The IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, trips, heritage events, organised tours and other random miscellany happening around London this weekend.
Top events in London on Saturday
Churches across the City of London will ring the bells in a festival of church bells.
9:20am to 5pm
Free
Historical re-enactors will be setting up camp on the forecourt at the British Museum, offering you the opportunity to enjoy the sights and sounds of early Roman Britain.
11am to 4pm
Russell Square
A walking boat will be in the Thames around Battersea - and yes, it's art.
12pm to 1pm
Battersea
£21.91
Exploring the hidden churchyards and burial grounds in the heart of the City of London
12pm to 2pm
Barbican
Occasional open day at a railway cutting nature reserve in Forest Hill.
1pm to 4pm
Forest Hill
A talk about the history of rum in the Royal Navy, with drink tasting on HMS Belfast.
6pm to 8pm
Southwark
Online events / webinars
Jeremy Konsbruck, a military historian, joins us on Zoom to tell us about conscription and tribunals in WW1.
10:30am to 11:30am
Top events in London on Sunday
Better than half price entry to the Painted Hall on the first Sunday of the month.
10am to 5pm
Greenwich
Free
Historical re-enactors will be setting up camp on the forecourt at the British Museum, offering you the opportunity to enjoy the sights and sounds of early Roman Britain.
11am to 4pm
Russell Square
A beautiful historic parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown with Edwardian gardens in Reigate, Surrey.
12pm to 5pm
Reigate
Angela Clutton and Mark Riddaway discuss how food shaped the landscape of Bankside, and how, in turn, Bankside came to influence the food culture of the entire country.
3pm to 3:45pm
Southwark
