Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Things to do in London in August 2016

The ianVisits guide to August's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.


Monday 1st August

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Tuesday 2nd August

An evening in the Sir John Soane's Museum with the rooms lit by candles.
2016-08-02
6pm to 9pm
 

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Wednesday 3rd August

In a talk to accompany his exhibition of photographs, Simon Gregor will share some of his experiences of photographing London at night.
2016-08-03
2pm to 3pm
 
City of London
City of London

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Thursday 4th August

Tours include visits to the Meeting Room and the grand Reading Room of the Library.
2016-08-04
2pm to 3pm
 
Join adventurer and TV presenter, Ryan Pyle as he talks about his two months traveling through the remote locations in Brazil
2016-08-04
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Holborn
Holborn

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Friday 5th August

Once a month, the private gardens of Lambeth Palace are open for a few hours in the afternoon.
2016-08-05
12pm to 3pm
 
Southwark
Southwark
Have you ever wondered how curators work with museum collections to create exhibitions? Have you ever thought you might do a better job?
2016-08-05
1pm to 5pm
 
Euston
Euston

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Saturday 6th August

Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine.
2016-08-06
2pm to 5pm
 
Tooting
Tooting
£5.00
Occasional opening of a private garden inside Regents Park
2016-08-06
2:30pm to 5:30pm
 
Camden
Camden
A note that there will be fireworks at the Olympic Park this evening.
2016-08-06
Starts at 7pm
 
Olympic Park
Olympic Park

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Sunday 7th August

Open day at a museum devoted to industrial testing machines, based around the original massive girder testing machine built by Kirkaldy.
2016-08-07
10am to 4pm
 
Step back in history and visit the terminus building of London's original international airport - in Croydon.
2016-08-07
11am to 4pm
 
Croydon
Croydon
A guided tour around Somerset House looking at how it has been used for film sets.
2016-08-07
Starts at 1pm
 
£5.00
Occasional opening of a private garden inside Regents Park
2016-08-07
2:30pm to 5:30pm
 
Camden
Camden

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Monday 8th August

2016-08-08
8:30pm to 10:30pm
 
Tottenham
Tottenham

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Tuesday 9th August

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Wednesday 10th August

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Thursday 11th August

It’s the year 2016, but what happened to the incredible technological future of yesteryear that was predicted?
2016-08-11
7pm to 8pm
 

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Friday 12th August

An introduction to bats, followed by a bat survey using detectors in the local gardens.
2016-08-12
7pm to 9pm
 

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Saturday 13th August

A note that steam trains will be departing from both Paddington and King's Cross stations in the morning, and returning in the evening.
2016-08-13
All Day
 
Occasional opening of the caves underneath Reigate town centre.
2016-08-13
10am to 4pm
 
Reigate
Reigate
Open day at the local bus garage with vintage bus rides around the area.
2016-08-13
10:30am to 4pm
 
Keston
Keston
A chance to see some of the Cuming Museum’s First World War artefacts and discuss the proposed new war memorial in Walworth.
2016-08-13
12pm to 4pm
 
Walworth
Walworth
A double-feature picture show screening of Forbidden Planet on a big screen.
2016-08-13
Starts at 2pm
 

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Sunday 14th August

A guided tunnel boat trip beneath the streets of London via the Islington tunnel.
2016-08-14
All Day
 

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Monday 15th August

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Tuesday 16th August

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Wednesday 17th August

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Thursday 18th August

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Friday 19th August

Flames, smoke and fireworks are used on TV and in film to add explosive atmosphere, but how do scientists go about making these effects?
2016-08-19
6pm to 7:15pm
 
Hanover Square
Hanover Square

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Saturday 20th August

Take an expert 50 minute guided tour of Hornsey Town Hall with Paul and Oonagh of Crouch End Walks.
2016-08-20
Starts at 11am
 
Hornsey
Hornsey
See firefighters, live rescues, fire dogs, fire engines, historical re-enactments and much more.
2016-08-20
11am to 5pm
 
Annual guided walk of 4 green miles through the remnants of the Great North Wood.
2016-08-20
12pm to 6pm
 
Forest Hill
Forest Hill
From towering cinemas and garages to iconic flagship stores, Art Deco in the West End explores the rich architectural history of the area
2016-08-20
2pm to 4:15pm
 
