerson, an artist and writer with a PhD in medieval literature from Birkbeck, discusses their first book with Hope Doherty-Harrison, Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck. The book uses the 1458 plunder of merchant Robert Sturmy's cargo by pirates off Malta to show how Syrian imports shaped medieval English art, language and everyday life. The event is organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, is free and open to all, with registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-desire-for-syria-in-medieval-england-ek-myerson-in-conve-80528/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/65712/the-desire-for-syria-in-medieval-england-ek-myerson-in-conversation-with-hope-doherty-harrison", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Bayeux Tapestry: Between Myth & History", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£20, conc. £18, students £15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7121129.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry", "history/middle-ages"], "description": "A talk titled The Bayeux Tapestry: Between Myth & History at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. Michael Lewis, lead curator of the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, and Leonie Hicks, Professor of Medieval Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, discuss the significance of 1066 for the English and why the Bayeux Tapestry is such an important record of the Norman Conquest of England. The conversation examines the political circumstances depicted in the Tapestry and what purpose the embroidery might have had for those who created it. 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It shows items including the 'Cartae Antiquae', a late fifteenth-century compilation open at a portrait of Henry VI, and a second illuminated manuscript open to a coloured depiction of the Crucifixion. The display also features a 1402 receipt from Richard (Dick) Whittington, records of Katherine Nougle's 1392 apprenticeship, and two watercolour portraits of City aldermen from around 1450. 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It has been curated by The London Archives and features items from their collections, including Liber Horn, Edward III's 1327 charter, Letter Book E and The Great Chronicle of London. Highlights show how civic institutions documented and navigated a period of political change at the beginning of the young king's reign. 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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": "The Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/64077", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/archaeology"], "description": "A public talk titled 'The Cost of Sustainability: Archaeology and Maritime Dispossession in the Eastern Mediterranean', given by Georgia Andreou, a Lecturer in Archaeology and Sustainability at the University of Southampton, with Kristin Hopper of Durham University responding. It examines how pursuing heritage and environmental sustainability affects local communities in the Eastern Mediterranean, using maritime heritage examples from Gaza and Cyprus, where rubble-management plans and underwater heritage projects raise ethical, political and environmental questions. The talk is facilitated by the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies at Birkbeck in partnership with the Palestine Exploration Fund and the Raphael Samuel History Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cost-of-sustainability-archaeology-and-maritime-disposse-80531/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64077/the-cost-of-sustainability-archaeology-and-maritime-dispossession-in-the-eastern-mediterranean", "image": ""}, {"title": "UNHEMMED BOOK LAUNCH & MORE THAN A BUNDLE STORY EXHIBITION SHOWCASE", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-showcase-tickets-2002536317031?lid=0sdzs95i1xix", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/migration", "literature"], "description": "A one-night-only exhibition celebrating Turkish migration, heritage and community in London, alongside the launch of Emel Sevinç's debut novel 'Unhemmed'. The exhibition, 'More Than a Bundle Story', is an oral-history and cultural-heritage project curated by Emel Sevinç that preserves the experiences of Turkish-speaking migrants who arrived in Britain from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, many of whom worked in the capital's textile and clothing industry. Through photographs, recorded testimonies, personal memories and everyday objects, it explores migration, work, family, sacrifice, identity and belonging. The novel, set within London's Turkish garment industry, brings history and fiction together for one special evening, and everyone is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unhemmed-book-launch-more-than-a-bundle-story-exhibition-sho-42961/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/unhemmed-book-launch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d92d2a1c48a1fd36cedd456504196889700b8dc14e3daa98ae5b111c6d7dac01-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rituals: A Folk Journey Through The Seasons", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Backstory", "address": "Balham High Road 71, SW12 9AP London", "price": "£15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://backstory.london/products/10th-november-7-30pm-tim-downie-in-conversation-with-rachel-parris-rituals-a-folk-journey-through-the-seasons", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/folklore", "literature"], "description": "An evening of conversation about the book 'Rituals: A Folk Journey Through The Seasons' at the shop Backstory. Actor and podcaster Tim Downie, known from 'Upstart Crow' and 'Toast of London' and host of the 'Folklands' podcast, talks to author, actor and comedian Rachel Parris about his new book. It follows him through the seasons as he explores the strange and beautiful places that have shaped British folklore, from horn dances to blazing tar barrels. The book is filled with insights into hidden mythic sites and the people who keep the folklore fires burning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rituals-a-folk-journey-through-the-seasons-69522/", "official_url": "https://backstory.london/products/10th-november-7-30pm-tim-downie-in-conversation-with-rachel-parris-rituals-a-folk-journey-through-the-seasons", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f7b43da8f12728f8f06770ac57573d549f089594b61ffcb473b21952de5b4e7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition – Londoners on Trial: Crime, Courts and the Public 1244-1924", "start": "2026-03-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "The London Archives", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "This is a free exhibition about the history of law and order in London, from the medieval period to modern times. Hosted at The London Archives, it uses historical records to explore how the growing city was governed and Londoners' enduring fascination with true crime. Visitors can review cases involving figures such as Moll Cutpurse, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, Oscar Wilde and Sylvia Pankhurst, and see how records illuminate lives, homes and streets of London's past. Paid curator-led tours of the exhibition run on selected dates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-londoners-on-trial-crime-courts-and-the-public-12-37563/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af77e44b2b3c97fc7ab7ca2082948cdb2273965739813a3760df7d9cd9a59eeb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "St Olave Lecture: Bringing Samuel Pepys and Restoration London to Life", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Olave Hart Street", "address": "Hart Street 8, EC3R 7NB London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-olave-lecture-bringing-samuel-pepys-and-restoration-london-to-life-tickets-1992366026418", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/early-modern", "literature/biography"], "description": "A lecture at St Olave Hart Street exploring the world Samuel Pepys inhabited in Restoration London. Writer and filmmaker Jack Jewers draws on his research for The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys and his new novel Seething Lane, sharing insights from bringing this complex figure to life. Pepys called the church his \"own church\", and the talk promises insight, history and thoughtful conversation in its medieval surroundings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/st-olave-lecture-bringing-samuel-pepys-and-restoration-londo-37604/", "official_url": "https://saintolave.com/index.php/st-olave-lectures/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/528066085a02b70dd401d72834e33847198bb0623a7639954f8f7d328ab3093e-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": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past", "start": "2026-11-06T09:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/printmaking", "history"], "description": "Lines of Enquiry: Graphic Arts and the Afterlives of Material Past is the Society of Antiquaries' annual Collections and Research Day, focusing this year on its Prints and Drawings collection of works on paper from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 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": "PINTS OF KNOWLEDGE: A GEORGIAN GUIDE TO GETTING LAID", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "£19 per person + fees", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "19.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/georgian", "society/sexuality"], "description": "PINTS OF KNOWLEDGE: A GEORGIAN GUIDE TO GETTING LAID is a talk at Big Penny Social in London. 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"}]}