Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Wednesday, 30th October 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
This exhibition will explore changes to the city and the lives of Londoners as the country went to war. (Ending Soon Thu, 30th Oct)
A historical tour of ghosts and gore and underneath Waterloo Station (Ending Soon Sat, 1st Nov)
Waterloo Underground Station
Am exhibition of rarely seen contemporary and historical artworks featuring London's bridges. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Nov)
Museum of London Docklands
Free
South Acton Heritage
An exhibition based on the heritage of South Acton (Ending Soon Sun, 9th Nov)
W3 Gallery
An open-air exhibition which captures the eerie peace and beauty of First World War battlefields as they appear today. (Ending Soon Tue, 11th Nov)
St James's Park
Guildhall Library examines the personal accounts and experiences of individuals, including 'Boy', who served on the first submarines (Ending Soon Wed, 12th Nov)
An exhibition that explores the impact that hand crafted Victorian Shop signs had on the writings of Charles Dickens. (Ending Soon Sat, 15th Nov)
New exhibition and retrospective of Edwin Smith - one of Britain’s foremost 20th century photographers. (Ending Soon Sat, 6th Dec)
An exhibition that looks at photography's role in constructing the public image of atomic energy and ‘the bomb’. (Ending Soon Sat, 20th Dec)
Work Gallery
Free
Exhibition: Waste
A series of fine wood-cut prints exploring our local municipal waste heritage by dramatist-turned-visual artist Elisabeth Bond. (Ending Soon Sun, 21st Dec)
An exhibition based on images and text from a notebook kept during the pogrom. (Ending Soon Tue, 23rd Dec)
Portraits and stories of women such as Lady Ann Fanshawe, who left a memoir describing the dramatic times of the Civil War. (Ending Soon Sat, 3rd Jan)
Valence House
This exhibition will explore his immigrant roots, his Jewish background and his contribution to British design. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
The steampunks are taking over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Jan)
Exhibition of china-ware from the famous Ming dynasty. (Ending Soon Mon, 5th Jan)
Exhibition by 18 photographers from the 1930s to the present day who have changed the way we view architecture and perceive the world around us. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jan)
This exhibition will look at how the war affected the residents of Enfield - both in the trenches and on the home front. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Jan)
Enfield Museum
Discover the UK’s biggest ever Gothic exhibition. (Ending Soon Tue, 20th Jan)
Discover the impact on London life and the surprising role London’s bus drivers and their buses played on the Western Front. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Mar)
On the centenary of the First World War, this exhibition commemorates the professional nurses who worked, served and died between 1914 and 1918. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st Mar)
The Royal College of Nursing
