What's on in London on Friday 18th March 2022

Top events happening London

A Soldier's Life in the 18th Century

Join Professor Stephen Conway as he explores what daily life was like for the average British soldier in the 18th century. The 18th century presented Britain with a new set of challenges, from wars in far-flung places to the emergence …

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Starts at 12:00pm
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939

The Kitchener Camp has been largely forgotten today, but in 1939, this derelict army base on the Kent coast became the scene of an extraordinary rescue in which 4,000 men were saved from the Holocaust. The Leave to Land travelling …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 18th Mar 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Wiener Library, Russell Square

Hogarth and Europe

How William Hogarth and artists across Europe captured the new modernity of the 18th century European society and culture changed dramatically in the mid-18th century. This was an age of opportunity and change, enlightenment and innovation, but also materialism, exploitation …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 20th Mar 2022 Closing Soon
£18
Tate Britain, Pimlico

Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute

Bishopsgate Institute will be staging a take-over of The Curve at the Barbican with an installation of objects, ephemera and media highlighting 40 moments and stories in London’s LGBTQ+ history. From placards carried at demonstrations to never-seen-before photographs documenting London’s …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 21st Mar 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

Wladimir Ivanow & Modern Ismaili Studies

This exhibition follows the pioneering Russian scholar of Ismaili studies, Wladimir Ivanow (1886 – 1970) across the Muslim world. His life and work traced the contours of a transformative and decisive period in modern history – engulfing revolution and the …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 31st Mar 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Kings Cross

Japan's Best Friend: Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun

This pop-up will be a release event for curator Manami Okazaki’s new book, Japan’s Best Friend: Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun by Prestel, one of the world’s leading publishers of art and design books. The book …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 31st Mar 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Clerkenwell

For the Love of Dog/Pour l'amour du Chien

This exhibition combines photographs taken by Shirley Baker in the UK and her home in France, including pictures of dogs in everyday settings, as well as at dog shows, providing an insight to her affection and admiration for man’s best …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 1st Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Picadilly

Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now

A landmark group exhibition spanning a whole ocean and half a century This exhibition will explore work by artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other British artists who have also made work addressing Caribbean themes …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 3rd Apr 2022 Closing Soon
£16
Tate Britain, Pimlico

Virtual Veronese - A virtual reality experience

Many of the paintings you see on our walls would have originally hung in spaces that are very different to the gallery setting you see today. Paolo Veronese’s ‘The Consecration of Saint Nicholas’ was commissioned in 1561 as an altarpiece …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 3rd Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

America in Crisis

America in Crisis brings together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s till today. America in Crisis was a ground-breaking group initiative originally conceived in 1969 to assess the state …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 3rd Apr 2022 Closing Soon
£8
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Time Being

Time Being is an exhibition of a meditative 14-minute film made by Ruairí Corr, a creative maker who works through co-production, and artist Deborah Robinson. It is the first in-person activity in Peltz Gallery since before the pandemic. Time Being …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 8th Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Euston

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