Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Things to do in London in August 2020

The ianVisits guide to August's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.


Saturday 1st August

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Sunday 2nd August

Monthly open day at Gatton Park, the core 250 acres of the estate originally laid out by Capability Brown.
2020-08-02
1pm to 5pm
 
Reigate
Reigate
Here is an oasis in Camden’s urban density, where resourceful planting outflanks challenges of space and shade and Mrs Dickens, who once lived here, is an amiable ghost.
2020-08-02
2pm to 4:30pm
 
Camden
Camden

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Monday 3rd August

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Tuesday 4th August

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Wednesday 5th August

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Thursday 6th August


Online events / webinars

Your presenter takes you on a guided 360° virtual tour. You will have a detailed look inside several rooms including the Commons Chamber, Lords Chamber and Central Lobby with its magnificent octagonal ceiling.
6pm to 7pm
 

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Friday 7th August

Roy Vickery will lead this walk taking a look at the wide range of wildflowers growing in the beautiful Streatham Cemetery (in Tooting!).
2020-08-07
11am to 12:30pm
 
Tooting
Tooting

Online events / webinars

Emma Major delivers this highly illuminating talk on 18th Century gin crazes. Meet gin-dispensing cats and Old Toms, as you learn who drank gin and how, and why there was a gin craze.
2pm to 3pm
 
Join Emma Major to find out about the eighteenth-century gin craze.
2pm to 3pm
 

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Saturday 8th August


Online events / webinars

Live online Zoom talk. Rosalind McCutcheon and Jill Williams cover the story of Ireland.
4pm to 5pm
 

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Sunday 9th August

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Monday 10th August


Online events / webinars

Ideas for living that aid physical and mental health, from homes for heroes and key worker housing to communal dwellings that improve wellbeing.
4pm to 5pm
 
Introduced by Interpretation Manager Jane Nielsen, join Curator, Mark Dennis, as he uses examples from our collection to illustrate this unique art form born out of conflict.
7:30pm to 8:15pm
 

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Tuesday 11th August


Online events / webinars

Join our expert-led webinar that will give you guide you through all the basics to get started with discovering your family history within half an hour.
2pm to 3pm
 
Hear fascinating and unexpected tales of London's great West End stores, from Selfridges to John Lewis via Liberty, HMV and many others
3pm to 4pm
 
These talks will explore not only the mirage of safety and control presented by nurses, but also the toll this mask of resilience took upon the human being behind it.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
Stuck at home? Get to know Rome in an hour with a professional tour guide and lover of art, Olga Cuckovic.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Using results from the most powerful telescopes and particle colliders, Katie Mack describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different predictions of how the Universe will end.
7pm to 8:30pm
 
A lecture about the diplomacy and science needed to understand the origins and hazards associated with Mount Paektu, a large volcano on the border of the North Korea and China.
7:30pm to 8pm
 

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Wednesday 12th August


Online events / webinars

£10.00
Simon Fowler talks on Zoom about the life that paupers lived in the 1800s.
2pm to 3pm
 
Professor Dany Nobus will reflect upon the enduring legacy of one of Freud’s most controversial texts, gauge its value for our contemporary living conditions, and open some new perspectives for revisiting this absolute classic of Freudian psychoanalysis.
3pm to 5pm
 
Stuck at home? Come along to this virtual tour of Art Deco New York with author Anthony Robins.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Thursday 13th August


Online events / webinars

Join historian Yasmin Khan in conversation with journalist and author Shrabani Basu as they discuss India’s role in the Second World War.
12pm to :
 
Florence Nightingale apparently loathed having her photograph taken. Why then did she accept to sit for these images?
5pm to :
 
This online slideshow followed by a Zoom Q&A is a nice start on a journey through the ritual year.
8pm to 10pm
 

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Friday 14th August

Family open weekend at the gardens of Chiswick House
2020-08-14
11am to 4pm
 
Chiswick
Chiswick

Online events / webinars

A talk about the nature of erotic writing in the 16th century from book burning to the Renaissance.
1pm to 2pm
 
James Sumner (Manchester University) discusses the challenges that brewers faced in promoting new innovations to an often justifiably suspicious public.
2pm to 3pm
 
Join General Lord Richards, President of the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League, in conversation with Dr Peter Johnston as they explore the contribution of Commonwealth soldiers during the Far East campaign.
2pm to :
 
In 1809 a London brewery was prosecuted for the unusual offence of trying to remove cloudiness from its beer by dosing it with an extract of fish-skins.
2pm to 3pm
 
Brighton is not just the sea front, pier and pavilion. Let Stephen show you the many sides of the city often called London by the Sea
3pm to 4pm
 

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Saturday 15th August

Family open weekend at the gardens of Chiswick House
2020-08-15
11am to 4pm
 
Chiswick
Chiswick
Look to the skies, as the Red Arrows will fly over London in the late-afternoon.
2020-08-15
5:25pm to 5:35pm
 

