Events Around London

Eco fashion campaign #LoveNotLandfill presents the #LoveNotLandfill Pop-Up supported by Depop - your chance to meet your fav depop sellers and shop the v best pre-loved and vintage fashion in the heart of London’s fashionable Carnaby.

Colour my Summer takes over Nova and Cardinal Place in Victoria, and One New Change and New Street Square in the City with a technicolour transformation. Nova will be pink complete with a sensational and highly Instagrammable floral wall to ensure we all channel our inner influencer this summer.

Addiction Science 2019 welcomes attendees, presenters, and exhibitors from all over the world to Rome, Italy. We are delighted to invite you all to attend and register for the “2nd World Congress on Advances in Addiction Science and Medicine which is going to be held during July 24-25, 2019, Rome, Italy.

On Thursday 18 July, annual calendar highlight, the Portman Marylebone Summer Street Party, returns to Seymour Place and New Quebec Street.

Channel your inner adventurer! Experience swimming in tidal waters and get a deeper understanding of the Ocean Seven challenge, before watching Against the Tides in a specially chosen venue.

Join us for a waste-free dinner at one of our Small Change, Big Difference cookery classes. Learn some sustainable food tips and make your own dinner. A new series of 30 free pop-up cookery classes for Londoners who want to up-skill in the kitchen is launching this July at venues across the capital.

Patterns. They surround us. We come across them every day and yet we very rarely take that much notice of them. Exploring the hidden geometry that surrounds us, enables us to truly appreciate the way that pattern can help us to tell a story.

Tyburn Gallery is pleased to present Business As Usual, a solo exhibition by Alberta Whittle. A multi-faceted artist whose practice includes film, performance, and various forms of collage and assemblage, Whittle is known for work which uses the body as a site of potential for transformation and resistance.

An exhibition of the Lacquer Work of Koyanagi Tanekuni Lacquer has been used in Japan for almost 10,000 years to protect and decorate objects, such as wood, bamboo, earthenware, and textiles.

SOAS Music is hosting a unique exhibition in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS entitled ’Stolen Moments–Namibian Music History Untold’, which chronicles the intimate stories, songs and experiences of those who shaped Namibian popular culture during some of the most repressive years of Apartheid rule.

Join us for a waste-free lunch at one of our Small Change, Big Difference cookery classes. Learn some sustainable food tips and make your own lunch. This is part of a new series of 30 free pop-up cookery classes for Londoners who want to up-skill in the kitchen is launching this July at venues across the capital.

The legendary Lagunitas Beer Circus is returning for the second year to celebrate the daring, the individual and the proudly freakish on Saturday 20th July at Flat Iron Square, Central London.

Discover the award-winning classical concert series for babies, toddlers and parents. 10:30 (doors 10:00 | Tickets £12 adults, children free Bach to Baby is an innovative and award-winning concert series for babies, toddlers and their parents to enjoy together.

2 hour guided walking tour visiting haunted locations and famous execution sites of William Wallace and hearing about spooky tales of London’s dark and dangerous past.

Lucid Light Experience Consciousness Expansion, Spiritual Awareness, 3rd Eye Activation, Experiencing beyond Time, Space & Physical reality - all can be effortlessly accessed with the assistance of Lucia 3, in a Lucid Light Experience.

Shakespeare’s Wanderers present a charming new take on Much Ado About Nothing, which takes audiences back to 1918 shortly after the end of WWI. As jubilation descends upon the residents of Dover, love blossoms between the returning soldiers and the women who have been working hard on the home front.

This July, Fiesta de Mexico will bring the verve, sights, smells and flavours of Mexico’s rich and diverse culture to the heart of the City of London.

Explore the wonderful world of letters, fonts and styles. Transform words into art as you screen print a poster, build sculptures made of words and try Japanese calligraphy. Experiment with writing tools of all shapes and sizes. Enjoy writing-inspired dance performances in partnership with The Place.

Death records are among the most enlightening for the researcher. They frequently reveal personal information not found in other sources, which will help you see your ancestor in a much more accurate light.

Learn how to best use the 1939 register online to find your family members living at this time. The 1939 Register, provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War.

Monumental inscriptions are a wonderful source for tracing the deaths and burials of family, but can the information be trusted? As indexing errors can creep into these recorded inscriptions, learn how to best use them.

Join us for a free talk explaining what the Society of Genealogists holds for people researching their Irish ancestors. Our remarkable collection has many Irish records, including Irish wills. Else Churchill wants to help you get started.

Notes in your bag, family tree sketches on bits of paper, photos and print outs in the spare room, searches all over the web – loving every minute but you don’t have a real plan? Graham Walter wants to show you how to adopt workflows to help you focus on one challenge at a time.

For anyone with ancestors that came from Lancashire. The county has a rich history and is a cultural area as well as a geographical one. Anna Watson gives us two talks that aim to help you understand the county and find the records you need.

Should you take the slow way or the quick way? Is more haste, less speed true? Michael Gandy wants to remind you that you should try for positive proof, not imaginative guesswork.