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Oct
3
Sat
BOOK FAIR @ HLSI
Oct 3 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Annual book fair, with thousands of great bargains in our sale of good-quality second-hand books.  There’s something for everyone: fiction, history, biography, literature, travel and much more. Special collections this year include art and antiquarian books.

Free preview for HLSI members only from 9-10am.

Don’t miss it!

Oct
30
Fri
Keats, Love and Myth Understandings – John Hegley @ Jacksons Lane
Oct 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

A selection of verses on the above topics, devised as an adult show, but tolerable to some 10 year olds. Verses concerning Keats’s relationships with vegetables and surgery. A long look at love, both on, and off the buses and musings on the old chestnut of Orpheus’s disruptive turn around. Deep and daft. Come and Sing.

‘Awesomely mundane’ Independent

‘Scandalously talented’ Sunday Times

Jun
7
Tue
‘Stokey – A Misty Village’: Guided Walk @ A guided tour through Stoke Newington with the excellent Rachel Kolsky. All profits to The Harington Scheme.
Jun 7 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

A guided tour through Stoke Newington with the excellent Rachel Kolsky.  All profits to The Harington Scheme.

Feb
26
Sun
A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban living @ The Woodman
Feb 26 @ 11:30 am – 1:15 pm

Discover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats, learn about Highgate’s early history, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abrahmam Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close.

Starts Opposite the Woodman Pub, Archway Road, finishes at Parliament Hill Fields at the bottom of Swain’s Lane. From here one has the choice to discover Highgate, see the views from Parliament Hill or further explore Highgate East or West Cemetery (additional fees)

You can check travel options at the Transport for London Journey Planner.

Footprints of London Walk www.footprintsoflondon.com

Stroll Round Highgate @ Highgate Society
Feb 26 @ 2:15 pm – 4:30 pm

walk feb poster

 

Learn more about the Highgate Conservation Area

JOIN US FOR A STROLL AROUND THE HIGHGATE CONSERVATION AREA – The tour will be led by an official London tour guide Ulrika Johnson with contributions from knowledgeable members of the HS.
The tour will start at 2.15, at 10A on Sunday 26th February and will return there for refreshments after about one and a half hours.
Please send a SAE with £5 to reserve your place to Highgate Society Walk, 10A South Grove London N6 6BS.
Jun
20
Tue
Guided Walk around Shoreditch @ Harington Scheme
Jun 20 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tuesday 20 June, 11am       Guided walk round Shoreditch in aid of the Harington Scheme. 
A tour through the history of one of East London’s most creative hubs, finishing in Brick Lane, £20.
Contact Susie Rose on 020 8340 7156 or scr47@btinternet.com.
Sep
30
Sat
BOOK FAIR @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Sep 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

HLSI’s annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books.  Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature and much more, all at bargain prices. Collections this year include art and special editions.

Preview for HLSI members 9-10am

Admission 50p (children free)

Feb
24
Sat
Waterlow Park Through the Eyes of History Tour @ Lauderdale House
Feb 24 @ 11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Waterlow Park Through the Eyes of History Tour @ Lauderdale House | England | United Kingdom

See Waterlow Park like you’ve never seen it before through the expert eyes of local historian Pam Cooper, who wrote the definitive history book  on the Park.

In 1889 Waterlow Park was given as a ‘garden for the gardenless’ but it was a long journey from the Tudor nobles who claimed the area for country residences until the Victorian Sir Sydney Waterlow brought it together in a grand act of philanthropy.

Meet in the central internal Courtyard at Lauderdale House.

Lauderdale Revealed – A Tour of the House @ Lauderdale House
Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lauderdale Revealed - A Tour of the House @ Lauderdale House | England | United Kingdom

Uncover the architectural secrets of this fascinating 16th century house with Peter Barber OBE, author of Lauderdale Revealed, who has been a vital figure in protecting our history from the devastating 1963 fire to the 2017 renovation. We will be opening up our 17th century trompe l’oeil just for today!

Meet in the central internal Courtyard at Lauderdale House.

Feb
25
Sun
Lauderdale Revealed – A Tour of the House @ Lauderdale House
Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Lauderdale Revealed - A Tour of the House @ Lauderdale House | England | United Kingdom

Uncover the architectural secrets of this fascinating 16th century house with Peter Barber OBE, author of Lauderdale Revealed, who has been a vital figure in protecting our history from the devastating 1963 fire to the 2017 renovation. We will be opening up our 17th century trompe l’oeil just for today!

Meet in the central internal Courtyard at Lauderdale House.

Mar
24
Sat
Guided Walk in Highgate @ highgate society
Mar 24 @ 1:30 pm – 4:15 pm

Guided walk around Highgate and tea afterwards at 10A

Jul
7
Sat
School History Walk led by Henley Henley-Smith @ Highgate School Museum
Jul 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

2 – 3pm
History of a school in its
village -1565 to 2018 – a
Walking Tour by Henley Smith
Highgate School Museum,
Southwood Lane, N6 5EE
Free
www.highgateschool.org.uk/
about/museum-and-archive

Oct
5
Sat
BOOK FAIR @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Oct 5 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
BOOK FAIR @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution

Annual book fair with something for everyone who loves books.  Thousands of good-quality second-hand books on all subjects: fiction, history, biography, literature and much more, all at bargain prices. Collections this year include art and special editions.