The ianVisits guide to March's unusual events, tours, lectures and exhibitions happening around London.
Friday 1st March
£27.00
Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, representing the pinnacle of artistry and creativity.
11am to 6pm
Strand
A rare screening of Vive Le Punk [1993], an exclusive documentary featuring Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood talking in depth about their extraordinary collaboration.
7pm to 9pm
Clerkenwell
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Saturday 2nd March
£26.00
London Comic Con Spring returns, bringing a whole host of stars with them.
9am to 6pm
West Kensington
In celebration of St David’s Day, the best of Welsh food and drink will be in London for a vibrant market.
10am to 6pm
Whitechapel
A day of talks exploring the often overlooked role of women in early Christianity.
10am to 4pm
Southwark
The Isokon Gallery tells the remarkable story of the Isokon building, the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934.
11am to 4pm
Hampstead
£27.00
Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, representing the pinnacle of artistry and creativity.
11am to 6pm
Strand
£4.00
A vintage Interiors fair at a deconsecrated late-Georgian church in Bow, east London, featuring mid 20th century furniture, ceramics, decorative antiques, film posters and lots more
11am to 4pm
Bow
Monthly open day at one of London's more curious and delightful museums, devoted to the history of the sewing machine.
2pm to 5pm
Tooting
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Sunday 3rd March
This is the last day that you can visit to the Horniman’s famously poorly preserved walrus before it becomes unvisitable for a few years.
10am to 5:30pm
Forest Hill
In celebration of St David’s Day, the best of Welsh food and drink will be in London for a vibrant market.
10am to 4pm
Whitechapel
£27.00
Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, representing the pinnacle of artistry and creativity.
11am to 6pm
Strand
Occasional weekend history tour of Fulham Palace.
12:30pm to 1:45pm
Fulham
This is a walking, talking, rhyming, singing, family-friendly, all-faiths-and-none, community-created celebration of the independent spirit of Willesden Green.
Starts at 2:15pm
Cricklewood
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Monday 4th March
Sumita’s talk will focus on what women can do during education and work to help themselves and what support they need from practices and institutions in order to do this.
6:25pm to 8:15pm
Fleet Street
Uncover the science of mental health with Camilla Nord, lead at the Mental Health Neuroscience programme at the University of Cambridge.
7pm to 8:30pm
Hanover Square
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Tuesday 5th March
£12.00
An event marking the legacy of the brand that became the epitome of modern British flamboyance.
6:30pm to 8pm
Poplar
A conversation between landscape designer Dan Pearson and architect Mary Duggan to hear about the museum's plans for Lambeth Green.
7pm to 8pm
Southwark
Online events / webinars
Join The Glass Heart artists Chris Day, Pinkie Maclure, Anne Vibeke Mou in coversation with Curator Antonia Harrison.
6:30pm to 7:30pm
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Wednesday 6th March
This lecture looks at the role played by nudity in European religion and magic from ancient times to the present, with some reference to a global context.
6pm to 7pm
Holborn
Join Michael Driessen, Madawi Al-Rasheed and Fabio Petito as they discuss with Professor in Practice James Walters how events since 7 October have reshaped the interreligious landscape.
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
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Discover the gripping story of Virginia Hall - World War Two’s Most Dangerous Spy
7:30pm to 8:30pm
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Thursday 7th March
In this Lunchtime lecture, author Susannah Gibson introduces her new book The Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement.
1pm to 2pm
Soho
Explore the history of women in medicine at the Royal College of Physicians through their collections.
5:30pm to 8pm
Camden
On the first Thursday of the month, Holborn's Novelty Automation has a bar in the store for their late-night opening.
6pm to 9pm
Holborn
Join Alexandra Gajewski, Reviews Editor at the Burlington Magazine, to discover the impact of the fire at Notre-Dame on the medieval art and architecture, and the plans to restore it.
6pm to 7:30pm
Pimlico
A celebration of the 10-year anniversary of The Women’s Library Reading Room
6pm to 9pm
Holborn
Join the Science Museum at Lates for a journey to unravel the essence of love.
6:30pm to 10pm
South Kensington
Rejecting the thesis that science and religion are inevitably at war, Nicholas Spencer illuminates a compelling and troubled relationship that has definitively shaped human history.
6:30pm to 8pm
Southwark
This panel, hosted by LSE Data Science Institute, LSE Digital Skills Lab and LSE100, will bring together academics, practitioners and industry leaders to discuss strategies and interventions for developing AI literacy in their organisations.
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
As stem cell-based embryo models become increasingly more sophisticated, they also raise big questions: how do we define a human embryo and what should be the limit of such research?
