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
Professor Nicholas Vincent explores significant archival discoveries surrounding the Magna Carta.
5pm to 6pm
Richmond
£12.00
Join OOF Gallery's curators and a host of football-obsessed artists as they explore the aesthetics of the world's favourite game and celebrate the launch of issue nine of OOF magazine.
6:30pm to 9pm
Kensington
Join us with Italian Photographer Alessandro Sarno at Stanfords talking about his stunningly beautiful photographic books.
6:30pm to 8pm
Soho
Mat Osman and Stephen Ellcock discuss with Cathi Unsworth the anarchic magic of their collaboration England on Fire.
7:30pm to 9:30pm
Holborn
Online events / webinars
A talk about Horace Walpole’s Georgian Gothic villa, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham.
6:30pm to :
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
Closes tomorrow
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
Closing soon Thu, 30th June
An exhibition about a sauna built for the 1948 Olympics that spured the trade in prefab buildings.
12pm to 8pm
Homerton
Closing soon Thu, 30th June
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
Closing soon Thu, 30th June
This exhibition brings together Zaha Hadid's imagined London, from student experimentations to unrealised visions and built projects.
11am to 5:30pm
Clerkenwell
Closing soon Fri, 1st July
£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
Ends on 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
On this guided tour, led by an expert City of London of Guide, you’ll see several of his finest places of worship.
11am to 12:30pm
City of LondonA guided walk around the City looking for old London.
11am to 1pm Barbican£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
