History in English

London 12th – 16th January 2009

Programme

Monday, 12^th January 2009

Meeting point:

EuroAirport at the check-in Check-in of EasyJet: 19.30

Flight 8536; dep. 20:55; arr. London Gatwick 21:35

Booking reference:
EDRHH3V

Transfer to hotel

London House Hotel
81 Kensington Gardens Square
London W2 4DJ
Tel. +44 (0)207 2431810

Fax +44 (0)207 2431723

e-mail: reservations@londonhousehotels.com

web: www.londonhousehotels.com

Nearest Tube station: Bayswater

Tuesday, 13th January

Morning:

Royal and political London:

A walk from the hotel through the parks in central London into the heart of modern London:

o Kensington Palace and Gardens

o Hydepark with the Albert Memorial

o Buckingham Palace

o The Mall

o St. Lames’s Park

o Whitehall and Banqueting House

o Trafalgar Square

o Hungerford Bridge und South Bank

Evening:

Life of the lower classes and underworld at the end of the 19th century:

7 pm: Jack the Ripper-Walk

Tower Hill Tube station

Wednesday, 14th January

Morning:

10 am: Imperial War Museum: „Windrush“ guided tour

and general exhibitions to First and Second World War

On the HMSS „Windrush” the first coloured immigrants from Jamaica came to London in 1948. A large number of them had served in the British Army in the Second World War. Their emigration to the „Motherland“, as it still was at the time, is often seen as the beginning of today’s multi-cultural and multiracial. The event also marked the beginning of severe domestic disturbances and controversies about the immigration from the former British colonies.

Besides the special exhibition there are the special exhibitions, in particular about the two World Wars from a British point of view.

Afternoon:

Greenwich:

Trip through the Docklands, the most modern part of London to Greenwich, the former naval village and observatory on the Prime Meridian, at which longitude is defined to be 0°. From there one has a superb view of the whole of the sprawling London.

Evening:

Dinner together in Chinatown, Soho:

Chuen Cheng Ku Restaurant

17 Wardour Street

London W1D 6PJ

Tel. 020 7437 1398 or 020 7734 3281

Thursday, 15th January

Morning:

10.30: Old Operating Theatre (near London Bridge South Bank):

In an originally preserved surgical operating theatre we shall be given a demonstration of a surgical operation as it was performed at the end of the 19^th century, without anaesthetics or aseptic instruments. Very often such an operation led to a painful death. We shall decide on the spot who will have to serve as patient.

Afternoon:

Exploring multicultural and picturesque aspects of London and London museums:

Museums:

o British Museum

o Victoria and Albert Museum

o London Museum

o Tate Modern

o National Gallery

o Natural History Museum: Darwin Exhibition

o Science Museum

o The Tower

Aspects of London:

o Hampstead Heath from Hampstead to Highgate

o Brixton (African London)

o Neasden Hindu temple

o The Docklands

o Regent’s Canal from Camden to Little Venice

o South Bank – Shakespeare’s London and the Globe theatre

Evening:

7.15 pm Royal Shakespeare Company at the Novello Theatre: William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Friday, 16th January

Morning:

Free morning until meeting time:

Suggestions for shopping:

o Camden Lock Market

o Portobello Road Street Market (withing walking distance from the hotel.

Afternoon:

2 pm meeting point at the hotel

Transfer to Gatwick

Flight 8535; dep. Fri 16 Jan 17:50;

arr. Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport 20:30

Booking reference:
EDRHH3V

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