What's On: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest For Longitude at National Maritime Museum

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In many ways, a major new exploration of the quest for longitude at the National Maritime Museum is the story of Greenwich itself.

Exhibition: Bridge at Museum Of London Docklands

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Bridge is a free exhibition of artworks responding to the capital's crossings showing at the Museum Of London Docklands, West India Quay. We have selected four of the works from the exhibition with words of explanation or evocation.

Why London's bridges are more than just pieces of engineering

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The story of London is the story of river conquests.

From the first Roman pontoons, through the congested first London Bridge to the gothic splendour of Tower Bridge and onward to the prospect of a new Garden Bridge, these crossings are a reflection of a people and their times that carry more significance than mere engineering.

Film review: TS Spivet (12A)

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TS Spivet
(12A) 105mins
★★★✩✩

The Young And Prodigious TS Spivet was an instant success as a book - with a 12-year-old mini-genius telling a tale of his cross-country adventure to pick up a scientific award told with digressions, subplots, marginalia and footnotes.

Exhibition: Mammoths - Ice Age Giants, Natural History Museum

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Lyuba led a short life. But she has become endlessly significant.

At around 35 days, the infant mammoth tumbled into soft clay. Her trunk and oesophagus were clogged with mud and she suffocated.

Exhibition: Comics Unmasked, British Library

The novel is dead, declared Will Self recently. Really dead this time, he said, certainly as the prince of artforms.

So what will take its place as the pre-eminent, written narrative structure of the new century?

Sundance review: The Voices

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The Voices
103mins
★★★✩✩

If the measure of a movie is the decibel of debate that follows the closing credits, then The Voices will surely rank among the most memorable at Sundance London.

How a secret trapped in the rock for a million years was revealed and gone within a fortnight

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"Diligence is the mother of good luck." So says the 16th century proverb its truth would be met with a nod of recognition for a team of scientists who discovered the Happisburgh footprints.

5 key moments of the Royal Mint at the Tower

A new permanent exhibiton at the Tower of London tells the tale of the tower's little-known role as the Royal Mint between 1279 and 1812. The exhibition focuses on five key episodes in the Mint's life, as explained by Curator Dr Megan Gooch, pictured.