next walks

Just a remind to let you know that the next walks I am giving are:

Sir Hans Sloane: Bloomsbury and The British Museum

Thursday 3^rd June 6pm

(meeting at Russell Square tube station)

 

The walk, led by Museum Director Kevin Flude, introduces Bloomsbury in the 18th Century and looks at the origins of the British Museum and Sir Hans Sloane's role in the foundation. It ends with a tour of the highlights of Sloane's Collection in the Enlightenment Gallery.

Booking advised. Call 0207 188 2679

or email curator@thegarret.org.uk to reserve a place

 

 

 

London's History (and Places) in Verse, Poetry & Nursery Rhymes   

St Pauls Underground 10.45 Sat June 5

 

Turn on on the day

 

kevin

 

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Summer at the Surgeons' — The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Summer at the Surgeons' — The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Museum Payroll - inexpensive software

Disgusted with the continued increase in prices of Quickbooks I have been trying out an online paye calculator. Not very pretty but very easy to use and much cheaper.

Payroll Site, Online PAYE Payroll just £5.75 month. UK Income tax / National Insurance calculator.

Britain Loves Wikipedia at the Old Operating Theatre - Wikimedia Commons

Photographs taken on the We Love wikipedia day are available for inspection here.

Category:Britain Loves Wikipedia at the Old Operating Theatre - Wikimedia Commons

Discover Hackney website

A joint venture linking 10 Hackney heritage sites.
Discover Hackney

Medical Care in the Viking Age

Useful web site for Viking medicine Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Medical Care in the Viking Age

London Postal history and Museum by Gaslight

A HISTORY OF THE LONDON POSTAL SERVICE
Tuesday 11 May
7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm) at New Cut Housing
Co-Operative Hall, 106 The Cut; £1
Lecture by Brian Bloice. A Southwark & Lambeth
Archaeological Society event.
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/7520

SURGERY BY GASLIGHT & OTHER MEDICAL TALES
Saturday 15 May
6pm, 7pm, 8pm at Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb
Garret, 9a St Thomas Street; £10 (conc £9)
Experience the fear and the emotion of a patient in the 19th
century - come and have your leg amputated in the oldest
surviving operating theatre in England. When the light gets
dim ... the surgery comes alive!
Info & map: http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/whatson/event/8941

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Human-Neanderthal inter-breeding ground breaking Discovery

At last! we know why some woman are attracted to Hunks! Recent research has reversed previous theories that Humans and Neanderthal did not interbreed. Apparently some 4% of non-sub-Saharan DNA is Neanderthal - suggesting at least one incident of inbreeding between female human and male Neanderthal which probably took place shortly after humans left central Africa.

Human-Neanderthal breeding

National Trust booking system and unfairness to Senior Citizens

So, you write them a letter with all the details they could possibly need confirming a visit. What do the National Trust do? Send you a form and ask you to fill in exactly the same details. Do they put your written request in the booking diary? No they don't not until they get their worthless bit of bureaucracy back in the post.

Also, why do they think that all Senior Citizens are rich and middle class? Why is it that it is only Stately Homes that refuse to give an concession to all those who have spent their lived paying taxes?

Why because they do not understand or cater for ordinary people.

National Trust | Group organisers | Booking information

Two Temple Place - Astor's rebuild of Essex House

This is where Lord Essex had his house and gardens, rebuilt by Lord Astor in Elizabethan style at the end of the 19th Century.


Two Temple Place - London's exclusive venue for meetings and events

Strange Maps

This is a great blog with very inventive maps - an idea companion to a visit to the British Library Magnigicent Maps exhibition.

Strange Maps Sent to me by Rob

Map exhibition at the British Library

Went to the British Library today for their Magnificent Maps exhibition. It is an exhibition of
european maps from the Roman period onwards. Has a digitally enhanced copy of the Mappa Mundi, and modern pyscho-geography maps by Grayson Perry and Stephen Walter - following this link for the laterDrawings.

Well worth visiting but was disappointed that their was not more explanation - the short captions and the maps themselves were crying out for explanation. They had a few digital tables with a cute magnifying glass mouse system which looked good but really did not do the job - it gave far too small a detail and obscured by shadow of the magnifying glass itself.

Exhibition was organised thematically, although the earliest (Roman) were at the beginning and the latest (the modern) at the end.

Royal Circus / Surrey Theatre, Blackfriars Road, London

Did some work for Sarah on St Georges Circus - very interesting early road improvement scheme and one of London's first and came across details of the Royal Circus, later the Surrey Theatre which was an important part of London's entertainments in the 18th and 19th Century.

This web site has good details. Colin did much of the research for me.

Royal Circus / Surrey Theatre, Blackfriars Road, London

Walks in Lambeth

“If you find you’re Lambeth way,

One June evening or an afternoon in May,

Please come and join

Us doing the Lambeth (Pharmacy) Walk”

 

The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is running two guided walks in May and June, uncovering the hidden history of North Lambeth.  With a focus on health and its direct relationship with the poverty which once infected the area, we will find out about some of the people who once lived and worked in the neighbourhood, including some rather well known characters.

 

Dates and times:                  

Wednesday 26^th May, 2pm

Thursday 24^th June, 6pm

Cost:   Voluntary contribution of £3 per person

 

Meet 10 minutes before the walk begins at:

Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

1, Lambeth High Street

London, SE1 7JN

http://www.rpsgb.org/pdfs/rpsgbmap.pdf

 

What do you need to know before your guided walk?

• The walk last for approximately 1hour-1 ½ hours
• Our route takes us along some busy roads.  Please take care and be responsible for your own personal safety as well as any children in your care.
• The walk is accessible for wheelchair users
• Public toilets are limited on the route
• Be prepared for the British weather- wet or hot!

 

Briony Hudson

Keeper of the Museum Collections

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

1 Lambeth High Street

London

SE1 7JN

tel: 020 7572 2211

fax: 020 7572 2499

email: briony.hudson@rpsgb.org

website: www.rpsgb.org/museum

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Creating Capacity for Museums

This is a new training organisation which seems to have appeared from the debacle of the MLA reorganisation.

Creating Capacity

interesting lectures

 * Actresses of the Georgian Period (Chawton House Library)
  In this lecture, we will learn more about the social situation of women working in the theatre in this period.
  on Wednesday, 19 May at 18:30:00
  More details: http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/8244?mail=y

* Family History for Beginners (Society of Genealogists)
  A series of four talks aimed at beginners to family history who have no prior
knowledge of the basic sources.
  on Saturday, 15 May at 10:30:00
  More details: http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/8256?mail=y

 * The Future of London Government (Guildhall)
  A conference to mark the ten years since the first Mayor of London.
  on Monday, 24 May at 14:00:00
  More details: http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/7785?mail=y

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The Royal Society: Anniversary Calendar

Listing of events including the Sir Hans Sloane and Chelsea Walk

The Royal Society: Anniversary Calendar

John Keats Lecture

The Hampstead of John Keats

This guided walk will meet at Hampstead tube station at 2 pm on Tuesday 4 May. The duration of the walk is around two hours and is free, but you must book in advance on 020 7332 3868.

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