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: Monday, 2nd September 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Discover the alluring, seductive and terrifying role of poison and how it affects our everyday lives through nature, myth, medicine and healing (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Sep)
The Old Truman Brewery
An exhibition of 100 illustrations that capture a variety of aspects of London’s unique character and qualities. (Ending Soon Sun, 6th Sep)
Guildhall Library's exhibition takes you through plague material, from books to broadsides, which reveal more information about this devastating fire. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th Sep)
An exhibition about Sir Alan Cobham, a pioneering long distance aviator and technical innovator who became famous for his exploits. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th Sep)
An exhibition about the influence of early scientific photography on modern and contemporary art. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Sep)
A candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Sep)
A chance to see Westminster Abbey's engrossment of the version of the Magna Carta sealed by Edward I in 1300 (Ending Soon Fri, 25th Sep)
Supreme Court
An exhibition documenting the London Missionary Society from 1792 to 1825 showing its formation to its initial ‘success’ in Polynesia. (Ending Soon Sat, 26th Sep)
An exhibition of over 120 original illustrations from Ladybird Books (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Sep)
House of Illustration
The exhibition focuses on post-war relief and rehabilitation work of the Jewish Relief Unit in Bergen-Belsen and elsewhere. (Ending Soon Fri, 2nd Oct)
This display highlights how this office project became the test-bed of ideas for the group’s design. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Oct)
Free
Behind Sacred Doors
700 years of art, crafts and architecture from Haringey’s Churches. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Oct)
Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden will explore the changing character of the garden in art from the 16th to the early 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Oct)
An exhibition of the music culture that dominated during WW1 (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Oct)
Royal Academy of Music Museum
This display brings twelve of Tate’s Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite works face to face with a rare collection of their three-dimensional doubles. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
Alice in Cartoonland celebrates Alice’s many misadventures at the hands of cartoonists, caricaturists and satirists, animators and graphic artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
£0
Plantastic
Explore the wonderful world of plants on a massive scale. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
This display explores the evidence we have for gladiators, criminals and soldiers in Roman London. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
An exhibition about the UK’s first female press photographer, and her work in the 1910s. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
Free
The Alice Look
The display shows how Alice in Wonderland has been adopted and adapted across the world in all walks of life, (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
V&A Museum of Childhood
A temporary exhibition which looks at how the Battle of Waterloo was fought and won. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Nov)
The Guards Museum
Explore almost three decades of the estate’s construction from the mid-1950s to 1982. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Nov)
This special display brings together original weapons and armour dating from the time of the battle, (Ending Soon Tue, 1st Dec)
An exhibition examining the history of postcards in Britain, with particular focus on the depiction of Hampstead and local landmarks (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Dec)
An exhibition by the Peace Pledge Union with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund Looking at Religion, Politics, Work Camps and Prison. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Dec)
An exhibition of around 40 objects showing Royal power, including the never previously exhibited great seal of King John (Ending Soon Wed, 23rd Dec)
An exhibition that showcases centuries of work by the Corporation of Trinity House to help sailors navigate safely at sea, (Ending Soon Mon, 4th Jan)
Exhibition about how Churchill’s fascination with science led to the scientific achievements that helped Britain win the Second World War. (Ending Soon Tue, 1st Mar)
An exhibition of early aerial photography by a firm based on Nth London. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Sep)
