Diary October 2018

Mon 1 Ashburton Library: The Nostradamus of Hill, Stephen Oxford, 11am Dulwich Library Film Club: Babylon (15|1980|UK|91 mins), 1.30pm BIS: Cellini's Gold Salt-Cellar, Dr Charles Avery, Oxford & Cambridge Club, 71 Pall Mall, SW1, 7pm CNHSS: Lapis Lazuli, Chris Duffin, ECURC, 7.45pm (to 31) Month of the Dead SCLS: Steaming On: Train Travel on the UK's Preserved Railways, Paul Whittle, RURC, 7.45pm Streatham S'y: Being Leader of the Opposition on Lambeth Council, Tim Briggs, Woodlawns, 8pm (to 6) Theatre 62: The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, Wickham Theatre Centre, 8pm Tue 2 Age UK: Older People's Day 2018, Scratchley Hall, Brigstock Road, , 11am-4pm Silver Cinema: Patrick (PG|2018|USA|94 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 11am Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Silver Cinema: Edie (12A|2018|UK|101 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm Handel in London: The Making of a Genius, Professor Jane Glover, Southwark Cathedral, 7pm LCI: London Bridge Redevelopment, Liam Farrell, 55 Broadway, 6pm LWT: Woodland Industry & Deptford Shipyards, Edwin Malins, Festa sul Prato, Deptford, 7.30pm DLC: The Heiresses (12A|2018|Spain|98 mins|subtitled), 7.30pm LMOD: The Future of Death, John Troyer, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm COPSE: Bumblebees, Nikki Gammans, United Church, Aberdeen Road, South , 8.15pm BBLHS: Bromley Workhouse: Sad Life of Amelia Dolding , Stuart Valentine, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: The John Gent Postcard Collection part 2, John Hickman, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: Oxted History, Jim Farrell, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Café Scientifique: Bats in Our Cities, Jo Ferguson, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm COPSE: Bumblebees, Nikki Gammans, United church hall, Aberdeen Road, 8.15pm Wed 3 TASCd: World War One: Poetry, Art and Music, Denis Moriarty, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Matinée Classics: Paris When It Sizzles (U|1964|110 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Gravitational Waves, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Silent Film Show, Ken Mayes, , 2pm Gresham: Purposeful Business, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm A Time to Hallow the Heart Celebration, Little Holland House, 40 Beeches Ave, Carshalton, 7.30pm GSitP: Hypnosis: the State of the Science, Dr Devin Terhune, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm Kennington Bioscope: The Lost World (U|1925|USA|63 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm (& 5) Screen 25: Whitney (15|2018|USA|120 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Thu 4 National Poetry Day TASB: Power and Pageantry on the Thames, Peter Warwick, Beckenham Public Hall, 10.30am Silver Cinema: Patrick (PG|2018|USA|94 mins), Odeon, Beckenham, 2pm DLC: Apostasy (PG|2017|USA|95 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Gresham:Ethics in the Court Room, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Group 19: National & Courtauld Gallery Collection Links, Marc Woodhead, SAHQ, 7.15pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Caroline Palmer, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm ESFH: Investigating Legal Records, Dr Nick Barrett, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm Biggin Hill Society: Every Night Something Awful: The Story of ENSA, Delia Taylor, WI Hall, 8pm Fri 5 Lunchtime Recital: Students from Old Palace of John , , 1.10pm Vintage Film Show, Ken Mayes, Pollards Hill, 7.30pm CAS: Thermonuclear Fusion in Stars, Mark R Smith, RRS, 7.45pm Alternatively Speaking: Ask and It Is Given, Linda Sadler, 8pm (to 13) Streatham Festival Sat 6 RILKO Conference: Star Patterns & Sacred Sites, Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, 10am-7pm Apple Fest, Rickards Hall & Yard, 72a High Street, Edenbridge, TN8 5AR, 10am-2.30pm (& 7) Welcome Italia 2018, Royal Horticultural Halls, 80 Vincent Square, SW1, 10.30am-7pm (5pm Sun) LWT: Geology Walk, CP Park, Crystal Palace station, 11am Dracula Society: Vampires from Folklore to Film, Karl Bell, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Exploding Cinema, Cinema Museum, 7pm Downsview Players: Murder at the Music Hall, Downsview Methodist Church Hall, 7.30pm Sun 7 Autumn Fayre, Our Lady of The Annunciation church hall, Bingham Road, from 11am Historic Trust: Open Day, 11am-4pm : Open Day, Postmill Close, Croydon, 12-5pm Kennington Talkies: Another Thin Man (15|1939|USA|102 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 2.30pm Harvest Songs of Praise, St Mary's Church, Farleigh, 3pm Stanley Halls: The Ayoub Sisters, 6pm Leave Em Laughing: Katia Kvinge, Rich'd Todd, Kishore Nayar, Will Andrews, Stanley Hall, 7.30pm Mon 8 ESFH: Burial Clubs: the Unfriendly Societies, Audrey Collins, Southwark Local History Library, noon Dulwich Library Film Club: The Hurricane (15|1999|USA|140 mins), 1.30pm RSPB: Hungary, A Jewel of Europe, Mary Braddock, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Rd, 2pm Phoenix Retirement Ass'n: Notable Women of Norwood & the Odd Bloke, John Hickman, 2.30pm Gresham: No Listening, No Music, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Croydon Council meeting, including discussion of new refuse collection system, Town Hall, 6.30pm RCTS: A Swiss Miscellany, Geoffrey Gould, ECURC, 7.30pm TLRS: Model evening: the Gerald Warner legacy kits, Adrian Batt, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm RSPB: Encounters with Venomous Snakes, Rolf Williams, Whitgift Sports C, Croham M'r Rd, 8pm Tue 9 DLC: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (15|2018|UK/USA|114 min|Babes In Arms), 11am Gresham: Maths Behind Chaos Theory, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Brexit: Sovereignty and Rights, Geoffrey Nice, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: Separating Sense from Nonsense When Our Health Is on the Line, Jonathan Jarry, 6.10pm DLC: The Rider (15|2017|USA|103 mins), 7.30pm Tooting History Group: Cinemas of Tooting, Balham and Streatham, Richard Gray, TURC, 7.30pm Purley Literary Society: Rubens: a Master in the Making, Dr Lois Oliver, PURC, 8pm SMLS: My Life as a Royal Protection Officer, Richard Griffin, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm NSLTC: John Gent Postcards, John Hickman & Carole Roberts, ECURC, 8pm Wed 10 Matinée Classics: Mother Wore Tights (U|1948|107 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Epidemics and Pandemics, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Talking of Trains: Surrey Iron Railway to Croydon Tramlink, Ray Puddy, Surbiton, 7pm Campaign fundraiser: Swimming with Men (12A|2018|UK|97 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Newcomen Society: Henry Ford visits Britain 1928, David Perrett, Farringdon, 7.45pm Screen 25: The Breadwinner (12|2017|Canada|91 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm SLS: My Life as Royalty Protection Officer to The Queen & Duke of E, Richard Griffin, SURC, 8pm IWA: Brewing along the Wandle, Alison Cousins, ECURC, 8pm Thu 11 TASC: 250 Years of the Royal Academy of Arts, Pamela Campbell-Johnson, ASCH, 10.45am DLC: Blackkklansman (15|2018|USA|135 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm FILMBOX: Phantom Thread (15|2017|UK|127 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (12A|2018|UK|121 mins|subtitles), 7.45pm BBHA: Presidential First Hundred Days from FDR to Trump, Anthony Badger, Christ Ch Hall, 8pm Fri 12 Lunchtime Recital: Daniel Maschetti piano and Flora Fontahelu violin, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm (to 14) Lewes Folk Festival MHRPS: History of the French Railways, Michael Bunn, West Croydon Baptist Church, 7.30pm Screen 25: Love, Simon (12A|2018|USA|110 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Ceilidh at The Halls: Jigfoot with Ian Nicholls, Stanley Halls, 8pm Sat 13 : Hooray for Hollywood, Bromley, 2pm MHS: Update on the Merton Priory Chapter House, John Hawkes, St James’ Hall, Merton, ’2.30pm DLC: A Passage to India (PG|1984|UK/India|David Lean|157 mins|Q&A with James Fox), 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Blinking Buzzards: Request Session, Buster Keaton Society, Cinema Museum, 4pm Sun 14 Friends of Windmill Gardens: Brixton Windmill Heritage Walk, 12.50pm Live & Let Die (PG|1973|UK|121m)/The Wild Geese (15|1978|UK|129m), Cinema Mus'm, 1.30pm Kennington Classics: Brooklyn (12|USA|2015|109 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 