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Current and future events7.00pm Thursday 8 May: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) London City lecture Simon Foxell on "Mapping London" at Chartered Accountants Hall at One Moorgate Place, EC2R 6EA. All London Topographical Society members are welcome. Non-members are also invited but should contact j.wells@rgs.org to be put on the door list. Doors open and a bar available from 6.00pm. For more information, please visit www.rgs.org/whatson Lectures by LTS Council members at the London Map Fair, 7-8 June 2008 Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 (Entrance from Exhibition Road) 2.30pm on Saturday 7 June Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, British Library: "Fixing the Image: The Mapping of London 297-1900" 2.30pm on Sunday 8 June Laurence Worms, Ash Rare Books and The London Rare Books School: "Fixing the Map Trade: The London of the 18th Century London Mapmakers" Entrance to the lectures is included in the admission price to the fair, but we understand that seating is on a first-come basis. More information about the London Map Fair is available on www.londonmapfairs.com London Open House Days: Weekend of 20 and 21 September 2008. As always, the hugely-popular Open House days will give an opportunity to see inside interesting buildings all over London which are not normally open to the public. In addition, many famous public buildings for which there is an entry charge are free on these days. More information about Open House days is available at their website www.londonopenhouse.org London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Lectures All lectures are on Thursdays evenings at 6.30 pm in the Terrace Room, Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2. Refreshments from 6.00 pm. Admission is free, all are welcome. More information about LAMAS lectures and conferences is available on www.lamas.org.uk Event organisers - please send details of other relevant events (with web address if available) to the Society at 36 Old Deer Park Gardens, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2TL - or email the hon secretary - and we will put them on this page. |