The ianVisits guide to June's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.
Sunday 1st June
£6.50
A day in the country with Heavy Horse breeds on parade including Clydesdales, Shires and Suffolks.
All Day
Monthly opening of the museum inside the remains of Croydon Airport control tower
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Tickets have sold out -- but returns may be released each morning, so check their website at 8am on the morning.
All Day
£8.00
A collection of some 200 exhibitors in the semi-derelict former hotel building behind Selfridges.
10am to 6:30pm
Marylebone High St
This will be the last chance to see the museum’s collection in its current location.
10am to 4pm
Wandsworth
A Landing Craft from HMS Bulwark will be open to the public to enable you to have a look at the vessel.
11am to 3pm
Wapping
From a secret passage, to a hidden garden, there is much the public doesn't usually see.
Starts at 12:16pm
Islington
Free
There'll be beer brewing, liquid nitrogen icecream, robotics demonstrations, Quad copter flights and chances to fly in a spaceship simulator.
1pm to 8pm
Bethnal Green
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Monday 2nd June
Sir Simon Jenkins, Paul Finch and Nicolas Boys Smith will go head-to-head in this debate about the capital's hottest topic - London's future skyline.
6:30pm to 8pm
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Tuesday 3rd June
A first look at the exhibition of Club artefacts and ephemera highlighting its history.
6pm to 8pm
The Museum is lit by candlelight on the first Tuesday of each month, from 6 until 9pm.
6pm to 9pm
A walking tour around the once revolutionary housing estate.
6:30pm to 8pm
Wimbledon
London historian Jerry White explores what life was like in London during the First World War for those who were left behind.
Starts at 7pm
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Wednesday 4th June
A talk on the general history of this well-known junction in South London, with special reference to its heyday between about 1840 to 1940.
2pm to 3pm
Clerkenwell
A talk by Danny Dorling on the housing issue/crisis in London.
Starts at 6:30pm
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Thursday 5th June
TateHindle will be hosting a small exhibition from their studio above Smithfield Market.
10am to 7pm
Barbican
Photo exhibition of old glass-plates discovered in an old mansion house.
11am to 6pm
A talk about the Archive's collection of Georgian era satires.
3pm to 4pm
Discover the ideas, values and agendas that shaped the vision of this unique architectural endeavour.
4pm to 5pm
Free
Join Edgley Design and HUT for a social celebration of two vibrant Capital Crafts; craft beer and architecture.
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Clerkenwell
£6.00
This lecture will examine the excavation and analysis of this 16th century shipwreck.
6pm to 7:30pm
An unprecedented opportunity to find out about the history, management and future of the Heath.
6pm to 8pm
Hampstead
The continuing dispute over how to design the transit map
6:30pm to 8pm
The Cabe team invite you to join them up on the roof of our headquarters, the Angel Building, for an expert discussion on London’s evolving skyline.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Clerkenwell
Discover what the Horniman curators and staff have been up to with their monthly series of behind the scenes talks and tours.
Starts at 7pm
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Friday 6th June
Photo exhibition of old glass-plates discovered in an old mansion house.
11am to 6pm
Displays from Clowns International's Archive are on show in and around the Grimaldi corner of Holy Trinity Church.
12pm to 5pm
Hackney
Hour long tour of the legal Inns of Court includes visits to the Old Hall, Great Hall and Chapel,
2pm to 9pm
Holborn
Film screening about lost rivers, and then Q&A session with local experts.
Starts at 7pm
Greenwich
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Saturday 7th June
Take a 20 minute ride around the local area in an Armoured Personnel Carrier.
All Day
Free
This event brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers
All Day
South Kensington
A note that a steam locomotive, the 70013 Oliver Cromwell will pass through South London twice today.
All Day
Appears to be a local street and art festival, although difficult to be sure.
All Day
The event will host vehicle displays, transport sales stands and rides on a number of heritage vehicles will be available.
10:30am to 4pm
Wembley
The Emanuel School Archivist will take you on a tour of the buildings, interiors and grounds.
Starts at 10:30am
Battersea
A guided walking tour of Wapping, with Paul Talling taking in the history & sites of the old London Docks.
