Welcome to the IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
Friday 19th June
£5.00
Caribbean connections
This talk will be delivered by Guy Grannum (Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors), who has been writing and speaking about Caribbean heritage and family history for over 25 years.
2pm to 3pm
Richmond
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Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
The exhibition explores Victorian London from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on Dickens’s child characters.
9am to 6:15pm Euston
Ends on Sat, 20th Jun
The UK’s first public exhibition dedicated solely to gay cultural icon Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen) on the centenary of his birth.
10am to 5:30pm Kings Cross Ends on Sun, 21st Jun
A multidisciplinary exhibition combining the architecture of windows, photography, manga, craft and technology.
10am to 8pm Kensington Ends on Sun, 28th Jun
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years.
10am to 9pm Soho Ends on Sun, 28th Jun
Explore 500 years of love letters in this intimate exhibition.
Starts at 9am Richmond Ends on Sun, 5th Jul
This exhibition transports you through the people, art, design, technology and photography that have been capturing and shaping the electronic music landscape.
10am to 6pm Kensington Ends on Sun, 26th Jul
The first-ever UK exhibition by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, this epic cycle of new work will explore an imagined ancient myth.
All Day Barbican Ends on Sun, 26th Jul
A display celebrating Dub Reggae and its influence on the capital.
10am to 6pm Barbican Ends on Fri, 31st Jul
To coincide with JMW Turner featuring on the new £20 note, find out about the variety of stock purchases made by Turner in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
10am to 5pm Ends on Fri, 31st Jul
From ‘honey dew’ drinking parties to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, discover Beatrix Potter’s response to the world of fairies and fairytales.
10am to 5:45pm South Kensington Ends on Mon, 3rd Aug
Walking tours of London on Friday 19th June 2020
Are you ready to learn about London’s grim and gruesome past? Then join us on a tour that tells the tale of crime and punishment, executions and excess.
11am to 12:45pm City of London
Discover more about this much-loved London hospital, whose history dates back nearly 900 years!
2pm to 3:30pm Barbican
Tower Bridge opening times
Tower Bridge is not due to open today. The next scheduled opening is on Fri 3rd Jul at 01:00pm