Online events / webinars

Join historian Julie Summers and Geoff Gill from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in conversation with Emma Mawdsley on the treatment and conditions of prisoners of war working on the Thai-Burma Railway.
12pm to :
 
This talk describes the development of the aircraft and eventual need to have a “standoff missile“ capable of allowing the aircraft to stay clear of the target area.
2pm to 3:15pm
 
A virtual lecture on the Arms of the City of London and its diverse ancient and modern Livery Companies
6pm to 7:30pm
 

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Sunday 16th August

This garden takes vertical planting to new heights – but is not for those who are afraid to walk a gangplank.
2020-08-16
1pm to 5:30pm
 
Upper Norwood
Upper Norwood
Unusual walled and paved garden with different compartments on 2 levels, substantially restructured since previous opening in 2008.
2020-08-16
2pm to 5pm
 
Wandsworth
Wandsworth

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Monday 17th August

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Tuesday 18th August


Online events / webinars

Hear about Taziker Engineering’s approach, the challenges and the solutions.
1pm to 2pm
 
Should governments be allowed to reduce consumer food choice by legislating that food producers and retailers supply exclusively healthy foods from sustainable food systems?
7pm to 7:30pm
 

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Wednesday 19th August

£25.00
See around 100 luxury cars on display in central London
2020-08-19
All Day
 
Moorgate
Moorgate
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-19
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

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The event will also cover Blue Roofs - engineering for multifunctionality and integrating SuDS into highway schemes and working with below ground constraints.
1pm to 2pm
 

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Thursday 20th August

£25.00
See around 100 luxury cars on display in central London
2020-08-20
All Day
 
Moorgate
Moorgate
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-20
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

Online events / webinars

Artist Mary Branson discusses her contemporary light sculpture 'New Dawn'. Commemorating the women's suffrage campaign, this was the first piece of abstract art commissioned for permanent display in the Palace of Westminster.
6pm to 6:30pm
 
A talk about why, in 1066, for the first time, multiple foreign powers invaded England.
7pm to :
 
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
7:30pm to 8:30pm
 

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Friday 21st August

A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-21
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

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Saturday 22nd August

A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-22
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

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Sunday 23rd August

Open days usually feature the restored engines in operation, a light railway trip, and walks around the Victorian buildings.
2020-08-23
10:30am to 4pm
 
Abbey Wood
Abbey Wood
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-23
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

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Monday 24th August


Online events / webinars

Did you know that freemasons have supported schools for the children of members for over 200 years?
7:30pm to 8:15pm
 

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Tuesday 25th August


Online events / webinars

Emily Levesque reveals the hidden world of the professional astronomer. She celebrates an era of ingenuity and curiosity, and asks us to think twice before we cast aside our sense of wonder at the universe.
7pm to 8:30pm
 

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Wednesday 26th August

A heads up that the bookings page for London Open House weekend opens today.
2020-08-26
All Day
 
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-26
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

Online events / webinars

Consultant gynaecologist Sir Marcus Setchell, reflects on the royal connections at Barts, which go back 900 years to Rahere and Henry VIII
7pm to 8pm
 
Join Gabriella Swaffield to time- travel back 600 years at the Charterhouse.
7pm to 8pm
 

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Thursday 27th August

A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-27
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton

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Experience a day in the life of a virus scientist in this livestreamed event for all the family, hosted by BBC presenter Greg Foot.
10:30am to 11:15am
 
Curator and author Joanna Banham will be delving into the colourful history of Victorian wallpapers.
7pm to :
 
Uncover the long-standing relationship between the Army and artists past and present in this live online discussion.
7:30pm to 8:30pm
 

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Friday 28th August

A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-28
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-08-28
2:30pm to 8pm
 
Woolwich
Woolwich

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This talk shows how the theory and methods of space syntax can help historians find new ways of using maps and town plans as sources in urban social history.
3pm to 4pm
 
Croydon isn't just boring 1960s office blocks and shops. Join Stephen to learn the fascinating story of a little old town with big ambition.
3pm to 4pm
 

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Saturday 29th August

A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-29
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton
Visit this green oasis in a urban setting it is a one of the many local green lungs in Forest Hill where you can find some interesting wildlife.
2020-08-29
12pm to 4pm
 
Forest Hill
Forest Hill
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-08-29
2:30pm to 8pm
 
Woolwich
Woolwich

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Sunday 30th August

The museum has it's first open day with some engines in steam since the lockdown started.
2020-08-30
11am to 3pm
 
Walthamstow
Walthamstow
A block of 10 days where the Transport Museum's main storage depot in Acton is open to visitors.
2020-08-30
11am to 6pm
 
Acton
Acton
Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-08-30
2:30pm to 8pm
 
Woolwich
Woolwich

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Monday 31st August

Luke Jerram’s ceremonial art installation has been created as a memorial to those we have lost in the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-08-31
2:30pm to 8pm
 
Woolwich
Woolwich

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