View down from Dover Castle to the Church of St Mary, the Harbour and the English Channel beyond. The unsung hero who planned the 'miracle of Dunkirk' worked with his men and women in Dover Castle, looking out across the Channel to the cities and fields of Europe where the Third Reich was reaping a fiery whirlwind and 300,000 soldiers of the British and French armies lay trapped at Dunkirk. The 70th Anniversary of Dunkirk is May 26th - June 4th.

Image: Wikimedia Commons

MAY 2010

Anniversary of the Act of Union joining England and Scotland and creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, 1 May

General Election - 6 May

Artes Mundi 4 - Arts of the World, National Museum Cardiff - now - 6 June

Royal Shakespeare Company, Morte D'Arthur, King Lear, The Gods Weep, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra - now

25th Anniversary Garden, Malvern

RHS Malvern Spring Gardening Show, Malvern, Worcestershire - 6 - 9 May

National Trust - Days Out & Visits - now

British Museum, London, Fra Angelico to Leonardo, Italian Renaissance Drawings - now - 25 July; Kingdom of Ife, Sculptures from West Africa - now - 6 June

Shows at London's West End - now

National Theatre, London, Love the Sinner; The White Guard; London Assurance; Women Beware Women - now

Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet, London, Aida; Powder Her Face; Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen - now

British Library, London, Explore the Life of Chopin - now - 16 May; Magnificent Maps - now - 19 September

National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh - Black Watch, Marriage in the Movies - now - 31 October

Royal Collections, Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Victoria & Albert: Art & Love - now; Royal Phogorapher - Windsor - now; the Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Dutch Landscapes - now - 9 January 2011

The Walpole Cabinet, designed by Horace Walpole and William Kent, cabinet attributed to William Hallett, 1743. V&A Museum, which has opened a new exhibit, Horace Walope and Strawberry Hill, Horace's house, which is full of extraordinary items.

V&A, London, Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill - now - 4 July; Greatest Silversmith in London - now - May; A Fairyland of Flowers by Beatrix Potter and Cicely Mary Barker - now - 14 June

Dundee Repertory Theatre, Sweeney Todd - now

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, The Printmaker's Art - now - 23 May

The Tate, London, Chris Ofili - now - 6 May; Henry Moore, Giant of 20th century sculpture - now - 8 August

Foundling Museum, London, Exhibit: Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego - now - 9 May; Flute, Horn and Soprano Recitals

Paul Sandby

Royal Academy of Arts , London, Paul Sandby, RA, Picturing Britain - now - 13 June; Eighteenth-century watercolours - now - 16 May; Relics of Old London - now - 22 June

Choral Eucharist, St Clement Danes (the church of the Royal Air Force), London - ongoing

Goodwood Races- bikes, buses, tractors, trucks and horses - 6 May - December

RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London - 25 - 29 May

Dressage - The best of British show jumping and dressage - now

Choral Eucharists, St Clement Danes (the church of the Royal Air Force), London - now

Isle of Man Motorcycle TT Race - 29 May - 11 June

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