7pm to 8pm
South Kensington
Britain’s favourite maverick rewilder Derek Gow uncovers the mythology, mystery and history of wolves in Britain in this lively in-conversation and the launch of his new book Hunt for the Shadow Wolf.
7pm to 9pm
Holborn
In Rites of Passage, historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain.
Starts at 7:30pm
Highgate
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Join a debate with our panel of planetary science and mission experts.
5:30pm to 7pm
Join Time Team's Guy de la Bédoyère, Vindolanda Trust Curator Barbara Birley and historian and novelist Adrian Goldsworthy to explore the realities of fort life on Rome's northernmost frontier.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
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Friday 8th March
£20.00
Step through the gates of the Charterhouse in the early evening after work and discover a different world hidden behind the ancient walls.
6:30pm to 8pm
Clerkenwell
This International Women’s Day, join the LT Museum to spotlight the jobs women do to make TfL what it is today
6:45pm to 10pm
Covent Garden
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Saturday 9th March
An unnamed vessel will be passing through Tower Bridge this morning -- which is usually code for a military ship.
10:30am to 11am
Southwark
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Sunday 10th March
There will be a number of vintage buses running along several London bus routes today.
All Day
Kirkaldy's Testing Works preserves Kirkaldy's unique Universal Testing Machine - the huge hydraulic powered machine he designed and had built in Leeds - in full working order in the premises he built to house it.
10:30am to 12pm
Southwark
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Monday 11th March
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Tuesday 12th March
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Wednesday 13th March
The Boat Race trophy will be on display in Battersea Power station for a few hours, followed by revealing the race contenders for 2024.
4pm to 8:40pm
Battersea
This panel reflects on the legacies of the group 50 years after its founding.
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
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Thursday 14th March
There will be a low flying helicopter and three marine raiding boats next to the Tower of London to perform a ceremonial event.
11:20am to 12:20pm
Tower Hill
This talk examines their construction, meaning and the secret of their enduring fascination and a demonstration of how to draw a labyrinth.
2pm to 3pm
City of London
Free
Lift the lid on Artificial Intelligence & explore how it might influence our future through expert talks, tech demos and creative workshops.
6pm to 9pm
South Kensington
Throughout his career, Peter Saville has consistently put type to work, often in conjunction with imagery, to elegantly sign the ‘way' for many of us.
6:45pm to 8:30pm
City of London
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Friday 15th March
See a small selection of the department's impressive collection of rare books, archives and manuscripts.
10am to 12pm
Euston
As part of the ‘Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction’ exhibition, Saatchi Lates offer Art After Dark on selected Fridays.
6:30pm to 9pm
Chelsea
A discussion with Museum X about the role that heritage sites play in uncovering hidden histories and re-presenting a fuller, richer story of Britain.
7pm to 8pm
Soho
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Saturday 16th March
Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit.
10am to 4pm
East Molesey
Visitors can expect over 40 of the country’s best model railways hand-picked by The Model Railway Club.
10am to 5pm
Wood Green
Hermitage Community Moorings is a cluster of boats next to Tower Bridge that hosts an occasional open weekend to let the public onboard for a look around.
11am to 4pm
Wapping
A monthly display of classic cars in Waterloo - usually attracting around 20 vehicles.
11am to 2pm
Southwark
Discover some world whizzing, brain fizzing science facts in this interactive quiz.
2pm to 3:15pm
Hanover Square
Since Tate Modern first opened in 2000, it has become a London landmark, not just for the art it houses, but also for the architecture of the building itself.
2pm to 3:30pm
Southwark
£17.27
Embark on an enthralling cosmic journey with science writer Brian Clegg as your guide.
7pm to 8:30pm
Hanover Square
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Sunday 17th March
Normally you need to pay to visit the gardens, but on a few weekends a year, the gardens are free to visit.
10am to 4pm
East Molesey
Visitors can expect over 40 of the country’s best model railways hand-picked by The Model Railway Club.
10am to 4:30pm
Wood Green
The collection includes instruments by Gavioli, Marenghi, Hooghuys, Wilhelm Bruder Söhne and Gebr.Weber.
11am to 5pm
Amersham
There’ll be the best of Irish arts, culture, food, music to enjoy, and more, including the spectacular annual parade.
12pm to 6pm
Trafalgar Square
£4.28
The London Gaming Market is a place to buy retro video-games, board games and merchandise all in one place
12pm to 4pm
Euston
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Monday 18th March
This event seeks to explore the politics and ethics that drive digital change in cities and the consequences of digitization for the lives and rights of those who occupy them.
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
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Tuesday 19th March
Photographer Niki Gorick will reveal the amazingly diverse modern-day life within these urban marinas.
