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Irishman: Reece Kidd","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","Crowd work and walk-and-talk stories, two hundred million views’ worth.","/venues/the-comedy-store/1-irishman-reece-kidd/",""],["p","1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair","whats-on","1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair","Strand","Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA","The African art fair in Somerset House's courtyard rooms, the same weekend as Frieze.","/museums/somerset-house/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair/",""],["p","20-years-of-nick-baker-architects","whats-on","20 Years of Nick Baker Architects","Knightsbridge","28 Rutland Gate, SW7 1PQ","Two decades of an Anglo-Austrian practice, in the Forum's anniversary year.","/international-culture/austrian-cultural-forum/20-years-of-nick-baker-architects/",""],["p","300-years-of-the-rival-queens-handels-1726-opera-season","whats-on","300 Years of the 'Rival Queens': Handel's 1726 Opera Season","Bloomsbury","Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ","Two sopranos, one 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out.","/venues/barbican-centre/always-already-there/",""],["p","amanda-sze-presents-saxobeat","whats-on","Amanda Sze presents Saxobeat","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A DJ playing saxophone live over baile funk and Jersey club until three.","/venues/jazz-cafe/amanda-sze-presents-saxobeat/",""],["p","amar-kanwar","whats-on","Amar Kanwar","Kensington Gardens","Serpentine, Mount Walk, Knightsbridge, W2 3XA","Three film works from New Delhi turn Serpentine North into a place to sit and watch.","/museums/serpentine/amar-kanwar/",""],["p","ambrose-akinmusire-quartet","whats-on","Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","A trumpeter who writes for string quartets and dance companies, back with his own band.","/venues/kings-place/ambrose-akinmusire-quartet/",""],["p","amelia-dimoldenberg-the-future-of-digital-media","whats-on","Amelia Dimoldenberg: The Future of Digital Media","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Chicken Shop Date host on where the internet is 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songs.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/ayanna-witter-johnson-new-roots-first-light/",""],["p","ayurveda-day-2026","whats-on","Ayurveda Day 2026","Mayfair","8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF","Where a two-thousand-year-old medical system meets population health and personalised care.","/international-culture/the-nehru-centre/ayurveda-day-2026/",""],["p","azuri-trio-bridge-and-shostakovich","whats-on","Azuri Trio: Bridge and Shostakovich","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Fifty-five minutes at lunchtime for six pounds, ending on Shostakovich's elegy.","/venues/smith-square-hall/azuri-trio-bridge-and-shostakovich/",""],["p","bbc-proms","whats-on","BBC Proms","South Kensington","Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP","Eight weeks of orchestral concerts, and standing tickets for the price of a pint.","/venues/royal-albert-hall/bbc-proms/",""],["p","bbc-tv-90-at-ally-pally","whats-on","BBC TV 90 at Ally Pally","Muswell Hill","Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY","Ninety years of 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edges.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/bumpah-x-future-rhythms/",""],["p","baaba-maal","whats-on","Baaba Maal","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","Three nights from the Senegalese singer whose voice opened Black Panther.","/venues/blue-note-london/baaba-maal/",""],["p","bach-the-universe-and-everything-astronomical-instruments","whats-on","Bach, the Universe and Everything: Astronomical Instruments","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","A Bach cantata and a scientist, on a Sunday morning.","/venues/kings-place/bach-the-universe-and-everything-astronomical-instruments/",""],["p","back-to-hogwarts","whats-on","Back to Hogwarts","The City","Central London; the venue is announced each summer","The 1 September countdown to the Hogwarts Express, wherever in London it lands that year.","",""],["p","bag-raiders","whats-on","Bag Raiders","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Australian dance duo, cult favourites for more than a decade, 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Prokofiev.","/venues/stone-nest/balladeste/",""],["p","ballroom-boogie-x-toasty-tots-xl","whats-on","Ballroom Boogie x Toasty Tots XL","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","A free DJ set and dance for all ages, on the Festival Hall floor.