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Summer's hot events in London
By Natasha Polyviou

Posted: Tue Jun 9 2009
A little forward-planning pays dividends when big attractions are on the horizon. Make sure you're at the front of the queue with Time Out's guide to the events you should be booking tickets for now

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To book tickets, go to our music and theatre ticket sites, or go to the Time Out ticket shop.
- Horrible Histories: Terrible Trenches Exhibition
  
  Until Oct 31 2010, Imperial War Museum
  
  Based on ‘The Trenches Handbook’, one of the books in Terry Deary’s popular ‘Horrible Histories’ series, this family exhibition at the Imperial War Museum will employ the same irreverent tone to explain how soldiers dealt with fierce flies, lovely lice, gruesome gas, sickness and sores. It will show, too, how war made people tell lies and how enemy soldiers stopped fighting and abandoned their trenches to engage in a friendly football match. Multisensory interactivities will be much in evidence with opportunities to wake up and smell the stench, disguise yourself as a tree or peer through a periscope into a no man’s land specially drawn for the exhibition, by Horrible Histories artist Martin Brown. Age 8-12. Read more
- Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
  
  Until Jan 24 2010, British Museum
  
  For the fourth in its series of major exhibitions dedicated to great rulers, the BM focuses on the last elected Aztec Emperor, Moctezuma II, who reigned between 1502 and 1520 and consolidated control over a politically complex empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. Regarded as semi-divine by his subjects, Moctezuma was also a battle-hardened general who built a new palace and reinstated the court. However, the arrival of the Spanish during his reign signalled the collapse of the native world order and the imposition of a new civilization that eventually became modern Mexico. Exhibits include works commissioned, by Moctezuma, including the stone monument 'Teocalli of Sacred Warfare', a turquoise and gold mask, and paintings detailing the Spanish conquest. Read more
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