What's on in London on Friday 14th July 2023

Top events happening London

500 Commemorations of the Funeral Procession of Henry 1st Lord Marney

This is Day1 of our 500 Commemorations of the Funeral Procession of Henry 1st Lord Marney. Henry Marney’s 3 day Funeral Procession started from his house near St Swinthin’s, London Stone. It is all written up in a fascinating and …

Read More »

Starts at 12:00am
£20
City of London

British and Dominion Staff Training Between the World Wars

Dr Iain Farquharson discusses how the Army’s institutional culture affected the training and education of those who served in it. How does institutional culture affect educational developments within a military force? For the British Army of the interwar period (1919-39) …

Read More »

12:00pm to 1:00pm
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

Museum Late: Voices of London

London Transport Museum has teamed up with The Making of Black Britain (MOBB) for an evening of talks, workshops, and screenings of oral histories of London’s past and present which will spotlight the voices of people who make up today’s …

Read More »

6:45pm to 10:00pm
£18
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden

The James Webb Space Telescope: A year in Solar System science (online)

Embark on a journey of cosmic exploration with NASA scientist Naomi Rowe-Gurney as she explores the mysteries of our celestial neighbourhood. Discover the secrets of the planets, moons, and small bodies within our Solar System. Naomi will take us through …

Read More »

7:00pm to 8:30pm
£5.73
Mayfair

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Punks, Princes and Protests: The Chronicles of Feliks Topolski RA

The exhibition showcases Feliks Topolski’s lifelong commitment to reportage, using the occasion of Charles III’s coronation to highlight how the artist oscillated between the Establishment and Counter-Culture. Topolski’s artistic and social core was his Studio on the South Bank, occupied …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Saturday 15th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

1980s People Power: The Campaign for St Leonard's Hospital

A small temporary exhibition looks at Hackney Health Emergency, a successful people-led campaign to save St Leonard’s Hospital in Shoreditch from closure in 1983-84. The exhibition, 1980s People Power – The Campaign for St Leonard’s Hospital, co-curated with members of …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Saturday 15th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Hackney Museum, Hackney

Kateřina Šedá: I Would Name My House the Swallow's Nest

KateÅ™ina Å edá’s first solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum and solo projects since 2011, presents models of houses originally realised for the garden of a home for the elderly in Lower Austria, and presents a view of the project Herzlich …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Saturday 15th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Peckham

Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire

An exhibition exploring the crucial role that Freud’s collection of antiquities played in his development of the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis. Freud’s study at 20 Maresfield Gardens contains a vast array of figurines, books and artwork that either originate …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Sunday 16th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
£14
Freud Museum, Hampstead

Treasures from Faraway: Medieval and Renaissance Objects from the Schroder collection

In the latest of its series of In Focus displays, Strawberry Hill House shines a spotlight on how diverse natural materials, from coconuts to rock crystal, along with trade networks with Asia and the Far East created new opportunities for …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Wednesday 19th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
£16
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham

Totalitarian Props

This exhibition explores and investigates certain acts of tyranny, particularly within the context of the Pan-Africanism ideal and Pan-Arabism dream. It looks at how state, government and utopian dictatorships developed modalites of population mass-control and utilised surveillance mechanisms. By playing …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Wednesday 19th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Hackney 300,000 BC

Hackney Museum is inviting residents to step back in time with its new temporary exhibition ‘Hackney 300,000 BC: Meet the Neanderthal neighbours and curious creatures of the borough’s Old Stone Age’. The exhibition provides a rare glimpse into pre-historic Hackney …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Saturday 22nd Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Hackney Museum, Hackney

Zaha's Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan

This exhibition explores the design story of the Moonsoon bar and restaurant (1979-80), Zaha Hadid’s first completed project outside of the UK. Drawing on the rich archival material from ZHF, the exhibition offers a rare insight into the conception of …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Saturday 22nd Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Clerkenwell

Dolls

An exhibition of dolls created during the lockdown by the artist John Lee Bird. Spread over 3 floors of the Ugly Duck premises there will be 800+ dolls (I’m still counting) and large-scale paintings, collages and drawings, lino cuts, sculptures, …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Sunday 23rd Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Unfamiliar

Carefully chosen and curated by physician associate Debbie Jegede, and photographer Theo Deproost, these seemingly inert objects have been transformed through photography to show altered perspectives that challenge our understanding and impression of them. The photographs will be displayed alongside …

Read More »

Exhibition ends on Friday 28th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Royal College of Physicians Museum, Camden

More exhibitions open

Exhibitions opening soon

What's on in London