| Saturday 13th April |
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| A full day of lectures and learning on Charles Booth's London and the Poverty Map, with Sarah Wise. |
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| An Automotive Spectacular featuring over 35 Showcases including over 1000 show cars from across all genre of vehicles. |
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| Shop original vintage posters, ephemera + limited edition prints from £10 at the UK’s only dedicated vintage poster market. |
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| Join Claudia de Rham, a diver, pilot, and physicist, as she unveils her new theory of gravity. |
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| Sunday 14th April |
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| The show is expected to attract around 100 visiting buses and coaches, old and new, from London and all over the UK. |
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| An Automotive Spectacular featuring over 35 Showcases including over 1000 show cars from across all genre of vehicles. |
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| Shop original vintage posters, ephemera + limited edition prints from £10 at the UK’s only dedicated vintage poster market. |
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| The collection includes instruments by Gavioli, Marenghi, Hooghuys, Wilhelm Bruder Söhne and Gebr.Weber. |
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| A fungi clay crafting workshop with artist Jack Alexandroff. |
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| Usually only open Mon-Wed, once a month the richly decorated interior of the Fitzrovia Chapel is also open on a Sunday. |
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| Monthly open day at a historic water mill. |
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| Monday 15th April |
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| This lecture will give an introduction to regional styles, exploring how and why they differ. |
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| Syd Moore turns her eye on this rather bizarre chapter of history, including the eclectic recruitment to the war effort, strange goings-on in Surrey and a ritual in the New Forest in 1940 to repel Hitler’s invasion of Britain. |
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| Tuesday 16th April |
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| In this online event, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary since the Dolls' House was first displayed in 1924. |
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| A talk about the fast battery charging trains being trialled by GWR in west London. |
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| Wednesday 17th April |
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| The talk looks at the life of a somewhat enigmatic mover and shaker in London’s world of shipping in the nineteenth century. |
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| Nerd Nite London is a monthly event where three speakers give 18-21 minute fun-yet-informative talks across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along. |
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| Join award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera in discussion about the legacies of the British empire. |
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| Spring Tides run high and so too do the stakes in this evening of thrilling tales from the British traditions of the Sea. |
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| Thursday 18th April |
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| Come on a tour of the new Collections Library at The Museum of the Home. |
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| A celebration of the life of Pat Arrowsmith, the extraordinary peace campaigner and organiser of the first Aldermaston March in 1958, the single event that most put CND on the public map at this time. |
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| This lecture traces the history of refugee protection, the limits of the Refugee Convention, and changes to the law in recent decades that have made refugees’ lives increasingly difficult. |
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| Join James Robinson, Interim Director of Collections at the V&A, to discover the complex and interdependent relationship of England and Continental Europe during the Middle Ages. |
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| This lecture will review the construction of the Kilsby Tunnel built in the 1830s under the direction of Robert Stephenson. |
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| For this one-off lecture he reflects on what it means to write about US politics, media and culture from the outside, and asks what is possible and what is out of bounds? |
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| Join English Heritage staff at dusk to explore the grounds of Marble Hill and all the bats that live here. |
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| Friday 19th April |
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| Hear from Carina Evans as she highlights the key characteristics and personality traits that made the Special Operations Executive (SOE) such an effective force. |
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| A unique glimpse into stories of survival from the Second World War. |
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| Saturday 20th April |
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| You are exhorted to visit your local independent music purveyor and make purchases of physical storage media. |
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| The event will offer a huge display of every variety of Ford Mustang at one of the most notable and historic motoring venues in the world. |
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| A monthly display of classic cars in Waterloo - usually attracting around 20 vehicles. |
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| A festival to celebrate the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| This exhibition brings together over 100 works from Henry VIII’s court, including drawings, paintings and miniatures by Hans Holbein the Younger drawn from the Royal Collection, one of the most important surviving groups of the artist’s work. (Ends on Sat, 13th Apr) | | Discover over 100 years of intrigue, deceit and real-life secret agents. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | An exhibition to mark the film's 30th anniversary. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | From emojis to internet memes, video games to plushie toys, food to loveable robotic design, cuteness has taken over our world. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | A monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | A multimedia exhibition that combines visuals, sound, and augmented reality to animate the cultural heritage and spirit of South Korea's Seoul. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | A site-specific art installation exploring ritual and remembrance, death and loss by Bea Denton at the Grade-I listed Summer House, Charlton House & Gardens. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | The Derwent Art Prize invites artists around the world to enter the very best artworks created in pencil. (Ends on Sun, 14th Apr) | | This free display brings together ten works by the two artists: with four views of Yorkshire by Turner and five scenes of Normandy and Venice by Bonington. (Ends on Sun, 21st Apr) | | Experience Ainu culture as it exists today in this exploration of the contemporary lives of this indigenous people of northern Japan. (Ends on Sun, 21st Apr) | | The exhibitions explore one of the great - and most entertaining - literary friendships, tracing the shared work, travels, confidences and, above all, the bond of friendship between two men whose books remain loved the world over. (Ends on Sun, 21st Apr) | | This bold new exploration of glass in the UK brings together for the very first time rarely seen works from key UK collections, celebrating this remarkable material. (Ends on Sun, 21st Apr) | | An exhibition of tea towels that have been overlaid with a statement to create a different perspective in a gently humorous and sometimes wicked way. (Ends on Sun, 21st Apr) | | This exhibition explores notions of beauty across time and cultures. (Ends on Sun, 28th Apr) | | A large scale new commission from Hong-Kong based artist Zheng Bo, transforming Somerset House’s courtyard into a bamboo garden. (Ends on Sun, 28th Apr) |
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