11am to 2pm
Wapping
Photo exhibition of old glass-plates discovered in an old mansion house.
11am to 6pm
£20.00
A 'gin tasting' event with talks, demonstrations and cocktails.
12pm to 6pm
Shoreditch
The line-up will include live entertainment, music and dance, lots of stalls, a funfair, children's activities, a tea tent, and lots more.
12pm to 6pm
Woolwich
OPen day at the local bee keepers association -- learn about bees, and general fete entertainemnts.
1pm to 5pm
Twickenham
£10.00
A tour of some of the classic Holden designed tube stations along the Picadilly Line
2pm to 5pm
Southgate
£10.00
London’s secret occult history is revealed in this guided walk through the West End.
2pm to 3pm
Monthly open day at one of London's more unusual, and delightful museums.
2pm to 5pm
Screening of two Dro WHo episodes followed by Q&A with Sophie Aldred aka Ace.
7pm to 8pm
£3.00
Some supernatural storytelling from Vanessa and music from Nigel of Bermondsey.
7:45pm to 8pm
Hear about the history of Homerton's dissenters, celebrate its Carnegie Library turned art centre.
8pm to 9pm
Homerton
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Sunday 8th June
Take a 20 minute ride around the local area in an Armoured Personnel Carrier.
All Day
Free
This event brings together around 40 of the leading national and international antiquarian map dealers
All Day
South Kensington
Occasional open day at the Great Barn, once described as the Cathedral of Middlesex.
10am to 5pm
West Drayton
A walking tour looking at public art around the city.
10:45am to 1pm
Southwark
Photo exhibition of old glass-plates discovered in an old mansion house.
11am to 6pm
£20.00
A 'gin tasting' event with talks, demonstrations and cocktails.
12pm to 6pm
Shoreditch
£3.00
Annual chance to see an otherwise closed off private alleyway of gardens.
1pm to 6pm
Peckham
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Monday 9th June
BBC Home Affairs editor chairs a panel debate about why this country has failed to build enough affordable homes and looks at what can be done.
Starts at 6:30pm
Will Self explores the theme of capital in relation to new architecture in the city.
Starts at 7:30pm
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Tuesday 10th June
£7.50
Robert Fleming of the National Army Museum will speak about London regiments during the Great War.
6:30pm to 8pm
Chelsea
An Imperial Business Insights Series event with Richard Parry-Jones, Chairman, Network Rail.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
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Wednesday 11th June
An exhibition about the planned maintenance works on Putney Bridge that will see it closed for 3 months.
1pm to 8pm
Putney
A talk about how the air traffic control system works at controlling aircraft over UK airspace.
Starts at 6:30pm
A talk by a paranormal researcher as to why believers still believe despite the facts.
7pm to 9pm
Islington
Free
If you venture into the woods in parts of Europe you may well be in for a big surprise, look out for brown bears, Eurasian lynx and otters.
7pm to 9pm
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Thursday 12th June
Janice Liverseidge leads a historic tour, Walking in the Steps of Hogarth.
11am to 1pm
Kate Colquhoun re-examines the case dubbed by many the greatest miscarriage of English justice and asks what light it sheds on late Victorian society.
2pm to 3pm
A book launch of photos of the London Underground taken in the 1970s/80.
6pm to 9pm
Whitechapel
This talk will examine mechanisms controlling the differentiation and morphogenesis of embryonic organs
6:30pm to 7:30pm
This presentation seeks to explore and explain key issues and inspire with potential approaches.
Starts at 6:30pm
An aroma based art installation in the subways under Elephant & Castle roundabout.
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Southwark
A display of early views of Buda and Pest and a curators talk.
Starts at 7pm
A talk about pagan rituals that were thought by their practitioners to be thoroughly Christian.
Starts at 8pm
A firework finale will complete an evening of military music on Horseguards Parade.
Starts at 9:30pm
Whitehall
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Friday 13th June
Free
Celebrate ancient Egyptian rituals, curses and culture at this evening of talks, workshops and performance.
6pm to 9pm
An aroma based art installation in the subways under Elephant & Castle roundabout.
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Southwark
A talk about a person who recently swapped a flat for life on a London houseboat.
