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 February 2021

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


Monday 1st February


Online events / webinars

This lecture will chart the fascinating history and science of neutrinos, from their discovery in 1956 to the role they played in understanding solar physics.
1pm to 2pm
 
The Rt. Hon The Lord Mayor William Russell, President of Gresham College, will be convening a panel on a subject of topical interest.
6pm to 7pm
 
Museum curator Henrietta Lockhart explores the lives of ten women living at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
7pm to 10pm
 

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Tuesday 2nd February


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This talk concentrates on the great empress’s funeral and the role played by London as her body passed through on its way to lie beside Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore.
2pm to 3pm
 
This talk explores how the gay underground came into contact with the typically establishmentarian field of classics.
5:15pm to 6:30pm
 
This talk will illustrate the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late seventeenth century.
6:30pm to :
 

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Wednesday 3rd February


Online events / webinars

Dr. Anna Henschel shares how while there are still miles to go before robots become a regular feature within our social spaces, rapid progress in social robotics research, aided by the social sciences, is helping to move us closer to this reality.
1pm to :
 
Professor Jim Crawley presents his research journey that has uncovered the intricate ways in which blood clotting is regulated.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
Ethan Pollock, professor of History and Slavic studies at Brown, reveals the 1000-year story of the Russian bathhouse.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
Discover how and why the Elizabeth Tower, the Great Clock and the Great Bell, Big Ben, were built and learn about the enormous task of restoring the tower to its former glory.
6pm to 7pm
 
This lecture asks how a religious dispute came to rewrite the English constitution and traces that upheaval’s legacies – some plain, some hidden – for England and its neighbours down to the present.
6pm to 7pm
 
This talk will explore the origins of movement, and how the landscape we see at Chiswick today came to be.
7pm to 8pm
 

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Thursday 4th February


Online events / webinars

Join ICE Hereford and Worcester for a historical talk, focusing on the life and works of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, the father of Isambard Kingdom.
1pm to 2pm
 
Join Lester Hillman on an illustrated virtual tour on Zoom around the King’s Cross area in London.
2pm to 3pm
 
This talks hopes to explore how the speed of the railways affected passengers' eating habits and how they felt about it.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
Is there is a level playing field between participants at inquests? What does ‘equality of arms’ mean? Is such a concept appropriate when looking at inquests? Are inquiries better?
6pm to 7pm
 

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Friday 5th February


Online events / webinars

Join Professor Kim A Wagner online as he uses the story of a grisly war-trophy to explore the history of British rule in India and the Uprising of 1857.
12pm to :
 
Explore the 18th Century Garden through this lecture to find the ‘gaiety in nature’ that Walpole describes at Strawberry Hill and that is still present today.
7pm to 8pm
 

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Saturday 6th February

No events are listed for today. Sorry.

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Sunday 7th February

A beautiful historic parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with Edwardian gardens in Reigate, Surrey.
2021-02-07
1pm to 5pm
 
Reigate
Reigate

Online events / webinars

Join Miriam Margolyes, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and the Charles Dickens Museum to celebrate the birthday of Charles Dickens.
7pm to :
 
Dr.Graham guaranteed both ecstasy and fertility to the users of his infamous 18th Century Celestial Bed, Zoom lecture with Lydia Syson
8pm to 10pm
 

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Monday 8th February


Online events / webinars

This illustrated talk will consider some of the amazing sites already protected and others that might merit our consideration.
6pm to 7pm
 
As Darwin “exalted” his favourite flowers, the orchids, he also narrowed the once-unimaginably wide gap between plants and animals, thus making it easier for his readers to imaginatively bridge the much smaller distance between humans and apes.
6pm to 7pm
 
Learn about how male sex symbol, masculinity and popular cinema converge!
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Tuesday 9th February


Online events / webinars

Sanjeev Gupta and Mark Sephton discuss the aims and approaches taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover and what they expect it to discover.
12:30pm to 1:30pm
 
This lecture explores how mathematical ideas have been interpreted in fiction, and discusses the unlikelihood, mathematically, of realms such as Brobdingnag and Lilliput, or the room-sized spiders of Hogwarts.
1pm to 2pm
 
London and Gin - delve into the fascinating history of the city and the drink
2pm to 2:45pm
 
A talk about how the increased visibility of an ageing Queen changed society's views of ageing itself.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
Prof.Hutton Will examine our Magnificent Pre-Christian Heritage and examine how much of this it is possible to recover
8pm to 10pm
 

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Wednesday 10th February


Online events / webinars

Wood Work is the Building Centre's online lunch-time talks series, featuring international designers and their wood inspired projects.
1pm to 1:30pm
 
The link between art and literature is crucial to an understanding of much of the art of the past.
2pm to 3pm
 
A new project which aims to record the state and development of highways as the network developed from one serving primarily local agricultural markets to one fit for an emerging industrial economy.
5:30pm to 7:30pm
 
