The ianVisits guide to January's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.
Thursday 1st January
The museum site will be packed with classic, vintage and veteran cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles.
9am to 4pm
Free
Starts at 9:45am
Barnes
Free
29th annual New Years Day parade through the streets, with around 10,000 performers.
Starts at 12pm
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Friday 2nd January
No events are listed for today. Sorry.
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Saturday 3rd January
No events are listed for today. Sorry.
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Sunday 4th January
Celebrate the arrival of the Green Man and watch a traditional mummers play before parading to Borough Market
2:15pm to 4pm
Southwark
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Monday 5th January
£8.00
10am to 8pm
Camden
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Tuesday 6th January
No events are listed for today. Sorry.
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Wednesday 7th January
No events are listed for today. Sorry.
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Thursday 8th January
This lecture and screening of that most unlikely of horror films -- public information safety broadcasts.
7pm to 10pm
7pm to 8:30pm
Hampstead
Hear from some of the girls who worked at Bletchley Park during WW2.
Starts at 7pm
Picadilly
A talk about some of the weirder things that Carroll wrote and read.
Starts at 8pm
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Friday 9th January
Mark Hallett will investigate the dynamic portraiture of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the leading figure in Georgian London’s art world.
6:30pm to 8pm
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Saturday 10th January
Free
From terrible crimes to gruesome legends, London has long been to the backdrop to horrifying tales which quickly take root in popular imagination.
1pm to 2pm
2pm to 4pm
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Sunday 11th January
Join us for a few hours of conservation work in the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve
10:30am to 3:30pm
Chiswick
A collection of Fairground Organs on display and performing for the audience.
11am to 5pm
Amersham
Ride the London Underground in just your underpants.
Starts at 3pm
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Monday 12th January
No events are listed for today. Sorry.
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Tuesday 13th January
3pm to 4pm
5pm to 6:30pm
Holborn
How separate and distinct are knowledge and skills? Is what we need to know changing in the 21st century? Are the skills we need changing?
Starts at 6pm
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
Screening of a film that follows six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider.
Starts at 7pm
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Wednesday 14th January
The acceptability of cycling seems to be on the rise in major cities around the world. How does this acceptability increase and why should we care?
12:45pm to 1:45pm
Copyright Criminals is a documentary that investigates the relation between artistic expression and copyright law by reflecting on musical sampling.
Starts at 3pm
Free
Political cartoonist Martin Rowson will explore the life, death and afterlife of William Hogarth - the grandfather of cartooning.
Starts at 6:30pm
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Thursday 15th January
Stuart Wildman will explore the often forgotten story of nursing at home during the First World War.
5:30pm to 7pm
Harley Street
Susan Woodward explains how Manchester is re-designing urban environments to create more vibrant and resilient cities.
Starts at 6pm
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
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Friday 16th January
One of the largest model making festivals in the UK.
All Day
6:45pm to 8pm
Camden
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Saturday 17th January
Free
1pm to 4:30pm
2:30pm to 4pm
Camden
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Sunday 18th January
£3.00
Raise a glass of port to the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson in the Painted Hall, where his body lay in state after the Battle of Trafalgar.
3pm to 4pm
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Monday 19th January
A look around one of the worlds' largest private lending libraries, with its famous metal grill floors
Starts at 5:45pm
A talk about the role of women in science by the first woman President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Starts at 6pm
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
Starts at 7pm
South Kensington
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Tuesday 20th January
A talk on how individuals, companies and entire societies avert disaster by creating more dynamic, more resilient cities.
Starts at 1pm
Free
Starts at 1pm
Barbican
1:15pm to 1:55pm
Lucinda Gosling talks about the thriving entertainment industry in London during the First World War.
6pm to 8pm
In this lecture, Preston will crack open the architecture of cryptocurrencies.
6pm to 7:30pm
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
Free
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
6:30pm to 7:30pm
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Wednesday 21st January
This documentary explores this most ambitious mass digitization project, looking at the technology behind it, its legitimacy and its legal challenges
3pm to 5pm
Free
6pm to 7:30pm
Clerkenwell
A talk about and tour of the Simpson Building -- now home to Waterstones Picadilly.
