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 March 2022

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


Saturday 19th March

There will be a vintage bus running along TfL bus route 42 between Muswell Hill and Islington Angel, fundraising for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day.
2022-03-19
9am to 4pm
 
Expect 40 working layouts hand-picked by the Model Railway Club, plus over 100 traders.
2022-03-19
9:30am to 5pm
 
Wood Green
Wood Green
Kempton Steam Museum and the London Museum of Water & Steam will both have steam engines running this weekend.
2022-03-19
10:30am to 4pm
 
Feltham
Feltham
A handmade products fair being held in an arch underneath Waterloo station.
2022-03-19
11am to 5pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
From penny dreadfuls to psychic investigations, Clive Bloom will interrogate the attraction of Gothic London.
2022-03-19
Starts at 2pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Sue Sanders will talk here about her experience of campaigning for LGBT+ rights over the last 40 years.
2022-03-19
Starts at 3pm
 
Barbican
Barbican
Writer A J West will discuss his own research into a sceptics research into these phenomena.
2022-03-19
Starts at 4pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
In this show Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker will use their authentic Triunial Magic Lantern, combining three projectors in a single device, to create a fast-moving show featuring the most spectacular effects the lantern can produce.
2022-03-19
Starts at 7:30pm
 
Southwark
Southwark

Online events / webinars

An afternoon of experiencing and learning about the origins, stories and ceremonies surrounding tea.
3pm to :
 

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Sunday 20th March

Expect 40 working layouts hand-picked by the Model Railway Club, plus over 100 traders.
2022-03-20
9:30am to 4:30pm
 
Wood Green
Wood Green
Kempton Steam Museum and the London Museum of Water & Steam will both have steam engines running this weekend.
2022-03-20
10:30am to 4pm
 
Feltham
Feltham
Come hunt for personal treasures, rummage for bargains, and refresh your living space with unique finds from a hall of salvaged olde things.
2022-03-20
11am to 6pm
 
Stoke Newington
Stoke Newington
The London Gaming Market is a place to buy retro video-games, board games and merchandise all in one place
2022-03-20
11am to 4pm
 
Euston
Euston
In this illustrated talk, author Roger Luckhurst will trace the path across the decades of this distinctive strand of the Gothic ethos.
2022-03-20
Starts at 4pm
 
Southwark
Southwark

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Monday 21st March

This lecture will discuss the uneasy interplay between the concept of the rule of law and the enforcement of segregation legislation
2022-03-21
6pm to 7pm
 
Holborn
Holborn

Online events / webinars

History & Policy is organising a special online seminar on Russian foreign policy towards Ukraine in historical perspective.
12:30pm to 2pm
 

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Tuesday 22nd March

Modern humans evolved in Africa and successfully colonised the globe only in the last 100,000 years or so, a feat made possible by cultural and genetic adaptation.
2022-03-22
6pm to 7pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
How do historians assess a long and intricate period of history, like that known by the label of Georgian Britain?
2022-03-22
Starts at 6:30pm
 
Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Court Road
Join the debate about the future of ageing in the latest session in the Designing for Your Future Self talks series, curated by Design Age Institute.
2022-03-22
6:30pm to 8:30pm
 
Kensington
Kensington

Online events / webinars

A talk about reports that performances of Shakespeare's plays occurred on East India Company ships.
5:15pm to 6:45pm
 
Victoria Schofield explains why Field Marshal Earl Wavell was chosen as Viceroy of India, a position he held from 1943-47 during the critical years of the negotiations leading up to India and Pakistan's independence.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Explore recent developments in British foreign policy.
6:30pm to 8pm
 
This event explores the extraordinary career and legacy of electronic music pioneer, Wendy Carlos on the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange.
7:30pm to 8:45pm
 

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Wednesday 23rd March

Dr Gemma Bowsher will contextualise the role of the RAF within global health through the history of the RAF Institute of Pathology and Tropical Medicine.
2022-03-23
6pm to 8pm
 
Picadilly
Picadilly
Journey into the brain with an evening of head-bending science, from psychedelic medicine to how our online lives affect our mental health.
2022-03-23
6pm to 9pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington
Dr Nicola Tallis will explore the life of Lady Margaret Beaufort, an independent and vibrant character who would risk everything to become queen in all but name.
2022-03-23
Starts at 6pm
 
Picadilly
Picadilly
John Grindrod and Catherine Croft, Director of the Twentieth Century Society will be discussing John's new release ICONICON: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain.
2022-03-23
Starts at 6:30pm
 
