Top events in London on Thu 26th Aug 2021
Hidden away behind the high walls of a medieval monastery is a large garden, which will be open three evenings in 2021.
2021-08-26
5:30pm to 8:30pm
Clerkenwell
Online events / webinars
Hear about new research in the history of nursing, and find out why history is important for understanding nursing today.
An online explanation of old fashioned medical procedures.
Online talk by Dr Emily Cockayne on her latest publication Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycle and Refused to Let Go.
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon Reverberations is an immersive sound installation, produced by sound artist Wajid Yaseen, that uses transducer speakers to resonate through the bookshelves of one of London’s oldest radical bookshops.
11am to 6:30pm
Closing soon Fri, 1st October
2021-07-26
2021-10-01
An exhibition that celebrates the breadth, diversity and qualities of craft, and includes numerous craft objects made in the UK over the course of the last 50 years.
All Day
Closing soon Sat, 9th October
2021-07-07
2021-10-09
This is a rare opportunity to see one of Poland’s most loved works of art.
10am to 6pm
Closing soon Sun, 30th August
2021-05-21
2020-08-30
Inspired by artist Anna Ray’s Huguenot ancestors who settled in Spitalfields as textile makers in the 18th century, the exhibition explores the past and present of textile making.
8am to 6pm
Closing soon Thu, 1st October
2021-06-21
2020-10-01
This exhibition uncovers how forensic and other evidence about the death marches has been gathered since the end of the Holocaust.
11am to 4pm
Closing soon Fri, 27th August
2021-05-17
2021-08-27
An exhibition celebrating the life, genius and legacy of the 17th-century master wood carver and sculptor, Grinling Gibbons.
10am to 4:30pm
Closing soon Fri, 27th August
2021-08-03
2021-08-27
This is a major survey show of one of the most exciting, yet least known, movements in contemporary art: a non-Western tradition at once ancient and modern, immediate and other.
10am to 6pm
Closing soon Sat, 28th August
2021-07-17
2021-08-28
An exhibition devoted to the life and work of Claudia Andujar and her collaboration with the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous peoples.
All Day
Closing soon Sun, 29th August
2021-06-17
2021-08-29
This definitive retrospective charts her ground-breaking career from the 1920s to the 1990s.
11am to 6pm
Closing soon Sun, 29th August
2021-05-19
2021-08-29
Discover the pioneering story of photography from the 1840s to today, told through stunning still lifes of plants and botany.
10am to 4:30pm
Closing soon Sun, 29th August
2021-05-19
2021-08-29
Exhibitions opening soon
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Walking tours of London on Thursday 26th August 2021
Follow the trail left by monks and monarchs, press barons and literary giants along the highway and down its twisting alleyways.
11am to 12:30pm
City of London
2021-08-26
2021-08-26
A walk that explores the very heart of the City – the most historic part of the capital.
11am to 1pm
City of London
2021-08-26
2021-08-26
This Magical Mystery Tour is a chance to “Imagine” Beatlemania and the Swinging 60s.
11am to 1pm
Bloomsbury
2021-08-26
2021-08-26
Join Joe Studman for a virtual tour of historic Bethnal Green.
2pm to 3pm
Clerkenwell
2021-08-26
2021-08-26
A guided walk around Westminster and get to see the hidden and ever so picturesque Georgian back streets where all the political salons are
2pm to 4pm
Whitehall
2021-08-26
2021-08-26
11am to 12:30pm
City of London
