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Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2019

Cambridge Festival of Ideas embraces change

Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches this week with an array of events and cutting edge thinkers, tackling social, cultural and political change in a rapidly transforming world…

Bloomsbury Festival 2019

Take a giant leap to this year’s Bloomsbury Festival

Visitors can join a night-time street party, a 1969 tea dance, and a moon walk as central London’s annual festival of arts, culture and science takes place…

Interior of the Petrie Museum

Pop up talks and gin cocktails at Culture Late

A new London museum ‘Late’ event will give visitors the chance to explore collections, meet curators and enjoy performances from musicians and artists…

Amazing Space exhibition

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing

This weekend, why not celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with one of these fun and quirky events?

Timber Festival outdoor performance credit Teneight

A festival with a giant marble run and a cardboard world

A festival weaving together the forest with arts and ideas, will take place this weekend in the heart of the National Forest in Derbyshire…

Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2019

Explore the frontiers of science at the Royal Society’s exhibition

Discover a future vision of wooden skyscrapers, four-legged robots and cosmic civilisations at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition…

Museums at Night May 2017

Tattoos and time travel at May’s Museums at Night

This month, museums and galleries up and down the country will be staying open late to host some fun and unusual events, for both adults and families…

BODY WORLDS London - The Ponderer - Credit Jeff Moore

BODY WORLDS tackles the mind

BODY WORLDS, the central London attraction featuring human bodies, has teamed up with the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for a new initiative: Mental Health Matters…

Platform for Investigation, Science and Industry Museum

Stuck on repeat? Family event investigates earworms

A special event at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum this month, will be looking at those pesky earworms and what causes them…

The Anatomy Lesson © Agi Haines

Rethinking human repair at the Science Gallery

A free exhibition and events programme at the Science Gallery London will explore the art, science, ethics and technology of organ transplants and tissue regeneration…

Twilight at the Museums - Cambridge - Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Half term adventures at Twilight at the Museums

This February half-term, 14 of Cambridge’s museums and collections will be opening their doors for a series of free, drop-in adventures and activities after dark…

Royal Society events - Collections by Candlelight

Discover the Royal Society Collections by Candlelight

Head to The Royal Society in London on Thursday 6th December for a festive evening with a Victorian Christmas theme…

Being Human festival 2018

Story-filled bus journeys and Edwardian vegetarians at this year’s Being Human festival

This month, the annual Being Human festival will take place with a range of unusual and thought-provoking events across the UK…

Curse Of Frankenstein - Directed by Terence Fisher, 1957

A dead good Halloween and some aping around at London’s quirky museums

This month, celebrate International Gibbon Day with some animal yoga, and Halloween with a talk on Frankenstein and the things we dread…

Roll Up Store Street - Bloomsbury Festival 2018 - London events

Walks, talks and circus performances at Bloomsbury Festival

Bloomsbury Festival will present a trailblazing programme of science, literature, performance, music, and discussion, from 17th to 21st October…

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Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

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HandleBards hit the pedals again to bring you a summer of outdoor theatre
HandleBards A Midsummer Night's Dream ©Rah Petherbridge Photography

The HandleBards are a Shakespearean troupe who tour by bike. And to celebrate their 10th anniversary, they’re climbing back into the saddle…

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