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: Sunday, 31st March 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
Exhibition of photos of England taken from early aircraft. (Ending Soon Tue, 31st 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
An exhibition devoted to the famous detective from books to silver and small screen adaptations. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Apr)
Exhibition about how the canals and waterways were used to supply allied armies during WW1. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Apr)
The exhibition tells the story of the Great War at the Palace, the role of the Bishop of London during the national crisis (Ending Soon Thu, 16th Apr)
An exhibition full of the many different ways artists have pictured London's most iconic bridge in its 120 year history. (Ending Soon Sun, 26th Apr)
Through mural and graphic work -- a visual exploration of fostering and adoption in popular culture. (Ending Soon Thu, 30th Apr)
An exhibition about the history of the post office pillar box. (Ending Soon Sat, 2nd May)
An exhibition about Freemasons during WW1, those fighting on the Western Front and elsewhere and on freemasons held as prisoners of war. (Ending Soon Fri, 15th May)
Freemasons' Hall
A rare display of Goya's private drawings never intended for public display. (Ending Soon Mon, 25th May)
Art thing as a kayak navigates a 90-metre long gallery as if moving through a canal. (Ending Soon Sun, 31st May)
This is the first exhibition in Britain devoted to salted paper prints, one of the earliest forms of photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jun)
An exhibition that focuses on the development of anaesthesia during the First World War. (Ending Soon Tue, 30th Jun)
The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
This exhibition tells the story of this 'other' London, exploring the places the poor inhabited. (Ending Soon Sun, 12th Jul)
Geffrye Museum
An exhibition about the history of cooperation between the two military forces. (Ending Soon Tue, 14th Jul)
War Games throws light on the boxed pastimes that Britons played while their loved ones were fighting at the front. (Ending Soon Fri, 17th Jul)
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising
Discover the hidden healing depths of the Royal College of Physicians' remarkable medicinal garden. (Ending Soon Fri, 31st Jul)
The exhibition features more than 100 images exhibited on sleek back-lit photographic panels, creating a uniquely cinematic effect. (Ending Soon Sun, 30th Aug)
An exhibition about Sir Alan Cobham, a pioneering long distance aviator and technical innovator who became famous for his exploits. (Ending Soon Fri, 11th Sep)
An exhibition about the influence of early scientific photography on modern and contemporary art. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Sep)
A candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Sep)
This display highlights how this office project became the test-bed of ideas for the group’s design. (Ending Soon Sun, 4th Oct)
Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden will explore the changing character of the garden in art from the 16th to the early 20th century. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Oct)
An exhibition of the music culture that dominated during WW1 (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Oct)
Royal Academy of Music Museum
This display brings twelve of Tate’s Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite works face to face with a rare collection of their three-dimensional doubles. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
A temporary exhibition which looks at how the Battle of Waterloo was fought and won. (Ending Soon Sat, 28th Nov)
The Guards Museum
Exhibition about how Churchill’s fascination with science led to the scientific achievements that helped Britain win the Second World War. (Ending Soon Tue, 1st Mar)
