What's on in London on Tuesday 8th November 2022

Top events happening London

The Real Bookseller of Kabul: Shah Muhammad Rais in conversation

With David Loyn. This event will take place at the British Library. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) …

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7:00pm to 8:30pm
£10.00
British Library, Camden

The Magic of MinaLima

A spellbinding evening with the creators of Harry Potter’s MinaLima – Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lim – to mark the publication The Magic of MinaLima. Miraphora and Eduardo will be talking about this full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year …

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Starts at 7:00pm
£7
Trafalgar Square

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

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

Phantom Stamps

Phantom Stamps is a collaborative project imagined by Stanley Gibbons, to bring the world of stamp collecting to a brand-new audience. The stamp seller has been working with 5 artists to take the format of traditional postage stamps (and, more …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 26th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Strand

Enchanted Woodland

Open over three weekends only, this is one of London’s largest illuminated winter woodland displays. The display fills the woods around Syon Park’s lake and (usually) includes displays on the main building as well. Typically can take 1-2 hours to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 27th Nov 2022 Closing Soon
£15
Syon House, Brentford

Jubilee - St Paul's, the Monarch and the Changing World

June 2022 sees the historic celebration of HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, including a Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday 3rd June. To mark this unique event, our exhibition Jubilee: St Paul’s, the Monarch and the Changing …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 1st Dec 2022 Closing Soon
£18
St Paul's Cathedral, City of London

A taste of one's own medicine

This exhibition comprised a unique collection of medical satire prints from the mid-18th century to the 1980s. Graphic satire has saturated all levels of society since it emerged as a skilled artform in the 17th century. It developed into a …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 2nd Dec 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Royal College of Physicians Museum, Camden

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