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The fantasy author will be making a rare London appearance in October.

Is it time for porn to be rehabilitated? Cabaret star Ophelia Bitz certainly thinks so.

The ghost of Henry Wellcome revisits Willesden tonight.

Dump that preconception of Miss Jones poncing about with Rigsby in Rising Damp. Done? OK. Now you might be in the frame of mind to appreciate Frances de la Tour, theatre actress tour de force. Currently appearing in Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art, back …

Oh dear. There we were, all excited by a Women in History talk in Putney next week, when we got news that Waterstones had cancelled. And more fool them, because we saw a similar line-up in Kensington the other week and it was smashing. Anyway, …

Suburbia has settled into Covent Garden good and proper and tonight, Research Fellow Oliver Green is giving a talk on how the the capital was transformed by the tube. Think modernity in Morden, home comforts in Hendon and a spaceship in Southgate. Oliver will examine …

By J_I_M__D Fans of the ‘orrible and all things mired in historic gore, get along to the Old Operating Theatre this Saturday for a talk about the practice of medicine in the American colonies and compared to London during the same era. Historian and author …

Have lunch al fresco, not al desko…. Lunch Hour by Simon-K. One of the winners of Slow Exposure. Now the initial excitement of Slow Exposure is past, it’s time to get gradually interested in Slow Down London’s programme of events of which our marvellous exhibition …

Ian Muttoo Like the Metro, the British Library’s red brick building on Euston Road is unbelievably 10 years old. But it was designed to last at least 150 years – that’s a hell of a job of future proofing the national home of the printed …

There’s a whole section of the London Transport Museum dedicated to how the development of the tube lines contributed to the explosion of suburbia in the early 20th century and how Tube poster art became a way of selling the suburbs to commuters as plum …