The ianVisits guide to March's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.
Sunday 1st March
An exhibition criticizing plans to redevelop the historic Spitalfields area.
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Reel Islington Film Festival 2015 brings films on the theme of Urbanscapes: City Dreams to Holloway Road and the people of Islington,
All Day
Holloway
The guided tour of the Albert Memorial gives you exclusive access inside the memorial railings,
Starts at 2pm
South Kensington
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Monday 2nd March
6:30pm to 8pm
Camden
Free
7:45pm to 9:30pm
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Tuesday 3rd March
No events are listed for today. Sorry.
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Wednesday 4th March
Starts at 2pm
Chelsea
A talk about how the poppy became such a powerful symbol at the end of the First World War.
6pm to 6:45pm
Aldwych
Free
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
7pm to 9pm
South Kensington
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Thursday 5th March
Special events and tours to mark the library's half-centenary.
9am to 7pm
Hornsey
1:15pm to 1:55pm
Discover the stained glass of the City of London in this illustrated talk by Alexandra Epps.
2pm to 3pm
An exhibiton about how music was controlled during WW1 to maintain soldierly conduct.
3pm to 4pm
Camden
6pm to 7:30pm
Bryan Jones will present on some of the stories told by the memorial's names as well as discuss the creation of the memorial itself.
6:30pm to 8pm
In this talk Tony Williams will explore some of the ways in which this greatest writer of the city found his inspiration in the metropolis.
6:30pm to 8pm
A talk about the more intimate aspects of Chinese culture defining the next generation.
6:30pm to 8pm
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
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Friday 6th March
12pm to 11pm
Keston
Iain Sinclair and Christopher Riopelle will discuss how artists and writers are affected by the places in which they find themselves.
Starts at 6:30pm
Trafalgar Square
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
£25.00
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the techniques of Victorian fingerprinting versus modern day methods.
7pm to 10pm
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Saturday 7th March
Join a tour with our volunteer guides to discover fascinating and beautiful carnivorous plants, bromeliads, orchids and cacti.
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Bryan Jones will present on some of the stories told by the memorial's names as well as discuss the creation of the memorial itself.
10:30am to 12:30pm
Tower Hill
£7.88
Discover evidence of work, rest and pray(er) in London’s Roman boroughs.
Starts at 11am
Starts at 11am
The Bazaar offers a selection of handicrafts; beautiful painted eggs; home-made Persian food products, etc
11am to 6pm
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Sunday 8th March
A collection of Fairground Organs on display and performing for the audience.
11am to 5pm
Amersham
The Bazaar offers a selection of handicrafts; beautiful painted eggs; home-made Persian food products, etc
11am to 6pm
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Monday 9th March
Rear Admiral John Lang will look at the U-boat threat, which was so effective against merchant ships that it came close to causing Britain's surrender
Starts at 6:30pm
Strand
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Tuesday 10th March
A talk about the lives of women in London before and during the First World War.
Starts at 6:30pm
A talk to outline plans to increase the number of carriages and other means to provide capacity for increasing numbers of passengers.
Starts at 6:30pm
West Drayton
Exploring the role of dogs as both companions and workers during the First World War.
6:30pm to 9pm
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Wednesday 11th March
Free
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
£15.00
A series of food debates hosted by Borough Market looking at the history, science and politics of our kitchen staples.
Starts at 7pm
Southwark
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Thursday 12th March
£11.25
A guided tour around the City of London looking at stained glass windows
10:30am to 12:30pm
This event will explore the wide ranging impact of the discovery and its ramifications for disciplines as diverse as archaeology, history & literature
Starts at 6pm
Talk by an author on the topic, about the acid bath serial killer.
6:30pm to 8pm
Kensington
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
A tale of the fraud that fooled surgeons into believing that a woman gave birth to rabbits.
Starts at 7pm
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Friday 13th March
A note that some sort of flypast is to take place over Tulse Hill and Croydon.
12:20pm to 12:40pm
£5.00
A screening of this classic British comedy in the unique Egyptological surroundings of the Petrie Museum.
6pm to 6pm
£8.00
6:30pm to 8pm
Camden
6:30pm to 7:30pm
South Kensington
£9.55
This talk will explore this darker side of desire through the Victorian post-execution autopsies of Dr Croker King and personal research.
6:30pm to 8pm
Barbican
Starts at 8pm
Richmond
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Saturday 14th March
Chance to go on board the cluster of river boats that moor up near to Tower Bridge.
10am to 4pm
Wapping
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Sunday 15th March
Chance to go on board the cluster of river boats that moor up near to Tower Bridge.
10am to 4pm
Wapping
This one-day conference will bring together speakers, performances and screenings of previous TED talks.
11am to 8pm
Join this expert guided walk which commemorates the local Finsbury Rifles but looks also at the anti-German riots of May 1915
11am to 12:40pm
Clerkenwell
In Trafalgar Square there’ll be an Irish food market, children’s activities and lots of Irish community organisations.
12pm to 6pm
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Monday 16th March
Starts at 1pm
Barbican
1pm to 5pm
Find out how culturally transmitted behaviour is shaping marine ecosystems in this Café Scientifique with Emma Carroll.
