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 2022

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


Tuesday 1st February

Join Colin Stuart as he explores the most intriguing questions being asked in science today.
2022-02-01
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Hanover Square
Hanover Square

Online events / webinars

Explore why the UK was so unprepared for the pandemic.
4:30pm to 6pm
 
Explore some of the major challenges facing the global tax justice movement.
6:30pm to 8pm
 

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Wednesday 2nd February

Sisters Patricia 98 & Jean Owtram 96 are the last living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets act and join Simon Robinson to discuss their unique family war effort.
2022-02-02
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Whitehall
Whitehall
Photograph the Cathedral after-hours bathed in candlelight on this Candlemas evening
2022-02-02
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Drinks and readings on the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses.
2022-02-02
Starts at 7:30pm
 
Hammersmith
Hammersmith

Online events / webinars

Allan Brodie will describe the key ideas and buildings that developed to meet the changing size and character of England’s prison population.
5:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Thursday 3rd February

Explore the inner workings of Royal Museums Greenwich, see our objects that have connections with the Lunar New Year and have a look at conservation in action, on a guided tour.
2022-02-03
Starts at 1:30pm
 
Blackheath
Blackheath
On the first Thursday of the month, Holborn's Novelty Automation has a bar in the store for their late-night opening.
2022-02-03
6pm to 9pm
 
Holborn
Holborn

Online events / webinars

Explore the idea of equality societies should pursue in the difficult times ahead.
5pm to 6:30pm
 
Discover the hidden secrets and explore the concealed linings and details you can’t see once the garments are on display.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
Join us online for this conversation about the life of activist and artist Sylvia Pankhurst.
6pm to 7pm
 
Join Chad Orzel as he explores the wondrous physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know.
7pm to 8:30pm
 
A film and talk about controversial plans to demolish Berlin's Brutalist Mäusebunker.
8pm to :
 

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Friday 4th February

Join curator Justin Saddington as he tells the story of Captain Robert Parker, a remarkable soldier and chronicler of war.
2022-02-04
Starts at 12pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
An evening tour of the docklands museum filled with dark stories of death and spooky happenings.
2022-02-04
5:30pm to 7pm
 
Poplar
Poplar
Join Adam Rutherford as he explores the science, history and future of eugenics.
2022-02-04
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Hanover Square
Hanover Square

Online events / webinars

Discover how our ancestors of 100 years ago lead the way for the transformation of housing across the country.
2pm to 3pm
 

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Saturday 5th February


Online events / webinars

A talk about the impact and history of morris dancing, mumming and sword dancing.
5pm to 6:30pm
 

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Sunday 6th February

Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall on the first Sunday of the month.
2022-02-06
10am to 5pm
 
Greenwich
Greenwich
Monthly open day at the museum to London's first international airport - in Croydon.
2022-02-06
10am to 4pm
 
Croydon
Croydon
Over 60 of the very best dealers in vintage and antique fashion, textiles and accessories.
2022-02-06
11am to 5:30pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Zoe Cormier, science communicator and author of Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science, will share some amusing anecdotes which reveal deeper truths about human desire.
2022-02-06
11am to 1pm
 
Holborn
Holborn

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Monday 7th February

Two sets of military gun salutes will take place today to mark Accession Day.
2022-02-07
11:30am to 1:30pm
 
Ash Kotak will mainly be talking about the Project to raise a memorial to the people who have lived and died of HIV/AIDS.
2022-02-07
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square

Online events / webinars

What did it mean to live in urban environments in nineteenth-century France?
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
Samuel Moyn will expose the dark side of making war more humane at this LSE event.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
A talk about the revival of the voluntary Civil Defence during the Cold War to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
This talk will explore how professional footballers experienced the First World War.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
Explore why venture capital is spreading globally.
6:30pm to 8pm
 

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Tuesday 8th February

Writer and presenter Dr Loyd Grossman CBE explores the idea that the celebrated Baroque carver Grinling Gibbons was ‘The British Bernini’
2022-02-08
6:30pm to 8:30pm
 
Whitehall
Whitehall

Online events / webinars

What will the coronavirus do next? Could there be another pandemic in the future?
5pm to 6pm
 
Explore what actually works to address inequality and exclusion in different country settings.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
This talk looks at the infrastructure of Georgian lodging, 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 landlord’s/lady’s household budget.
6:30pm to :
 
