What's on in London on Thursday 8th February 2024

Top events happening London

Command and Conquer Late

At this special evening event, hear from leading experts as they discuss the many factors that influenced the outcome of the First World War. Then, see if you’ve got what it takes to be a great military leader. Leadership has …

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5:00pm to 9:00pm
£12
National Army Museum, Chelsea

Flirty Nature: Valentine's Day at the Linnean Society

Investigate the weird and wonderful world of romance and sex in nature with a tour, a quiz and some drinks. Join us at the Linnean Society — birthplace of the theory of evolution — for a St. Valentine’s event like …

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6:00pm to 8:00pm
£16.96
Picadilly

Fanny and Stella: The Two Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

London, April 1870: Fanny and Stella were no ordinary Victorian women. Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton were young men who sometimes liked to dress as women. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator of her day, and Fanny was her …

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6:30pm to 6:00pm
£12
Bow Street Police Museum, Covent Garden

Late Soviet Britain: why materialist utopias fail

Join us for the launch of Abby Innes’s new book, Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail. Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? In Late Soviet Britain Abby …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
Free
LSE Library, Holborn

Department Stores

The second lecture in the series Twentieth Century Shops: From Arndale to Zara, marking the publication of 100 20th Century Shops. Department stores evolved in the late nineteenth century but by the First World War had grown in ambition, both …

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Starts at 6:30pm
£15
Clerkenwell

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Genetic Automata

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry. The series investigates where deeply ingrained ideas about race come from …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Burma to Myanmar

From influential superpower to repressive regime, Myanmar – also known as Burma – has seen dramatic fluctuations in fortune over the past 1,500 years. Experiencing decades of civil war and now ruled again by a military dictatorship, Myanmar is an …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£12
British Museum, Russell Square

Julianknxx Chorus in Rememory of Flight

Poet, artist and filmmaker Julianknxx explores themes of inheritance, loss and belonging as he crosses the boundaries between written word, music and visual art. Sierra Leonian artist Julianknxx uses his personal history as a prism to deconstruct dominant perspectives on …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion

This exhibition will be one of the most wide-ranging surveys of contemporary fashion culture ever staged in the UK. The swan dress controversially worn by Björk at the 2001 Oscars, Harry Styles’ Steven Stokey Daley outfit from his video for …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£20
Design Museum, Kensington

La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th century Venice 

This display will present an outstanding group of around twenty Venetian drawings from The Courtauld’s collection. They evoke the energy and creativity of Venice at a time when the city flourished as one of the great cultural capitals of Europe. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£11
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

Zach Blas: CULTUS

arebyte presents CULTUS, a new solo project by artist Zach Blas. Co-commissioned by arebyte, London, and Secession, Vienna, this immersive multimedia exhibition explores religious belief, artificial intelligence, and the California tech industry. Featuring AI-generated imagery, text, and sound alongside computer …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition

"Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition" is a journey through more than 200 of the most beautiful, idiosyncratic, and interesting places on Earth – all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of Wes Anderson. Seven themed rooms provide you a personal …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£12.99
South Kensington

Foyer Archives: A Great Sense of Space

Explore the design and history of the Royal Festival Hall foyers, and discover the people behind them, in this free Archive Studio exhibition. From its design and construction under architect Leslie Martin in 1951 to the present day, the foyer …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

The John Ruskin Prize exhibition

The John Ruskin Prize is a multidisciplinary art prize founded on the ideas of the radical 19th-century polymath John Ruskin, with a reputation for supporting and promoting artists, designers, and makers whose work defies easy categorisation. This year marks the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Artists making books - poetry to politics

Whether subverting, inverting, celebrating or exploding – this intriguing new show explores the history of artists taking on the medium of books. In the hands of artists and poets, books have been taking a radically different form since the advent …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 18th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

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