Calendar

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Sally Holmes, a hybrid musk rose with apricot-tinted buds, bred by Robert A. Holmes, Britain.

JULY 2008

Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames, 2 - 6 July

Formula One British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit, 4 - 6 July

Wimbledon, London, now - 6 July

Garsington Opera, Garsington, now - 6 July

Bath International Music Festival, Bath, now - 7 July

Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London, now - September

Bruges Group, John O'Sullivan CBE of Radio Liberty speaks about "Europe, America and Democracy", Foreign Press Association, London, 7pm, 17 July

Cheltenham Festivals , Music Festival, 4 - 19 July

Ways with Words Telegraph Literary Festival, Dartington Hall, Devon, 11- 20 July

English Heritage Festival of History, 1,000 reenactors at Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire, 19 - 20 July

Linda McCartney Photographs, James Hyman Gallery, London, now - 19 July

Grange Park Opera Festival, Hampshire, now - 20 July

Freedom Association Annual Summer Party, Stanway House Stanway, Cheltenham, 6 pm, 19 July

Royal Shakespeare Company, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost, Stratford-upon-Avon, now - 31 July

Royal Opera House, Le Nozze di Figaro; The Rake's Progress; Don Carlo; Faeries; Swan Lake (dance); La Boheme, now - 31 July

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London, now - 17 August; "From All Walks of Life", now - 7 December

Relaxing Days Out, National Trust properties, now

Shows at London's West End, now

Pygmalion, Old Vic, now - 2 August

UK Summer Rock, Pop, Blues and Indie Festivals, now - 31 August

Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Sussex, now - 31 August

Tutankhamun Exhibition, Bubble Exhibition Space at the O2, Greenwich, now – 31 August

Polo season, now - September

Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery, Buckingham Palace, now - 28 September

Globe Theatre, London, now - October

V&A, London, Bollinger Jewellry Gallery, now; The Art of Drinking, now- 26 September; UK Design for Performance 2003-2007, now - 18 November

National Theatre, London, Afterlife; The Revenger's Tragedy; Major Barbara, now

British Museum, London, Hadrian, Empire and Conflict, 24 July - 26 October

Longines Royal International Horse Show, Hickstead, West Sussex, 23rd - 27th July

Cartier International Polo, Guards Polo Club, 27 July

The Tate, The Lure of the East, British Orientalist Painting, now - 31 August

 

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