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• Tickets Alert: Winter canal trips through the Islington tunnel

  19-11-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Winter trips through a long dark canal tunnel under Islington will resume next month, and tickets are on sale now.Run by the Canal Museum near King’s Cross, the tour is simple but wonderfully atmospheric – a trip from the museum in a narrowboat through the tunnel to the other end and back again.
  You embark at the museum, and then there’s a brief talk in the boat before heading out into the canal to go through the tunnel. The tours are for small groups, and there’s just ab
  
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• Archaeologists find prehistoric tools and lost Medieval Hall under Houses of Parliament

  19-11-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Archaeologists working at the Houses of Parliament have discovered evidence that human activity at the site could be older even than Stonehenge.
  The discovery, part of a three-year research project, uncovered evidence of human activity dating back nearly 6,000 years – over a millennium older than the earliest earthworks at Stonehenge. The find includes more than 60 struck flint flakes, including one worked tool, likely dating to the late Mesolithic or early Neolithic period (around 4300 BC
  
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• Lost for Decades: Alice in Wonderland illustrator’s heritage plaque rediscovered

  19-11-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An early “blue plaque” celebrating Sir John Tenniel, which was thought to have been destroyed when his house was rebuilt, has been rediscovered.
  (c) English Heritage
  Sir John Tenniel was an illustrator and political cartoonist, but is best known for illustrating the Alice in Wonderland books, and was the first person to be knighted for work as a cartoonist. He died in 1914, and in 1930, the London County Council (LCC) unveiled an early heritage plaque on his longtime home at 10 Rando
  
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• Nokia splits AI business into separate unit after $1bn Nvidia investment

  19-11-2025 13:22
  Split from telecoms operations comes as Finnish group pushes for growth from new technology
  
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• LT Museum’s new exhibition charts 100 years of Art Deco

  19-11-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris exhibition, where Art Deco originated, the exhibition is both a look at the poster designs and a celebration of the many women artists who created them.
  Over one hundred posters and artworks by design greats Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, and Jean Dupas have been pulled from the archives for display, many not seen in exhibitions for many ye
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: St Paul’s Churchyard, Covent Garden

  19-11-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Next to Covent Garden is another garden, a rather greener pocket park next to St Paul’s Church, lined with a large number of park benches.The church was built along with the rest of Covent Garden’s plaza as a development by the 4th Earl of Bedford, and although widely attributed to Inigo Jones, there is not much in the way of hard evidence proving the link.
  The sits alongside Covent Garden, and many people assume, not unreasonably, that it would be the main entrance. It’s said
  
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