15 Dulwich Library Film Club: The Athlete (PG|2009|Ethiopia|92 mins), 1.30pm (to 29) Streatham Free Film Festival SCLS: 60th Anniversary of the Surrey Hills AONB, Ken Bare, RURC, 7.45pm Streatham Society: The Great Stink: Joseph Bazelgette's Story, Julie Chandler, Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 16 WBLHG: Women’s Suffrage in Merton, Sarah Gould, West Barnes Library, 10.30am BFI London Film Festival: The Quake (15|2018|Norway|106 mins), Vue West End s'n 5, 12.30pm Shirley Library: The Battle of Little Bighorn, Michael Round, 2.15pm Gresham:Wordsworth and Coleridge, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Narrow Margin (PG|1952|USA|71 min), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm DLC: One Note at a Time (PG|2016|USA|95 mins|Q&A with Renée Edwards), 7.30pm (to 20) Churchill Theatre: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bromley, 7.30pm (& Sat 4pm) SMLS: Beetle Drive, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ESFH: Croydon Minster - More about People than the Building, David Morgan, ECURC, 8pm ODHS: Maxwell Knight: MI5’s Greatest Spymaster, Henry Hemming, URC, Blueh'se La, Oxted, 8pm Wed 17 Matinée Classics: The Woman in the Window (PG|1944|99 mins|USA), Regent St C, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Historical Perspectives (RHS), Tom Williamson, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: The Narrow Margin (PG|1952|USA|71 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm DLC: The Children Act (12A|2017|UK|105 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: A Quiet Place (15|2018|USA|90 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: The Bromley Boys (PG|2018|UK|106 mins|intro by producer, TJ Herbert), 7.45pm Screen 25: The Rape of Recy Taylor (15|2017|USA|91 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 18 DLC: The Children Act (12A|2017|UK|105 mins), 2.30pm & 7.30pm Gresham: State Torture, Joanna Bourke, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm LMOD: Death Cafe, Suzette Field, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7pm Kennington Bioscope: Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), Cinema Museum, 7pm Group 19: Art Unfolded: the History of Art in Four Colours, Ben Street, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm FOHM: Edwardian Studio Photographic Techniques, Abby Matthews, Honeywood House, 7.30pm Norwood Society: Conservation in Croydon, Shane Roberts, Library, 7.30pm (to 20) Phoenix Players: Footloose the Musical, Stanley Halls, 7.30pm SLLHG: The Manor of , Michael Gilbert, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Fri 19 Lunchtime Recital: TBA, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm CAS: Life in the Universe, Greg Smye-Rumsby, RRS, 7.45pm Screen 25: Ocean's Eight (12A|2018|USA|110 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Sat 20 Southwark Cathedral: Art of the First World War - A Day of Talks, 10.15am-4.15pm BWWMRC: Beckenham Model Railshow 2018, St John's Church, Eden Park Avenue, 10am-5pm Carshalton Day of Dance, 10am-9pm LWT: Fungi walk at , Sylvia Myers, Rookery Cafe, 11am Premiere: The CFF Story (2018|Q&A: director Jason Gurr & guests), Cinema Museum, 11am Norbury Library: A History of Sport in Norbury, David Clark, 2.30pm FoWNC AGM: When Clapham came to Norwood, Bob Flanagan, Chatsworth Baptist Ch, 2.30pm LMOD: Facing Up to Death, Nick Reynolds, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7pm Cinema Ruskin: Waikiki Wedding (Bing Crosby/1937), The Range Busters (1940), R'n House, 8pm Sun 21 CNHSS: Autumn in /Littleheath Woods, McLauchlin/Jennings, Heathf'd Car Pk, 10am London Bus Museum: Transportfest - The Leyland Story, Brooklands Family Cinema at The Halls: Hotel Transylvania (U|2012|USA|89 mins), Stanley Halls, 11am Group 9.5: Annual Show & Get-Together, Public Halls, Southdown Rd, Harpenden, 11am-7.30pm LWT: October Fungi Walk at , Crescent Wood Road entrance, SE26, 11am Cinema at The Halls: Lost in Translation (15|2003|USA|97mins), Stanley Halls, 5pm Churchill Theatre: Illegal Eagles, Bromley, 7.30pm Mon 22 Dulwich Library Film Club: Mediterranea (15|2015|French/Italian, Eng subtitles|106 mins), 1.30pm Gresham:Autism in the Workplace, Adam Feinstein, Museum of London, 6pm (to 27) Chipstead Players: Trap for a Lonely Man, Robert Thomas, Courtyard Theatre, 8pm (& Sat 2.15) Tue 23 Gresham:It from Bit, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: The Psychology of Image Based Sexual Abuse, Dr Afroditi Pina, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm DLC: Faces Places (12A|2017|France|Agnès Varda|94 mins), 7.30pm Purley Literary Society: The Lancaster Bomber and Me, John Wilson, PURC, 8pm SMLS: The Isle of Wight, Wildlife & Countryside, Malcolm Jennings, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm NSLTC: Steaming On Since '68, Graham Donaldson, ECURC, 8pm Wed 24 Matinée Classics: Miss Sadie Thompson (PG|1954|90 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham: Dark Matters, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm ESFH: Institutions in the Censuses, Kathy Chater, Lingfield Community Centre, 2.30pm Gresham:Maths in War and Peace (BSHM), David Aubin, Museum of London, 4pm Kennington Bioscope: Another Evening of 9.5mm Films, Kevin Brownlow, Cinema Musum, 7.30pm Dracula Society Book Launch: Dracul, Dacre Stoker & J D Barker, TBA (to 27) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Neil Gore, Tara Theatre, SW18, 7.30pm; 25 2pm, 27 3pm FOHM: Black British Civil Rights Heroines, Tony Warner, Honeywood House, 7.30pm Screen 25: In The Fade (18|2017|Germany|104 mins|subtitled?), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm LHS: Prize-giving and Social, Old Library Centre, 14-16 Knight’s Hill, SE27, 8pm SLS: The , London, The Shows & the Stars, Dean Caston, SURC, 8pm Thu 25 DLC: Puzzle (15|2018|France|103 mins), 2.30pm (subtitled) & 7.30pm Gresham: Modern Writers and Faith, Lord Harries, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Explorations: Should we be worried about Russia? James Nixey, Muswell Hill, 7.30pm LCGB: British Light Railways, John Scott Morgan, ECURC, 7.30pm Saving Brinton (2017), Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherburne, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Fri 26 Library: RAF World War II: , Colonel John Power, 10.30am (& 27) London Transport Museum, Depot Discovery Tours, Acton Town, 11am-1pm, 2-4pm Institute of Mechanical Engineers Lunch: CP High Level Railway, B Winchester, Masonic Hall, noon Lunchtime Recital: Lance Mok, piano, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm Diana's: Theory of Everything, Diana Bailey, 7pm Sat 27 Croydon Literary Festival, from 10am Bethlem History Walk, Bethlem Gallery, 11am The Misty Moon International Film Festival 2018, Cinema Museum, 7pm Sun 28 LWT: Autumn Wildlife Walk at Sydenham Hill Wood, Rachel Dowse, Sydenham Hill Wd, SE26, 2pm Rochester Kino: Testament of Orpheus (PG|1960|France|Cocteau|77 mins), Cine Lumiere, 2pm Celluloid Sorceress: Sparkle (15|1976|98 min|USA|16mm|Samira Ahmed Q&A), Cinema M'm, 3pm W N'd Free Film F'l: Night of the Demon (15|1957|UK|82 mins), 20 Norwood High St, SE27, 8pm Mon 29 Dulwich Library Film Club: Marshall (15|2017|USA|114 mins), 1.30pm BFI Seniors’ Programme Matinee: A Portrait of Margaret Tait: Filmmaker and Poet, NFT3, 2pm Gresham: Strategy and Democracy, Hew Strachan, Mercers' Hall, 6pm CNHSS: Death on Brighton Road: Execution Sites in South London, Jon Newman, ECURC, 7.45pm SCLS: Around the World in a Double Decker Bus, Richard King, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 30 Gresham: Bribery and Corruption, Nicholas Cooke, Museum of London, 6pm Haunted by Christ, Bishop Richard Harries & Revd Andrew Nunn, Southwark Cathedral, 7pm DLC: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (15|2018|USA|91 mins), 7.30pm SMLS: Exploring 18th Century London 1700-1719, Michael Gilbert, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: Medieval Pilgrimages, Catherine Ferguson, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Wed 31 Matinée Classics: Bell, Book and Candle (U|1958|100 mins|USA), Regent St Cinema, 12 & 3.30pm Gresham:Performing Surgery, Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Summerstown182: Spooking Tooting Guided Walk, Tooting Broadway station, 6.30pm RBLHS: Aspects of Staffing Southwark Park 1869-2018, Pat Kingwell, Time & Talents, 7.15pm DLC: Possum (15|2018|USA|85 mins), 7.30pm Screen 25 Halloween Special: A Quiet Place (15|2018|USA|90 mins), Harris Academy, 7.45pm

