{"title": "Through the Keyhole: Daily Life in Georgian England Revealed", "start": "2026-11-12T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T11:00:00Z", "place": "Benjamin Franklin House", "address": "Craven Street 36, WC2N 5NF London", "price": "£8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-the-keyhole-daily-life-in-georgian-england-revealed-tickets-1998900254470", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/georgian", "literature"], "description": "A talk at Benjamin Franklin House called Through the Keyhole: Daily Life in Georgian England Revealed. It draws on the diary of country clergyman James Woodforde, whose journals span more than forty years, to show what everyday Georgian life was really like. It explores his vivid record of travel, food, social networks, philanthropy and gossip, including the American Revolution news he noted. 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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. Contains themes some may find triggering and is suitable for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hogarth-and-the-18th-century-sex-trade-36535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d329cb605afe081ee6704b9e9a7c19765d4b71e217a669cdfc3651e24fc24d45-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Dr Johnson’s House – Walk & Visits in November", "start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dr Johnson's House", "address": "Gough Square 17, EC4A 3DE London", "price": "£20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "tours", "tags": [], "description": "A guided walk through the heart of literary London, ending with a visit to Dr Johnson's House, the home of its most famous resident writer, Samuel Johnson. It explores how, after Wynkyn de Worde established Caxton's print workshop in Fleet Street in 1500, the area became the bustling centre of print and publishing, and how by the 1700s its coffeehouses and taverns were the haunt of writers, booksellers and journalists. The walk starts and finishes at Dr Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dr-johnsons-house-walk-visits-in-november-37607/", "official_url": "https://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/post/dr-johnson-s-house-walk-visit-nov26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a55adde3eef97f00630d9cb7eb359e6864c2f5192f4d93cd4a593e80596c11cc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Hafod Estate under the 4th Duke of Newcastle, 1832-1846", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T14:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/modern-history", "society/politics"], "description": "A lunchtime lecture at the Society of Antiquaries about the Hafod estate in Ceredigion during the ownership of the 4th Duke of Newcastle. The speaker is Dr Richard A. Gaunt FSA, a historian of British politics, culture and society. Drawing on the duke's recently edited personal diaries, it covers his motivations for buying and improving Hafod, his devotion to the picturesque principles of Thomas Johnes, and his efforts to run the estate well and keep it financially viable. It also shows how Newcastle, who considered himself an adopted Welshman, was forced to part with Hafod in the 1840s for financial reasons.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-hafod-estate-under-the-4th-duke-of-newcastle-1832-1846-38654/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/hafod-estate/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/46134417a2a563c5dfbb03862e758881f3380b6ac41b0bfb1ce91db59431ee71-2000.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": "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://tickets.sciencemuseum.org.uk/", "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. 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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": "Talk and Tea: First Aid on Camera – Untold Stories in Unseen Photographs", "start": "2026-11-12T12:30:00Z", "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": ["art/photography", "history/medical-history"], "description": "A free ten-minute talk with tea and biscuits, held in the museum galleries, where drop-ins are welcome and step-free access is available throughout. Archivist Sophie presents previously unseen photographs from the collection, exploring the work of St John Ambulance across the United Kingdom. The photos were repackaged and catalogued as part of a recent Museum Fundamentals project, some seen for the first time since they were taken. A 2027 calendar featuring some of the images, marking next year's 150th anniversary of St John Ambulance, will be available to purchase after the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/talk-and-tea-first-aid-on-camera-untold-stories-in-unseen-ph-37225/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77ac7ec3c7cedcaab8ad7dcf47c24690516306fad109e88be5c987d4cdf2848c-1200.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"}]}