Soho
Soho
A talk about the British built Twinkle satellite which will look for extrasolar planets.
2016-08-20
3pm to 6pm
 
Wembley
Wembley
£8.00
A chance to watch the Star Trek spoof film in an actual planetarium.
2016-08-20
Starts at 6pm
 

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Sunday 21st August

A note that there will be low flying helicopter filming for some reason in the morning.
2016-08-21
9am to 11am
 

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Monday 22nd August

A talk by Mary Gray, whose father, the Rev. James Butterworth, was the founder and leading figure in Clubland, the celebrated youth club on Walworth Road.
2016-08-22
4pm to 6pm
 
Southwark
Southwark

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Tuesday 23rd August

A historical lecture on the effigies of medieval England and the armour depicted on them.
2016-08-23
1pm to 2pm
 
Henry and Matt will present some of the most unusual maps from their new book.
2016-08-23
Starts at 6:30pm
 
Covent Garden
Covent Garden
A talk about why mangoes become famous in China in 1968.
2016-08-23
6:45pm to 6pm
 

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Wednesday 24th August

Cinema during the First World War was an art form in its infancy. But time and circumstance forced it to grow rapidly as a source of both information and entertainment.
2016-08-24
2pm to 4pm
 
Richmond
Richmond
For over a thousand years, London has been a city of palaces. Pete Smith tells the story of the most fascinating of these.
2016-08-24
2pm to 3:30pm
 
City of London
City of London
Join New York Times bestselling author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz as she discusses the life and career of the famous surgeon Thomas Dent Mütter
2016-08-24
6:30pm to 8:30pm
 
Barbican
Barbican

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Thursday 25th August

Master Calligrapher Dr Nassar Mansour will explain why calligraphy is so important to Islam.
2016-08-25
Starts at 7:30pm
 

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Friday 26th August

Special open days the the UK's highest court of law on days then the judges are not sitting.
2016-08-26
9:30am to 4:30pm
 
Pimlico
Pimlico
Museum scientists share how animals like to party in the natural world and inspire an improvised comedy performance from The Wunderkammer.
2016-08-26
6:45pm to 10pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington
Hear about the salamander's ability to get literally legless and find out the true length of a chameleon's tongue. Witness these and other natural 'party tricks' in this live animal workshop.
2016-08-26
7pm to 8pm
 
South Kensington
South Kensington
Filmmaker Sue Giovanni worked alongside local people on a year-long project to research the history and personal stories of this hidden space.
2016-08-26
Starts at 7pm
 
Forest Hill
Forest Hill
Guided tour around Hyde Park listening out for the local bats.
2016-08-26
Starts at 8:15pm
 
Hammersmith
Hammersmith

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Saturday 27th August

Visit the c.1397 Grade 2 listed ‘threshing’ barn, over 100ft x 40ft in size, with a fine crownpost roof.
2016-08-27
Starts at 10:45am
 
Rickmansworth
Rickmansworth
2016-08-27
12pm to 2pm
 
Tottenham Court Road
Tottenham Court Road
Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky, will be a mere 0.06 degrees apart at sunset.
2016-08-27
Starts at 6pm
 

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Sunday 28th August

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Monday 29th August

An annual procession from the site of the Newgate Prison to the place where the condemned were taken, at Tyburn Gallows.
2016-08-29
Starts at 1pm
 
Barbican
Barbican

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Tuesday 30th August

In his new book The Euro: And its Threat to Europe, Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz argues that saving Europe may mean abandoning the Euro.
2016-08-30
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Holborn
Holborn
iMakr will be offering free 3D printing training at the iMakr Store in London.
2016-08-30
6:30pm to 8pm
 
Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell

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Wednesday 31st August

To coincide with this year's London Design Festival, Goldfinger Factory is opening its workshop -situated in the underbelly of world famous Trellick Tower- to the public to celebrate its full launch
2016-08-31
11am to 8pm
 
North Kensington
North Kensington
This documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer, charts the amazing and untold story of automata,
2016-08-31
Starts at 6:45pm
 
This month’s Lates discovers how much we share about ourselves without even saying a word.
2016-08-31
6:45pm to 10pm
 

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