Things to do in London in April 2017

Join author Catherine Curzon to explore attitudes to mental health in the eighteenth century.

 

The monthly talk & social series brings you Julia Samuel talking to us about Grief, and The Vagina Workshop from Kim Letizia and Phillipa G

 

A monthly event where three speakers give 18-21 minute fun-yet-informative talks across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along.

 

Join Caroline Swan, author of the Flickering Lamps blog, to hear about 'Graveyard' Walker's work and his influence on burial practices in Victorian London.

 

A panel debate exploring the potential risks or rewards of a driverless world.

 

Find out about cutting-edge research in the fields of star mapping, sun research and planet hunting in other star systems

 

Join broadcaster and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota as she guides us through the hidden histories of the British landscape.

 

A talk about the history of the Marshalsea through the lives of its prisoners – rich and poor.

 

A discussion to examine how we value and treat post-1945 buildings.

 

Professor Jo Fox explores how love and sexual attraction were used to mobilise the nation during the World Wars.

 

A unique evening of museum comedy, as a special line up of comedians bring their own unique brands of humour to the V&A.

 

n evening of retro fun for grown-ups as night descends on the Natural History Museum.

 

You are exhorted to visit your local independent purveyor of music and make purchases of physical storage media.

 

All day conference on all things subterranean.

 

A note that a steam train will be leaving Paddington Station in the morning, and returning later in the evening.

 

Explore this treasure-house of over 320,000 artefacts from London’s transport history and which is usually closed to the public.

 

A weekend showing off a range of diesel locomotives on the heritage railway line.

 

Explore this treasure-house of over 320,000 artefacts from London’s transport history and which is usually closed to the public.

 

English and Catalan foods at Borough Market for an irregular Sunday opening.

 

A weekend showing off a range of diesel locomotives on the heritage railway line.

 

A talk by Dr Olga Vainshtein who will interpret the dandies’ code of elegance as a system combining fashion, body techniques, emotional discipline, and strategies of behaviour.

 

Architectural critic Tom Dyckhoff traces the story of urban life from joyless mass housing developments to brash corporate architecture.

 

Mathematics is vital in ensuring that the lights stay on as the planners of the grid need to solve non-linear differential-algebraic equations to work out how much electricity can be generated, distributed and stored.

 

This talk explores the contribution that the artists, writers, film-makers and publishers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson made to literary and artistic life in Britain.

 

In this event, the panel will ask: Is hypocrisy a moral dead-end or a step on the path to better behaviour?

 

A look at urban development with a focus on the Old Oak Park Royal site.

 

Many eradication attempts have been tried and failed. This lecture will examine the opportunities and difficulties of eradication.

 

A look at how the Dutch live below sea level and its implications for the UK with climate change.

 

A panel of academics and journalists will discuss the new administration’s priorities and the international implications of the current US political landscape.

 

The Greenwich Historical Society presents an illustrated talk by local artist Nicola White.

 

Beautiful natural history images brought to life from the Library's collections.

 

A panel of diplomats and experts will discuss why many governments are joining forces to bring an end to the ivory trade,

 

Find out how the FT and Buzzfeed approach their respective political coverage in a year where the truth has become stranger than fiction.

 

Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands will discuss his book, newly available in paperback, East West Street, which explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich, with Daniel Finkelstein OBE

 

How was it possible for Britain to wind up fighting a war in Iraq that so many British people considered illegitimate? A new book by LSE Fellow Dr James Strong attempts to offer some answers.

 

One of a pair of events using specimens and conversation to investigate our encounters with animals.

 

How does it feel to live in a 'haunted home'? How do you negotiate living in a home which might be 'co-habited' by the strangest form of stranger?

 

A talk about the significant new discoveries being made at the site of a 3000-year-old settlement, dubbed the 'Peterborough Pompeii', at Must Farm, in East Anglia.

 

Taking Albertopolis and Southbank as case studies, how can redevelopment of key cultural institutions affect and enhance London’s places?

 

Emma Mawdsley looks at artists' depiction of war in the press of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

Late night adults only evening at the museum, with talks and and demonstrations.

 

A world-premier performance of a new live musical score to accompany Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis.

 

Head to Little Venice over Bank Holiday weekend for the yearly IWA Canalway Cavalcade,

 

Southwark Cathedral presents a day of talks about London, looking at its stories, old and new. Speakers include, Ted Sandling, Matt Beaumont, Gillian Tindall and Stephen Alford

 

Guided tours of the London Transport museum's archive of posters and artwork.

 

Unique tour of former Vestry Hall, Shoreditch Town Hall, now a major arts venue

 

The Reserve is open to the public just once a year at a time when the bluebells are at their most beautiful.

 

Head to Little Venice over Bank Holiday weekend for the yearly IWA Canalway Cavalcade,

 

Occasional open day at the under-restoration Victorian steam pumping station.

 

Hear behind-the-scenes stories and gain exclusive access to areas usually reserved for performers and Southbank Centre staff.