Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Events and Tours - Archive Articles

Things to see and events to do across London.

A chance to abseil down the Broadgate Tower
A chance to abseil down the Broadgate Tower

A chance to abseil down the Broadgate Tower

Another of those "raise money and do something scary" events -- a chance to abseil down the outside of a tall tower block on the edge of the City of London.

Jan
24
2014
Date announced for a rare tour of a WW2 Bunker
Date announced for a rare tour of a WW2 Bunker

Date announced for a rare tour of a WW2 Bunker

Deep under a housing estate in North London lies one of WW2's greatest secrets, the reserve Cabinet War Rooms that lay hidden and waiting just in case the (now) more famous Westminster bunkers were attacked.

Jan
16
2014
Grab some free tickets to the Ig Nobel show
Grab some free tickets to the Ig Nobel show

Grab some free tickets to the Ig Nobel show

One of the highlights of the annual science entertainment calendar is making a return in March, with an evening comprising of an oddly eclectic mix of science, bad poetry, and a small girl walking up to people and saying “Please Stop, I’m Bored”.

Jan
15
2014
Watch the Red Arrows from the top of The Shard
Watch the Red Arrows from the top of The Shard

Watch the Red Arrows from the top of The Shard

There is one day of the year where you can be absolutely certain of a major military flypast over London followed by the Red Arrows -- on The Queen's official birthday in June.

Dec
30
2013
At Smithfield Meat Market’s annual Christmas Eve auction
At Smithfield Meat Market’s annual Christmas Eve auction

At Smithfield Meat Market’s annual Christmas Eve auction

Another year and another franticly good natured auction on the pavement -- and spilling onto the road -- outside the historic Smithfield's Meat Market, but also sadly the last time it will take place here.

Dec
24
2013
Watch the Space Station Fly Over London on Xmas Eve
Watch the Space Station Fly Over London on Xmas Eve

Watch the Space Station Fly Over London on Xmas Eve

What a lovely way to start Christmas as we can -- weather permitting -- watch the International Space Station flying right over London on Christmas Eve.

Dec
19
2013
There’s an upside down building on Blackfriars Road
There’s an upside down building on Blackfriars Road

There’s an upside down building on Blackfriars Road

A tired old building with a tree growing out of it destined to be torn town and replaced with another anonymous glass and steel tower has -- for a while -- become a work of art instead.

Dec
04
2013
A Festival of Winter Walks over Christmas
A Festival of Winter Walks over Christmas

A Festival of Winter Walks over Christmas

Each yuletide season, the Ramblers Association host a number of free walks -- an opportunity to lure in prospective new members and for the rest of us, to force ourselves to walk off some of the Xmas excesses.

Dec
03
2013
Tower Bridge to resume Engineering Tours in the New Year
Tower Bridge to resume Engineering Tours in the New Year

Tower Bridge to resume Engineering Tours in the New Year

Tower Bridge has announced that it will be running its Engineering Tours again in the New Year, which is coincidentally also when the bridge has to deal with the fewest openings that can disrupt such tours.

Nov
27
2013
The Georgians are coming! The Georgians are coming!
The Georgians are coming! The Georgians are coming!

The Georgians are coming! The Georgians are coming!

Next year marks the 300th anniversary of the last successful invasion of the UK by the Germans, as the Elector of Hanover, George took the British Throne as the only suitable Protestant monarch available.

Nov
12
2013
Naked Frenchmen at a London art gallery
Naked Frenchmen at a London art gallery

Naked Frenchmen at a London art gallery

A total of nearly 40 drawings drawn from the gallic gymnomania have now gone on display in the basement at the Wallace art collection for a few months.

Nov
11
2013
Past and future geniuses of art at the Queen’s Gallery
Past and future geniuses of art at the Queen’s Gallery

Past and future geniuses of art at the Queen’s Gallery

A dual exhibition has opened that is devoted to the art of drawings upon paper -- one half devoted to an acknowledged lost genius, and the other half to modern day artists, most of whom can be presumed to want to avoid the same title.

Nov
11
2013
Support a London Museum this Christmas
Support a London Museum this Christmas

Support a London Museum this Christmas

Now than the Papist has been burnt as effigy, we can safely start talking about the next big festival -- that of Christmas and the annual season of gift giving.

Nov
06
2013
Overnight Rehearsal of the Lord Mayor’s Show
Overnight Rehearsal of the Lord Mayor’s Show

Overnight Rehearsal of the Lord Mayor’s Show

In the early hours of the morning, the silent streets of the City of London were disturbed by the sound of horse and carriage, as the City rehearsed its annual pageant ahead of this weekend's Lord Mayor's Show.

Nov
06
2013
The hidden Japanese garden in central London
The hidden Japanese garden in central London

The hidden Japanese garden in central London

Sitting on top of a university building in central London can be found a small secluded garden, and it's open to the public to visit.

Nov
04
2013
Great Estates: How London’s landowners shape the city
Great Estates: How London’s landowners shape the city

Great Estates: How London’s landowners shape the city

Dotted around London can be found some of the Great Estates that are the consequence of developments by single minded owners often in Georgian periods. But the Great Estates are not just a historic quirk, but are a still growing phenomena across the city.

Oct
27
2013
Post War buildings celebrated inside the Wellington Arch
Post War buildings celebrated inside the Wellington Arch

Post War buildings celebrated inside the Wellington Arch

Wellington Arch next to Hyde Park has swapped out the display inside the top of the arch bit and is running a short exhibition on how 20th century buildings, often derided have been preserved and in some cases, gained affection.

Oct
24
2013
Paintings and drawings of the Thames in the 1860s
Paintings and drawings of the Thames in the 1860s

Paintings and drawings of the Thames in the 1860s

Just over 110 years ago, an American artist living in London died. London has never really forgiven this insult to its character so it has taken 110 years for a major exhibition of his work to go on display.

Oct
16
2013
List of London’s 2013 Bonfire Night Fireworks
List of London’s 2013 Bonfire Night Fireworks

List of London’s 2013 Bonfire Night Fireworks

Time to start planning the annual celebration of the persecution of a Papist plot to kill our Protestant Monarch.

Oct
09
2013
A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now
A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now

A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now

The ICA has opened a major exhibition. It's in a derelict building, because major art events are supposed to be in old buildings now. It's also the Old Selfridges Hotel, because that particular department store likes doing arty things.

Oct
01
2013
Chance to go inside a disused tube station
Chance to go inside a disused tube station

Chance to go inside a disused tube station

Of the closed tube stations that litter the London Underground, two top the list of stations that people want to visit. One is Down Street, near Hyde Park as it was used as a WW2 command centre, and the other

Sep
27
2013
Estuary at the Docklands Museum
Estuary at the Docklands Museum

Estuary at the Docklands Museum

An exhibition has opened in a museum, that is being advertised by bright garish black on yellow posters around London. It's an exhibition about a landscape that is usually devoid of bright garish colours.

Sep
24
2013
Opportunity to Abseil down the side of a Hospital
Opportunity to Abseil down the side of a Hospital

Opportunity to Abseil down the side of a Hospital

A quick note if you are to sort to do these sorts of things, but there is a chance to abseil down the side of the new 17-story high Royal London Hospital building in Whitechapel later this month.

Sep
10
2013
Donkeys inside St Paul’s Cathedral
Donkeys inside St Paul’s Cathedral

Donkeys inside St Paul’s Cathedral

A pace of 25 donkeys (yes, that is the collective noun) has arrived in St Paul's Cathedral and will be there for a few weeks.

Sep
03
2013