November Thu 1 TASB: Chivalry, Art and Reality in the Great War, Tobias Capwell, Beckenham Public Hall, 10.30am DLC: A Simple Favour (15|2018|USA|117 mins), 2.30 & 7.30pm FOHC: All Saints Candle Lighting Evening, Highgate East Cemetery, 4-7pm Gresham:The Age of the Reformation, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Group 19: The History of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Ian Bevan, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Lily Neill, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm (to 3) Mitre Players: Single Spies, Alan Bennett, Trinity School, Shirley Park, 7.30pm Looking for Charlie (2018), Q&A: directors Darren Reid/Brett Sanders, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm ESFH: Researching before Parish Records, Ian Waller, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm Biggin Hill S': A Humorous Account of 40 Years in Show Business , Keith Simmons, WI Hall, 8pm Fri 2 Author talk: The Amber Maze, Christopher Bowden, Coulsdon Library, 10.30am Lunchtime Recital: TBC, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm CAS: The Voyager Legacy, Prof. Garry Hunt, RRS, 7.45pm Screen 25: Man and Beyond (PG|2018|UK|95 mins|Q&A), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm Alternatively Speaking: Seeing the Future with Astrology, Sue Farebrother, 8pm Sat 3 Southwark Cathedral: Poetry of the First World War - A Day of Talks, 10am-4pm Norbury Library: 1918: 100 Days to End the Lousy War, Nick Dobson, 11am LWT: Great North Wood Fungi Walk, Sam Bentley-Toon, Tennis Courts, Biggin Wood, SE19, 2pm QuizFest, St George's Church Hall, Elstan Way, Shirley, 7 for 7.30pm Sun 4 Veteran Car Run, London - Croydon - Brighton Historic Croydon Airport Trust: Open Day, 11am to 4pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Kennington Talkies: Shadow of the Thin Man (PG|1941|USA|95 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 5 Arts Society Bromley: TBA, Great Hall, Civic Centre, Bromley, 7.30pm CPDS: The Pen Is Mightier than the Sword, Centre, 7.30pm Streatham Society: Streatham at Westminster, Rt. Hon. Keith Hill, The Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 6 Gresham: Making Information Personal, Yorick Wilks, Museum of London, 1pm Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Shirley Library: Cane Hill during World War 1, Pam Buttrey, 2.15pm DLC: Crazy Rich Asians (12A|2018|USA|120 mins), 7.30pm Gresham:Shakespeare's Stages, Michael Pennington, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: The Bloody work of “Naturopathic Doctors”, Britt Hermes, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm BBLHS: A Kent School Girl’s War, Mary Smith, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: The Humorous Side of Being an Actor, Jonathan Fryer, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Purley Literary Society: Here is The News and Other Happenings, Hilary Osborn, PURC, 8pm Cafe Scientifique: TBA, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, SE19, 8pm Wed 7 TASCd: 250 Years of the Royal Academy of Arts, Rosalind Whyte, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Ending World War I, David Stevenson, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: Do No Harm, but First, “Nature”, Britt Hermes, Star & Garter, Greenwich, 7.30pm FILMBOX: Leave No Trace (PG|2018|USA|109 mins), 7.30pm FILMBOX: Ocean's 8 (12A|2018|USA|110 mins), 7.45pm Screen 25: The Rider (15|2017|USA|103 mins), Harris Academy, SE25, 7.45pm SLS: Henry VIII – Brought to Life, Tony Harris, SURC, 8pm Thu 8 TASC: Edward-Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Legacy, Alan Read, ASCH, 10.45am BFI Seniors’ Free Talk: What Have Film Comedians Ever Done for Us? Graham Rinaldi, NFT1, 11am Gresham: Money: Root of All Evil? Richard Burridge, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm BFI Seniors’ Free Matinee: The Naked Truth (U|1957|UK|94 min|Q&A), NFT1, 2pm Author talk: The Amber Maze, Christopher Bowden, Purley Library, 2pm DLC: The Little Stranger (12A|2018|UK/Ire/Fra|111 mins), 2.30 & 7.30pm Magnificent Obsessions: Imitation of Life (12|1959|USA|121 mins), 7.30pm (to 10) Parlour Players: Season’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn, SURC Hall, Hill, 7.45pm Fri 9 Lunchtime Recital: Amiri Harewood, piano (Trinity School), Croydon Minster, 1.10pm World War 1 in Music, Art & Film, , , Central Library, 6-9pm MHRPS: Bluebell Railway's Project 27, Clive Emsley, West Croydon Baptist Church, 7.30pm Ceilidh at The Halls: Armistice Day Special, Stanley Halls, 8pm Sat 10 Lord Mayor's Show from 11am; Firework display, 5pm Summerstown182: Walk of Remembrance, St Mary’s Church, Wimbledon Road, 11am Central Library: The Battle of the Somme, Nick Dobson, Katherine Street, Croydon, 2pm MHS AGM: The History of Ely’s Store, Michael Norman Smith, St James’ Ch Hall, Merton, 2.30pm DLC: The Guardians (15|2017|Fra/Swi|French with subtitles|138 mins), 2.30pm ESFH: City of London Freemen & Stationers Co Liverymen, Andrea Cameron, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Dracula Society: 44th Annual Bram Stoker Birthday Dinner, Civil Service Club, 6.30pm Exploding Cinema, Cinema Museum, 7pm Sun 11 Centenary Commemorations of the End of World War 1, Festival committee Rochester Kino: La Grande Illusion (PG|1937|France|113 mins), Cine Lumiere, SW7, 2pm Mon 12 RSPB: A Year at Mote Park, Simon Ginnaw, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Road, 2 & 8pm Phoenix Retirement A'n: Gales, Greenhouses & Global Warming, Ian Currie, Phoenix Ctre, 2.30pm DS: Committee Meeting, CSC, 7pm TLRS: TBA, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm RCTS: The LMS Patriot Project, John Borrowdale, ECURC, 7.30pm SCLS: Traditional Textiles of Thailand, Jennifer Hughes, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 13 Author talk: The Amber Maze, Christopher Bowden, Sanderstead Library, 10.30am Gresham: Mathematics of Climate Change, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm DLC: Cold War (15|2018|Pol/Fra/UK|88 mins|Polish/French subtitled|Babes in Arms), 11am Gresham: Nanomaterials, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm THG: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission: the Early Years, TBA, TURC, SW17, 7.30pm DLC: Tehran Taboo (15|2017|Ger/Austria|Persian with subtitles|96 mins), 7.30pm SMLS: The History of South Norwood Country Park, Janet Ambrose, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: A Very Special Villa: the Life and Times of Kensington Palace, Nigel Arch, URC, Oxted, 8pm Changing Times: Unleashing Power of Intuition, Barefoot Doctor, Cyprus Hall, Burgess Hill, 8pm Wed 14 Gresham: Volcanic Eruptions, Stephen Sparks, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Bioscope: The Whispering Chorus (PG|1918|USA|86 mins|DeMille), Cinema M, 7.30pm CNHSS: Addington, Lindsey Ould, Croydon Borough Archivist, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 15 DLC: The Wife (15|2017|UK/USA/Swe/Swi|100 mins), 2.30 (subtitled) & 7.30pm Gresham: The Internet and the News, Steve Schifferes, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm BBHA: Fish & Chip Supper/ Britain on Film 1901-1978: Coast and Sea, Christ Ch Hall, 7pm Southwark Cathedral: God is No Thing: Coherent Christianity, Rupert Shortt, 7pm Group 19: Recent and Current Work, Sarah Campbell, textile designer, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Magnificent Obsessions: All I Desire (U|1953|USA|77 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Norwood Society: The History of Beulah Spa, Stephen Oxford, Upper Norwood Library, 7.30pm SLLHG: Film in South London part 3, Tony Fletcher, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Fri 16 Kenley Revival Project: A Tribute to RAF Kenley, Charlotte Islin, Coulsdon Library, 10.30am Lunchtime Recital: Sofia Pecina Medina, Piano & Ana Dunne Sequi, Viola, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm CAS: TBA, RRS, 7.45pm Misty Moon: The Vincent Price Legacy, Victoria Price, Cinema Musum, 8pm Sat 17 Kennington Bioscope: Silent Guns: a Day of World War One Films, Cinema Musum, 10am FoWNC: A Year in the Life of a Bee Keeper, Jean Azzopardi, Chatsworth Baptist Ch, SE27, 2.30pm Sun 18 Cinema at The Halls: Wreck it Ralph (PG|2012|USA|97 mins), Stanley Halls, 11am LWT: Autumn Wildlife Walk at Sydenham Hill Wood, Rachel Dowse, Sydenham Hill Wood, 2pm Kennington Classics: Drive (18|2011|USA|100 min), Cinema Musum, 2.30pm Cinema at The Halls: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A|2018|USA|128 mins), Stanley H, 5pm Mon 19 Author talk: The Amber Maze, Christopher Bowden, Library, 2pm Gresham: Classical Music, Noisy Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Streatham Society: The Unknown Warrior, Don Doncaster, The Woodlawns, 8pm Tue 20 WBLHG: World War 1: Forget-me-not, Michael Norman Smith, West Barnes Library, 10.30am Gresham: Glinka, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm DLC: Lucky (15|2017|USA|88 mins), 7.30pm Gresham: The Romantic Child, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: TBC, Professor Owen Davies, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm FOHC: Votes for Women, Elizabeth Crawford, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm Magnificent Obsessions: Magnificent Obsession (U|1954|USA|105 mins), Cinema Musum, 7.30pm SMLS: The Old Palace Buildings and its Bishops, Janet King, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ESFH: Armistice Christmas, Barbara Elliott, ECURC, 8pm Purley Literary Society: Food Adulteration from Then until Now, Prof Anthony Dyan, PURC, 8pm GigSpanner Big Band Live, Stanley Halls, 8pm Wed 21 Gresham: Infections and the Brain, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Noir: Murder My Sweet (PG|1944|USA|92 min), Cinema Musum, 7.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm SLS: The Salvation Army Choir, Leader Gerry Boniface, SURC, 8pm Thu 22 DLC: A Star Is Born (15|2018|USA|135 mins), 2.30 & 7.30pm (& 23) Kenley Revival Project: RAF Kenley Travelling Exhibition, Central Library, 10am-3pm BIS Leconfield: Edgar Degas and Italy, Dr Denis Reidy, Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrave Sq, 7pm FOHM: Jane Seymour: the Haunted Queen, Alison Weir, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm SOLD OUT (to 24) Downsview Players: The Memory of Water, Downsview Methodist Church Hall, 7.30pm FILMBOX: TBC, 7.30pm & Journey's End (12A|2017|UK|105 mins), 7.45pm Fri 23 Lunchtime Recital: Students from Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm Sat 24 Bethlem History Walk, Bethlem Gallery, 11am NSPCC: Christmas Fair and Tea, Sunrise Living, Russell Hill Rd, Purley, 2-5pm CNHSS: Focus on Women's Rights to Vote and Learn, David Sweet Hall, ECURC, 2.30pm Mon 26 Ashburton Library: 1918: 100 Days to End the Lousy War, Nick Dobson, 11am Gresham: Plastics from Potatoes, Andrew Abbott, Museum of London, 1pm CNHSS: Source and Serendipity: 50 years of Family History, Brenda Hawkins, ECURC, 7.45pm SCLS: The Foundling Museum, Jane King, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 27 Gresham: Speech Processing, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: How to Increase the Value of Eyewitness Evidence, Prof Laura Mickes, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm LWT: A History of Sydenham Hill Wood, Rachel Dowse, CWG, 28 Marsden Rd SE15, 6.30pm RCTS: The Privatisation Disaster, Cliff Perry, Woking, 7.15pm Tue 27 DLC: Columbus (12A|2017|USA|104 mins), 7.30pm Magnificent Obsessions: Pillow Talk (PG|1959|USA|100 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm SMLS: 40 Years Without a Proper Job, Chris Hare, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: 1918 Revisited: How the First World War Ended, Prof David Stevenson, URC, Oxted, 8pm (& 28) Deva Premal, Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm Wed 28 Gresham: In the Beginning, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm RBLHS: A Talk on Albert McKenzie, Paul Keefe, Time and Talents, 7.15pm LHS: Competing at Chelsea Flower Show, Maggie Temple, Old Library Centre, Knight’s Hill, 8pm Thu 29 Gresham: The Theatre of Dionysus, Edith Hall, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm DLC: First Man (12A|2018|USA|141 mins), 2.30 & 7.30pm Steampipes presentation, William Booth College, Denmark Hill, 6.30pm Gresham: Sexual Harassment at the Bar, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 7pm Group 19: London in Painting, Mireille Galinou, SAHQ, Westow St, 7.15pm Explorations: A New Message from the Middle East, Jane Kinninmont, Muswell Hill, 7.30pm LCGB: Why are there no Tube Trains to Bushey Heath? Keith Gower, ECURC, 7.30pm Fri 30 Lunchtime Recital: Students from Whitgift School, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm CAS: Aurorae on Earth and other Planets, Prof. Alan Aylward, RRS, 7.45pm Mid-Kent Astro'l S'y: Space and Spirituality, Bernard Winchester, Bredhurst Village Hall, 7.45pm