Starts at 6:30pm
Islington
A firework finale will complete an evening of military music on Horseguards Parade.
Starts at 9:30pm
Whitehall
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Saturday 14th June
£1012.00
Over 200 normally private gardens and squares will be open over the weekend for the public to visit.
All Day
Witches, ghosts and devilish mermaids invade the Andaz Liverpool Street’s Masonic Temple for this special weekend of film screenings.
All Day
City of London
Aircraft festival including 50th anniversary flypast by the Red Arrows.
All Day
Bexley Archaeological Group is hosting a one day workshop led by Jacqui Pearce of MOLA on Pottery and Claypipes.
9:30am to 4:30pm
Blackfen
10th birthday party at the Foundling Museum in Bloosbury.
10am to 5pm
What lies behind exorcism and speaking-in-tongues? How rational are atheists?
10:30am to 3:30pm
This leisurely 4 hour tour views the exteriors of sites covered in the Derelict London website & book
11am to 3pm
Poplar
Free
A bi-annual opportunity to peer inside the workings of Make Space Studios.
11am to 6pm
Southwark
Annual festival of archeology held in central London.
11am to 5pm
A guided walk in Walthamstow exploring its cinema heritage and shopping history.
12pm to 2pm
Walthamstow
Gypsy Roma and Traveller fair -- with music, cultural demonstrations and traditional foods.
12pm to 4pm
Bow
Free
A traveling fun fair that focuses mainly on older classic steam powered rides.
12pm to 8pm
Dulwich
Community event with entertainment and activities for the whole family in the heart of Highgate Village.
12:30pm to 7:30pm
Highgate
An aroma based art installation in the subways under Elephant & Castle roundabout.
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Southwark
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Sunday 15th June
£1012.00
Over 200 normally private gardens and squares will be open over the weekend for the public to visit.
All Day
£12.50
The event is a full-day festival with more than 75 different sessions to choose from.
All Day
Golders Green
Witches, ghosts and devilish mermaids invade the Andaz Liverpool Street’s Masonic Temple for this special weekend of film screenings.
All Day
City of London
10th birthday party at the Foundling Museum in Bloosbury.
10am to 5pm
£10.00
Guided walk following the swathe of destruction caused by Zeppelin L13 on the night of the first effective air raid on London.
Starts at 10:30am
Aldwych
Traditional village fair -- taking place in central London
Starts at 11am
Marylebone High St
Free
A bi-annual opportunity to peer inside the workings of Make Space Studios.
11am to 6pm
Southwark
Rare open day at this former Huguenot Weavers house and Synagogue
12pm to 4pm
Free
A traveling fun fair that focuses mainly on older classic steam powered rides.
12pm to 8pm
Dulwich
Southwark's archaeology officer, Chris Constable, will talk about some of the major sites and finds that these projects have revealed.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Southwark
An aroma based art installation in the subways under Elephant & Castle roundabout.
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Southwark
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Monday 16th June
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Tuesday 17th June
Join the Thames Discovery Programme to explore the foreshore at Rotherhithe, in the London Borough of Southwark.
10:45am to 12:15pm
Rotherhithe
A short screening of video clips that explores the stories of ten scientists from different ethnic backgrounds active in UK science today.
6pm to 7:30pm
An illustrated talk, using items from the Cuming Museum collection. Discover the history of Walworth’s Victorian zoo.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Southwark
Learn how to make these fantastic geometric mobiles from paper and straws that you can take home
Starts at 7pm
Islington
A Greenwich Industrial History Society talk by Ian Bull.
Starts at 7:30pm
Blackheath
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Wednesday 18th June
Tommies queued in their hundreds to visit brothels in the First World War. Dr Clare Makepeace explores this little-discussed aspect of the war.
1pm to 2pm
Islington
Free
Highlights of the collection show how it is used for biographical interpretation.
1pm to 2pm
A panel debate about implications of this channel shift for communication, government, society and business.
Starts at 6pm
Strand
Talk by Nicolette Jones, author of The Plimsoll Sensation: the Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea.
8pm to 9:30pm
Islington
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Thursday 19th June
Dollis Hill House Trust has designed and paid for two information boards for the footprint of the house.
Starts at 10:45am
Willesden
A lecture on archeology of WW1 battle fields.
