The IanVisits guide to Aprils unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.
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To mark its 75th anniversary, Tim Bean reveals the story behind one of Britain's greatest battles.
2:30pm to :
Chelsea
Waterloo Classics is a monthly classic car show/meet in central London.
12pm to 4pm Southwark
See historic vehicles and engineering collections, an array of signs and maps, as well as unusual and unexpected items from London’s rich transport past.
Starts at 11am Acton
£5.00
Inside a Beehive
Join Friends of Tottenham Marshes bee keepers and explore the work of honey bees as hives are opened for inspection.
2pm to : Tottenham
More London events on Saturday 20th Apr
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£5.00
Roman fort gate tours
Tour the remains of the western gate of London’s Roman military fort, located beneath the streets next to the Museum of London.
2pm to 3pm BarbicanMore London events on Sunday 21st Apr
Easter Monday
Free
Easter chair heaving
The Blackheath Morris Men once more carry out the ancient tradition of heaving a lady into the air on a decorated chair.
12pm to : GreenwichSemi-regular days where they fire up a Victorian steam engine.
12:30pm to 4:30pm South Tottenham
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Tuesday 23rd Apr
50 years after the play premiered, take a look at the lasting impact of Orton's What The Butler Saw and the contemporary issues it addresses.
7pm to 8:30pm CamdenJoin Naomi Games as she takes us on a journey through her father’s professional career.
6:30pm to 8:30pm Chelsea
Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? Or a passionate young princess, a romantic heroine with a love of dancing?
7pm to 8:30pm Southwark
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Wednesday 24th Apr
The Science Museum will be celebrating 150 years of the periodic table with a special Lates inspired by the UN’s International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements.
6:45pm to 10pm South KensingtonPiers Bizony, author of The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, discusses the production process for his latest book, The NASA Archives.
7pm to 8:30pm South LambethThis spring Southwark Cathedral would like to invite all amateur and professional photographers to spend an evening taking photos of the Cathedral lit by candlelight.
7pm to 9pm Southwark
£18.00
Tim Bouverie: On Appeasement
Tim Bouverie discusses his new book, a history of the years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe.
6:30pm to 8:30pm St James
This talk will show that stock market trading may contribute to society even if does not lead to firms raising new capital.
6pm to 7pm BarbicanMore London events on Wednesday 24th Apr
Thursday 25th Apr
In this talk Holly Carter-Chappell will examine the ways in which these two calamitous events altered the way in which Britain grieved and memorialised its dead forever.
6pm to 7pm Southwark
£17.00
For the Love of Nature’
Join Huw Cordey and Patrick Morris - the filmmakers behind BBC series Life, Planet Earth and The Hunt - for an evening of the stories that have inspired them across thirty years of wildlife filmmaking.
7:30pm to 9pm South Kensington
Our contemporary records specialist Mark Dunton delves deeper into this scandal - one of a series that rocked the Macmillan government in the early 1960s, feeding into a national obsession with spy culture at the time.
2pm to 3pm Richmond
Copies of 'London Made Us' will be available to purchase on the evening along with a book-signing.
7pm to 8:30pm Southwark
LSE's Rebecca Newton will in this lecture discuss how to build authentic leadership and drive positive change.
6:30pm to 8pm HolbornMore London events on Thursday 25th Apr
Friday 26th Apr
Discussion on the future of Old Kent Road, hearing from keystakeholders and local residents about the opportunities and challenges facing the road now and into the future.
8:30am to 9:30am Euston
Emma Worrall will discuss the British Army's use of canines during the First World War.
11:30am to : Chelsea
A panel of energy experts discusses the future of nuclear fusion and solar power, following a screening of the documentary 'Let There Be Light'.
7:30pm to 9:45pm South Kensington
£12.00
Robinson Crusoe at 300
Celebrate a book often considered to be the first English novel.
7pm to 8:30pm CamdenMore London events on Friday 26th Apr
Saturday 27th Apr
King Willem Alexander will celebrate his 52nd birthday, and there will be a street party outside the Dutch Church in London.
2pm to 5:30pmOccasional open weekend at the Transport Museum's overflow depot in Acton - lots of events, old buses and trains to see.
11am to 5pm Acton
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Sunday 28th Apr
Discover the history of the building and climb the 135 stairs for the best view of Hackney.
2pm to 4:30pm HackneyThe Reserve is open to the public just once a year at a time when the bluebells are at their most beautiful.
10am to 4pm Greenford
Occasional open weekend at the Transport Museum's overflow depot in Acton - lots of events, old buses and trains to see.
11am to 5pm ActonCelebrate the arrival of Spring by enjoying a rare Open Day at Kilmorey Mausoleum, one of Richmond's most historic yet lesser known buildings.
10am to 3pm Twickenham
A monthly open day at a quirky transport museum housed in an old water pumping building.
10am to 4pm Enfield Town
In this talk George discusses what is driving London’s housing market to dysfunction and reveals how the house building industry has managed to exploit the crisis in order to turn an enormous profit.
3pm to 4:30pm HolbornMore London events on Sunday 28th Apr
Monday 29th Apr
£15.00
The power of manga
Curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere will show you the graphic world where art and storytelling collide in the largest exhibition of manga ever to take place outside of Japan.
Starts at 12am Russell SquareAs well as viewing the lavish exteriors, you will be given an insight into the workings of the Supreme Court.
6pm to 7pm Pimlico
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Tuesday 30th Apr
This lecture will investigate the ways in which the working-class poets of Scotland and the North of England engaged with poetry, and new ways of representing industrial labour.
6:30pm to 7:45pm St James
A panel of experts discuss the role of design in Stanley Kubrick’s films.
6:30pm to 8pm Kensington
The last 500 years of progress in maths will be reviewed, to see where it is going next and ask whether we are truly living in a mathematical Golden Age.
1pm to 2pm Barbican
