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Carnaby Summer Festival
Carnaby Summer Festival
Carnaby Street’s bars, restaurants and retailers are coming together for this fortnight-long summer festival featuring creative workshops,...
Black-Owned Hackney Night Market
Black-Owned Hackney Night Market
London’s best Black-owned street food purveyors, artisan traders and many more of the best Black-owned businesses in the capital will be selling...
Summer Sounds Music Festival
Summer Sounds Music Festival
Twelve days of free music? Sounds pretty sweet to us. King’s Cross’s Coal Drops Yard will be home to an eclectic programme of sound with artists...
Summer on the Square
Summer on the Square
How many times were we told we’d reach our creative peak during lockdown? ‘Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’ during a plague,...
Totally Thames Festival
Totally Thames Festival
The Totally Thames Festival is back at it again, hosting a bunch of imaginative, river-themed activities at various locations along the riverbank –...
Open House London
Open House London
Wander around London’s architectural gems not normally open to the public.
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British Museum
British Museum
One of the world's oldest museums, the British Museum is vast and its collections, only a fraction of which can be on public display at any one time, comprise...
Museum of London
Museum of London
The history of London, from prehistoric times to the present is told in the Museum of London through reconstructed interiors and street scenes, alongside...
Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre
This riverside titan of arts and entertainment has morphed and expanded in the past few years securing its position as one of the most attractive cultural...
British Library
British Library
The John Ritblat Gallery houses some of the most famous written and printed items in the world: the Lindisfarne Gospels, Shakespeare’s first Folio,...