Check out this week's alternative guide to what's on in London. | Welcome to my weekly email of lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random miscellany which Ian hopes would be of interest. | = Event is free of charge | | = Pre-Booking required. |
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| Saturday 7th January | |
| Sunday 8th January | |
| Monthly open day at the museum to London's first international airport - in Croydon. | | | A parade and festival along Bankside to herald 12th night, with Wassails, Mummers Play and Morris Dancing | | | Expect lots of people to be riding on the tube wearing less than usual below the waistline in the afternoon. | | | Monday 9th January | |
| The 150th anniversary of Napoleon lll’s death at his former residence - Camden Place, Chislehurst. | | | Tuesday 10th January | |
| Just one church, but hundreds of stories! Pete Smith, a volunteer guide at All Hallows, aims to tell some of the most colourful tales of the City of London’s oldest church. | | | This lecture will discuss the causes of coronary heart disease and advances in reducing its effects. | | | An illustrated talk by Kevin Brown | | | Wednesday 11th January | |
| The building is of great architectural and historic importance, having been the place of exile and death of the French emperor Napoleon III | | | Might we be able to harness this amazing power of microbial degradation to help remove the human-made plastic mountain, or clean up toxic waste sites? | | | Dr Amy Weldon, writer and professor of English at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, will bring to life what can now only be considered an utterly brutal sport. | | | Thursday 12th January | |
| This lecture explores some of the shifting ideas about breast cancer, including the appropriation of “blame” (that is, debates about “stress” and carcinogenic environments) | | | On the first Thursday of the month, Holborn's Novelty Automation has a bar in the store for their late-night opening. | | | Dorothy Max Prior in conversation with Melanie Xulu of Moof Magazine & an exclusive screening of an extract of What You Could Not Visualise: Rema Rema, a film by Marco Porsia | | | Friday 13th January | |
| Join Alan Jeffreys as he examines how officership in the Indian Army was impacted by the First and Second World Wars. | | | A parade around central London with a horse's skull on a pole. | | | Saturday 14th January | |
| Transport for London’s heritage managers Gareth Leslie and Edmund Bird will be presenting a talk about this stretch of the line and Southgate station in particular. | |
| Exhibitions closing shortly | | Celebrating the life and work of one of the best loved children's authors of the 20th century. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | New research into IWM’s photography archive demonstrates just how keenly The Queen’s role as monarch has been shaped by her wartime experiences. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | The first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | The first major survey of Carolee Schneemann’s work in the UK, tracing her diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression over six decades. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | One of the most original and eccentric artists of the 18th century, Henry Fuseli, is the subject of a new exhibition at The Courtauld. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, the great American Realist painter confronted the leading issues facing the United States. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | Fred Tschida’s spinning, glowing work is recreated at a technically ambitious scale. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | A geodesic dome with a single energy-efficient light bulb at its centre casts multicoloured light in every direction. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | Fred Tschida’s seven rotating sculptures trace half of a vase design – set to rotate, they create a luminous three-dimensional vessel. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | The museum's Rooms Through Time, restyled to reveal how winter has changed London homes through the last 400 years (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | Explore the relationship between two of the principal buildings on Lincoln’s Inn Fields: Grafton’s Marshall Building for the London School of Economics and Political Science and Sir John Soane’s Museum. (Ends on Sun, 8th Jan) | | ‘Discover Manet and Eva Gonzalès’ is the first in a series of exhibitions that look at a single painting from fresh and unexpected perspectives. (Ends on Sun, 15th Jan) | | A collaboration between award-winning writer, Yomi Ṣode, and artist and photographer, Akytom, this display questions where we place empathy. (Ends on Sun, 15th Jan) | | An exhibition of TV and film costume designs sketches from the Ann and John Bloomfield collection. (Ends on Sun, 15th Jan) | | A free exhibition dedicated to celebrated British photojournalist Bill Brandt (1904-83). (Ends on Sun, 15th Jan) | | The oldest document held in the City of London Corporation’s extensive archives will go on rare public display. (Ends on Thu, 19th Jan) | | An exhibition marking the centenary of the Everest expeditions in the 1920s explores how Captain John Noel’s films shaped the popular image of the mountain (Ends on Fri, 20th Jan) | | This exhibition celebrates the completion of the British Museum's digitisation project and showcases the extraordinary variety of printmaking (Ends on Sun, 22nd Jan) | | A display of photographs taken between 1857 and 1970, capturing the archaeological site of Hampi. (Ends on Sun, 22nd Jan) | | The New Black Vanguard features 15 international Black photographers contributing to a new vision of the Black figure and reframing representation in art and fashion. (Ends on Sun, 22nd Jan) |
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