What's on in London on Thursday 27th July 2023

Top events happening London

Nature for Sale: Herbs and their stories in Victorian medical advertising

Victorian patent remedies offered a cheap and accessible form of medicine – but they didn’t necessarily live up to their claims and were often seen as quackery. Some contained dangerous ingredients and others had no effect at all, but among …

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5:30pm to 8:30pm
£15
Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, Southwark

Richard Palmer: 'This august tribunal' - The Court of Arches: sex, money and the church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

This talk is about the Court of Arches, the ancient appeal court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its rich archive in Lambeth Palace Library. It outlines court procedure and the tangled lives of those who came before it, caught …

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5:30pm to 7:00pm
Free
Lambeth Palace Library, Southwark

Gaming Lates

Explore the power of play and its potential to change minds, improve wellbeing and mental health at an evening that celebrates the return of Power Up and 75 years of the NHS and the exceptional efforts of NHS staff and …

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6:30pm to 10:00pm
Free
Science Museum, South Kensington

The Blazing World - A Talk by Dr Jonathan Healey

A major new history of England’s turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world ‘This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life’ The Times ‘A …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
£5.28
Southwark

Cockney - Beyond Bow Bells

Stepping aside from the music hall, Bow bells, heart of gold cliches, what does ‘Cockney’ mean? Photographer and cultural historian STUART FREEDMAN takes a deep dive into that most cockney of culinary emporiums, London’s fading eel, pie and mash shop. …

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Starts at 7:00pm
£10
Horse Hospital, Clerkenwell

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

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 …

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

Dawit L. Petros: Recollections

This solo exhibition continues Petros’ inquiries into the complex relationship between African and European histories of colonialism and modernity. Petros’ aesthetics are anchored on the visual syntax of abstraction. The language of the exhibition brings together highly representational images – …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 29th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Cromwell Place, South Kensington

Mars: War and Peace

Following on from Luke Jerram other astronomical artworks the Museum of the Moon and his Earth artwork Gaia (both previously shown at St John’s), we are happy to showcase Luke’s exhubition of Mars at our church. Measuring seven metres in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
West Kensington

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

Ai Weiwei’s exhibition focuses on design with a mix recent works and commissioned pieces, inviting us into a meditation on value and humanity, art and activism. Ai Weiwei is one of the most significant and recognised artists working today. Known …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
£16.50
Design Museum, Kensington

Saint Francis of Assisi

Come face-to-face with one of history’s most inspirational and revered figures in the first major UK art exhibition to explore Saint Francis of Assisi’s life and legacy. Presenting the art and imagery of Saint Francis (1182-1226) from the 13th century …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

The Big City: London painted on a grand scale

Celebrating extraordinary artists who paint London on a huge scale. The display celebrates monumental painters of the capital and showcases some of the largest paintings in the Gallery’s collection. Guildhall Art Gallery is home to one of the most extensive …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jul 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater, City of London

Hidden London: The Exhibition

Visit an ‘abandoned’ Tube station underworld and discover what secrets lurk beneath our busy streets in this Hidden London exhibition. The exhibition takes you on an immersive journey of some of London’s most secret spaces in the oldest subterranean railway …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 31st Jul 2023 Closing Soon
£18.50
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden

Unforgotten Lives Outdoor Exhibition

Unforgotten Lives, an outdoor summer exhibition created by London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), presents the stories of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage who lived and worked in the city between 1560 and 1860. Exploring a range of experiences, …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 1st Aug 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Tower Hill

Life and death in the archives: St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-2023

A free outdoor exhibition of photography, art and history from the archives and collections of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, held by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. In 2023 St Bartholomew’s Hospital celebrates opening its doors to Londoners for 900 years. It …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 1st Aug 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican

The British Army and Ukraine

In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. This temporary display will look at the origins of the war and the work of the British Army to assist Ukraine since 2014. On 24 February 2022, Russia launched an illegal military invasion of …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 1st Aug 2023 Closing Soon
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

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