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Creative Writing Workshop for Children

Sunday 16 August, 2pm-3pm. Summer Holiday Fun at Dr Johnson's House! Creative Writing Workshop for 5-12 year olds. Free with Admission.

A close-up of a polished wooden table set for a celebration with two ornate brass candelabras holding lit taper candles, and four glasses of sparkling wine. At the center of the table is a champagne bottle draped in an embroidered cloth featuring a historical design and the words "Tetty." Framed portraits hang on the pale green walls in the background, adding to the elegant and historical setting.

Museum Lates at Dr Johnson's House

Thursday 20 August, 5.30pm - 7pm. £14 / 2 FOR £22. Enjoy sparkling drinks and discover one of London's best-kept secrets!

The painting shows the occasion when, during their trip to the Hebrides, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell met the Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald.

An Introduction to 18th Century Costume

Tuesday 25 August, 12.30 - 1.45pm. £3.96 (booking required). A brief outline of the essential features of 18th-century costume, much as Dr Johnson would have known and seen worn around London

Dr Johnson's House - Walk & Visit

Wednesday 26 August, 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.

The Bluestockings - Sunday Talk

Sunday 30 August. 2pm. Free with admission. Hear a talk about first woman’s movement, the Bluestocking Society.

Dr Johnson's House - Walk & Visit

Wednesday 16 September, 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.

Illustration of Mary Wollstonecraft on a boat with a child in her arms.

Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

Thursday 17 September, 6.30pm - 8pm. £27.50. A new graphic biography of the legendary 18th-century feminist philosopher who spoke for the other 'one-half of the human race': womankind.

Museum Lates at Dr Johnson's House

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

A handmade greeting card featuring a circular collage of vintage sheet music decorated with dried flowers and greenery, placed on a wooden table alongside envelopes, old book pages, leaves, and a pair of gold-handled scissors.

Craft Afternoon at Dr Johnson's House

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

The Life and Exploits of ‘Faithful Servant Frank'

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).

A flat-lay arrangement on pale textured paper showing a white quill pen dipped in black ink, an open ink bottle with ink splashes, and a small purple flower with green leaves beside folded writing paper.

Letter Writing Sunday at Dr Johnson's House

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.

A House for Miss Pauline: Diana McCaulay & Sara Collins in Conversation

Thursday 8 October, 6.30 - 8pm. £27.50 / 2 for £47. 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.

HOAX: Truth & Lies in the Age of Enlightenment

Thursday 22 October, 6.30pm-8pm. £27.50. A ghost. A witch. A princess. Madeleine Pelling's spellbinding history unpicks the stories of three incredible 18th-century hoaxes.

Amorous or Loving?: The Highly Peculiar Tale of English and the English

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?