Film, Art and History Matters

Only a few tickets left! Buy yours ASAP on Eventbrite. Silent early Hitchcock film with introduction and live musical accompaniment.

A screening of Hitchcock’s classic The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. Against the backdrop of foggy 1920s London this film tells the story of a hunt for a serial killer.

Please book your own £10 ticket (plus £2 attendance fee):
https://www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/film-screening-the-lodger

Each ticket includes popcorn and a drink (soft drink or wine).

The evening features an historical introduction from The London Archives.

Silent film pianist Ashley Valentine will bring the film to life by improvising a live score on the night.

https://www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/film-screening-the-lodger

A history talk! I don't often come across History events that I can schedule in this group.

"This talk explores the story Britain's first female police force and the astonishing journey of the bold, complex women who founded it.

The speaker Sandra Hempel is a former Times journalist."

I booked five tickets, please pay me the attendance fee of £3 when we meet. It will go towards site costs.

I would like to set off quickly from the tube station meeting point. The room in the archives is not very big and bound to fill up quickly. I want to avoid us having to squeeze into single seats here and there.

The National Archives in Kew are open until 7pm on Tuesdays. I think an hour is enough time to look at this exhibition, we can then go for a quick drink at the pub at Kew station. Come and join me!

We can meet from 17:30 at Kew Gardens station and walk there together, or inside the exhibition so we can use our time well.
I have to say I wonder what kind of potentially offensive language could be in love letters, it seems very odd?
This exhibition closes 12 April.

"Across time, people have sought connection in countless ways. From heartfelt declarations and calculated proposals to anonymous and desperate love songs.
Love Letters, a free exhibition at The National Archives in Kew, features correspondence that spans over 500 years of devotion, longing, sacrifice, heartache, and passion.
Covering royalty and parliamentarians, literary icons and unknown scribes, Love Letters opens the envelope on the stories behind the documents and the consequences of their being, from eternal blessing to execution.
This revealing exhibition also features declarations of love in other forms, including poems and drawings, official memorials and wills.
Encompassing forbidden relationships and family members separated by distance and circumstance, Love Letters offers a rare glimpse into personal emotions captured in a government collection – tender, intimate and deeply human.

Please note: The ideas and terms contained in the records that appear in this exhibition reflect the attitudes and language of their authors and the period in which the records were created. Some would now be considered offensive."