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What
Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style
When
6 July to 5 September 2012, 11am–8pm daily (10pm Thurs)
Wonga
Admission £12 adults, £10 concessions, £8 under-16s.
Where
Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
The Fanfare | Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style
A new exhibition – Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style - opens in July 2012 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films.
What
Opening of Royal Scottish Geographical Society Visitor Centre in Perth
When
2 April to 31 October 2012
Wonga
Admission free but donations appreciated
Where
The Fair Maid’s House, North Port, Perth PH1 5LU
The Fanfare | Royal Scottish Geographical Society Visitor Centre Perth
A famous 15th-century building in Perth is re-opening to the public as a visitor centre and education space for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS).
What
Alice and Mad Hatter in Oxford - Alice’s Day and the Caucus Race
When
7 and 8 July 2012
Wonga
Most events will be free
Where
Locations in Oxford
The Fanfare: Alice and Mad Hatter in Oxford
The university city of Oxford is holding a special Alice Day and Caucus Race this summer to mark the 150th anniversary of the first telling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
What
Beautiful Blackwell Books Exhibition - Rossetti to Voysey: Arts & Crafts Stamped Book Cover Design
When
10 May to 15 July 2012
Wonga
Admission £7 adults, £4 children and students, family ticket £18
Where
Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria LA23 3JT
The Fanfare: Beautiful Blackwell Books Exhibition
One of Britain’s finest houses from the early 20th century is to hold a Beautiful Blackwell Books Exhibition of stamped book cover designs from the Arts & Crafts movement.
What
Port Eliot Festival
When
19 to 22 July 2012
Wonga
A weekend ticket including camping costs £150 adults, £75 children 8–15, under-8s free
Where
Port Eliot Estate, St Germans, Saltash, Cornwall PL12 5ND
The Fanfare: Port Eliot Festival 2012
The Port Eliot Festival is a relaxed celebration of books, music, films, fashion, food, flowers, nature, comedy, photography and wild swimming.
What
Globe to Globe World Shakespeare Festival
When
23 April to November 2012
Wonga
Ticket prices for the Globe to Globe productions start at £5 (standing) to £35, with £3 reductions on all seats for under-18s.
The Yard Olympian ticket offers every production for £100.
Where
Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London SE1 9DT
The Fanfare: Shakespeare Globe to Globe World Shakespeare Festival
On Shakespeare’s birthday, 23 April, the Globe Theatre in London will begin an unprecedented Globe to Globe programme of multilingual Shakespeare productions – every one of his plays, each performed in a different language.
What
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film review
When
Released in the UK in February 2012
Wonga
Ticket prices vary from cinema to cinema
Where
At cinemas UK wide
The Fanfare: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel film review
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (directed by John Madden and starring Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, and Tom Wilkinson) is part comedy, part drama, and part eulogy to the welfare state.
What
Record School Visits to Stratford Tudor History Museum
When
Year round attraction
Wonga
See the website link at the end of the article for detailed costs
Where
The Falstaff Experience Tudor World, Stratford Upon Avon
The Fanfare
The Falstaff Experience Tudor World museum in the heart of Stratford upon Avon was originally made famous by its reputation as one of England’s most haunted buildings.
What
A look at 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012
When
Events throughout 2012
Wonga
See the links provided for costs
Where
Throughout the UK
The Fanfare - 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012
As London prepares to pull out all of the stops as hosts of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, here are 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012.
What
55th London International Antiquarian Book Fair will
When
24–26 May 2012.
Where
National Hall, Olympia, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 8UX
The Fanfare
The 55th London International Antiquarian Book Fair will take place in May 2012, attracting booksellers from around the world.
What
New edition of 1000 Places To See Before You Die
When
Released February 2012
Where
Bookshops in the UK and online
The Fanfare
The international travel bestseller 1000 Places To See Before You Die is being re-released nearly a decade after it first hit the bookshelves and includes over 200 entries for Britain.
What
Falstaff Experience in Stratford upon Avon – Valentine events
When
February 2012
Where
Stratford upon Avon
The Fanfare
The Falstaff Experience in Stratford upon Avon, one England’s most romantic towns has several ways for you to create a special memory that will leave you with enough change for a romantic meal this Valentine’s Day.
What
The Descendants film review
When
January 2012
Where
At cinemas UK wide
The Review
Just released in the UK, The Descendants – directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney – is a film in which the title and the plot have only a passing interest in each other (…)
Eddie Redmayne and Clémence Poésy star as the passionate young lovers Stephen and Isabelle, brought together by love and torn apart by the First World War, in BBC One’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ modern classic, Birdsong.
A unique artistic collaboration (Other Worlds – Story Museum in Oxford) will turn a dilapidated building in Oxford into a giant compendium of strange, amusing and haunting stories in May this year.
In 2012, the world’s longest-running stage production – The Mousetrap – will celebrate its 60th consecutive year in London’s West End.
Coastal Wales is the greatest region on Earth to visit next year. This is the verdict of Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2012, the seventh annual collection of the best places to go and things to do around the world for the year ahead.
The Museum of London plans to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens with the first major UK exhibition on the author for over 40 years.
Brought to you by the bank built on conversation with its customers, the first direct
As well as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Britain plays host to a number of landmark events in 2012; including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Compton Verney art gallery in Warwickshire is to hold two new exhibitions – one of paintings and drawings by illustrator Quentin Blake,and the other a celebration of fireworks.
A Dickens Christmas market will take place in the grounds of Rochester Castle over four weekends this winter.
No plans for the August Bank Holiday? Here are a few ideas to get you out and about across South East England.
Murder mystery returns to the English Riviera next month with the spectacular annual celebration of the world’s greatest crime fiction writer, Agatha Christie.