2pm to 3pm
City of London
A special late-night opening at the chapel while it is showing the David Bowie exhibition.
5pm to 9pm
Tottenham Court Road
Christopher Hadley takes us on a journey into two thousand years of history only now giving up its secrets.
6:30pm to 8pm
Holborn
Learn more about how Jewish designers innovated, defied expectations and transformed the West End.
6:30pm to 9pm
Poplar
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Wednesday 20th March
£14.70
Drawing upon a huge archive of artwork, much of it rarely seen, Shirley Hughes’s daughter Clara Vulliamy will present a celebration of a long and remarkable career.
6:45pm to 8:30pm
City of London
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Thursday 21st March
£15.00
Simon Postgate - son of Oliver Postgate - will be hosting a talk exploring the making of Clangers from his perspective as a young boy in the seventies.
6pm to 7:30pm
New Oxford Street
£17.27
BBC's 'Sky at Night' Chris Lintott journeys through serendipitous cosmic revelations.
7pm to 8:30pm
Hanover Square
A guided tour by candlelight, followed by a glass of white wine or a soft drink and the opportunity to enjoy the Museum’s galleries out of hours.
Starts at 7pm
Clerkenwell
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Friday 22nd March
The Finnish Church in Rotherhithe will host an Easter fair full of Finnish foods and sweets.
12pm to 8pm
Rotherhithe
A talk about the man responsible for a lot of the post Great Fire rebuilding of London.
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Euston
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Discover the story of Yorkshire’s Atlantis, a medieval island swallowed up by the North Sea.
2pm to 3pm
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Saturday 23rd March
Open-platform buses with real conductors will run between Redbridge and Dagenham (route 145), and between Chadwell Heath and Barking (route 62).
10am to 5pm
Barking
Annual model railway show being held in Forest Hill.
10am to 4:30pm
Forest Hill
£23.00
Spend a day re-stocking your yarn stash, learning to knit, mastering the art of tailoring and more.
10am to 5:30pm
Islington
Annual conference with talks on recent archaeological work in London.
11am to 5:30pm
Poplar
The Finnish Church in Rotherhithe will host an Easter fair full of Finnish foods and sweets.
12pm to 6pm
Rotherhithe
Hear Andrew Scott in conversation with the Southbank Centre's organ curator, William McVicker, discussing the works carried out to the Royal Festival Hall organ.
Starts at 4pm
Southwark
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Sunday 24th March
£23.00
Spend a day re-stocking your yarn stash, learning to knit, mastering the art of tailoring and more.
10am to 3pm
Islington
The Finnish Church in Rotherhithe will host an Easter fair full of Finnish foods and sweets.
12pm to 5pm
Rotherhithe
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Monday 25th March
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Tuesday 26th March
Every month at Frameless, in partnership with ArtscapesUK, they will be delving deeper into the stories behind the art.
12:30pm to 2pm
Marylebone
Stewart Purvis CBE explores Edith Tudor-Hart's connections to the Cambridge Five spies and Soviet intelligence operatives in Hampstead.
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Hampstead
A talk hosted by award winning writer and Head Gardener at the Garden Museum, Matt Collins, to discuss what gardening in a warming and more volatile climate looks like.
7pm to 8pm
Southwark
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Rosanna De Sancha, Senior Paintings Conservator, will share the meticulous work undertaken by our conservation team to restore this masterpiece painting.
7pm to 8pm
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Wednesday 27th March
Explore the cosmic anomalies currently perplexing all scientists.
7:20pm to 8:45pm
Hanover Square
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Join our exhibition curators online for a look at our latest exhibition, Great Escapes
7:30pm to 8:30pm
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Thursday 28th March
An evening of miniature talks on lesser-known aspects of local history told by a selection of authors, social historians, and East London people.
7pm to 9pm
Whitechapel
£11.55
The co-founders of the Modern Cockney Festival explore the long legacy of London’s street sellers and their value for the city's future.
7pm to 9pm
Clerkenwell
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Friday 29th March
An open-air performance of the Passion of Christ in Trafalgar Square.
Starts at 12pm
Trafalgar Square
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Saturday 30th March
The annual Oxford v Cambridge boat races return to the River Thames.
12pm to 5pm
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Sunday 31st March
For one day only, London Overground trains will be calling at London Bridge station.
10am to 10pm
Southwark
A WW2-era history attraction that's open to the public once a month.
10:30am to 4pm
Watford
The Blackheath Morris Dancers will be wandering around Greenwich, and lifting people up in a decorated chair for some obscure reason.
12pm to 5pm
Once a month, the oldest building in Hackney, St Augustine's Tower is open, so you can climb up to the top.
2pm to 4:30pm
Hackney
