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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Join us at Chelsea Heritage Quarter for a short course exploring healing and medicine🩺
💛A History of Healing: Chelsea Heritage Quarter Short Course
📍Chelsea Physic Garden
🗓️Monday 16 November 2026, 10.00 am
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✨Here are some of our highlights from Chelsea History Festival...
🎶Chelsea Pensioners wonderful singing
🚶🏽Countless fascinating walking tours
🎭Live actors chatting to audiences
🎙️Brilliant talks and workshops
🎼Amazing opera performances
What was your favourite part?
Make your own enchanted witch's hat, grow a terrifying carnivorous plant, or learn to make a potion all at @ChelsPhysicGdn ... 🎃🧙♀️
🔗 Tickets at: zurl.co/KN7gK
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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!
🔗More info: zurl.co/PV1mT
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...
🔗More info: zurl.co/PV1mT
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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@NAM_London @RHChelsea
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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