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

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 22 October, 6.30pm-8pm. £20 / 2 for £35. A ghost. A witch. A princess. Madeleine Pelling's spellbinding history unpicks the stories of three incredible 18th-century hoaxes.

Tuesday 20 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).

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 8 October, 6.30pm - 8pm. £20 / 2 for £35. 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thursday 17 September, 6.30pm - 8pm. £23/2 For £40. A new graphic biography of the legendary 18th-century feminist philosopher who spoke for the other 'one-half of the human race': womankind.

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

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.

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

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

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

Wednesday 12 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.

Wednesday 29 July, 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.

Tuesday 28 July, 12.30 - 1.45pm. £3.96 (booking required). Medicine, but not as we know it, in the 18th century with Sheelagh James