Starts at 6:30pm
Picadilly
Night Will Fall tells the story of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration camps.
Starts at 6:30pm
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to speak of their passions and achievements.
Starts at 7:30pm
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Thursday 22nd January
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Barbican
1:15pm to 1:55pm
Using illustrations from wartime magazines, this talk outlines how the First World War changed the face of advertising.
2pm to 3pm
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
6pm to 7:30pm
Free
Watch the cult TV series in the surroundings of an Egyptian museum.
Starts at 6:30pm
Starts at 7:30pm
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Friday 23rd January
£9.13
Join the Thames Discovery Programme for a wintry walk to explore the foreshore near Cannon Street,
9:30am to 11:30am
1pm to 2pm
6:30pm to 7:30pm
South Kensington
£1523.00
Cumberbatch, Brett, Cushing or Rathbone? Many actors have taken on the iconic role on stage and screen, but who did it best?
Starts at 7:30pm
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Saturday 24th January
Visitors will be able to see derelict spaces and hear previously untold stories of Alexandra Palace's role during WW1.
All Day
For the weekend, all 60 Routemaster bus sculptures will be on display around the Olympic Park
All Day
Olympic Park
Monthly guided tour around the City focusing on its postal history.
11am to 1pm
Clerkenwell
Free
Join the Battle Bus team for guided tours of the Museum Depot focussing on the Battle Bus and covering other early buses in our collection.
Starts at 11am
A relaxed get-together with refreshments and poetry for people involved in community publishing and oral history work in Hackney.
2pm to 4pm
A talk about one of the attempts to calculate longitude at sea.
4pm to 6:30pm
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Sunday 25th January
Visitors will be able to see derelict spaces and hear previously untold stories of Alexandra Palace's role during WW1.
All Day
For the weekend, all 60 Routemaster bus sculptures will be on display around the Olympic Park
All Day
Olympic Park
Annual parade by recreators of the English Civil War on the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I
Starts at 11am
Whitehall
Starts at 1pm
A tour of Southbank Centre with a focus on 20th-century architecture.
Starts at 1:30pm
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Monday 26th January
Free
Starts at 2:30pm
South Kensington
This is the story of the rare earths, of why they were so hard to discover and why they are so important in our world.
Starts at 6pm
6pm to 7:30pm
A panel debate considers the effects and implications of the UK’s housing crisis.
6:30pm to 10am
6:30pm to 8pm
Camden
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
This event will discuss what a fruitful relationship between an incoming Labour government and business should look like.
6:30pm to 8pm
6:45pm to 8pm
Camden
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Tuesday 27th January
1:15pm to 1:55pm
Free
Black Poppies explores the military and civilian wartime experiences of men and of women, from the trenches to the music halls.
2pm to 3pm
A book launch and discussion on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers.
Starts at 6:30pm
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Wednesday 28th January
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
Our glorious night sky is the ultimate landscape. But where do we fit in? An illustrated presentation by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest
Starts at 6:30pm
Dr Richard Barnett, author of The Sick Rose, will explore the connections between art, anatomy and medicine in an age of revolution.
6:30pm to 9pm
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
An evening of conversations as UCL researchers bring to life the collection and share some of the stories of their research.
6:30pm to 11am
Professor Grossmann addresses a transnational Holocaust story that has remained untold: the plight of Jewish refugees in Central Asia.
6:30pm to 8pm
Euston
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Thursday 29th January
Neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin explains how we can organise our brains to keep up with the demands of the digital age.
1pm to 2pm
Take a modernist moment. Relax and enjoy a special evening in our stunning Grade I listed 1960s architectural masterpiece.
6pm to 9pm
Vanishing for the Vote tells the story of what happened on census night, 2 April 1911.
Starts at 6pm
6pm to 7:30pm
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
A talk about one of London's greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack.
7:45pm to 10pm
City of London
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Friday 30th January
£10.00
10am to 4pm
Clerkenwell
Monthly open evening at the Bayfordbury Observatory telescopes.
11am to 12pm
Starts at 7pm
South Kensington
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Saturday 31st January
The annual Trooping the Colour ceremony occurs in June at Horse Guards Parade, but you can apply for tickets now.
All Day
Starts at 2:30pm
Twickenham
