30/10/2026
📅 What’s On This November at The London Archives?
From fascinating talks and hands-on workshops to book groups and hidden histories, discover what’s coming up this November.
Swipe through to explore our upcoming events and find something for you! 📚✨
Follow the link in our bio to our Eventbrite page to book your tickets!
🔎 How dangerous was Victorian London?
From the pickpockets and thieves of Oliver Twist to the harsh realities of poverty and the workhouse, Charles Dickens brought the darker side of Victorian life to the page. But how much of his fiction reflected reality?
Join Patrick Voss as he explores the real conditions behind Dickens’s stories, uncovering the crime, exploitation and urban poverty that shaped life in the world’s largest city.
📚 Discover the history behind the fiction with The London Archives.
📍The London Archives
🗓️Saturday 7 November
🕣3pm
☕ From Frost Fair to flat white: the story of London’s coffee culture!
Did you know London’s coffee culture dates to the 17th century? From coffee sellers on the frozen River Thames to the speciality cafés of today, coffee has played a fascinating role in the city’s social and commercial life.
Discover how London’s earliest coffeehouses became hubs for news, politics, science, and finance, and explore how entrepreneurs, innovation and changing tastes have shaped the coffee trade over nearly four centuries.
📜 Join us as we uncover the history behind your daily flat white and discover why London’s coffeehouses have always been about more than just coffee.
📍The London Archives
🗓️Monday 9 November
🕣12.30pm
📚 Discover Sour Sweet with The London Archives Book Group!
Step into 1960s Chinatown with Timothy Mo’s acclaimed novel Sour Sweet, published in 1982. Follow the Chen family as they settle in London from Hong Kong, build a restaurant business, and navigate the complex world of Chinatown’s close-knit community and underground gangs.
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