| Saturday 1st March |
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| Step into the historic Watermen's Hall and discover the world of the famous Thames Watermen & Lightermen through the artefacts recovered by mudlarks. |
| | Watermen's Hall - City of London |
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| For the next few weeks, there's a chance to see a replica 300 year old printing press in use in central London. |
| | St Bartholemew the Great church - Barbican |
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| Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine. |
| | Sewing Machine Museum - Tooting |
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| Sunday 2nd March |
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| Step into the historic Watermen's Hall and discover the world of the famous Thames Watermen & Lightermen through the artefacts recovered by mudlarks. |
| | Watermen's Hall - City of London |
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| A large indoor vintage fair in the enormous Great Hall at Goldsmiths University. Featuring lots of affordable mid century furniture, lighting and interiors essentials, it's the ideal place to look if you've just moved, or if you're looking for that perfect piece to finish off a room. It's not just home stuff - there'll be unusual and unique oddities to unearth as well. |
| | Goldsmiths University - New Cross |
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| For the next few weeks, there's a chance to see a replica 300 year old printing press in use in central London. |
| | St Bartholemew the Great church - Barbican |
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| Annual local fete and festival held in Surbiton. |
| | St Andrew's Square - Surbiton |
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| Monday 3rd March |
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| Tuesday 4th March |
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| Teams wearing either fancy dress or full regalia, race around the Guildhall Yard tossing their pancakes and the victors receive, fittingly, frying pans as well as a trophy. |
| | Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater - City of London |
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| The annual tradition sees teams of four don bowler hats and take on a 20m relay of the Victorian cobbled alleyways of Leadenhall Market, to compete for the ultimate prize of the Golden frying pan. |
| | Leadenhall Market - City of London |
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| Peek between the pages of our unique copy of the McDonald Dictionary and discover the botanical marginalia painted within this book |
| | RHS Lindley Library - Pimlico |
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| The Conversation: Marion Turner Tuesday 04 March 2025 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Book The Conversation Setting off from the Tabard Inn The Conversation is a series of weekly events talking about co |
| | St Martin-in-the-Fields - Trafalgar Square |
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| Using unpublished French and English sources, Philip Mansel shows that the Francophilia of the Prince Regent equalled the Anglophilia of Louis XVIII. |
| | The Georgian Group - Tottenham Court Road |
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| Wednesday 5th March |
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| Join us at The London Archives as Tim Kendall talks about his new anthology of the Poetry of the Second World War |
| | The London Archives - Clerkenwell |
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| Join author Sandra Lawrence as we celebrate the life, the legacy and the library collections of gardening great: Miss Ellen Willmott |
| | RHS Lindley Library - Pimlico |
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| Louise Wilkinson introduces one of England’s most enigmatic and contentious medieval queens. |
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| Thursday 6th March |
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| Explore stories of women’s roles in medicine shown in the Healing words exhibition and the wider RCP collections. |
| | Royal College of Physicians Museum - Camden |
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| In eighteenth-century Britain, women had no power and no rights |
| | Dr Johnson's House - Holborn |
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| Discover an evening of talks, demos, interactive workshops, food and drink— and the last chance for their famous silent disco in the Exploring Space gallery. |
| | Science Museum - South Kensington |
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| To celebrate Women's History Month, come learn about Josephine Butler's fight for women's rights with social historian Sarah Williams |
| | Southwark Cathedral - Southwark |
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| A talk followed by a QnA with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James Ball! |
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| Join Professor Donna Haraway FBA, author of the 'Cyborg Manifesto', and British Academy Funded Researcher Dr Anna McFarlane, as they explore the themes of trust and mistrust in science-fiction. |
| | The British Academy - St James |
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| Learn about Syon’s role in the shaping of North America - the extraordinary contribution of Syon House and its inhabitants in the development of the United States and Canada. |
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| Friday 7th March |
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| London Film Premiere and Q&A with director |
| | Courtauld Institute of Art - Farringdon |
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| At this after-hours event, explore engineering and the London Underground. |
| | London Transport Museum - Covent Garden |
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| Dr Ann-Marie Foster will discuss the relationships between museums, their objects and war. |
| | National Army Museum - Chelsea |
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| Saturday 8th March |
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| A day of feminist activism focused debates and talks. |
| | Amnesty International UK - Shoreditch |
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| An International Women's Day themed history tour around the Grade II Listed building. |
| | Shoreditch Town Hall - Clerkenwell |
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| This talk focuses on the lesser-known watercourses which are perhaps even more revealing than those that are better researched. |
| | Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society - Croydon |
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| Discover how the development of microscopes has shaped our understanding of the senses, as Anwen Bullen explores the working of the ear. |
| | Royal Institution (inc Faraday Museum) - Mayfair |
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| Exhibitions closing shortly |
| Did you know that Southwark once had a zoo? That for a short spell Britain’s first ecological park was built within a stone’s throw of Tower Bridge? Or that one of the capital’s most celebrated (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| For the first time, the Wallace Collection is bringing together clocks by André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732), the most famous cabinetmaker to have worked for the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| Encounter the women of medieval Europe through their own words, visions and experiences, in an exhibition like no other (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| Annual orchids festival of flowers in Kew Gardens - entry is for the entire garden estate. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| Presented by the Crafts Council, Collect is the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design. The fair showcases the best work created by living artists in the world today. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| The one-week exhibition promotes and celebrates embroidery as fine art and is organised by the Worshipful Company of Broderers; one of the ancient Livery Companies of the City of London. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| This display, in the newly reopened Reading Room, sets out the bold visions of five architectural teams to transform the British Museum's 'Western Range'. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| As redevelopment continues to reshape the area, this exhibition - shaped and led by those with lived experience - brings together stories of love, solidarity, and resilience while also confronting the challenges of fear, hardship, and destitution. (Ends on Sun, 2nd Mar) |
| The show features a vibrant and diverse lineup of artists from Lambeth and beyond, and strives to explore themes of gender, sexuality, and society’s expectations from the very moment we learn to hold our first toys and play. (Ends on Mon, 3rd Mar) |
| An exhibition celebrating more than 30 years of collaboration between Maeda and the AA (Ends on Fri, 7th Mar) |
| Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London exhibition centres around the legendary nightclub Taboo, opened by designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery in 1985 (Ends on Sat, 8th Mar) |
| A three-night art festival in central London. (Ends on Sat, 8th Mar) |
| The National Gallery celebrates the first public display in a decade, following conservation, of a masterpiece of Italian Mannerism, Parmigianino's Madonna and Child with Saints, also known as 'The Vi (Ends on Sun, 9th Mar) |
| The Renaissance saw a growing appreciation of individual creativity and a dramatic transformation in the way that artists worked (Ends on Sun, 9th Mar) |
| An exhibition of nearly 200 never-before-exhibited paintings and works on paper by the American artist Wes Lang (Ends on Sun, 9th Mar) |
| Through her artistic practice, Prusa merges scientific inquiry and visual art, examining the interconnectedness of the cosmos and life. (Ends on Mon, 10th Mar) |
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