December Sat 1 British Vintage Wireless & Television M'm: TV Display 11am, Recorded Music, Tony Clayden, 1pm FOHM: Carshalton Frost Fair, Carshalton Ponds, 1-6pm Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet: The Big Xmas Disco Ball, Stanley Halls, 7.30pm Sun 2 Historic Croydon Airport Trust: Open Day, 11am to 4pm Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Heathfield Ecology Centre: Grand Xmas Bazaar, Heathfield House, 12-4.30pm Kenngton Talkies: The Thin Man Goes Home (PG|1944|USA|98 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 3 Gresham: Medical Training, Caroline Elton, Museum of London, 1pm Aga Khan Centre tour, Rosanna, 10 Handyside Street, N1, 3pm Dracula Society: Christmas Party! Winchester Room, The George, Borough High Street, 7.30pm CNHSS: In My Grandmother's Footsteps, Eleanor Redshaw, ECURC, 7.45pm Emerson College: The Deeper History of Christmas, Andy Thomas, Forest Row, 8pm Streatham Society: Christmas Evening (members only), The Woodlawns, 8pm (to 8) Theatre 62: The Ladykillers by Graham Linehan, Wickham Theatre Centre, West Wickham, 8pm Tue 4 Victory Club: Tea Dance, Brian Pasby, 227 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, SE25 6XY, 2-4pm Gresham: Childhood Malnutrition, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm DS: Christmas Party, the Winchester Room, The George, 77 Borough High St, SE1, from 6pm APRU: How the World Thinks, Dr Julian Baggini, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm BBLHS: Played in Kentish London: Bromley's Sporting Heritage, Simon Inglis, Trinity URC, 7.45pm SMLS: Quiz, Jeff/Elizabeth Fleischer, St Mildred's Centre, , 8pm Purley Literary Society: 1066 and All That - the Bayeux Tapestry, Martin Heard, PURC, 8pm Crystal Scientifique: Christmas Science Quiz, Steven Henn, Antenna Café, Haynes Lane, 8pm Wed 5 TASCd: In the Kingdom of the Sweets, Nigel Bates, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Dissecting the Consultation, Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Kennington Bioscope: The Virgin of Stamboul (1920|USA|70 mins|Todd Browning), C'a M, 7.30pm GSitP: How Cartoons Somehow or Other Get Drawn, Jeremy Banx, Star & Garter, 7.30pm SLS: Being a Concorde Pilot, John Hutchison, SURC, 8pm Thu 6 TASB: Parodies of Victorian Soc'y in Gilbert & Sullivan, Peter Medhurst, Beckenham Hall, 10.30am Gresham: Understanding Violent People, Joanna Bourke, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Dame Cicely Saunders Concert: Clive Carroll, St Christopher’s, 7.30pm Magnificent Obsessions: Thoroughly Modern Millie (PG|1967UK|146 mins), Cinema M'm, 7.30pm FILMBOX: TBC, 7.30pm & 7.45pm ESFH: Christmas on the Home Front, Mike Brown & social, St Nicholas's Church Hall, Sutton, 8pm BBHA: Richelieu - The Cardinal and his City, Brian Freeland, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Biggin Hill Society: TBA, WI Hall, Lebanon Gardens, 8pm Fri 7 Lunchtime Recital: Venice Chamber Recital, Trinity School Students, Croydon Minster, 1.10pm BSS: Christmas Carol Service, St Andrew's-by-the-Wardrobe, London, 6pm Alternatively Speaking: The Columbian Exposition of 1893, Bernard Winchester, 8pm Sat 8 Christmas Festive Day of Dance, South Bank and London Bridge, 11am–4pm MHS: Puppetry, Dr Chris Abbott, St James’ Church Hall, Merton, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Sun 9 Christmas Party, Brian, Diana et al, the Railway, West Wickham, 6.30pm Mon 10 RSPB: Local Government Ecologist, Iain Boulton, Whitgift Sports Club, Croham Manor Rd, 2 & 8pm Phoenix Retirement Association: Christmas Party, Phoenix Centre, SE19, 2.30pm TLRS: TBA, Richmond Vestry Hall, 7.30pm SCLS: A Very Sweet Villa, Nigel Arch LVO, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 11 Gresham: The Romantic Lakes, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: Why the Parole Board Releases Bad People, Emma McClure, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm ODHS: Christmas Party, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: Christmas Themed Musical Evening, Morven & Iain Rae, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 12 Gresham: Executive Pay, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm RBLHS: Biscuits, Chocolate & Jam, Jennie Howells, Time and Talents, 7.15pm FILMBOX: The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG|2017|UK|102 mins), 7.45pm Thu 13 Gresham: Carols from King's, Jeremy Summerly, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm OS LHRG: TBA, TfL HQ, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, SE1, 6.30pm Magnificent Obsessions: Madame X (A|1966|USA|100 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm FOHC: Gothic London, Clive Bloom, Highgate Cemetery Chapel, 7.30pm Fri 14 CAS: TBA, RRS, 7.45pm MHRPS: Christmas Meal, Banana Leaf restaurant Ceilidh at The Halls: Panjandrum, Stanley Halls, 8pm Sat 15 LWT: GNW Winter Tree Walk at Dulwich Wood, Sam Bentley-Toon, Sydenham Hill station, 2pm The Greatest Variety Show Ever 2018, Terry Sanderson, Cinema Museum, 7.30pm Sun 16 Kennington Classics: The Full Monty (15|1997|UK|88 min), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 17 CPDS: Balloon Debate, Old Coulsdon Centre, 7.30pm Tue 18 SMLS: Christmas Social, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 19 Kennington Noir: The Crooked Way (A|1949|USA|90 min), Cinema Musum, 7.30pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm SLS: A Christmas Miscellany, Ian & Penny Bevan, SURC, 8pm Winterville Festival: The Deeper History of Christmas, Andy Thomas, Clapham Common, ?pm Thu 20 LCGB: A Look at the USA, Brian Garvin, ECURC, 7.30pm Norwood Society: Social Evening, Upper Norwood Library, 7.30pm Magnificent Obsessions: Airport (PG|1970|USA|131 mins), Cinema Museum, 7.30pm SLLHG: Christmas Event, Phoenix Centre, 66 Westow Street, 8pm Tue 25 Christmas Day Wed 26 Northwood Morris: Boxing Day Tour, Harrow Inn, 309 Farleigh Road, , 12.45pm Thu 27 CNHSS: Central Croydon history walk, Paul Sowan, Clocktower steps, Katharine Street, 2pm

