Welcome to the ianVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany 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.
Top events in London Today
The Beefeaters of the Tower will parade around the Tower of London to beat the bounds before a "battle" with the neighbouring church.
6pm to 8pm
Tower Hill
While the Privy Council has deep colonial and imperial roots, it has sometimes been an important safeguard for fundamental rights: what are the pros and cons?
6pm to 7pm
Holborn
In this talk, Dr Elinor Cleghorn races through the early history of male-dominated medicine from the antiquity to the late 19th century,
6:15pm to 8pm
Southwark
Curator Jen Kavanagh will give an insight into the Museum’s development and how the content was brought together.
7pm to 8:15pm
Covent Garden
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
Sweet Harmony looks at a significant five-year period in UK dance music history and the previously undocumented contribution that young people living and working in the London Borough of Waltham Forest made to it.
10am to 5pm
Walthamstow
Closing soon Wed, 25th May
This exhibition celebrates The Prince’s Foundation’s history, principles, aims, projects and education programmes, with a particular focus on the work being done by the charity to champion and preserve heritage craft skills.
11am to 4pm
Sloane Square
Closes today
Areas around Chelsea are transformed into London’s largest free flower festival with this year’s theme, 'British Icons'.
All Day
Hanover Square
Closes tomorrow
An exhibition of the most beautiful private press books ever published, illustrating Walker’s revolutionary book printing techniques and legacy in his former home in Hammersmith.
11am to 4pm
Hammersmith
Closes tomorrow
10am to 6pm
Hanover Square
Closes tomorrow
An exhibition of paintings, watercolours and sculptures by the multi-talented Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves).
10am to 6pm
Hammersmith
Closes tomorrow
Free
Light and Shadow
An exhibition by Yoon Hyup, known for his vibrant use of lines and dots to create minimalistic and abstract city scape paintings.
11am to 6pm
Whitechapel
Closing soon Sun, 29th May
Free
Radio Ballads
Radio Ballads presents new film commissions alongside paintings, drawings and contextual materials that share the stories learned in social care work.
10am to 6pm
Paddington
Closing soon Sun, 29th May
Free
Victor Seaward
Touching on histories of medicine, trade and industrialisation through digitally rendered objects, Seaward weaves narrative through commonplace objects and organic forms.
12pm to 6pm
Kentish Town
Closing soon Sun, 29th May
An outdoor exhibition of 138 award-winning images selected from 20,000 submissions by photographers in 151 countries.
All Day
Kings Cross
Closing soon Tue, 31st May
Walking tours of London - today
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£15.00
The Famous Square Mile
A walk that explores the very heart of the City – the most historic part of the capital.
11am to 1pm City of London£15.00
Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
This Magical Mystery Tour is a chance to “Imagine” Beatlemania and the Swinging 60s.
11am to 1pm Bloomsbury£15.00
Old Westminster Walking Tour
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
