What's on in London on Thursday 21st November 2024

Top events happening London

The Web Before the Web: Putting the Hype into Hypertext

The talk will describe where the technology (hypertext) which enables the World Wide Web came from, which surprisingly, dates back as far as 1945. The speaker’s company launched the first hypertext application in 1986 (which won the BCS Award) and …

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2:30pm to 5:00pm
Free
City of London

Museum Late: Parliament and the Bank of England

This month, find out more about the relationship between the Bank of England and Parliament in a talk at 6pm with Clare Cowan, Head of the Bank’s Parliamentary Affairs team. Since 1946, the Bank of England has been owned by …

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5:00pm to 8:00pm
Free
Bank of England Museum, City of London

Archive Tour – London Collections Tour

Bishopsgate Institute has collected books, maps, photographs, and a wealth of other materials from London’s history for over 125 years. Their collections have grown to include stories of activism and protest, as well as everyday Londoners. From counter-culture guidebooks to …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
£13
Bishopsgate Institute, City of London

Celebrate Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

An evening to celebrate Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with illustrator Paul Kidby. An absolute must for all fans of Terry Pratchett’s iconic Discworld series, this beautiful volume showcases Paul Kidby’s stunning artwork and his enduring collaboration with the great man. …

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Starts at 6:30pm
£34
Picadilly

London Fortean Society: Cannibal Error: A Social History of the ‘Video Nasty’.

Moral panic, myth, and the macabre: Video nasties in the 1980s and beyond. When the widespread introduction of the VHS cassette changed the face of home entertainment in the early 1980s, it wasn’t long before video rental store shelves were …

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7:00pm to 9:00pm
£10
Holborn

Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering with Daniel Light

The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering. Daniel Light talks about his debut book The White Ladder: Triumph andTragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering. Beautiful, remote and dangerous …

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7:00pm to 8:30pm
£7
Soho

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

'Her booke' Early Modern Women and their Books

This exhibition will highlight material owned, written, commissioned, and translated by women during the long early modern period. It celebrates the ways in which women and their books were an integral part of England’s devotional, intellectual, and bibliographical cultures. Beginning …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 21st Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Lambeth Palace Library, Southwark

ING Discerning Eye Annual Exhibition

An exhibition of 685 small to medium sized artworks that reflect the breadth and range of contemporary art from across the UK. They’re selected from over 6,000 submissions — and are on sale with a free exhibition to view.

Exhibition ends on Saturday 23rd Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mall Galleries, St James

Seven Pavilions of Love

This series of work is inspired by the Haft Paykar (The Seven Beauties), a romantic allegorical poem of the medieval period written by Persian poet Ni??m? Ganjav? in 1197. The 1995 English translation by Julie Scott Meisami, referred to by …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 24th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Kings Cross

Portals: An Exhibition by Artists with Experience of Homelessness & Poverty

The exhibition will be open to the public over two days and highlights the voices, stories and talents of artists with experience of homelessness and poverty. This collaborative, multimedia exhibition represents a passage to new spaces, be it through doorways, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 24th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Soho

Samuel Nnorom: Multitude or Minority

Following the artist being named the inaugural winner of M&C Saatchi Group Art for Change Prize in 2022, Saatchi Gallery, M&C Saatchi Group and Tiwani Contemporary are pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the emerging Nigerian artist …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 24th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

The Walls Between Us

“Home is a place, a site in which we live… an idea, an imaginary that is imbued with feelings of belonging, desire and intimacy…of violence, fear and alienation” (Home, Blunt & Dowling). The Walls Between Us, explores the complex notion …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 25th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston

An exhibition celebrating the very best of art and literature by the Bloomsbury group, with works for sale alongside loans from the collection at Charleston, the home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The Bloomsbury group was a circle of …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 26th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Sotheby's, New Oxford Street

Journey to the West: Art by Kaler Q Huang

Journey to the West presents a new series of paintings weaving together archival images of the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War, literary references, and biblical stories. Paintings on silk, porcelain sculptures and watercolour studies question how labour …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 27th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

Camden Highline WIP

Camden Highline WIP offers a behind-the-scenes look at the charity transforming a disused railway line into a new urban green space for London, through the lens of local documentary photographer, Paul Romans. Paul is a local photographer who been following …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 28th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

The Black Dog: Crypt Residency

In British folklore, the Black Dog acts as a revenant: resurfacing again and again throughout our history. The Dog appears in many forms, categorised by folklorist Theo Brown as: The Barguest, a shapeshifter, ominous and belligerent, often connected with burial-sites …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 30th Nov 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Camden

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