January 2019 Sun 6 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Kennington Talkies: Song of the Thin Man (U|1947|USA|84 mins), Cinema Museum, 2.30pm Mon 7 SCLS: Confessions of a Guide Book Writer, Kev Reynolds, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 8 Gresham: Can Maths Tell us Where We Are? Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: The Lord Mayor's Annual Gresham Event, Guildhall, Old Library, 6pm Purley Literary Society: My View on Current Politics, Sir Simon Hughes, PURC, 8pm ODHS: Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Victorian Photographer, Judy Hill, URC, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: A-Z of West Wickham, Ian Bevan, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 9 Gresham: Gresham, London, and Europe, Ian Archer, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Steiner Schools, Andy Lewis, Star & G'ter, 7.30pm CNHSS: The Regent's Canal, Roger Squires, ECURC, 7.45pm SLS: Tales of the River Bank, Jenny Hibbert, SURC, 8pm Sat 12 MHS Members’ Meeting: Short Talks, St James’ Church Hall, Merton, 2.30pm ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Mon 14 Gresham: Sacred Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 15 Gresham: Search for Meaning on the Web, Yorick Wilks, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Our Dark Deep Ocean Planet, Jon Copley, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: Investigating Non-Recent Sexual Allegations, Gary Pankhurst, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm SMLS: World War 1 & 2 Items, Renia Jenkins, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 16 TASCd: Queen Victoria, Prince Albert & Their Art, Susan Owens, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Infections and the Nerves, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 17 BBHA: William II: The Red King, Professor John Gillingham, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Fri 18 Churchill Theatre: Champions of Rock, featuring Meat Loaf and Queen, Bromley, 7.30pm Sat 19 Churchill Theatre: Chicago Blues Brothers, Bromley, 7.30pm Mon 21 SCLS: The Wildlife Aid Foundation, Dr Mike Berwick, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 22 TASS: Brangwyn's Architechture And Internal Design, Dr Libby Horner, SURC, 10.30am Gresham: Musorgsky, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm Purley Literary Society: No 1 Landsdowne Road Croydon, Piers Gough, PURC, 8pm ODHS: Jane Austen & Marriage: Fact & Fiction, Maureen Stiller, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: The Vanishing Maidservant, Ian Keable, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 23 Gresham: Corporate Governance, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm SLS: Pills from Plants & Modern Medicine, Professor Trevor Jones CBE, SURC, 8pm Thu 24 Gresham: Shakespeare and Atheism, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Sat 26 Dracula Society: Nosferatu (PG|1922|Germany|81 min), Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Mon 28 CNHSS: The Other Byron Girl, Brian Lancaster, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 29 Gresham: Evolution since Gresham's Time, Steve Jones, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: Pseudoscience, Public Health & the Justice System, Pamela Radcliffe, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm SMLS: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Colin Brown, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm Wed 30 Gresham: 50 Years of Lunar Exploration, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Stuart Image-Making, Simon Thurley, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 31 Gresham: The Children Act 1989, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm

February Sun 3 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 4 Gresham: Ruskin at 200, Malcolm Andrews, Museum of London, 1pm CPDS: Schools Debate, Old Coulsdon Centre, 7.30pm Churchill Theatre: Trust Fast Health, Dr Michael Mosley, Bromley, 7.30pm CNHSS: Why our Future Depends on our Knowledge of Plants, Dr Tim Ridgway, ECURC, 7.45pm SCLS: The Titanic, the Ship and the Wreck, Rob Goldsmith, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 5 APRU: Torture - Does It Work and Can It Ever Be Justified? Jo Kenrick, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm Purley Literary Society: My Life as a Royal Body Guard, Richard Griffin, PURC, 8pm SMLS: The Tale of the Tulip, Russell Bowes, St Mildred's Centre, 8pm ODHS: The History of Transport 1770-1870, Stuart Denison, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm Wed 6 TASCd: Faber and Faber - Its Designs and History, Toby Faber, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Gresham, Global Traffic and Trade, Nandini Das, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: The Victorian Séance from Occult to Gin Parlour, Romany Reagan, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 7 Gresham: Varieties of Forgiveness, BStephen Cherry, arnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Gresham: Market Failures, D'Maris Coffman, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm SLS: The John Gent Postcard Collection Part 2, John Hickman & Carole Roberts, SURC, 8pm Sat 9 MHS: Suffragettes, Sarah Gould, St James’ Church Hall, Merton, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Misty Moon: The Bill Reunion 3, Linda Regan, Cinema Musum, 7.30pm Mon 11 Gresham: From String Quartets to Jazz, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 12 Gresham: Maths in the City, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Computer Vision, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: Beulah Spa, Stephen Oxford, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 13 Gresham: Infections of the Lung and Heart, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Mon 18 Gresham: The Annual Boyle Lecture 2018, St Mary-Le-Bow, 6pm SCLS: Fanny Burney, Surrey and the French, Sir Brian Urwin, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 19 Gresham: Psychiatry, Paul Fletcher, Museum of London, 1pm Purley Literary Society: Gardening in North Korea, Neil Miller, PURC, 8pm ODHS: The Great Fire of London, Alan Goldsmith, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: Rome to the Rockies, Dennis Jeanes, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 20 Gresham: Volcanoes and Society, Stephen Sparks, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm SLS: Donald Campbell Across the Lake, Philip Holt, SURC, 8pm Thu 21 Gresham: Justice Online, Joshua Rozenberg, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm BBHA: Holocaust in Hungary: One Woman's Story, Agnes Grunwald-Spier, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Sun 24 CNHSS: Winter Trees in Kings Wood, McLauchlin/Jennings, Kingswood Lane, Sanderstead, 10am Mon 25 Gresham: Films of Robert Paul, Ian Christie, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Living on the Edge of the Green Belt, John Grindrod, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 26 TASS: Same Old, Same New, Aliki Braine, SURC, 10.30am Gresham: Animal Parasites and Hosts, Tristram Wyatt, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: Dreaming and Memory Consolidation, Professor Mark Blagrove, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm SMLS: Travels with a Camera Crew, Peter Whittle, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 27 Gresham: The 'Lone Heroic Surgeon', Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 28 Greenacres Grand Autumn Literary Walk: The Alban Way, Mill Hill Broadway Station, 11.30am Gresham: Gender, Marriage and Divorce, Richard Burridge, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm FOHM: The Ponds - Houses and People 1860-1913, John Phillips, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm

March Sun 3 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: West Nwd Cemetery Tour, Main Gate, Norwood Rd, 11am Mon 4 CNHSS: A Varied Nursing Career, Yvette McKinnel, ECURC, 7.45pm SCLS: The Story of the National Garden Scheme, Margaret Arnott, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 5 Gresham: Food Security, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm APRU: TBC, Professor Ciaran O’Keeffe, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm PLS: The Abyssinian Difficulty: Retracing a Victorian Expedition, John Pilkington, PURC, 8pm ODHS: English Coins and Tokens: 1066 to 1971, David Rudling, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: The World on her Bike, Pam Goodall, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 6 TASCd: Thomas Heatherwick, The Leonardo of our Times, Anthea Streeter, Banstead Hall, 10am Gresham: Astronomy from Gresham's Time, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: The Role of Investors, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: Time To Tell: A Look at How We Tick, Ronald Green, Star & Garter, 7.30pm SLS: The Ellen McCarthy Sailing Cancer Trust, SURC, 8pm Thu 7 Gresham: Age of Pericles, Edith Hall, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Gresham: Politics and the Legal Profession, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Sat 9 MHS: Wimbledon Salvation Army, St James’ Church Hall, Merton, Richard Smart, 2.30pm ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Brixton Society: Brixton Market Heritage Walk, Brixton Station Road, 2.30pm Sun 10 CNHSS: In the Footsteps of Frank Lloyd and WH Mills, Paul Sowan, tram stop, 2pm Mon 11 Gresham: Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, Margaret Willes, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm Tue 12 Gresham: Maths in the Future? Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm APRU: What Can Synaesthesia Tell Us About The Human Mind, Michael Banissy, Gsmith's, 6.10pm SMLS: Land of the Pagodas (Burma), Christine Jarvis, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 13 Gresham: Brexit and the Future, Vernon Bogdanor, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 14 Gresham: Puritan Atheists, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm BBHA: How the RAF has Changed Our World, Paula Kitching, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Sat 16 Dracula Society: TBA, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Mon 18 SCLS AGM: Magic Fit for a King, John Derris, RURC, 7.45pm Tue 19 Gresham: Deep Learning, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm Purley Literary Society: Bruges: It's More Than Just Chocolate, Melanie Gibson-Barton, PURC, 8pm ODHS AGM: TBA, URC, Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, 8pm SMLS: Women with Attitude, Clare Walker, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Rd, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 20 Gresham: Art and Aristocracy, Simon Thurley, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm SLS AGM: Whitgift String Quartet, led by Philip Winter, SURC, 8pm Thu 21 Gresham: Cruelty to Animals, Joanna Bourke, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Sun 24 Renown Film Club: Annual Festival of Film, the Alban Arena, Civic Centre, St Albans, 10am-7pm Mon 25 Gresham: Deep Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Conan Doyle: the South Norwood Years, Bernard Winchester, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 26 TASS: Great Lengths, Simon Inglis, SURC, 10.30am Gresham: Shostakovich, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm APRU: Lucid Dreaming, Dr Josie Malinowski, Goldsmith's, 6.10pm SMLS: Sweet Harmony, St Mildred's Centre, 30 Bingham Road, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 27 Gresham: Infections of Abdominal Organs, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 28 FOHM: A Trip Around South-East England by Train, John Parkin, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm

April Mon 1 CPDS: Visitors Debate, Old Coulsdon Centre, 7.30pm Tue 2 Gresham: Political Spending on the Internet, Lori Ringhand, Museum of London, 1pm Wed 3 TASCd: Art, Design and Suffragettes, Vivienne Lawes, Banstead Community Hall, 10am GSitP: Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side, Julia Shaw, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 4 Gresham: Spiritual Quest Against Religion, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm Fri 5 AS: The Mesmerist: How Hypnotism Came to Victorian London, Wendy Moore, 8pm Sun 7 CNHSS: Happy Valley & Devilsden Wood Spring Flowers, McLauchlin/Jennings, Fox car park, 2pm Mon 8 Gresham: New Wave British Cinema 1960s, Ian Christie, Museum of London, 6pm BBHA: Visit to Stationers' Hall, 3pm PBE Churchill Theatre: Rumours of Fleetwood Mac - Anniversary Tour, Bromley, 8pm Tue 9 Gresham: Dying in Today's World, Baroness Finlay, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: AI and Education, Rose Luckin, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 10 Gresham: Environment of Tudor London, Carolyn Roberts, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: The Grand Theatre and its Place in Croydon, Carole Roberts, ECURC, 7.45pm Thu 11 BBHA: Henry VI and the Origins of the Wars of the Roses, Dr James Ross, Christ Ch Hall, 8pm Sat 13 MHS: History of Sutton Villages, John Phillips, St James’ Church Hall, Merton, 2.30pm Thu 16 Gresham: Text Mining, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm SMLS: Annual General Meeting, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 17 Gresham: Mining Volcanoes, Stephen Sparks, Museum of London, 6pm CNHSS: Entomology Members' Evening, Beginners Room, ECURC, 7.45pm Sat 20 CNHSS: Keats House, Rob Shakespeare, Oxfam opposite Hampstead Tube, 2pm Sun 21 Easter Sunday Tue 23 TASS: The Age of Jazz, Sandy Burnett, SURC, 10.30am Wed 24 Gresham: Does Finance Benefit Society? Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 25 Gresham: Meaning and Human Life, Richard Burridge, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm BBHA: Annual Dinner at Zi Teresa, 7 for 7.30pm FOHM: The History of Ordnance Survey, John Dancy, Honeywood Museum, 7.30pm CNHSS AGM: Presidential Address, John Hickman, David Sweet Hall, ECURC, 7.45pm Sat 27 Dracula Society AGM: The Mesmerist, Wendy Moore, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Mon 29 CNHSS: Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather, Tessa Boase, ECURC, 7.45pm Tue 30 Gresham: 500 Years of Mathematics, Chris Budd, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Pollution and Health, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm

May Wed 1 TASCd: The Rock 'n Roll Era: Pop Art & Swinging Sixties, Valerie Woodgate, Banstead Hall, 10am Gresham: Leonardo's Salvator Mundi, Martin Kemp, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: Circular Reasoning: The Rise Of Flat Earth Belief, Michael Marshall, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 2 Gresham: Children and Medical Treatment, Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Tue 7 Gresham: The Accompanist, Graham Johnson, Mercers' Hall, 6pm Wed 8 Gresham: Gresham's Exchange, Stephen Alford, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 9 Gresham: The Abolition of God, Alec Ryrie, Museum of London, 6pm BBHA: Transports of Delight? Passenger Experience of Yesteryear, Peter Enser, Christ C Hall, 8pm Sat 11 BBHA: A Stroll in Royal Greenwich, Kate Boyle, 11am ESFH: Members' Meeting, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Mon 13 Gresham: Digital Listening, Tom Service, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 14 Gresham: Danger Ahead With AI? Yorick Wilks, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: John Keats and his Friends, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 15 Gresham: In Touch with Patients, Roger Kneebone, Museum of London, 6pm Mon 20 Gresham: Origin of Life, Nick Lane, Museum of London, 6pm Tue 21 Gresham: Prokofiev, Marina Frolova-Walker, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Earth from Space, Jacqueline McGlade, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 22 Gresham: The Limits of our Knowledge, Joseph Silk, Museum of London, 1pm Gresham: Infections as We Age, Chris Whitty, Museum of London, 6pm Sun 26 (to 1) Dracula Society: Nosferatu trip to Hamburg and Berlin Tue 28 Gresham: Creativity and Computers, Richard Harvey, Museum of London, 6pm Wed 29 Gresham: Maths gets Messy (LMS), Helen Wilson, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 30 Gresham: Aristotle's Lyceum, Edith Hall, Barnard's Inn Hall, 1pm

June Tue 4 Gresham: Treaty of Versailles, Margaret MacMillan, Museum of London18, 6pm Wed 5 TASCd: Captain Cook and the Enlightenment, Peter Warwick, Banstead Community Hall, 10am Gresham: Mergers and Acquisitions, Alex Edmans, Museum of London, 6pm GSitP: Pseudoscience in Veterinary Practice, Dr Danny Chambers, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Thu 6 Gresham: Wellbeing at the Bar? Jo Delahunty, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm Sat 8 Dracula Society: TBA, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm Tue 11 Gresham: Byron and the Age of Sensation, Jonathan Bate, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 13 Gresham: Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019 Guildhall, John Guy, Old Library, 6pm BBHA: The Secret Diaries of William Wilberforce, Professor John Coffey, Christ Church Hall, 8pm Sat 15 BBHA: All-day Coach Outing to Rochester, etc, 8.45am PBE Tue 18 Gresham: Weimar Republic, Richard Evans, Museum of London, 6pm Thu 20 Gresham: The Gray's Inn Reading, Barnard's Inn Hall, 6pm

July Tue 2 SMLS: Summer Social, St Mildred's Centre, Addiscombe, 8pm Wed 3 GSitP: Maths, Murder and Malaria, Dr Steven Le Comber, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Sat 13 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Wed 24 GSitP: The Politics of American Conspiracy Theories, Prof Joe Uscinski, Star & Garter, 7.30pm

August

September Wed 4 GSitP: Cancer Cures - Are We Nearly There Yet? Dr Alice Howarth, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Sat 14 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm Thu 19 BBHA AGM: Charlemagne, Dame Janet Nelson, Christ Church Hall, 7.30pm

October Wed 2 Oct GSitP: Witchcraft and the Law in England, Deborah Hyde, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Sat 5 (or 12) Dracula Society: TBA, Rugby Tavern, 6.30pm

November Wed 6 GSitP: The Truth About Fat, Anthony Warner, Star & Garter, 7.30pm Sat 9 ESFH: TBA, Vestry House, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, 2.30pm

December Wed 4 Dec GSitP: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories, Dr Dan Jolley, Star & Garter, 7.30pm