Did you know that butterfly wings are actually transparent? or that butterflies taste with their feet?
Starts at 6:30pm
 
Join curator Kieran McCarthy and author Francesca Cartier Brickell online for a look at the relationship between the two master jewellers of the era.
7pm to 8pm
 
This fully-illustrated talk will uncover the locations of Roman London's burial grounds, the cultural beliefs that surrounded death and burial in the Roman Empire
7pm to :
 

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Wednesday 9th February


Online events / webinars

Andrew Mottram, Chief Programme Engineer at Ford, will present insights into the technology and development processes required to develop and launch an all-electric version of Britain’s best-selling commercial vehicle.
6pm to 7pm
 
Explore the lessons about political violence, war and revolution to be learned from ten major thinkers.
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Join us to hear from LGBT History experts on intersections between sexuality and politics: peace, AIDS awareness and local activism.
6:30pm to 8pm
 
The lecture will ask how much input Prince Albert had into these buildings and their decoration.
7pm to 8:30pm
 
This lecture will ask how much input the Prince had into buildings said to be designed by him.
7pm to 8:30pm
 

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Thursday 10th February


Online events / webinars

The digital domain is now an increasingly significant geopolitical battleground. Kaja Ciglic from Microsoft discusses the roles of norms in regulating cyberspace.
4pm to 5pm
 
A talk about how Trans-people in the 1950s and beyond had to travel around for treatment.
4pm to 5:15pm
 
This presentation will examine many centuries of Irish diets, focusing on the interplay between consumption and colonial oppression and resistance.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
Join Kathryn Harkup as she explores how realistic the ways Shakespeare found to kill off his characters really are.
7pm to 8:30pm
 
The editors Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell will introduce the book to us, and the authors, Elizabeth Darling and Jane Stevenson, will talk about some significant C20 queer spaces and their remarkable stories.
8pm to :
 

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Friday 11th February

Join Tim Strickland as he recounts the story of his father, Major-General EVM Strickland, charting his rise through the British Army.
2022-02-11
Starts at 12pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
Immerse yourself in London’s Caribbean culture with music, talks, and creative workshops.
2022-02-11
6:30pm to 10pm
 
Covent Garden
Covent Garden

Online events / webinars

In this paper we analyze the names of almost 200,000 merchant ships that operated in England from the late thirteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
5pm to 7pm
 

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Saturday 12th February

Valentines at the Museum is back for two evenings of romantic fascination covering animal courtship, copulation and everything in between.
2022-02-12
6:45pm to 10:30pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington

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Sunday 13th February

Expect over 30 tables, including indie record labels, record stores, used/collector/hifi dealers, vinyl cleaning, and local vinyl enthusiasts.
2022-02-13
11am to 5pm
 
Walthamstow
Walthamstow
A live music accompanied screening of the Buster Keaton classic - as he is torn between love for a girl, or a train.
2022-02-13
2:30pm to 5pm
 
Brentford
Brentford

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Monday 14th February

A theatrical lantern-lit Valentine’s voyage through the literary, convivial world of Dr Johnson’s London, beginning with a tour of Dr Johnson’s preserved townhouse at 17 Gough Square.
2022-02-14
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
Valentines at the Museum is back for two evenings of romantic fascination covering animal courtship, copulation and everything in between.
2022-02-14
6:45pm to 10:30pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington

Online events / webinars

Come along and hear this account of rural customs by folklorist Mark Norman.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Tuesday 15th February

An evening PechaKucha presenting the latest primary school projects and educational spaces around London.
2022-02-15
6pm to 8pm
 
Kings Cross
Kings Cross
This talk, by the funerary historian Dr Julian Litten, will explain how that myth came to be and what the real Victorian funeral comprised of.
2022-02-15
Starts at 7pm
 
Highgate
Highgate

Online events / webinars

In this year’s Fred Halliday lecture, Sophie Harman will argue that there are three powerful forces in the contemporary world that threaten any progress in stopping women from dying when they don’t have to.
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Explore ubiquitous yet mysterious burn marks in historic buildings with archaeologist James Wright.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Join psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane in conversation, as she reveals the latest thinking about how memories are made and how they make us.
7pm to 8:30pm
 

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Wednesday 16th February


Online events / webinars

Explore how we need to rethink preparing and managing global health risks.
5pm to 6pm
 
