Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Sunday, 22nd September 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Exhibition looking at the impact of the First World War on local life and on Bromley's role in caring for casualties. (Ending Soon Fri, 26th Sep)
Bromley Museum
Exhibition of work by one of Germany's most important modernist graphic artists. (Ending Soon Sat, 27th Sep)
Kemistry Gallery
This major exhibition showcases more than 200 specimens, objects and life-size models. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Sep)
A new work of art by the man responsible for the giant floating yellow duck (Ending Soon Tue, 30th Sep)
Riverside Gardens
An exhibition showing a range of historical images and archival documents illustrating the history of Erith Yacht Club from 1900 to the present day. (Ending Soon Tue, 30th Sep)
Erith Library
This exhibition features work from Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cape Town, and many others. (Ending Soon Fri, 3rd Oct)
City Hall
An exhibition about the 100,000 Jews who fought for Germany during WW1. (Ending Soon Wed, 8th Oct)
Enduring War examines how people coped with life during the war: from moments of patriotic fervour to periods of anxious inactivity, shock and despair (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Oct)
An art exhibition that explores royal patronage and taste in the reigns of George I and George II. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Oct)
The exhibition will include political and joke cartoons, comic postcards and cigarette cards, trench publications by serving soldiers, books, comics. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Oct)
Am exhibition of rarely seen contemporary and historical artworks featuring London's bridges. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
An open-air exhibition which captures the eerie peace and beauty of First World War battlefields as they appear today. (Ending Soon Tue, 11th Nov)
St James's Park
Guildhall Library examines the personal accounts and experiences of individuals, including 'Boy', who served on the first submarines (Ending Soon Wed, 12th Nov)
An exhibition that explores the impact that hand crafted Victorian Shop signs had on the writings of Charles Dickens. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Nov)
New exhibition and retrospective of Edwin Smith - one of Britain’s foremost 20th century photographers. (Ending Soon Sat, 6th Dec)
Free
Exhibition: Waste
A series of fine wood-cut prints exploring our local municipal waste heritage by dramatist-turned-visual artist Elisabeth Bond. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Dec)
Portraits and stories of women such as Lady Ann Fanshawe, who left a memoir describing the dramatic times of the Civil War. (Ending Soon Sat, 3rd Jan)
Valence House
This exhibition will explore his immigrant roots, his Jewish background and his contribution to British design. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
The steampunks are taking over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
This exhibition will look at how the war affected the residents of Enfield - both in the trenches and on the home front. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jan)
Enfield Museum
Discover the impact on London life and the surprising role London’s bus drivers and their buses played on the Western Front. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)
On the centenary of the First World War, this exhibition commemorates the professional nurses who worked, served and died between 1914 and 1918. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Mar)
The Royal College of Nursing
