What's on in London on Tuesday 1st November 2022

Top events happening London

The Decline of Farming and the Rise of the Sports Clubs in Dulwich with Brian Green

Farming in Dulwich, which had provided income for the Priory of Bermondsey for 400 years and for almost as long for Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift, was virtually over by the outbreak of the First World War. Its decline was …

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8:00pm to 9:00pm
£5
Dulwich

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Ghost Show: The Haunted House

Ghost Show: The Haunted House is a one-week art exhibition using the classic ‘haunted house experience’ to think about new ways of exhibiting art, supported by Arts Council England. Residing within a bespoke theatrical horror setting in Copeland Park, working …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 5th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Peckham

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men’s fashion and reflection on gender, this exhibition explores how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams. The …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
£20
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

Maurice Broomfield: Industrial Sublime

Maurice Broomfield’s dramatic photographs captured factories and their workers in an era of rapid transition, depicting the remnants of the industrial revolution alongside emerging technologies. The exhibition is in room 100, Photography Centre – The Bern and Ronny Schwartz Gallery. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

At Home with the Hogarths

In this exhibition, you will be introduced to the people who lived at Hogarth’s House, their relatives, friends and neighbours. The Hogarth family acquired their second home in 1749, to provide a haven away from their main home in the …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Hogarth's House, Chiswick

A Garland for The Queen

The Queen’s long association with the Southbank Centre began when Princess Elizabeth attended the opening of the Royal Festival Hall at the Festival of Britain in 1951. We look back at memorable events in our shared history: the naming of …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 9th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies

This masterpiece is considered a milestone in Chinese painting history. Traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi (about AD 345-406), it probably dates to between AD 400 and 700. Due to conservation precautions, it can only be displayed for six weeks a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Accidentally Wes Anderson

In celebration of the launch of the new Accidentally Wes Anderson Postcards, curated by Wally Koval, creator of the Instagram account and 2020 best-selling book, an exhibition of the postcards. From Tokyo to Ohio, step inside the photographs via immersive …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

Augenblick Press: Rain Time

Augenblick Press presents a collection of photographs documenting the self-portraiture of one woman’s penchant for deep-sea submersion via the burgeoning world of rubber fetishism

Exhibition ends on Thursday 17th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Horse Hospital, Clerkenwell

Lands of Unknown Warriors

An exhibition of new paintings by John Woodman inspired by the landscapes from which the Unknown Warrior was chosen. The Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1920, representing all who died in the First World War with no …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 19th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Westminster Abbey, Pimlico

Londoners Underground: Private Worlds in Public Places

The culmination of a five year-long project observing the lives of Londoners – the ordinary and not-so-ordinary – doing that most mundane and democratic of London activities: taking the tube. A portrait of a city in transit, this exhibition celebrates …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 23rd Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

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