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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   If you have any useful information please sent it for consideration of inclusion to: kpflude@chr.org.uk -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link

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

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.

Photographs taken on the We Love wikipedia day are available for inspection here. Category:Britain Loves Wikipedia at the Old Operating Theatre - Wikimedia Commons

A joint venture linking 10 Hackney heritage sites. Discover Hackney

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

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 If you have any useful information please sent it for consideration of inclusion to: kpflude@chr.org.uk -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link

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

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

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

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

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 later Drawings . 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.

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

“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

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

 * 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 -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link

Listing of events including the Sir Hans Sloane and Chelsea Walk The Royal Society: Anniversary Calendar

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. -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link