1pm to 2pm
Islington
Historian Onyeka uncovers the hidden history of Africans in Tudor England – their presence, status and origins
Starts at 1:15pm
This talk marks the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, 24 June 1314, when the Scots defeated the English invasion.
2pm to 3pm
A free illustrated talk using slightly gruesome objects from the Cuming Museum collection.
2:30pm to 3:30pm
Rotherhithe
Meet a curator to explore how they care for the fossil mammals found in London during the Pleistocene.
Starts at 2:30pm
N.A. Pickford’s new book Lady Bette and the Murder Of Mr Thynn explores the disastrous consequences of these pressures on one woman.
6pm to 8pm
This debate will take as its starting point the desperate need to house our growing, changing, population, and examine how we can achieve the numbers,
Starts at 7pm
American artist Trevor Paglen comes together with Ossian Ward to discuss his new Art on the Underground commission for Gloucester Road station.
Starts at 7pm
Could a warming climate re-green this frozen world and what would that mean for the animals and plants that inhabit it?
Starts at 7pm
Tristram Hunt MP presents 'Ten Cities that Made an Empire', a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it.
Starts at 7:30pm
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Friday 20th June
Tour the remains of the western gate of London’s Roman military fort, located beneath the streets next to the museum.
Starts at 2pm
This talk explores the occult theories and magical practices which grasped both the divinity and madness of love.
Starts at 7:30pm
Fireworks in Greenwich -- probably related to the opening of the local cultural festival.
8:45pm to 9:25pm
Greenwich
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Saturday 21st June
£7.50
Come and celebrate shoes and dress accessories through the ages from Elizabethan knee high boots to Roman shoes decorated with gold leaf.
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Highlights include the horse show, a dog show, hundreds of arts and crafts stalls, farmers market, a jazz and beer tent.
All Day
Wimbledon
Special open day at one of London's greatest bus garages with its iconic concrete span roof.
All Day
Clapham
The Amnesty International Blackheath and Greenwich Group is holding its annual fund-raising book sale.
9am to 5pm
Greenwich
The Museum tells the story of the mansion house, as it was used as the Headquarters for Fighter Command during WW2.
10am to 5pm
Stanmore
£4.00
Discover which herbs can be found on the marshes with a walk and talk from a local herballist.
11am to 3pm
Tottenham
There’ll be vintage fairground rides and side-shows, lots of not-from-the-high-street shopping with over 100 stalls.
11am to 6pm
Richmond
A day of events at Erno Goldfinger’s iconic Balfron Tower
12pm to 7pm
Poplar
St Mary's Church, Hampton will be opening it's crypt up to visitors during its summer fete.
12pm to 3:30pm
Hampton
Celebrate the summer solstice with a guided midnight walk through South London.
11:45pm to 5am
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Sunday 22nd June
Major rally of vintage buses and coaches.
All Day
North Weald
Discover 350 years of London's postal history from the coffee houses of the 1600s to the electronic communication of today.
11am to 1pm
Clerkenwell
Over 40 classic cars on display amongst a local street fair.
11am to 5pm
St John's Wood
The main shopping street will be closed and filled with vintage buses.
11:30am to 6pm
Regent Street
Open day and craft fair at the restored former-church and now community centre.
12pm to 5pm
Hampstead
Rare open day at this former Huguenot Weavers house and Synagogue
12pm to 4pm
An annual procession from the site of the Newgate Prison to the place where the condemned were taken, at Tyburn Gallows.
Starts at 1:30pm
Barbican
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Monday 23rd June
Ancient ceremony to deliver a single red rose though the City to the Lord Mayor.
Starts at 10:30am
This presentation will explore the challenge of forged and fraudulent handwriting and the cultivation of professional expertise in its detection.
1pm to 2pm
A talk/presentation by movie specials effects designers at Framestore
6pm to 7pm
Regent Street
Free
Acting BBC Trust Chair Diane Coyle considers how the BBC can meet the challenge of providing a universal service while media channels proliferate.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Vigils have been held on the 23rd of every month since June 2004. They are inclusive, secular events, open 'to all faiths and none'.
