What's on in London on Sunday 29th September 2024

Top events happening London

Dahlias display at Leighton House

See Leighton’s Arab Hall transformed through the flower power of Dahlias, with a spectacular display curated by florist and garden writer Arthur Parkinson – named by AD?magazine as one of the most influential gardeners of his generation. Famously known for …

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10:00am to 5:30pm
£14
Leighton House Museum, West Kensington

Georgian cookery demonstrations

See a Georgian feast prepared in London’s only 18th-century townhouse kitchen at the home of George Frideric Handel. — With food historians Marc Meltonville and Robert Hoare in period costume and using replica Georgian kitchenware, you will experience a kitchen …

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10:00am to 5:00pm
£14
Handel Hendrix House, Mayfair

Watch sheep herded over Southwark Bridge

Freemen (and women) of the City of London will exercise their right to take Sheep across a London bridge today. One side of Southwark Bridge will be fenced off and throughout the day groups of Freemen will herd sheep along …

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10:30am to 4:00pm
Free
Southwark

Costermongers Harvest Festival

Pearly society Harvest festival in the Guildhall yard in the city of London starting at 1:30pm. Many mayors attend as well as entertainment for your viewing and pleasure. Come and join the pearly society members. No ticket required for the …

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1:30pm to 4:00pm
Free
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater, City of London

Searching London’s lost River Westbourne talk + Q&A

Explore the artefacts recovered from the lost River Westbourne and what they can tell us about London’s history. During the recent excavations of the Chelsea Barracks site in West London, thousands of historic artefacts were recovered from the lost River …

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2:00pm to 3:30pm
£10
London Museum Docklands, Poplar

Ethical Matters: The Invention of Good and Evil

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of Good and Evil. In this Ethical Matters talk, philosopher Dr Hanno Sauer traces humanity’s fundamental moral transformations from our earliest …

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3:00pm to 4:30pm
£10
Holborn

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Henry Willett's Collection of Popular Pottery

From animal menageries to souvenirs of early balloon flight, the 19th-century philanthropist Henry Willett collected an eccentric array of pottery. Loaned from Brighton Museum, this display showcases more than 300 years of popular British history. Ian has Visited – review …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors

This summer the Garden Museum presents the first exhibition to explore the gardens of the Bloomsbury group. Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors centres on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
£15
The Garden Museum, Southwark

Tours of a replica 17th-century Spanish galleon

The Spanish galleon, the Andalucía will be in London for a week, and they’re offering tours of the sailing ship. The Galeón Andalucía is a replica of the ship used by the Spanish during the 16th to 18th centuries in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
£12
Wapping

Little Omens

Little Omens is about searching for a sign or direction, whether in nature or in the past, to keep hope alive in what seems like a return of Dark Ages. We are living in confusing times of abundance and famine, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

Romany Mark Bruce - (UN)SEEN

(UN)SEEN is a new collection of paintings by Romany Mark Bruce, Irish-born painter and sculptor, exploring the way we interact with our environment. How do we choose to look at our surroundings, or do we choose not to recognise at …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Bethnal Green

Victorian London in Photographs

This temporary outdoor exhibition showcases The London Metropolitan Archive’s extraordinary range of photographs from Queen Victoria’s reign which record the city and its people in stunning detail. The arrival of photography in London in 1839 changed the way people saw …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Tower Hill

Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience

Experience a real Martian invasion in London at Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience. See it, hear it, live it, with 24 extraordinary scenes, multi-sensory effects and virtual reality – all set to Jeff Wayne’s iconic …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
£52

Storyteller: Photography by Tim Hetherington

Take a deeper look into the human experience of conflict with Storyteller: Photography by Tim Hetherington at IWM London. Explore a more thoughtful and visually captivating insight into conflict than in the news we watch or read, and challenge your …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Imperial War Museum, Southwark

Hand writing history: 200 years of personal diaries

For the past 40 years artist Dylan Jonas Stone has been collecting personal diaries and his unique collection now numbers over 200 diaries, acquired at flea markets, car boot sales and online, as well as other printed and manuscript ephemera. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 29th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Holborn

Vinterior's Mid-Century Modern Dollshouse

Museum of the Home is showcasing a one-of-a-kind Vinterior replica dollhouse. In partnership with The Kensington Dollshouse Company, Vinterior has meticulously restored this vintage, pre-loved dollshouse, inspired by mid-century modern design, this project offers a spin on the traditional dollhouse. …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 30th Sep 2024 Closing Soon
Free
The Museum of the Home, Bethnal Green

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