A talk about one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city’s centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
A talk about the life and work of some photographic geniuses: Cecil Beaton, Dorothy Wilding, Tony Snowdon and Annie Leibovitz.
7pm to :
 
A talk about William Addison Dwiggins, best known as a designer of printing types and books.
7pm to 8:30pm
 

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Thursday 17th February

The Florence Nightingale Museum will be open for two days in February, to coincide with half-term.
2022-02-17
10am to 5pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Join Richard Firth-Godbehere as he draws on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, art, and religious history to explore emotions.
2022-02-17
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Hanover Square
Hanover Square
Palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday will give a talk about his debut book, Otherlands.
2022-02-17
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Soho
Soho
Discover the presence of eighteenth century LGBT+ people in the British Library's archive
2022-02-17
7:15pm to 8:30pm
 
Camden
Camden

Online events / webinars

A talk about one of the great painters of the Victorian era Atkinson Grimshaw.
2pm to 3pm
 
In this online panel, academics from across UCL will discuss the unfinished business of securing full membership and belonging of society and its institutions for all women. 
4:30pm to 5:30pm
 
Learn more about the National Fairground and Circus Archive (NFCA) in this session.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
A virtual event exploring some fascinating and potentially challenging collections highlighting the long, rich and inspiring history of LGBTQ+ lives.
6pm to 7pm
 
Explore how the lives of LGBTQ+ people, and attitudes to sexual and gender diversity, are reflected in the archive, heritage library and museum collections of the Royal College of Physicians.
6pm to 7pm
 
Explore what the “father of science fiction” might teach us about the history of British socialism.
6:30pm to 8pm
 

More London events on Thursday 17th February

Friday 18th February

The Florence Nightingale Museum will be open for two days in February, to coincide with half-term.
2022-02-18
10am to 5pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Join Robert Sackville-West as he reveals the stories of those who searched for missing British soldiers after the First World War.
2022-02-18
Starts at 12pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
Live audio-visual presentations to show how long-hidden ancient Greek worlds can be reimagined and brought to life.
2022-02-18
7:30pm to 9pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington

Online events / webinars

A world of love affairs, tragedy, marriage and death; join author, Jan-Marie Knights in conversation about her latest book, The Tudor Socialite.
2pm to 3pm
 
This paper focuses on women's businesses in the fashion trades, exploring their roles as linen drapers, milliners, mercers, haberdashers, and hosiers in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London and Westminster.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
Discussion and book launch that uncovers the true extent of slavery in 17th-century England through the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people in London.
6pm to 7:30pm
 

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Saturday 19th February

Drop in and meet representatives from local museums, historic houses and local history societies find out more about Highgate's history.
2022-02-19
12:30pm to 5pm
 
Highgate
Highgate

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Sunday 20th February

Makers’ Day is a free to attend opportunity to see, hear and play violin family instruments and bows.
2022-02-20
10:30am to 5:30pm
 
Islington
Islington
The event will feature vehicles operating additional routes through the glorious Essex countryside.
2022-02-20
10:30am to 4pm
 
North Weald
North Weald
In his talk, Femi Fadugba will describe how he infused scientific facts into his debut sci-fi novel, The Upper World, to enhance the emotional impact of the story.
2022-02-20
11am to 1pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
½ acre garden for year-round interest. Wildlife pond and bog.
2022-02-20
2pm to 5pm
 
Stanmore
Stanmore

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Monday 21st February


Online events / webinars

David Wengrow will discuss his new book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
5pm to 6pm
 
Does power corrupt or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are tyrants the products of bad systems or are they just bad people? And why do we give power to awful people?
6pm to 7:15pm
 
Join Sacha and Sheldon, queer historians and cemetery tour guides, for an online talk exploring Brompton Cemetery and the stories of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and nonheteronormative people buried there.
Starts at 6:30pm
 

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Tuesday 22nd February

Join Amy's father, Mitch Winehouse, and music writer Lucy O’Brien as they discuss the eclectic musical influences behind the iconic sound of Amy Winehouse.
2022-02-22
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Kensington
Kensington
Join Matthew Cobb as he explores how every new development in genetic techniques has been rapidly counterbalanced by fears of disaster.
2022-02-22
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Hanover Square
Hanover Square

