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Suffragette City: an immersive new pop-up comes to Piccadilly Circus

The folk behind last year’s Caravan Club in Covent Garden are back with another ground-breaking project

Film & Theatre

MUST DO: BFI Flare Film Festival

One of the longest running LGBTQ+ events in the world is back with a killer schedule of new, recent and classic films

History

Can you unearth a hundred stories over the last century?

We meet Story Palace, the team of social historians documenting life in King’s Cross through the tales of its residents

Art

Of course you want to make your pet famous

Fancy treating the pooch to a live pop-up photo booth? Head to Aria in Barnsbury tomorrow

Film & Theatre

Pauline Quirke is coming to the Pentonville Road

The Poor School’s performing arts legacy will continue in King’s Cross with a new academy spearheaded by the telly favourite

Art

Photography on the Margins is coming to the Barbican

An unmissable new show celebrates the historic relationship between photographers and people on the peripheries

Film & Theatre

MUST DO: Resolution Dance Festival, The Place

If your New Year’s resolution was to try something 100% new, track down this creative powerhouse tucked away in King’s Cross

Film & Theatre

MUST DO: Lady Windermere’s Fan, the Poor School

Don’t miss the Oscar Wilde classic at the final curtain call of the legendary King’s Cross venue

Art

A beginner’s guide to Lumiere London 2018

The illuminating second edition sweeps into King’s Cross and elsewhere in central London this week

Peter Whitfield London: A Life in Maps
Books

The rise and rise of the unfashionable ‘burbs

A new book by Peter Whitfield examines maps from the last few centuries – and, in this extract, the rise of Holloway’s ‘uneasy’ suburbia