6:30pm to 8pm
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Tuesday 17th March
Starts at 6pm
Barbican
6:30pm to 8pm
Camden
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Wednesday 18th March
A talk about how unconscious reactions lead to the different architectural styles of the ancient worlds.
Starts at 6pm
Strand
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
£15.00
A series of food debates hosted by Borough Market looking at the history, science and politics of our kitchen staples.
Starts at 7pm
Southwark
David Rosenberg’s 'Rebel Footprints' brings to life the history of 19th to mid-20th century social movements in the capital.
Starts at 7:30pm
TV producer and director David Wilson will be talking and showing film clips about making history programmes for TV.
7:30pm to 9pm
Islington
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Thursday 19th March
This new exhibition explores how psychoanalytic ideas are currently used in research which engages with very contemporary issues and the challenges of the modern world.
12pm to 5pm
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Friday 20th March
There will be a partial solar eclipse visible across the entire UK this morning, although it will be better the further north you go.
9:30am to 10am
11am to 12:15pm
Camden
£3.00
A talk about the last person to be imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act.
Starts at 8pm
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Saturday 21st March
£1015.00
An all-day conference by the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
All Day
Free
Travelling fairground with a twist -- many old Victorian steam engine powered rides.
All Day
Battersea
Once a year The Finnish Church organises an atmospheric Spring Fair.
10am to 5pm
Rotherhithe
An exhibition about the new tube station at Nine Elms as part of the Northern Line extension.
10am to 4pm
South Lambeth
A guided walk through the city focusing on its philanthropic history.
10:30am to 12:30pm
Tower Hill
£10.00
1:45pm to 3pm
Camden
£10.00
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Camden
A patchwork of cutouts from Soviet tech and science magazines pinned into druggy tableaux, with a genuine sense of placid terror.
Starts at 8pm
Deptford
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Sunday 22nd March
Free
Travelling fairground with a twist -- many old Victorian steam engine powered rides.
All Day
Battersea
Once a year The Finnish Church organises an atmospheric Spring Fair.
10am to 5pm
Rotherhithe
Join this Easter-themed event to experience Ukrainian tradition of the ancient craft of pysanky.
12pm to 5pm
Southwark
Free
There will be access to ground floor displays about the history of the tower, and a chance to go up to the belfry.
3pm to 5pm
Erith
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Monday 23rd March
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Tuesday 24th March
6:30pm to 7:30pm
South Kensington
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
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Wednesday 25th March
6pm to 8:30pm
Camden
A talk about how solar power generated in Africa could be sent to Europe.
Starts at 6:30pm
Step into your future at You Have Been Upgraded, a festival of human enhancement at the Science Museum.
6:45pm to 10pm
£10.00
A panel discussion on the future of manufacturing in the UK.
7pm to 8:30pm
South Kensington
£15.00
A series of food debates hosted by Borough Market looking at the history, science and politics of our kitchen staples.
Starts at 7pm
Southwark
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Thursday 26th March
A talk about the history of the London stock exchange
6:30pm to 8pm
£5.00
Watch the classic Bond movie -- set in part in Egypt -- in the surroundings of the Petrie Museum
6:30pm to 6pm
A night of shrines and magic in London with three expert City explorers and magical practitioners.
7:45pm to 10pm
City of London
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Friday 27th March
A tour of Southbank Centre with a focus on 20th-century architecture.
Starts at 6pm
Complementing the success of BBC 2s ‘Wolf Hall’, Nicole Mezey gives her talk “Smoke Mirrors and Sanctity: The Tudors and the Arts as Propaganda”.
6:30pm to 9pm
Mike Hope will discuss his enthusiasm for late nineteenth and early twentieth century glass.
6:45pm to 8pm
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Saturday 28th March
Come backstage at Royal Festival Hall, with access to restricted areas of this historic building.
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London Festival of Railway Modelling take over Ally Pally with model circuits, demonstrations and expert modellers throughout the day.
All Day
Free
Travelling fairground with a twist -- many old Victorian steam engine powered rides.
All Day
Battersea
Explore previously unseen rooms at Pitzhanger Manor at this special closing event.
11am to 4pm
Ealing
£10.00
Monthly tour of The Charterhouse, an ancient monastery on the edge of the old City of London.
2:15pm to 3:45pm
Clerkenwell
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Sunday 29th March
Come backstage at Royal Festival Hall, with access to restricted areas of this historic building.
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London Festival of Railway Modelling take over Ally Pally with model circuits, demonstrations and expert modellers throughout the day.
All Day
Free
Travelling fairground with a twist -- many old Victorian steam engine powered rides.
All Day
Battersea
Half acre garden opened by the owner for the NGS on a couple of days per year -- entry fees go to charity.
2pm to 5:30pm
Highgate
£1015.00
Annual lecture hosted by the Stop the War coalition.
Starts at 7pm
Soho
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Monday 30th March
By ancient tradition when Parliament is closed ahead of a General Election, the bill has to be read out in public on the steps of the Royal Exchange.
Starts at 2:30pm
A panel discussion looking at the relationship between journalists and the police.
Starts at 6:30pm
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Tuesday 31st March
2pm to 3:30pm