This lecture will consider several aspects of the science and public debate about vaccines.
6pm to 7pm
 
A talk about the grand, and sometimes despised funerals of French Kings.
6:30pm to :
 
Victorian Society Chair Hilary Grainger discusses Ernest George's major houses.
7pm to 8:30pm
 
This talk will focus on the planned Lottery-funded renovation of the Park and the challenges of preserving and adapting its historic landscape.
7pm to 8pm
 
Sathnam Sanghera’s new book, Empireland, looks at how profoundly our imperial past has shaped modern Britain. In conversation with Samira Ahmed, Sanghera discusses why it is so important to look honestly at our past, to understand who we are and what unites us.
7pm to 8pm
 

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Thursday 11th February


Online events / webinars

This webinar will present lessons learned from the last 15 years of culture-led development in the capital.
10am to 11am
 
What can picture postcards tell us about the history of nursing, and images and stereotypes of nursing over the years? Join historian Julia Hallam to find out more.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
A look at the trust behind the legend of Mata Hari
6pm to 7pm
 

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Friday 12th February


Online events / webinars

Discover the role played by King George V during and after the First World War in this online talk with Alexandra Churchill.
12pm to :
 
Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s cocktail bar invite you to join them behind the bar for a virtual cocktail making workshop.
6:15pm to 7pm
 
This illustrated talk will consider how the garden has evolved to offer the contemporary visitor beauty and relevance while still retaining the original ideas and intentions of its creators.
7pm to 8pm
 

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Saturday 13th February


Online events / webinars

Avril Nanton's is a historian who delves into the unknown history of black people in and around London.
3pm to 4pm
 

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Sunday 14th February


Online events / webinars

This Valentine's Day, join The Apothecary's Daughter to learn about herbal potions for the lovestruck and the lovesick alike
4pm to 5:30pm
 
This Valentine's Day Join Historian Julie Peakman on Zoom for an illustrated lecture on the history of Perverse Sex
6pm to 8pm
 

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Monday 15th February


Online events / webinars

This talk will look at one of Gillray’s most effective satirical tools: music.
6:30pm to :
 

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Tuesday 16th February

A notice that the Thames Barrier and the Barking Barrier will have their monthly test closures today.
2021-02-16
9:30am to 12pm
 

Online events / webinars

Discover how food was produced, prepared and consumed by the Bishops, their families and guests from the Tudor period to the 20th century.
10:30am to 11:15am
 
The heritage of Rome and the influence of earlier traditions on artists like Cimabue, Duccio, Simone Martini and Giotto will be examined in the context of the ‘rebirth’ of the arts in Renaissance Italy.
1pm to 2pm
 
Jane Fonda, Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Disha Ravi discuss some of the core issues at the heart of the climate crisis
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
Dr Sally Jeffery delves into the history of Chiswick's walled gardens - from the late 17th century onwards.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
This talk will explore the fights and feuds and domestic disharmonies that beset life at the Georgian court.
6:30pm to :
 

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Wednesday 17th February


Online events / webinars

This talk by City Guide Jill Finch takes a look at the streets where the word was once mightier than the hedge fund.
2pm to 3pm
 
Hesham Saleh will take the audience on a journey in the nose and exploration of future possibilities in his field.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
This lecture discusses evidence and interpretation with a leading Professor of Crime and Forensic Sciences from UCL, Ruth Morgan.
6pm to 7pm
 
Hear how Doris Day went from “the most everything girl in Hollywood” to “the most misunderstood girl in the world”
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
The life and works of W.H. Crossland explored by the author of the first monograph on the architect.
7pm to 9pm
 
£5.00
Nerd Nite London is a monthly event where three speakers give 18-21 minute fun-yet-informative talks across all disciplines
7:30pm to :
 

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Thursday 18th February


Online events / webinars

Follow in the footsteps of this pioneering painter and printmaker with Curatorial Fellow Imogen Tedbury, as she discusses his art and life.
4pm to 5pm
 
Join Per Faxneld, author of “Satanic Feminism”, to learn about how feminists around year 1900 used satanic symbolism as a strategic tool
7:30pm to 9pm
 

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Friday 19th February


Online events / webinars

Discover the links between the sporting and military worlds in the British imagination from the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on Terror.
12pm to :
 
A preview, curator talk and open discussion about Guildhall Art Galley's upcoming exhibition Noel Coward: Art & Style.
1pm to 2:15pm
 
This talk will dive into the government’s response to the pandemic, at a time when the cause of influenza was unknown and there was no consensus on treatment
2pm to 3pm
 
This discussion will also look at how computer programming serves as a vital tool in the development of light art, changing the frequency, intensity and patterning of LEDs
5pm to 6pm
 
This talk by historian Dr Gillian Williamson looks at how a newcomer to Georgian London found a room and what life was like in a crowded house shared with strangers who were there to subsidise the household budget.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Saturday 20th February

