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Summer's best free festivals
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Crystal Palace Park Fireworks
Crystal Palace Park Fireworks
Fireworks display in Crystal Palace Park, south London
Bloomsbury Festival
Bloomsbury Festival
It might be nearly a century since the Bloomsbury Set were gallivanting around WC1 but the area still packs plenty of creative heft, as demonstrated by the...
Battersea Park Fireworks
Battersea Park Fireworks
Wandsworth Council’s annual display is back for 2021, doubling in size to become a two-nighter. Saturday November 6 is the regular fireworks and...
Diwali On Trafalgar Square
Diwali On Trafalgar Square
Around 35,000 people attend this massive annual celebration of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain festival of light in Trafalgar Square. It features loads of live...
Covent Garden Pumpkin Market
Covent Garden Pumpkin Market
If you can't make it to a pumpkin-picking farm but want to feel a bit more festive than a trip to Tesco's fruit and veg, get down to Covent...
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
Christmas family fun aplenty with a huge ice rink, two circuses, an observation wheel and the Magical Ice Kingdom, plus themed bars for the grown-ups
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British Museum
British Museum
One of the world's oldest museums, the British Museum is vast and its collections, only a fraction of which can be on public display at any one time, comprise...
Museum of London
Museum of London
The history of London, from prehistoric times to the present is told in the Museum of London through reconstructed interiors and street scenes, alongside...
Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre
This riverside titan of arts and entertainment has morphed and expanded in the past few years securing its position as one of the most attractive cultural...
British Library
British Library
The John Ritblat Gallery houses some of the most famous written and printed items in the world: the Lindisfarne Gospels, Shakespeare’s first Folio,...