Check out this week's alternative guide to what's on in London. | Welcome to my weekly email of lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random miscellany which Ian hopes would be of interest. | = Event is free of charge | | = Pre-Booking required. |
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| | | Saturday, 25th January | | Professor Ian Beckett tells the story of the Battle of Isandlwana and the subsequent defence of Rorke’s Drift, looking at the impact of the two events from both British and Zulu perspectives. | | | | | | Sunday, 26th January | | A monthly open day at a quirky transport museum housed in an old water pumping building. | | | | Annual parades, festivals and displays in Chinatown. | | | | Annual show and fair for all things small and dollhouse related. | | | | Grand parade by around 500 members of the King's Army of the English Civil War Society in memory of the execution of King Charles I. | | | | To mark 75 years since the end of the Second World War, this immersive archives course revisits life on the home front during the conflict. | | | | Discover the history of the building and climb the 135 stairs for the best view of Hackney. | | | | | | Monday, 27th January | | This panel discussion will focus on assessing the likely impacts of any Brexit outcome on the UK economy, across sectors and regions. | | | | To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Jack Fairweather tells the true story of a Polish resistance fighter, who infiltrated Auschwitz and drew the world’s attention to its atrocities. | | | | Toby Green discusses his groundbreaking history, A Fistful of Shells, in conversation with Zeinab Badawi. | | | | A talk about "wordless books" - such as Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman. | | | | | | Tuesday, 28th January | | Come tour the printing workshop, historic rooms, and famous library. | | | | The lecture will show how Prohibition animated combatants on both sides, generating two Americas that were barely comprehensible to each other, and how the truce declared during depression and war would not last. | | | | What do the results of the British general election mean for Labour and the left? A panel of leading analysts and activists discuss. | | | | Adam Richards shares the cultural and design inspirations for the award winning Nithurst Farm, Sussex. | | | | | | Wednesday, 29th January | | A talk by historian and author, Sarah Wise, on life in the Victorian slums in Shoreditch. | | | | A panel of historians, nurses and social scientists explore why nursing remains undervalued in terms of status and pay. | | | | This talk will explore the history behind the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, paying particular attention to issues of building safety and the culture of risk. | | | | A series of lectures exploring the imaginative conservation and reuse of historic buildings | | | | To celebrate the recent opening of the world’s largest medical galleries, January’s Lates will explore how medical innovations have shaped our world. | | | | Hear Professor Clive Bloom as he tells the story of a lost world of immigrant politics and anarchists. | | | | | | Thursday, 30th January | | The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL transforms into a human-scale immersive game of Snakes & Ladders amongst the specimens of London’s last remaining university zoology museum. | | | | This event brings together international speakers to explore how ceramic innovations, developed during research workshops, are translated into live architectural projects. | | | | Monthly architecture tour of the National Theatre, with drinks included. | | | | | | Friday, 31st January | | Rory Lewis, winner of Portrait of Britain 2017-19, discusses his Soldiery project, a contemporary reflection of the modern British military. | | | | | | Saturday, 1st February | | Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine. | | |
| Exhibitions closing shortly | | This comprehensive exhibition will explore five decades of the distinguished career of a British design legend. (Ends on Sat, 25th Jan) | | This display of selected clothes, accessories and memorabilia demonstrates Hartnell’s innovation and lasting effect on British design and craftsmanship. (Ends on Sat, 25th Jan) | | Canary Wharf will be transformed by over 25 spectacular installations, leaving the dark winter evenings aglow. (Ends on Sat, 25th Jan) | | Artists Anna Alcock, Hannah Ford, Miyuki Kasahara, Alke Schmidt and Sandie Sutton respond to this crisis with new work that draws on research into the causes of the decline of pollinators. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | This major exhibition is the first-ever to focus on the untold story of the women of Pre-Raphaelite art. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | Charting the history of cultural and artistic interactions between East and West, this exhibition explores the impact the Islamic world has had on Western art for centuries. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | Spanning 70 years of Riley’s work, this exhibition offers visitors an unparalleled opportunity to experience powerful and engaging works by one of the most important artists of our time. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | The first exhibition in the UK to fully explore the relationship between the English Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus, the ground-breaking German art school. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | The Gallery becomes a painting studio, an imagined chapel and a room-sized experiment in this immersive exhibition that leads you through the mind of Leonardo da Vinci to explore his masterpiece, ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | This exhibition features a large-scale installation and paintings that draw on the scientific concept known as string theory. (Ends on Sun, 26th Jan) | | An exhibition of paintings by Alison Chaplin of the ever-changing landscape of Epping Forest. (Ends on Wed, 29th Jan) | | On the centenary of the Bauhaus school, one of the most famous and influential design schools in modern history, this exhibition looks afresh at the birth of Modernism in Britain. (Ends on Sat, 1st Feb) | | This exhibition tells the hidden story of fire hazards, how they have changed, and the efforts that have been invested in preventing and treating injuries. (Ends on Sat, 1st Feb) | | A major exhibition exploring the artist’s mastery of light through 35 of his greatest paintings, etchings and drawings. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Feb) | | Experience Blake’s visionary art in his largest show in a generation. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Feb) |
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