Picadilly
Picadilly

Online events / webinars

A lecture about controlling infections through touch and air.
6pm to 7pm
 
Join Leonard Mlodinow as he discusses extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience that have proven that emotions are as critical to our wellbeing as thinking.
7pm to 8:30pm
 

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Thursday 24th March

Join us for this in-conversation event in which Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, will be joining Andrés Velasco, Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy, to discuss the future of liberalism.
2022-03-24
6pm to 7:30pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
This talk looks at the history of medical interventions into the case of victims of sexual assault in Britain from the 1830s.
2022-03-24
7pm to 8pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Two of Ireland’s finest writers, Anne Enright and Eimear McBride come together to share thoughts and feelings on the great modernist masterpiece of literature, James Joyce’s Ulysses
2022-03-24
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Camden
Camden
Mudlarking, Criminal Queens and the deep City. An evening of short films and talks where we reweird London.
2022-03-24
7pm to 10pm
 
New Cross
New Cross
Two speakers explore the musical and theatrical legacy of two of the most famous of the River Thames islands.
2022-03-24
Starts at 7pm
 
Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell

Online events / webinars

This event brings together a high-profile panel of international central banks and supervisors to discuss the implications of biodiversity loss for their operations and next steps.
1pm to 2:30pm
 
An overview of the capital’s many fascinating customs and observances.
2pm to 3pm
 
Explore what the future of Europe’s defence and security landscape look at this LSE IDEAS event.
5pm to 6:30pm
 
What can ancient DNA tell us about how people lived in the time of Stonehenge?
5:30pm to 6:30pm
 
This paper examines the gender aspects of sweets-making in early modern Spain, in a period when sugar was becoming a more available and affordable commodity in Europe.
5:30pm to 7pm
 
Historian Dr Susan Williams will be discussing Lady Lucy Baldwin’s campaign to improve women’s care during childbirth.
6pm to :
 
A talk about the original London Charterhouse – before it was repurposed as a Tudor mansion, and then a school and almshouse.
7pm to 8pm
 
A panel discussion with Selma James, founder of the WFH Campaign which co-ordinates the Global Women’s Strike (GWS), and Margaret Prescod, co-founder of Black Women for WFH and co-ordinator of Women of Colour GWS.
7pm to 9pm
 

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Friday 25th March

An all-day event exploring the prominent and controversial figure of the clown between tradition and innovations.
2022-03-25
9:45am to 4pm
 
Euston
Euston
Join Professor Holly Furneaux as she explores the truces that took place during the Siege of Mafeking and considers their impact on British-Boer relations.
2022-03-25
Starts at 12pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
A special evening of gaming, inspired by science and the natural world, Lates: Playful by Nature.
2022-03-25
6pm to 9:30pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington
Explore the romantic and glamorous world of roses in fashion at this Up Late evening at the Gardem Museum.
2022-03-25
6pm to 9pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Tate Modern opens its doors overnight for an exclusive event exploring the dreamlike world of Surrealism
2022-03-25
Starts at 10pm
 
Southwark
Southwark

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Saturday 26th March

A running day recreating bus route 101 in East London with RTs and Routemasters.
2022-03-26
10am to 5pm
 
Watch around 400 crews row up the Thames from Mortlake to Putney - one of the largest river races on the Thames.
2022-03-26
10am to 1:30pm
 
An open day at the theatre for the public to access areas in the building, and to see special content from behind-the-scenes.
2022-03-26
10am to 4pm
 
Sloane Square
Sloane Square
A demonstration of Victorian medical surgery in an old operating theatre.
2022-03-26
Starts at 10am
 
Southwark
Southwark
Visitors will have a chance to learn about 87 Hackford Road and its most famous tenant through a guided tour which includes a short walk to set the context and a longer tour of the house itself
2022-03-26
Starts at 10am
 
Stockwell
Stockwell
A chance to visit the Hermitage barge moorings close to Tower Bridge and tour some of the boats.
2022-03-26
11am to 4pm
 
Wapping
Wapping
Maker's Fair showcasing local artists, crafters and creatives from East London
2022-03-26
11am to 3:30pm
 
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green

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Sunday 27th March

Visitors will have a chance to learn about 87 Hackford Road and its most famous tenant through a guided tour which includes a short walk to set the context and a longer tour of the house itself
2022-03-27
Starts at 10am
 
Stockwell
Stockwell
From the oldest to the newest, this year’s event will see some of the earliest examples nestling among hundreds of Minis and their variations including vans and pickups.
2022-03-27
10am to 5pm
 
Weybridge
Weybridge
A chance to visit the Hermitage barge moorings close to Tower Bridge and tour some of the boats.
2022-03-27
11am to 4pm
 
