| Saturday 25th September |
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| See the finds and learn about recent excavations at Holy Family Catholic Technology College. |
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| A day of vintage shopping, bringing vintage traders selling fashion, menswear, jewellery, homeware, furniture, posters, maps, vinyl records, collectables and more |
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| A street party to celebrate the opening of the Northern line extension to Battersea. |
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| Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
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| Occasional open day at a railway cutting nature reserve in Forest Hill. |
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| Sunday 26th September |
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| Every conceivable vehicle and pieces of apparatus used in the emergency services will grace the Museum site in a line-up of display and serving vehicles. |
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| Watch Freemen/women exercise their right to drive sheep across a London Bridge - and lots of stalls from the livery companies. |
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| Occasional open days at the overflow depot where the London Transport Museum stores its trains and most of its unseen collection. |
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| A street party to celebrate the opening of the Northern line extension to Battersea. |
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| A vibrant celebration of Bengali arts, culture and heritage in Aldgate Square. |
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| Hackney’s oldest building will be open to the public. |
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| Be outside and watch the most unusual sight of a large crowd of people walking down the road laden with big ornate plants, squashing onto buses and tube trains. |
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| Monday 27th September |
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| Conflicting views shaped the numerous versions of King Kong and the Planet of the Apes films, which the lecture will use to look at evolving images of humanity. |
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| Join us and our guest, Helen de Borchgrave - author and fine art conservator, for a glimpse of life in Gdansk, Warsaw and Krakow in 1984 |
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| This talk will explore the historical development of magical Cornwall in the cultural imagination. |
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| Tuesday 28th September |
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| A talk about the forming of the collection before looking at a selection of paintings and the stories behind them, covering the Tudor period to the present day. |
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| A talk about the forming of the collection before looking at a selection of paintings and the stories behind them, covering the Tudor period to the present day. |
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| An evening of brilliant conversation and find out London's extraordinary secrets that lie beneath it. |
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| Join Carole Annett in conversation with author and colour expert Patrick Baty about his book ‘The Anatomy of Colour’ |
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| In this lecture Dr. Asma will explore some of the dominant types of monsters in ancient Western literature, natural history, and philosophy |
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| Wednesday 29th September |
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| This lecture will examine the evidence for and the significance of events that unfolded in the early Universe. |
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| A talk about end-of-life medical treatment. |
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| Join Southwark Cathedral online as we reflect on the first anniversary of the passing of Doorkins Magnificat and the first year of Hodge |
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| Join Southwark Cathedral online as we reflect on the first anniversary of the passing of Doorkins Magnificat and the first year of Hodge |
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| Jacob Moss highlights the Museum’s recent project to identify & map more than three hundred fan makers active in London from the 17th century onward. |
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| Thursday 30th September |
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| Discover the story of a priory that became a parish church that became a Cathedral Southwark Cathedral has had a long and distinguished history with over 900 years of Christian witness and mission |
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| This talk looks at how a newcomer to London found a room and what life was like in a crowded house shared with strangers who were subsidising the household budget. |
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| This talk looks at how a newcomer to London found a room and what life was like in a crowded house shared with strangers who were subsidising the household budget. |
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| Explore the idea of Collecting Covid-19 with the Natasha McEnroe, Keeper of Medicine at the Wellcome Galleries in the Science Museum. |
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| In conversation with fellow author and historian Peter Frankopan Colin describes the dramatic journey he embarked upon for his latest new book, The Amur River. |
