Welcome to the ianVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
Coronavirus: Events may be cancelled and venues closed at short notice, you are advised to check on their websites before making a trip.
Top events in London Today
£13.00
An evening tour through a Hackney's most historic house, including the chance for a welcome drink (optional).
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Homerton
An evening of informal history talks in our Victorian Chapel. Explore the forgotten history of East End Jewish Jazz, Weavers Fields in Bethnal Green and East End voices past and present.
6:30pm to 1am
Bethnal Green
Hear the truly wild adventures of the farmer-turned- rewilder who is on a mission to save Britain’s much-loved but dangerously threatened species – from the water vole to beaver, wildcat to white stork and tree frog to glow worm.
7pm to 8:30pm
Soho
This discussion explores how we might reimagine the food systems that shape our lives. If we could start afresh with equity and circularity in mind, what would our food systems look like now?
7pm to 8:30pm
Richmond
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
An exhibition of the Camden Green Loop, a public realm strategy to bring our neighbourhoods to life.
10am to 3pm
Camden
Closing soon Wed, 29th June
Learn about Victorian Westminster in this exhibition showcasing selection of collections from City of Westminster Archives, toys on loan from Pollocks Toy Museum and Victorian costumes.
9am to 5pm
Victoria
Closes today
An exhibition about a sauna built for the 1948 Olympics that spured the trade in prefab buildings.
12pm to 8pm
Homerton
Closes today
Walk through the ‘Time Tunnel’, an alfresco exhibition on the past, present, and future of Seven Dials, a one-of-a-kind destination in the heart of London’s West End.
All Day
Soho
Closes today
This exhibition brings together Zaha Hadid's imagined London, from student experimentations to unrealised visions and built projects.
11am to 5:30pm
Clerkenwell
Closes tomorrow
£16
Lubaina Himid
Tate Modern presents Himid’s largest solo exhibition to date, incorporating new paintings and significant highlights from across her remarkable career.
10am to 6pm
Southwark
Closing soon Sun, 3rd July
This exhibition explores William Hogarth’s relationship with animals through his work as an artist and in his personal life.
12pm to 5pm
Chiswick
Closing soon Sun, 3rd July
12pm to 7pm
Soho
Closing soon Sun, 10th July
This exhibition documents the 'three - year battle', in which a group of diverse elders joined forces with community activists and architectural mavericks, in an attempt to prevent demolition and restore their "Modernist Gem".
9am to 10pm
Brixton
Closing soon Tue, 12th July
An exhibition that unites works of art with the novels, poetry, drama and stories which have inspired them, and which they, in turn, have inspired.
9am to 5pm
St James
Ends on Thu 14th July
Walking tours of London - today
Follow the trail left by monks and monarchs, press barons and literary giants along the highway and down its twisting alleyways.
11am to 12:30pm
City of London£15.00
The Famous Square Mile
A walk that explores the very heart of the City – the most historic part of the capital.
11am to 1pm City of London£15.00
Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
This Magical Mystery Tour is a chance to “Imagine” Beatlemania and the Swinging 60s.
11am to 1pm Bloomsbury£15.00
Old Westminster Walking Tour
A guided walk around Westminster and get to see the hidden and ever so picturesque Georgian back streets where all the political salons are
2pm to 4pm Whitehall