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Sunday 21st February

A one acre garden restored to its original 1920s design.
2021-02-21
2pm to 4pm
 
Tadworth
Tadworth

Online events / webinars

In his book “Crow Country” – widely considered the best of the recent boom of nature writers - Cocker goes in search of crows, journeying from the cavernous, deadened heartland of South England to the hills of Dumfriesshire
8pm to 10pm
 
Join acclaimed performer Robert Lloyd Parry as he brings to life the beloved ghost stories of M.R. James
9pm to 10:30pm
 

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Monday 22nd February


Online events / webinars

This presentation introduces the range of direct and indirect economic, social, political and cultural impacts of slavery connections on landed estates.
6pm to 7pm
 
This illustrated talk that will uncover some of the colourful and varied folklore of London.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Tuesday 23rd February


Online events / webinars

This presentation explores the medieval commentary tradition regarding the raising of Samuel by the so-called Witch of Endor.
10am to 11:30am
 
This lecture explores attempts to create jokes from rules, and programs that create not-quite-relevant responses that hearers can make meaningful and comic. Will computers ever tell good jokes?
1pm to 2pm
 
Join Dr Anna Feigenbaum as she examines the use of tear gas from the battlefields of World War I to the streets of colonial India, and beyond.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
This talk looks to highlight some of the key items of practicality related to bridge engineering on several schemes over the last 10-15 years, as experienced by the presenter.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
One of the most tenacious mediaeval building myths is that many timber-framed buildings were constructed from salvaged ship timbers. And not just any old ships!
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
The London we have lost and the London that never was.
7pm to 8pm
 
Former Chair of the Victorian Society Geoff Brandwood analyses the architecture of an innovatory Gothic architect.
7pm to 10pm
 

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Wednesday 24th February


Online events / webinars

During the discussion, Andy will share TfL’s requests to Government for a long-term sustainable plan for TfL and it financing.
9am to :
 
Join this webinar with John Osborne. He will discuss civil engineering studies and future plans for a 100km successor to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN including on-site investigations.
4pm to 5:30pm
 
This paper will examine the ways British railways have and continue to be celebrated by communities with regional connections to this industry’s history.
5:30pm to 7:30pm
 
How does the recent genre fiction of novelists like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell return us to the transgressive pleasures of Defoe’s criminal autobiographies?
6pm to 7pm
 
Learn about post-war London through the films of Ealing studios including The Blue Lamp and Passport to Pimlico
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Join Joint Chief Curator Lucy Worsley as she takes you on a whistle-stop tour, exploring everything you ever needed to know about Kensington Palace.
7pm to :
 
A conversation with the television antiques expert about the collection in the Museum of Freemasonry.
7:30pm to :
 
A line-up of experts, including US physician Dr Anthony Fauci and Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi MP, assemble to discuss vaccine hesitancy, described as one of the greatest challenges facing the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
7:30pm to 9pm
 

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Thursday 25th February


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Take a virtual tour around the Roman domestic house and bathhouse that is under 101 Lower Thames Street in the City of London.
2pm to 3pm
 
This lecture explains the development and role of the Office of Rail and Road from its history right through to the challenges and changes which the future may bring.
5pm to 6:30pm
 
This 45-minute talk is a smorgasbord commemorating hidden queer histories from the Palace of Westminster.
6pm to 2pm
 
Explore Russia’s long history of mysticism and apocalyptic thought with author Gary Lachman
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Learn what your own ‘Molly name’ might be, the 18th century definition of ‘Queer’ and the significance of wooden spoons…
7pm to :
 
Dr. Cathy Ross will be sharing some of the new stories that have emerged from the Great Chamber project at Charterhouse.
7pm to 8pm
 
The story of Jews in London. A virtual tour that takes you from the ghetto of the middle ages through to the East End shtetl of the 20th cen
7pm to 8pm
 
Curators Rebecca Newell and Tom Hockenhull tell the stories of how the capital’s cultural treasures were saved from the Blitz
7pm to :
 

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Friday 26th February


Online events / webinars

Join Dr Peter Johnston in conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Tim Purbrick as they mark 30 years since the ground phase of the Gulf War.
12pm to :
 
Discover what gives a wafer the perfect snap, a crisp the perfect crunch, and the surprising similarities between steel and chocolate.
1pm to 1:45pm
 
Principal Records Specialist Mark Dunton examines how the government wrestled with the limits of frankness in a national public education campaign to address the AIDS epidemic.
2pm to 3pm
 
This film, produced by Peter Murray, explores the fact that the City of London was a walking city in medieval times.
6:30pm to :
 
The life and times of hundreds of women who made their way across the sea and changed history.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
A talk from Royal Observatory astronomer Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder on the science of the 1999 film The Matrix, written adn directed by the Wachowski sisters.
7pm to :
 

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Saturday 27th February

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Sunday 28th February

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