The Chelsea Heritage Quarter, home of the Chelsea History Festival. Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 September 2025 #ChelseaHistoryFest
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Did you make it to Chelsea History Festival?🎉
We had a packed programme of informative talks, exciting theatre and fantastic music, not to mention some unexpected encounters with figures from history!
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It's spooky season at Chelsea Heritage Quarter!👻
Build a beastly bog garden, learn to make a witch's hat, carve pumpkins and hear Halloween tales from the enchanted garden🥀🎃
There are lots of festive activities to get involved in!
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It's spooky season at Chelsea Heritage Quarter!👻
Immerse yourself in folklore, witchery and ghost stories at Chelsea Physic Garden🥀🎃
There are lots of festive activities to get involved in, if you're brave enough...
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We met an Anglo-Saxon at Chelsea History Festival, who told us all about her life as a storyteller, spreading Christianity under the reign of King Alfred the Great...👑
Did you catch any of the characters wandering around Soane Stable Yard?
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Come and experience living history in Soane Stable Yard, as costumed reenactors bring Chelsea's past to life... ✨
🗓️ Saturday and Sunday, 3rd and 4th October, 11am - 3pm
📍 Soane Stable Yard
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Join the Chapel Choir of the @RHChelsea for a celebration of one of Britain’s greatest composers, as part of the Elgar Society’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
📅2 October
🕖7pm–8.45pm
📍Wren Chapel, Royal Hospital Chelsea
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Here are some performances not to miss at this year’s Chelsea History Festival, taking place from 1–4 October… 🎭🎶
🔴Life and Poetry with Chelsea Pensioner Roy Palmer
🔵 Mudra and Music
🟡 The Last Bantam with Michael Hughes
🔗Find all events: zurl.co/1i2lD
John Simpson, Guest Curator of Chelsea History Festival, shares his top picks for the festival...
🔗Find tickets to all these and more on our website, linked in our bio!
@JohnSimpsonNews #chelseaheritagequarter #chelseahistory #thingstodoinlondon #chelseahistoryfest
Did you know? British designer Vivienne Westwood's store on the King's Road was the hub of punk fashion throughout the 70s...🧷💥
The store is still there, marked by its wonderfully anarchic backwards clock⏰😵💫
🎟️Chelsea History Festival tickets: zurl.co/sBj6z
Ever wondered what life is like on the front line? 🪖
Rosie Kay’s acclaimed 5 SOLDIERS returns, reimagined for the screen as a powerful new dance documentary. 💪
🗓️Saturday 3 Oct, 4pm–5.30pm
📍Chelsea Theatre
🎟️£25
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The Chelsea History Festival is almost here! Here are some highlights:
🎶The Choral Music of Edward Elgar
🎨 Artists of Chelsea
📜 Debunking the Myths of 1066
🪖 History of Chelsea in Four Objects
💍 Hidden Treasures Tour
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Did you know, Mary I and Elizabeth I both worshipped at Chelsea Old Church?
@JohnSimpsonNews talks about how history is everywhere in #Chelsea.
🎉Chelsea History Festival
🗓️ Thursday 1 - Sunday 4 October
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✨Highlights in our newsletter this month:
🍃 @ChelsPhysicGdn opens its gates free of charge
✏️ Get creative with Sketching Like Sarrut at @NAM_London
🎨 Family workshops at the @RHChelsea
🗓️3 & 4 October
⏰10am–5pm
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Find out how the River Thames has shaped the history and people of Chelsea at on our walking tour: Chelsea and the River🌊
🗓️Saturday 3 Oct 2026, 11am
📍@NAM_London (starting point)
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It's back-to-school season and there are loads of fun, educational events for kids at Chelsea History Festival, including craft workshops, artefact handling, story walks and living history reenactors!✏️
🗓️Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October
🎟️Tickets: zurl.co/IdaTG
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I’m asking for your help.
5 SOLDIERS is a film about the soldier’s body: training, fear, courage, injury, recovery, comradeship and the return home.
We have two major screenings coming up:
HEREFORD
27 Sept, 2.30pm
with Andrew Fox
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CHELSEA
3 Oct, 4pm
with General Sir Nick Parker
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Please come, bring someone and share.
If you met a real life Suffragette or a walking Roman Centurion, what would you ask them? Step back in time as a vibrant cast of reenactors brings Chelsea’s extraordinary past to life.
🗓️3 and 4 October, 11am - 3pm
📍Soane Stable Yard Courtyard
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All Chelsea Heritage Quarter venues are free to visit during @OpenCity_UK Festival!
Take a guided tour of the @RHChelsea with a Chelsea Pensioner, go behind the scenes at @NAM_London, and drop into @ChelsPhysicGdn.
🔗 🗓️12-13 September 2026
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Join the award-winning, bestselling historian, Andrew Roberts, for the story of Napoleon and the elite generals who built him up and ultimately led to his ruin.
📍National Army Museum (@NAM_London)
🗓️4 October, 6-7pm
🎟️£20.00
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Elizabeth Goldring spoke to us about her upcoming talk at Chelsea History Festival, which will bring to life the story of Hans Holbein, the artist who has shaped our image of the Tudor court.
🗓️Sunday 4 Oct 2026, 12-1pm
📍 National Army Museum
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