Chelsea History Festival

Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 September 2025

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Wednesday 24 September 2025
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Punk Chelsea  
National Army Museum
£20.00
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Exhibition Tour: Beyond Burma
National Army Museum
£15.00
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Royal Hospital Chelsea State Apartments Art Tour
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£20.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Blood and Treasure
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Walking Tour: Women of Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Why We Travel
National Army Museum
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
The People’s War
National Army Museum
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
When We Ruled
National Army Museum
£12.00
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Military Memoirs of the Forgotten Armies
National Army Museum
£15.00
6.30pm - 8.15pm
The Great English Anthem
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£30.00 to £40.00
Thursday 25 September 2025
11.00am - 12.30pm
Walking Tour: Chelsea and the River
National Army Museum
£20.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Spies of Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Nations in Arms
National Army Museum
£12.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
The Battle of Chillianwala and a Tale of Two Obelisks
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Exhibition Tour: Beyond Burma
National Army Museum
£15.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Hidden Treasures Tour
Chelsea Physic Garden
£15.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
The Hiroshima Men
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Rhineland: Hitler’s Last Defence, 1944-45
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Walking Tour: Rock ‘n’ Roll Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Walking Tour: Tudor Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Eagle Days
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
National Army Museum
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642
National Army Museum
£12.00
6.00pm - 7.00pm
The Case for Paddy Mayne’s VC
National Army Museum
£15.00
6.30pm - 7.30pm
Current Defence and Security Challenges for Nato
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£20.00
Friday 26 September 2025
10.30am - 12.00pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: 1960s Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Art and Literature of Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Medicinal Trees Tour
Chelsea Physic Garden
£20.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Living with Jane Austen
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
The Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975–2025
National Army Museum
Free
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Walking Tour: Punk Chelsea  
National Army Museum
£20.00
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Walking Tour: Chelsea Old Village
National Army Museum
£20.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of Global Britain
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Opening the Gates of Hell
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Hidden Treasures Tour
Chelsea Physic Garden
£15.00
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Notorious: The Truth Behind History’s Villains
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
The Mercian Chronicles
National Army Museum
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Tunisgrad
National Army Museum
£12.00
5.00pm - 6.00pm
The Dream Factory
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
6.00pm - 7.00pm
A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future
Chelsea Physic Garden
£15.00
6.30pm - 7.30pm
An Accidental History of Tudor England
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
6.30pm - 7.30pm
Wolfpack
National Army Museum
£15.00
Saturday 27 September 2025
10.00am - 4.00pm
Hands-on History: Second World War Artefacts at the Soane Stable Yard
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Free
10.00am - 5.00pm
Chelsea Physic Garden Open Weekend
Chelsea Physic Garden
Free
10.30am - 12.00pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
How Not to Catch the Plague
Chelsea Physic Garden
£20.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Spies of Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Women of Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
11.15am - 12.00pm
Chelsea Pensioner Singers
National Army Museum
Free
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Queer Georgians
National Army Museum
£12.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Life in the Viking Great Army
National Army Museum
£12.00
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Assassins and Templars
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Walking Tour: Art and Literature of Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Hidden Treasures Tour
Chelsea Physic Garden
£15.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Josephine Baker’s Secret War
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
The Last Days of Budapest
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Walking Tour: Tudor Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Two Sisters
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
3.30pm - 4.30pm
Chelsea Pensioner Singers
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Free
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Into the Reich
National Army Museum
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus
National Army Museum
£12.00
5.00pm - 6.00pm
The Invention of British Art
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£12.00
6.30pm - 7.30pm
You’re Dead to Me
National Army Museum
£15.00
Sunday 28 September 2025
10.00am - 4.00pm
Hands-on History: Second World War Artefacts at the Soane Stable Yard
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Free
10.00am - 5.00pm
Chelsea Physic Garden Open Weekend
Chelsea Physic Garden
Free
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Chelsea Old Village
National Army Museum
£20.00
11.00am - 1.00pm
Walking Tour: Rock ‘n’ Roll Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
St Petersburg
National Army Museum
£12.00
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Young Elizabeth: Princess, Prisoner, Queen
National Army Museum
£12.00
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Royal Hospital Chelsea State Apartments Art Tour
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£20.00
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Walking Tour: 1960s Chelsea
National Army Museum
£20.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Hidden Treasures Tour
Chelsea Physic Garden
£15.00
2.00pm - 3.00pm
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
National Army Museum
£12.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Royal Hospital Chelsea
£25.00
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Walking Tour: Chelsea and the River
National Army Museum
£20.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
London Uncanny
National Army Museum
£12.00
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Misread Signals: How History Overlooked Women Codebreakers
National Army Museum
£12.00
6.30pm - 7.30pm
A History of British Architecture: Who’s to Blame?
National Army Museum
£15.00
6.30pm - 7.30pm
Tank: War Machines That Changed the World
National Army Museum
£15.00