Fans of mystery and intrigue are invited to join Ruth Rendell and PD James for a Read for RNIB Literary Reception at one of London’s hottest venues The Ivy, 6 October 2011.
The Halkin Hotel in London is celebrating its 20th birthday with special anniversary events this September.
Some of the finest British fashion and lifestyle brands will be taking part in The Art of Being British: St James’s At Your Service, on Saturday 10 September 2011 in Jermyn Street, London.
Asia House in central London is to hold a George Chinnery painting and drawing exhibition. The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery (1774–1852) An English Artist in India and China will include around 100 works including landscapes and portraits in oils and watercolour.
You will never again get the chance to attend the opening-night screening of the final Harry Potter film – Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 – but I did. Here in this Pensieve, you can take a look at the memory of that night.
English Heritage has charted the evolution of Dartmoor’s rich archaeology and stunning landscape over millennia in a new book, Field Archaeology of Dartmoor, that emphasises the human activities that have shaped the landscape.
JK Rowling today, Thursday 23rd June, answered mounting speculation about the nature of her new project and announced Pottermore, a unique and free-to-use website which builds an exciting online experience around the reading of her hugely successful Harry Potter books, and is partnered by Sony.
The announcement today was heralded by the revealing of the [...]
A new book reveals how WG Grace crossed the line first in the original London Games in 1866
Cricketer W.G.Grace won the 440 yards hurdles, in the forerunner of the modern Olympic Games in London, in 1866.
This is just one of several incredible facts unearthed by author Catherine Beale who has written the definitive [...]
A new book on the post war city (Plymouth: Vision of a Modern City) has been published by English Heritage. English Heritage is calling for Plymouth’s centre to be designated a conservation area.
Kevin McCloud launched the new book Plymouth: Vision of a Modern City, published by English Heritage. The book challenges some deeply held [...]
A ground-breaking scientific dating project led by English Heritage and Cardiff University has succeeded in dating prehistoric features down to a margin of decades instead of centuries. By applying this method to a type of early Neolithic earthwork called causewayed enclosures, it has revealed that Britain experienced a frenetic period of monument building in the [...]
A former Norwegian Sailors Church Cardiff Bay has been refurbished and can now host small conferences, meetings and corporate hospitality.
The church is a distinctive wooden building on the waterfront at Cardiff Bay.
It was built in Cardiff’s West Bute Dock in 1868 to provide religious and social care to Norwegian merchant sailors, but [...]
Chichester Festival Theatre’s hit production of George Bernard Shaw’s best-known play comes to The Garrick Theatre from mid-May with Rupert Everett reprising the role of Professor Higgins, joined by EastEnders star and Strictly Come Dancing winner Kara Tointon making her West End debut as Eliza Dolittle.
In Pygmalion, the egocentric Professor of Phonetics Henry [...]
One of the best ways to see Britain is to get on your bike… no queues, no petrol, no parking space required – just good honest pedal power. Matt Carroll, author of Escape Routes, picks 10 of his favourite rides…
(1) Tavistock to Horndon
14 miles approx
Bedding down in a train station ticket office [...]
Derby will be at the centre of the Sci-Fi universe on June 25 and 26, when it once again plays host to the Alt.Fiction Literature Festival.
Guests of honour will be best-selling science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds, and acclaimed comic book writer and novelist Dan Abnett.
The Alt.Fiction Literature Festival returns to QUAD, in Derby, [...]
An evening with widely acclaimed authors, book valuations from local auctioneers, poetry workshops for children and advice on how to conserve your books – these are just a few of the events taking place at Felbrigg Hall’s (in Norfolk) first ever Book Week.
From Monday 16 to Sunday 22 May, Felbrigg Book Week [...]
The writer Graham Greene (1904 – 1991) is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at 14 Clapham Common North Side, London; his home from 1935 to 1940 and where he wrote his masterly novel Brighton Rock. The plaque will be unveiled by his daughter Caroline Bourget at 11am on 1 April and [...]
Celebrating Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The wildest landscapes and most endangered species will be showcased in Bath in April with an exciting new outdoor touring exhibition, developed by the Natural History Museum, London. Taking place from 6 April – 23 September at Kingston Parade and Union Street, Bath Wild Planet will be free for [...]
Stourhead, in Wiltshire, is a National Trust estate consisting of a modest country house and a renowned landscaped garden, designed around a number of themed classical picturesque vistas.
The National Trust website describes the garden:
“A short stroll from Stourhead House, lying in secluded privacy in the adjacent valley, is one of [...]
Cartoon capers in Shrewsbury next month will celebrate Shropshire’s role in the heritage of the Olympic games as the 2011 Cartoon Festival goes for gold!
England’s top Tudor town will once again play host to cartoonists from the UK and overseas who will turn Shrewsbury in to a giant ‘art studio’ – and this year [...]
Visitors to The English Riviera in Devon can uncover even more ways to follow in the footsteps of the world’s greatest crime fiction writer, Dame Agatha Christie, with a number of new iniatives launched by the new English Riviera Tourism Company for 2011.
Fans of the famous author – as well as her two best-known [...]
When one of the UK’s biggest Easter egg hunts launches in England’s Lake District on 21 April, a parallel Easter egg search will also start in Tokyo, Japan.
For the annual Great Peter Rabbit Easter Egg Hunt in England, 100 handcrafted ceramic eggs will be hidden in places all over the county of [...]
Castles and palaces are what overseas travellers want to see most when they come to Britain, according to a new VisitBritain report.
More than 10,000 foreign tourists were given a list of 18 things that can only be done in Britain – and asked to pick the ones they’d like to do most.
The top [...]
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