Wapping
Wapping
Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top.
2022-03-27
2pm to 4:30pm
 
Hackney
Hackney
See items from the first decade of the Wages for Housework Campaign.
2022-03-27
2pm to 5pm
 
City of London
City of London
A secluded, south facing, cottage style garden, developed over 30 yrs for year-round interest and is at its best in spring.
2022-03-27
2pm to 4:30pm
 
Woodford Green
Woodford Green

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Monday 28th March

Science fiction’s most frequent alternative to human is 'alien', another rich imaginative resource with which to think about what makes us human.
2022-03-28
6pm to 7pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
The evening will also feature an exclusive guided walk through the wetlands to view the night sky.
2022-03-28
6:30pm to 8:30pm
 
Tottenham
Tottenham
Rob Percival, an expert in the politics of meat, searches for the evolutionary origins of the meat paradox, asking when our relationship with meat first became emotionally and ethically complicated.
2022-03-28
7:30pm to 9pm
 
Holborn
Holborn

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Tuesday 29th March

This lecture will give a practical guide to building viral science stories to bring about environmental change.
2022-03-29
6pm to 7pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
Join Saltzman Prize winner Mac Collins in conversation with designer Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility.
2022-03-29
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Kensington
Kensington
Join guests including her close friend, the actor Simon Callow and theatrical agent Mel Kenyon as we celebrate the life and work of perhaps the greatest theatre agent ever to have lived.
2022-03-29
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Camden
Camden
A talk with landscape architect Marian Boswall to celebrate the launch of her new book Sustainable Garden.
2022-03-29
7pm to 8pm
 
Southwark
Southwark

Online events / webinars

A talk about the National Horological Collection comprising some of the best clocks and timepieces ever made.
2pm to 3pm
 
Fashion stylist Kat Farmer discusses her new book and shares her experience of how fashion helped her to rediscover her confidence.
6pm to 7:30pm
 
Dr Frances Sands, curator of Hidden Masterpieces, will consider the different types of architectural drawings found at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
A talk about two famous houses at opposite ends of Philip Webb’s career that are now owned by the National Trust.
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Few nineteenth-century Edinburgh architects demonstrated such a plurality of style, from Scottish Baronial to French Château to Neo-classicism to Baroque, as did David Bryce.
7pm to 9pm
 

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Wednesday 30th March

A talk about the hunt for exo-planets outside our Solar System.
2022-03-30
6pm to 7pm
 
Barbican
Barbican
A special after-hours extravaganza inspired by free exhibition, Ancient Greeks: Science and Wisdom.
2022-03-30
6:15pm to 10pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington
Join Giles Whittell in conversation with Dr Glyn Prysor for the launch of his new book, which recounts the story of Operation Chariot.
2022-03-30
6:30pm to 3pm
 
Chelsea
Chelsea
How is artificial intelligence and robotics transforming the future of love and desire?
2022-03-30
7pm to 8:30pm
 
Hanover Square
Hanover Square
Kate Clements, Curator of new Second World War Galleries at Imperial War Museum will give a talk on the hidden stories of women in WWII
2022-03-30
7pm to 8pm
 
West Brompton
West Brompton
The screening is accompanied by a discussion between a panel of renowned classicists who will discuss the importance of mythology to Ancient Greek culture.
2022-03-30
7:30pm to 10pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington

Online events / webinars

A talk exploring the working class history of the docks and life working on the docks today.
12pm to :
 
Is 'plant intelligence' about whether plants can see, hear, choose and make decisions, or a rethink about the meaning of all these words?
12:30pm to 1:30pm
 
An online lecture highlighting the lesser-known aspects of chadō (or chanoyu), the Japanese Way of Tea.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
 
Chief Curator Lucy Worsley is joined by former Historic Royal Palaces curator Eleri Lynn to explore the dazzling world of Tudor fashion.
7pm to :
 
Did you know that Henry VIII once had a mansion in Hackney where he reconciled with his daughter Mary? Find out this and more in this talk.
7pm to 8pm
 
Dress historian Amber Butchart looks at radical fashion changes in the 1920s
7:30pm to 8:30pm
 
Dress historian Amber Butchart looks at radical fashion changes in the 1920s
7:30pm to 8:30pm
 

More London events on Wednesday 30th March

Thursday 31st March

Four days of events about coffee with lots of different things happening throughout the weekend.
2022-03-31
10am to 5pm
 
Whitechapel
Whitechapel
Sturgis will discuss the life and downfall of Oscar Wilde and gives a fresh look into the characters, social context and events that shaped Wilde’s life.
2022-03-31
Starts at 7pm
 
Covent Garden
Covent Garden

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