What's on in London on Thursday 7th March 2024

Top events happening London

The Bluestockings: The First Women's Movement

In this Lunchtime lecture, author Susannah Gibson introduces her new book The Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement. In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights – all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. …

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1:00pm to 2:00pm
£10
National Portrait Gallery, Soho

RCP Museum Late: Women in medicine

Celebrate Women’s History Month after hours. Explore the history of women in medicine at the Royal College of Physicians through their collections. What early evidence can be found of women in medicine in the RCP records? Which famous doctor and …

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5:30pm to 8:00pm
Free
Camden

Fraternité talk: Restoration and salvage

Join Alexandra Gajewski, Reviews Editor at the Burlington Magazine, to discover the impact of the fire at Notre-Dame on the medieval art and architecture, and the plans to restore it. Notre-Dame’s restoration in Paris got off to a slow start …

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6:00pm to 7:30pm
£11.55
Pimlico

Magisteria - A Talk by Nicholas Spencer

The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
£5.28
Southwark

Love Lates at the Science Museum

Join the Science Museum at Lates for a journey to unravel the essence of love. From the intimate bonds of friendship to the pursuit of passions and pleasure, we navigate the landscape of human connection like never before. What does …

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

Stembryos: The Future of Reproduction?

As stem cell-based embryo models become increasingly more sophisticated, they also raise big questions: how do we define a human embryo and what should be the limit of such research?   At this event in collaboration with Cambridge Reproduction, we take …

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7:00pm to 8:00pm
£10
Science Museum, South Kensington

Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: Derek Gow In Conversation

Britain’s favourite maverick rewilder Derek Gow uncovers the mythology, mystery and history of wolves in Britain in this lively in-conversation and the launch of his new book Hunt for the Shadow Wolf. Having helped return the beaver and many other …

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7:00pm to 9:00pm
£13
Holborn

Rites of Passage - Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain

In Rites of Passage, historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the …

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Starts at 7:30pm
£8
Highgate

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Uncharted Streets: Photographs from the Hyman Collection

Curated by Ben Uri and The Centre for British Photography, Uncharted Streets: Photographs from the Hyman Collection presents five photographers who were born outside the UK but have been central to the development of photography in Britain over the last …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 8th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
St John's Wood

Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed

Discover an overlooked Renaissance great in the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Francesco Pesellino (c.1422-1457). Active in Florence in the mid-fifteenth century, Pesellino achieved a notable career but his early death at thirty-five and the difficulty of attribution have made him …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

Everyday Monuments

Everyday Monuments showcases works by three emerging UK artists – Catriona Robertson, Jacob Talkowski and Alaric Hammond. Each uses everyday materials in innovative ways – re-utilising and revitalising materials that would otherwise be taken for granted, ignored, or discarded. The …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto

The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style. Featuring over 200 looks seen together for the first time, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
£26
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec

Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh. We all know their paintings, but it’s their radical works on paper we put the spotlight on in this ground-breaking exhibition. In the whirl of modernity that was late 19th-century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
£21
Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly

Douglas Gordon All I need is a little bit of everything

The exhibition features numerous text works— translated for the first time into multiple languages—plus the encyclopedic installation Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now… (1999-) and a new work, 2023EastWestGirlsBoys (2023), which reflects on the …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 15th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Isolation Portraits

“Isolation Portraits” is a project developed while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the planet in 2020. Isolation: time to think and rethink, time to reflect and to put things into perspective. With the absence of most of …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 15th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Kennington

Elysian Arcs

Elysian Arcs is a free outdoor immersive light and sound installation created by award-winning design studio, Atelier Sisu. Elysian Arcs will be situated at the foot of the iconic Leadenhall Building, affectionately known as The Cheesegrater. The installation will be …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 15th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
City of London

Charles Holden's Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus

‘Charles Holden’s Master Plan’ celebrates the architect’s vision of what a modern university could be through displays of detailed architectural models, archival documents, photo albums, and other mixed media. Architect Charles Holden was appointed by Sir William Beveridge, Vice-Chancellor of …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 15th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Euston

Building Africa & Living Democracy

Two exhibitions at the Brunei Gallery in SOAS about African architecture, and reflections on global democracy. — Building Africa An exhibition that explores the relationship between architecture and politics. Curated by Prof Julia Gallagher and Dr Kuukuwa Manful, this collaborative …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 16th Mar 2024 Closing Soon
Free
SOAS Gallery, Euston

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