Online events / webinars

This lunch hour lecture brings together the diverse voices who helped to create the story behind the Tomorrow's Home exhibition. The speakers will reflect on the provocations raised, the lessons learnt and the questions still unanswered.   
1pm to 2pm
 
An online talk demonstrating the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early-modern England and France.
5:15pm to 6:30pm
 
In this webinar, Dagmara Dimitriou will review some of the key research using multimodal designs when considering health status as well as cultural and economic diversity of the society.
6pm to 7pm
 
This lecture will look at how and why novelists presented society in differing ways.
6:30pm to :
 
As part of a 19th century architects series, this lecture will focus on E. W. Pugin.
7pm to 10pm
 
£5.00
A talk about Edward Welby Pugin, one of the best known and most influential architects working for Roman Catholic patrons.
7pm to 8:30pm
 

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Wednesday 23rd February

An evening looking at the physical and social changes of London's Docklands
2022-02-23
Starts at 6pm
 
Poplar
Poplar

Online events / webinars

Discover the hidden world of networks of musicians in Georgian London, and how they could help a musician succeed.
1pm to :
 
This paper explores the dynamics of this debate – in particular the interactions of medical historians and clinicians with on the one hand political and social historians and on the other.
5:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Explore how civil society organisations are responding to the new challenges and examine the forms of solidarity and agency that are emerging.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
An online presentation of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Explore the word of 1970s folk horror with film historian Diane A Rodgers.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Thursday 24th February

Former director of GCHQ, Professor Sir David Omand will discuss his new book How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence.
2022-02-24
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Whitehall
Whitehall
Join Jennifer Scott in this talk exploring the special Monet x Frankenthaler display, featuring Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and Agapanthus and Helen Frankenthaler’s Feather.
2022-02-24
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Dulwich
Dulwich

Online events / webinars

In this lecture, we will look at his work in some detail, as well as considering his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire, and his fondness for his childhood teddy bear, Alan Measles.
2pm to 3pm
 
Explore literary approaches to teaching African and African diaspora history with the British Museum Schools team and creative practitioners.
4pm to 5:30pm
 
Join curators Dr Neil Wilkin and Dr Jennifer Wexler for an introduction to our new exhibition The world of Stonehenge.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
In this talk, historian John Callow explores the remarkable tale of one of the Bideford Witches.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 

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Friday 25th February

Join Dick Taylor as he explores how the British cavalry was transformed into a mechanised force between the world wars.
2022-02-25
Starts at 12pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
£16.00
The annual queer takeover of the Queen's House to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month
2022-02-25
7pm to 11pm
 
Greenwich
Greenwich

Online events / webinars

Learn why the British occupied Iceland in WWII.
11am to :
 
Microbes power the planet and regulate the bulk of Earth’s carbon-oxygen cycle. How can we consider them more comprehensively?
6pm to 7:15pm
 

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Saturday 26th February

This coming Saturday, all Cineworld and Picturehouse cinemas are offering all film screenings for £3 all day long.
2022-02-26
All Day
 
Visit one of the oldest collections of rare camellias under glass in Europe.
2022-02-26
10am to 3pm
 
Chiswick
Chiswick
A demonstration of Victorian surgery in an old operating theatre.
2022-02-26
Starts at 10am
 
Southwark
Southwark
An exhibition and party of gay history in Earl's Court.
2022-02-26
6pm to 9pm
 
Earls Court
Earls Court

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Sunday 27th February

Visit one of the oldest collections of rare camellias under glass in Europe.
2022-02-27
10am to 3pm
 
Chiswick
Chiswick
Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top.
2022-02-27
2pm to 4:30pm
 
Hackney
Hackney

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Monday 28th February

Rather overlooked now, Collop Monday was traditionally the day before Shrove Tuesday (aka, pancake day) and would have been part of the Shrovetide celebrations during the days before Lent.
2022-02-28
All Day
 

Online events / webinars

This talk focuses on the complex world of Caribbean plantations, slavery, and poisoning that shaped British drugs and apothecary’s practices.
6pm to 7pm
 
Come along and hear this account of landlords, landladies and their lodgers in Georgian London.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Learn about the marvellous moths that we have in the Royal Parks with May, Mission Invertebrate Partnership and Community Engagement Officer in this talk.
Starts at 6:30pm
 

More London events on Monday 28th February

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