| Saturday 28th May |
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| Over 100 vehicles on display, alongside a village fete. |
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| On a day where the past comes alive, learn about the local connections of past Kings and Queens, and get an insight into the medieval period as part of events marking the Queen’s Jubilee. |
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| Visitors will have a chance to learn about 87 Hackford Road and its most famous tenant through a guided tour which includes a short walk to set the context and a longer tour of the house itself |
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| Many surprises, unusual trees and shrubs are hidden behind the railings of this large London square. |
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| Europe's biggest independent annual motorcycle show celebrates the creativity of the new-wave and cafe-racer custom motorcycle culture. |
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| Southbank will transform into a hub of scientific learning and discussion, as some of London’s leading scientists take to their soapboxes to showcase their science to the general public. |
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| Watch the sight of a large crowd of people walking out of the flower show laden with big ornate plants, squashing onto buses and tube trains. |
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| Watch the 1958 Hammer Horror classic starring Christopher Lee in a graveyard chapel |
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| Sunday 29th May |
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| A defunct holiday to mark the return of the Monarchy, by slapping people with nettles. |
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| Over 100 vehicles on display, alongside a village fete. |
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| Europe's biggest independent annual motorcycle show celebrates the creativity of the new-wave and cafe-racer custom motorcycle culture. |
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| Visitors will have a chance to learn about 87 Hackford Road and its most famous tenant through a guided tour which includes a short walk to set the context and a longer tour of the house itself |
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| A family friendly festival where you can take to the water, enjoy live music and dance, and take part in a variety of fun activities. |
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| In partnership with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, a tribute to Verity’s illustrious career with a rare screening of her 1974 BBC series Shoulder to Shoulder. |
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| Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top. |
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| Monday 30th May |
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| Governments, corporations and defence establishments need to take it into account. Should we recognise it as a new global power? |
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| Tuesday 31st May |
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| This lecture shows that in reality, running a computer OS is a supreme juggling act. |
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| Explore how the female animal has been misunderstood and misrepresented by the scientific patriarchy. |
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| Wednesday 1st June |
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| After hours opening of the modernist headquarters of the RCP with tours and archive documents on show. |
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| This lecture offers a broader perspective from astrobiology, astrochemistry, and astrophysics on the habitability or otherwise of other planets beyond Planet Earth. |
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| Starting with de Loutherbourg’s contested portrait of Swedenborg at Swedenborg House, this talk will look at the artist and his associates, and the challenge of writing him back into art history. |
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| Thursday 2nd June |
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| Two sets of military gun salutes will take place today to mark the Official Birthday of HM The Queen and Coronation Day. |
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| A large flypast of military aircraft from all three services will pass over Central London at lunchtime. |
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| Your chance to sit in the cockpit of a Gulf War veteran Buccaneer and a Cold War Phantom |
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| A monthly late opening of the restored Roman temple found near Bank in the City of London in the 1950s, and recently restored to its original subterranean location. |
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| Looking to both our history and near futures, this panel discussion explores how the food we eat is changing at extraordinary rate. |
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| Friday 3rd June |
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| Your chance to sit in the cockpit of a Gulf War veteran Buccaneer and a Cold War Phantom |
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| Saturday 4th June |
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| The under restoration windmill will aim to have its new sails rotating for the open days. |
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| Pose for pictures with the baton, watch sportsmen and women do their thing, try out a Commonwealth Games sport for yourself, sample some street food and enjoy the atmosphere. |
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| Pure Japanese Zen garden (so no flowers) with 12 large and small rocks of various colours and textures set in islands of moss and surrounded by a sea of grey granite gravel. |
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| Your chance to sit in the cockpit of a Gulf War veteran Buccaneer and a Cold War Phantom |
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| At its best in late spring as Japanese maple cultivars display great variety of shape and colour whilst ferns unfurl over a tumbling stream and alpines and clematis burst into flower. |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| An exhibition of the most beautiful private press books ever published, illustrating Walker’s revolutionary book printing techniques and legacy in his former home in Hammersmith. (Ends on Sat, 28th May) | | A major solo exhibition of African diaspora artist Everlyn Nicodemus. (Ends on Sat, 28th May) | | Areas around Chelsea are transformed into London’s largest free flower festival with this year’s theme, 'British Icons'. (Ends on Sat, 28th May) | | An exhibition of paintings, watercolours and sculptures by the multi-talented Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves). (Ends on Sat, 28th May) | | An exhibition by Yoon Hyup, known for his vibrant use of lines and dots to create minimalistic and abstract city scape paintings. (Ends on Sun, 29th May) | | Radio Ballads presents new film commissions alongside paintings, drawings and contextual materials that share the stories learned in social care work. (Ends on Sun, 29th May) | | Touching on histories of medicine, trade and industrialisation through digitally rendered objects, Seaward weaves narrative through commonplace objects and organic forms. (Ends on Sun, 29th May) | | An outdoor exhibition of 138 award-winning images selected from 20,000 submissions by photographers in 151 countries. (Ends on Tue, 31st May) | | Step back through millennia and discover how this ancient civilization questioned, contemplated, and debated the natural world. (Ends on Sun, 5th Jun) | | Gaze through the lens of some of the world's best wildlife photographers and marvel at the beauty of our planet. (Ends on Sun, 5th Jun) | | This exhibition explores Sigmund Freud's fascination and relationship with China. (Ends on Sun, 5th Jun) | | This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the finest works amongst the drawings collected by Sir John Soane. (Ends on Sun, 5th Jun) | | Through artist impressions and technical diagrams from her fieldwork, geologist and landscape artist Emma Theresa Jude reports on her recent ascent of the ‘Inaccessible Pinnacle’ at the peak of Sgùrr Dearg on the Scottish Isle of Skye. (Ends on Sun, 5th Jun) | | This display will present an important group of twenty-two works by Parmigianino from The Courtauld’s collection. (Ends on Sun, 5th Jun) | | Explore incredible objects, including some never seen by the public before, from Professor Stephen Hawking’s office in this new, free display. (Ends on Sat, 11th Jun) | | A photography exhibition in the former Habitat store on Tottenham Court Road. (Ends on Sat, 11th Jun) | | This exhibition, 'If you prick us, do we not bleed?' introduces cabinets of curiosity into the heart of the Sainsbury Wing, containing assembled fragments that might look like relics from another collection. (Ends on Sun, 12th Jun) | | Royal Photographic Society (RPS) award-winning photographer, Dexter McLean, MA, focuses on representation of both the black and disabled communities that he embodies in Tower Avenue, his first solo show. (Ends on Sun, 12th Jun) |
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