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• Tickets Alert: Animal Dissection Live!

  13-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Trigger warnings and squeamish alerts…
  Sometimes there’s a chance to see or experience something you probably never thought you would want to – and in April, the dissection of a dead lion will take place in public.
  The original Golden Syrup logo is a dead lion surrounded by bees
  Hosted at the Royal Institution, the lion, which died of old age and was then donated to science, will be dissected to demonstrate how animal biology works. Medical and veterinary students will be used
  
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• The City of London adds its 114th Livery Company — and it’s for HR

  13-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The City of London’s list of ancient and modern Livery companies has got a bit longer, as the Court of Aldermen has approved a new applicant.
  The Aldermen’s Court Room (c) ianVisits
  The City of London’s Livery Companies trace their origins to medieval guilds, acting as both regulators of their trades and, in the centuries before the modern welfare state, as social care services.
  Some are ancient, with origins in the earliest trades, such as ironmongery, swordmaking, brewing bee
  
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• We’ll Meet Again – in the Museum: Dame Vera Lynn’s letters to be displayed at IWM

  13-02-2026 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Some of the archive belonging to the “Forces’ Sweetheart”, Dame Vera Lynn, will go on display at the Imperial War Museum this Spring after it was donated to the museum by Dame Vera’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones.
  Some of the archive (c) IWM
  The Imperial War Museums will preserve the personal archive of the woman whose voice promised, “We’ll meet again,” to a generation living through war.
  Born Vera Margaret Welch in East Ham in 1917, Lynn became known
  
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• Shop windows tell the story of London’s revolutionary illustrated newspapers

  13-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A corner shop in central London has recently been turned into an exhibition space, and is currently exploring the history of 19th-century printers who worked in the area.Printing on the Strand in the 18th century was a major hub of London’s popular print culture, characterised by vibrant publishing activity that wasn’t constrained by rules affecting printers within the City of London.
  Key sites included Bear Yard, near present-day King’s College London, which hosted significant
  
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