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Thursday 24 September, 5.30pm - 7pm. £14 / 2 For £22. Enjoy sparkling drinks and discover one of London's best-kept secrets!

Sunday 27 September. 12pm - 4pm. Free with admission. Try your hand at collage, using a beautiful selection of dried flowers and vintage papers.

Tuesday 29 September, 12.30 - 1.45pm. £3.96 (booking required). 'Faithful Frank' lived just off Fleet Street. He is better known as Francis Barber, servant, friend and heir of Samuel Johnson, the creator of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755).

Sunday 4 October. 12pm - 4pm. Free with admission. Try your hand at letter writing in the historic home of Dr Johnson in the heart of the Fleet Street Quarter.

Thursday 8 October, 6.30pm - 8pm. £23 / 2 for £40. We are thrilled to welcome 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize winner Diana McCaulay for a conversation on her brilliant new novel, A House for Miss Pauline.

Wednesday 14 October, 1pm - 3pm. £20. Take a fascinating walk through the heart of literary London and visit the home of its most famous resident writer, Dr Samuel Johnson.

Thursday 22 October, 6.30pm-8pm. £23 / 2 for £40. A ghost. A witch. A princess. Madeleine Pelling's spellbinding history unpicks the stories of three incredible 18th-century hoaxes.

Tuesday 27 October, 12.30 - 2pm. £3.96 (booking required). 'Faithful Frank' lived just off Fleet Street. He is better known as Francis Barber, servant, friend and heir of Samuel Johnson, the creator of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755).

Thursday 29 October, 5.30pm - 7pm. £14 / 2 For £22. Enjoy sparkling drinks and discover one of London's best-kept secrets!

Wednesday 11 November. 1pm - 3pm. £20. Take a fascinating walk through the heart of literary London and visit the festively decorated home of Dr Samuel Johnson.

Thursday 19 November, 5.30pm - 7pm. £14/£22 for 2. Step Back in Time this Christmas! Celebrate the magic of Christmas at Dr Johnson’s enchanting historic house!

Thursday 3 December, 5.30pm - 7pm. £14/£22 for 2. Step Back in Time this Christmas! Celebrate the magic of Christmas at Dr Johnson’s enchanting historic house!

Wednesday 9 December. 1pm - 3pm. £20. Take a fascinating walk through the heart of literary London and visit the festively decorated home of Dr Samuel Johnson.

Tuesday 15 Dec, 5.30pm - 7pm. £14/£22 for 2. Step Back in Time this Christmas! Celebrate the magic of Christmas at Dr Johnson’s enchanting historic house!

Wednesday 27 January 2027, 6.30pm - 8pm. £27.50. How did a marginal dialect spoken in the late 9th century by 200,000 people become the world’s lingua franca?