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Top events in London on Fri 2nd Nov 2018
Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes discusses King George V's trip to the battlefields of northern Europe to visit the war graves of the fallen.
11:30am to :
Chelsea
Dr Paula Byrne explores the novelist’s roots in the comic theatre, her own supreme comic gifts, and her influence on subsequent novelists such as Evelyn Waugh and Barbara Pym.
7pm to : Soho
Join Bert Weckhuysen as he explores how chemistry is being used to create waste-powered transport and why it is so difficult to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.
7pm to 8:30pm Hanover Square
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Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
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 5:30pm 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 10pm 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
An exhibition that explores the glamorous and grotesque, disturbed and diabolical, surreal and supernatural, merciless and macabre and uncanny and undead!
6pm to 11pm Whitechapel Closing soon Fri, 16th Nov
The feature display will include war and propaganda posters issued by all sides of the conflict, including the UK, USA, Germany and Russia.
10am to 6pm West Brompton Closing soon Sat, 17th Nov
This exhibition features two very talented Edwardian female illustrators whose work has been largely forgotten.
11am to 4pm Pinner Closing soon Sun, 18th 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
