Things to do in London in April 2021

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

Coronavirus: Events may be cancelled and venues closed at short notice, you are advised to check on their websites before making a trip.

Thursday 1st April

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Free Diversity in the Legal Profession

What can institutions such as Universities, The Inns, The City, and Gresham do to reach out to students who may not have professionals in their family to open their eyes to their potential and the legal profession?

6pm to 7pm

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Friday 2nd April

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Saturday 3rd April

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Sunday 4th April

Free Monthly open day at Croydon Airport museum

Monthly open day at the museum to London's first international airport - in Croydon.

All Day

Croydon

£5.00 Monthly cheap entry to the Painted Hall

Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall on the first Sunday of the month.

10am to 5pm

Greenwich

£6.00 Monthly open day at Gatton Park

A beautiful historic parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with Edwardian gardens in Reigate, Surrey.

1pm to 5pm

Reigate

£5.00 Visit a garden - Shieling (Kingswood)

A one acre garden restored to its original 1920s design.

2pm to 4pm

Tadworth

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Monday 5th April

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Tuesday 6th April

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Wednesday 7th April

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Thursday 8th April

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Friday 9th April

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Saturday 10th April

£10.00 Salute 2021

Run by The South London Warlords, is the biggest independent one-day wargaming and gaming event in the UK.

All Day

Victoria Dock

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Sunday 11th April

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Monday 12th April

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Tuesday 13th April

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Wednesday 14th April

Online events / webinars

Free Fiction and the Supernatural

This lecture pursues the gift of Gothic to later novelists, seeing how great Victorian novelists like Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens were entranced by the supernatural.

6pm to 7pm

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Thursday 15th April

Free Thames and Barking barrier monthly closures

A notice that the Thames Barrier and the Barking Barrier will have their monthly test closures today.

9:30am to 1pm

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Friday 16th April

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Saturday 17th April

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Sunday 18th April

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Free Mike Jay on Mescaline & Art

Mike Jay is the author of Mescaline – a Global History - A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity.

8pm to 10pm

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Monday 19th April

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Tuesday 20th April

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Free Networks: The Internet and Beyond

In this lecture we will look at a bit of internet history, show how it works now and look towards the future.

6pm to 7pm

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Wednesday 21st April

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Free England‘s Anglican Reformation

This lecture asks how it came to emerge over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tracing its roots in the Reformation and showing how political chance and the traumas of civil war led to its slow and improbable ascent to dominance.

6pm to 7pm

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Thursday 22nd April

Online events / webinars

Free Dickens's Public Readings: A Tale of Two Desks

This illustrated lecture marks 150 years since Dickens’s death by reflecting on the nature of his creative genius and his legacy.

1pm to 2pm

Free Is Incitement to Religious Hatred The New Blasphemy?

This lecture will explore the current and future scope of the law of incitement to religious hatred in light of our long and troubled history of dealing with religious speech.

6pm to 7pm