• Get the inside track on Arthurian Antics at Peveril Castle, Hope Valley, Derbyshire. King Arthur and Guinevere, with help from Pen the dragon, will regale junior audiences with tales of brave knights and daring dragons. Sessions at 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm. Adults £2.50, children £1.30. Call 01433 620613.
• Take a whistle-stop tour of opera through the ages at Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland. Opera highlights from Gilbert and Sullivan in the chapel from 2.30pm. Adults £1.60, children 80p.Call 01665 570 628.
• Wander around Kew Gardens and enjoy its Chapungu Sculpture Festival, an exhibition of more than 60 sculptures from Zimbabwe in addition to the usual floral offerings. Open 9.30am-7.30pm. Adults £5, children £3. Call 020 8332 5655.
• Every Street, Manchester, and its place in the city's folklore so fascinated artist Bill Longshaw that he has used personal items of the street's residents to mount a massive social history exhibition at The Pump House People's History Museum, Manchester. Open 11am-4.30pm. Adults £1, children free.
Call 0161 839 6061.
• Shopping centres - retail heaven or consumer hell? You decide at the Museum of London's Shopping Centres exhibition, which reveals the hidden history of London's malls and asks if they responsible for the death of the high street. Noon-5.50pm. Adults £5, children free. Call 020 7600 0807.
• Broadstairs, Kent, was Dickens's holiday home and the town celebrates the fact with a festival, including Victorian cricket match at 2pm, music hall in the Assembly Rooms at 7.45pm and a performance of 'Boz by the Bay' by Gerald Dickens, the great man's great great grandson in the Pavilion at 8.15pm. Various prices; call 01843 601 364.
• Discover the mysteries of butterflies and insects during Flights of Fancy, a guided walk by the ranger service at Low Park, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. The walk starts at 2pm and will last for around an hour, with a naturalist on hand to answer questions. Free. Call 01698 426 213.
• In case you feel this summer hasn't provided enough of them already, more clouds will be on view at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. 'Constable's Clouds' focuses on the artist's preoccupation with all things cumulus and nimbus by gathering a collection of his studies and paintings of clouds. Open noon-5pm. Adults £3, children free.
• Help to protect Croyde village, Devon, from Vikings as camps and raids are set up around the village as part of the North Devon Festival. Apart from the mock aggressors, visitors can enjoy an open air concert and barbecue, a duck race and children's entertainment. Starts noon. Free. Call 01271 346 436.
• Watch war-time newsreels in an old cinema and recreate past FA Cup Final glory at Great City, Newcastle's Discovery Museum's hands-on exhibition of the city's history throughout the last century. Open 2pm - 5pm. Call 0191 232 6789. Free.
