From eerily immersive film screenings to scavenger hunts by way of the Underground, the English capital preserves its knack for fun.
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08 March 2013
In a city known for its downpours, an interactive installation in the Barbican Art Gallery lets you feel as though you are controlling the weather.
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24 December 2012
The city’s Unseen Tours, led by trained guides who are or have been homeless, show visitors a grittier side of some of the city’s most famous neighbourhoods.
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04 July 2012
From Washington DC to Tel Aviv, there is industrial beauty and history embedded in some of the city’s most overlooked features.
21 June 2012
This June, a 1,000-boat flotilla, a chain of 3,000 lights and other glamorous pageants will mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne. Here is a primer for the weekend’s events.
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22 May 2012
The World Shakespeare Festival, which runs from April to November 2012, will be the biggest and most varied celebration of the Bard ever attempted.
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22 March 2012
The 200th anniversary of novelist Charles Dickens’s birth is an excellent excuse for taking a walking tour of his old haunts, many of which remain today.
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07 February 2012
The proliferation of purpose-built playhouses in London was to change the face of drama in the later Elizabethan period.
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10 May 2011
Explore the city’s history by strapping on a pair of wellies and sifting through the flotsam on the Thames.
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20 December 2010
London’s top summer knees-up is a celebration of the local Caribbeancommunity that has enlivened this part of town since the 1950s.
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03 August 2010
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