Starts at 7pm
Southwark
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Tuesday 24th June
£8.00
This debate focusses on London’s machinery of government, which is large and complex, with many interests at play.
Starts at 6pm
City of London
Talks, tours, workshops, and quizzes make up a packed programme with the bar and bistro available all evening.
6pm to 10pm
£12.00
Perhaps the biggest question in biology is 'how did life get started?'
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Open to people who work in Museums to gossip and natter..
Starts at 6:30pm
Covent Garden
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Wednesday 25th June
The Keats House Poetry Ambassadors will read poetry and prose associated with WW1
12:30pm to 1:30pm
A talk about the concept of industrial scale tissue production.
1pm to 2pm
Would the world be a better place and we better people, if we didn’t love money so much?
Starts at 6pm
City of London
Free
Monthly late night adults only opening at the Science Museum.
6:45pm to 10pm
Not sure why yet, just that there's a flypast by at least one WW2 era aircraft over Parliament.
7:15pm to 7:45pm
Darcy and Rochester represent the epitome of the romantic hero. But what would they really have been like to live with?
Starts at 8pm
Golders Green
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Thursday 26th June
A talk about how scientists on all sides of the First World War were swept up in the tide of patriotism, militarism and nationalism.
1pm to 2pm
Islington
Exploring the ways in which queer men have made, experienced and described their homes and families in the capital.
Starts at 6:15pm
Bethnal Green
£10.00
A panel discussion and Q&A looking at cities and their impact on wellbeing.
6:30pm to 8pm
South Kensington
In this two hour walk Rob Smith looks at the industrial heritage of the area, and the fantastic Victorian (and earlier) architecture that remains.
6:30pm to 9pm
Stratford
This talk will examine the ways in which these two calamitous events altered the way in which Britain grieved and memorialised its dead forever.
Starts at 6:30pm
Learn more about the fascinating history of this Modernist building.
6:30pm to 9pm
On what would have been Wilson’s 83rd birthday Gary Lachman traces his career, exploring his 'new existentialism,'
7:30pm to 10pm
City of London
£3.50
David Butler presents an illustrated talk about the Surrey Iron Railway, describing a journey from Wandsworth to Croydon
7:30pm to 9pm
Carshalton
Come and be delighted by an evening talk with song, on the lore and magic of the Blacksmith character.
Starts at 7:30pm
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Friday 27th June
Over a Friday evening and a Saturday afternoon, artists will open their studios and invite you in.
All Day
Bow
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Saturday 28th June
Se inside a working bus garage, and take trips on vintage buses.
10am to 4pm
Whitton
Twice a year, the island opens up to the public and the studios open their doors to interested visitors.
11am to 6pm
Twickenham
Free annual festival with music, food, the usual stuff.
12pm to 8pm
Rotherhithe
£4.00
A summer fete inside the gardens of Lambeth Palace. Food stalls, live music, games and competitions.
12:30pm to 5pm
Southwark
£5.00
If you are interested in the history of Bishop’s Park, a guided walk of Bishop’s Park and Fulham Palace.
Starts at 2pm
At 6pm, all ships in the Thames are encouraged to sound a single long blast on their ship horns in memory of the firing for the first shot in WW1.
6pm to 6:05pm
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Sunday 29th June
Annual open day to see the local allotment plots.
All Day
Walthamstow
Free
A week long festival of arts and events along this popular shopping street.
All Day
Bow
Open day showing off the police cells, horses, vintage vehicles and crime fighting, and modern crime fighting advice.
10am to 3pm
Lewisham
Twice a year, the island opens up to the public and the studios open their doors to interested visitors.
11am to 6pm
Twickenham
Some of the UK’s leading female scientists take to their soapboxes to showcase science to the general public.
12pm to 3pm
A nature reserve along a railway cutting open for a few hours a month.
1pm to 4pm
Forest Hill
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Monday 30th June
On its 120th anniversary, entry to Tower Bridge will cost £1.20 -- with heritage replica tickets.
10am to 6pm
This lecture will discuss the original debates about the tattoo as a sign of criminal identity among 19th century European police.
1pm to 2pm
Free
Meet some of the best scientists working in the UK, and discuss their cutting-edge research over a cocktail.
6pm to 10pm
