What's on in London on Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Welcome to the IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and random miscellany happening around London.
Top things to do in London on Wed 23rd May 2018
Free
Pewter Live 2018
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 5pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 5pm)
30th annual competition to celebrate the best in pewter making - one day exhibition of the winning entries.
(City of London)
Free
The 30 Years' War (1618-48) and the Second Defenestration of Prague
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 1pm to 2pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 1pm to 2pm)
Professor Wilson will examine the causes, conduct and consequences of the Thirty Years’ War, Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the two 20th-century world wars.
(Barbican)
Free
Media Reporting of Medical Advances: Helpful or Misleading?
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 6pm to 7pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 6pm to 7pm)
This lecture will use examples of how the public may be misled and consider the implications of such misunderstanding.
(Barbican)
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Free
Welcome to the Simulation
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 11am to 6pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 11am to 6pm)
An exhibition of new work by Belfast-based street artist and printmaker Leo Boyd.
£13.50
Another Kind of Life Photography on the Margins
(Wednesday, 23rd May - All Day)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - All Day)
Touching on themes of countercultures, subcultures and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day.
£15
Age of Terror: Art since 9/11
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
The UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
Free
Tacita Dean: Still Life
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
Explore still life through the lens of Tacita Dean, one of the genre's leading contemporary practitioners
Free
Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: 1918 - 2018
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 8am to 9am)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 8am to 9am)
Large landscape images explore the theme of reconciliation by capturing how time and nature have eased the scars of war on the battlefields of the Western Front.
Free
Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 5pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 5pm)
Learn about global efforts made after the Holocaust to find Zuzana Knobloch and millions of others like her.
Free
Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
This exhibition commemorates the centenary of this momentous battle and the huge medical and human impact of wounding during and beyond the First World War.
Free
AOP50: 50 Years of the Association of Photographers
(Wednesday, 23rd May - All Day)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - All Day)
Photographs have been selected to illustrate the impact, diversity and quality of work by AOP members since 1968.
Free
Just Type
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 8am to 5pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 8am to 5pm)
A typography based exhibition featuring new works from 6 artists who have a long connection with letters in various forms and colours.
Free
Fatberg!
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
(Wednesday, 23rd May - 10am to 6pm)
A display of the last remaining parts of the Whitechapel fatberg.
Walking Tours of London on Wed 23rd May 2018
Hear about the history of the area and how it was transformed to host the world-famous London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
(Olympic Park)
Join Pete on his fascinating walking tour taking in the sights and sounds of Brick Lane and the lesser known streets of this vibrant community.
(Tower Hill)
Tower Bridge opening times
| 03:00pm | Sailing Vessel Eye of the Wind | Up river |
| 03:30pm | Sailing Vessel Eye of the Wind | Down river |
| 11:15am | Sailing Barge Ardwina | Up river |
| 05:00pm | Sailing Barge Ardwina | Down river |
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