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| Lee Jackson talks about his book "Dirty Old London", explaining how the nineteenth century capital struggled to stem a rising tide of filth, from toxic pollution of the Thames to disposing of mountains of 'dust' (household rubbish). |
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| Here's your opportunity to celebrate the series' 10th anniversary with the author himself, Ben Aaronovitch. |
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| At our online lecture, Tracy Borman presents the history of witches and what happened to them in Stuart England |
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| Friday 1st October |
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| Join Judith Mackrell as she explores the lives of six wartime journalists and their struggles to overcome bureaucracy and prejudice while reporting from the front lines. |
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| Saturday 2nd October |
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| Monthly opening of the museum dedicated to the life and work of the "lady with the lamp". |
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| Roughly monthly open day at a most unusual museum in an old barn. |
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| Explore the macabre history of "Smooth Field" (aka Smithfield) on this special London Month of the Dead walking tour. |
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| Set behind the Georgian manor house, visitors can explore the peaceful two-acre garden. |
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| Drop in to explore the collection of magazines, pamphlets, posters, ephemera, t-shirts and artefacts from these collections |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| Around 70 shops, restaurants and hotels will be decorated with floral displays for the week. (Ends on Sat, 25th Sep) | | Made in the spring of 2020, during a period of intense activity at his home in Normandy, this exhibition charts the unfolding of spring, from beginning to end, and is a joyous celebration of the seasons. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | This summer, Kensington Gardens will host Van Gogh Alive, an immersive “experience” based around the life and work of the Dutch artist. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | An exhibition about the 20th century’s most influential floral decorator, Constance Spry. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | Experience colour like never before in an exhibition that celebrates the spectacular shades of the natural world. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | Enjoy works from Quentin Blake from two emotive series, Children and Dogs, and Children, Birds & Dogs. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | The exhibition showcases the people and places in Harrow who have contributed to preserving Harrow’s natural spaces. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | The first major show of art by French post-war painter Olivier Debré in 44 years, bringing together some 30 oils and works on paper. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | This exhibition looks at the Cold War and its effect on cultural practices in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region, which generated one of the most fertile periods in the history of Arab culture and publishing. (Ends on Sun, 26th Sep) | | Discover the story of Ai-Da, the world’s first convincing humanoid robot capable of creating artworks. (Ends on Wed, 29th Sep) | | Original artworks and illustrations from his booklets, inspired by the art in the Painted Hall, will be on display. (Ends on Thu, 30th Sep) | | An exhibition exploring the concept of Eden through Art & Islamic Garden Design (Ends on Thu, 30th Sep) | | An analogue journey through unseen footage, unpublished articles and original synthesizers with one of electronic music's pioneering groups. (Ends on Thu, 30th Sep) | | Reverberations is an immersive sound installation, produced by sound artist Wajid Yaseen, that uses transducer speakers to resonate through the bookshelves of one of London’s oldest radical bookshops. (Ends on Fri, 1st Oct) | | Inspired by artist Anna Ray’s Huguenot ancestors who settled in Spitalfields as textile makers in the 18th century, the exhibition, On Tenterhooks explores the past and present of textile making. (Ends on Fri, 1st Oct) | | This exhibition is an intense investigation of a place half-remembered and half-remade by fantasy - both the artist's own and those protruding, live and dead, from the past. (Ends on Sat, 2nd Oct) | | The largest solo museum exhibition to date in London of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years. (Ends on Sun, 3rd Oct) | | Running parallel to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, this exhibition features more than 200 of the best botanical artwork and garden photography (Ends on Sun, 3rd Oct) | | This new collection focuses on Gail’s monochrome linocuts, which are re-workings of some of her earlier, favourite colour prints. (Ends on Sun, 3rd Oct) | | For the exhibition, the gallery will be transformed into an overgrown, supernaturally lit terrain inspired by the scene depicted in the painting the exhibition takes its name from. (Ends on Thu, 7th Oct) | | An exhibition that celebrates the breadth, diversity and qualities of craft, and includes numerous craft objects made in the UK over the course of the last 50 years. (Ends on Sat, 9th Oct) | | The work in this exhibition is painted mostly on objects that the artist has salvaged from the streets and buildings of London. (Ends on Sat, 9th Oct) | | A series of X-ray photographs and poetic texts highlighting extinction and the alarming decline in bird species around the world. (Ends on Sun, 10th Oct) | | 20 designers have been invited to think about their experiences of a pandemic world. (Ends on Sun, 10th Oct) |
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