Where'd my timeline and canvas go?

I just tried to open up a project in progress by going to File-->Open recent. When the project opens up there is no timeline or canvas. I tried going to window-->arrange-->standard, but they still don't appear. If I just look in window, timeline and canvas are grey, not black.
I'm sure (I hope) the solution is quite simple, but at the moment I'm stuck and can't work on the (nearly completed) project.
Thanks for any help.

Trying double-clicking a sequence in the Browser.
Selecting a sequence and hitting Return works nicely, too.

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