Welcome to the IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
Top events in London on Wed 31st Oct 2018
Free
Ancient Magic
Explore the mystical objects and potent rituals of our magical past in this free Hallowe’en event.
6pm to 8pm
Euston
Free
Science Museum Lates
The theme for the October Lates event is the Year of Engineering.
6:45pm to 10pm South KensingtonTalk by Anthony Grenville on Britain and depictions of the British in texts by Jewish refugees from Nazism
6:30pm to 8pm Russell SquareDemonstrations, researchers into dark matter ready to answer your questions and an opportunity to have a quick tour of the telescopes we have on site
5pm to 6:30pm Mill Hill
£10.00
Tour of St Bride Foundation
Tour the printing workshop, historic rooms, and famous library.
11am to 12:30pm City of London
This talk will focus on how easy it can be for healthcare practitioners to move from saving lives to doing away with them. The focus will be on Dr Harold Shipman who killed hundreds of his patients over a 28-year period.
7pm to : Southwark
£25.00
Docks after dark
An evening tour filled with dark stories of death and spooky happenings!
6:30pm to : Poplar
200 years after the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, discover how the novel has shaped our hopes and dreads around death.
6:30pm to 8pm Euston
Join Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport chief Toto Wolff and a panel of expert speakers to find out about the engineering wizardry that propels some of the fastest humans on the planet.
7:30pm to 8:30pm South KensingtonEnjoy a drink and uncover some gruesome animal facts along the way with Halloween-themed specimen labels.
6:30pm to 9pm Euston
Delve into the realms of the unknown with producer of the Unexplained podcast Richard Maclean Smith for a night of strange tales and live music.
7pm to 8pm Soho
Join compere and comedian Steve Cross bringing together some brilliant literary Londoners with a passion for the mysterious and the supernatural.
7:30pm to : City of London
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Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
Explore the remarkable story of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from the opposition and immense challenges faced by early pioneers to the latest research today.
10am to 6pm South Kensington
Closing soon Wed, 31st Oct
Blood bricks embody the converging traumas of modern slavery and climate change in our urban age.
9am to 6pm Euston Closing soon Wed, 31st Oct
London's lost buildings – from coaching inns and horse markets to riverside mansions and gin palaces – are the focus of a this exhibition.
9:30am to 7:30pm Clerkenwell Closing soon Wed, 31st Oct
A display of more than 200 original illustrations of the nature of the British Isles.
10am to 5:50pm South Kensington Closing soon Fri, 2nd Nov
Explore an exclusive range of journals, logs and records that date back to the 1700s.
9am to 9pm Harley Street Closing soon Sat, 3rd Nov
Award winning graphic artist Frith Kerr invites designers to respond to the female artists collected by Ernö and Ursula Goldfinger.
11am to 5pm Hampstead Closing soon Sun, 4th Nov
100 projects shaping the world of tomorrow
10am to 5:45pm South Kensington Closing soon Sun, 4th Nov
Explore the origins of the Dowding System and its legacy in later years.
10am to 4pm Stanmore Closing soon Sat, 10th Nov
This exhibition investigates and reveals Dickens’s deep and influential interest in medicine, chemistry, geology, the energy of the Earth and the ability of science to drive change.
10am to 5pm Clerkenwell Closing soon Sun, 11th Nov
Discover the city at night through the eyes of photographers from the late 19th century to the present day.
10am to 6pm Barbican Closing soon Sun, 11th Nov
Tower Bridge opening times
Tower Bridge is not due to open today. The next scheduled opening is on Sat 3rd Nov at 05:30pm