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/ballroom-boogie-x-toasty-tots-xl/",""],["p","bampton-classical-opera-zemira-e-azor","whats-on","Bampton Classical Opera: Zemira e Azor","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Beauty and the Beast as Grétry set it in 1771, which Mozart admired and nobody stages.","/venues/smith-square-hall/bampton-classical-opera-zemira-e-azor/",""],["p","banda-el-recodo","whats-on","Banda El Recodo","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The most famous banda in Mexico, playing Camden.","/venues/koko/banda-el-recodo/",""],["p","bank-of-england-parlour-tours","whats-on","Bank of England Parlour tours","City of London","Bank of England Museum, Threadneedle Street, Leadenhall Market, EC2R 8AH","One weekend a year inside the Governor's own offices, free, with photo ID and no cameras.","/museums/bank-of-england-museum/bank-of-england-parlour-tours/",""],["p","barbican-conservatory","whats-on","Barbican Conservatory","Barbican","Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","A tropical glasshouse hidden on level three of a concrete estate.","",""],["p","bards-poets-and-playwrights","whats-on","Bards, Poets and Playwrights","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","The literary tour: Shakespeare's brother is buried here, and Gower is above ground.","/sacred/southwark-cathedral/bards-poets-and-playwrights/",""],["p","barnes-bookfest","whats-on","Barnes BookFest","Barnes","St Mary's Church, Church Road, SW13 9HL","A weekend of author talks in St Mary's church and the halls around Barnes Green.","",""],["p","baroque-classics-by-candlelight","whats-on","Baroque Classics by Candlelight","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Bach and Handel by candlelight, sung by the church's own voices.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/baroque-classics-by-candlelight/",""],["p","barts-north-wing-open-day","whats-on","Barts North Wing Open Day","West Smithfield","Barts North Wing, West Smithfield, EC1A 7BE","Hogarth's stair and the Great Hall, open free for Open House London.","/museums/st-bartholomews-hospital-museum/barts-north-wing-open-day/",""],["p","bat-walk-at-highgate-cemetery","whats-on","Bat Walk at Highgate Cemetery","Highgate","Swain's Lane, N6 6PJ","A talk on how to tell the species apart, then up into the cemetery as the light goes.","/outdoors/highgate-cemetery/bat-walk-at-highgate-cemetery/",""],["p","bat-walk-at-nunhead-cemetery","whats-on","Bat Walk at Nunhead Cemetery","Nunhead","Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, SE15 3LP","Bat detectors after dusk, along paths that have gone back to woodland.","/outdoors/nunhead-cemetery/bat-walk-at-nunhead-cemetery/",""],["p","bat-walk-in-battersea-park","whats-on","Bat walk in Battersea Park","Battersea","Battersea Park, Albert Bridge Road, SW11 4NJ","Bat detectors at dusk, run by the Linnean Society.","/outdoors/battersea-park/bat-walk-in-battersea-park/",""],["p","battersea-park-fireworks","whats-on","Battersea Park Fireworks","Battersea","Battersea Park, Battersea Park, Albert Bridge Road, SW11 4NJ","South London's big Bonfire Night display, two nights, run by a local charity.","/outdoors/battersea-park/battersea-park-fireworks/",""],["p","baya","whats-on","Baya","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","The Algerian painter who impressed Picasso and Breton, in her first UK solo show.","/museums/tate-modern/baya/",""],["p","bayeux-late-medieval-making","whats-on","Bayeux Late: medieval making","Bloomsbury","British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG","The first Bayeux Late: workshops and making, free, on a Friday night.","/museums/british-museum/bayeux-late-medieval-making/",""],["p","be-more-chill","whats-on","Be More Chill","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","The musical about a pill-sized supercomputer that tells you how to be popular.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/be-more-chill/",""],["p","beauty-and-destruction-wartime-london-in-art","whats-on","Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art","Southwark","Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ","Forty-five paintings of London under the bombs, most from the official war artists.","/museums/imperial-war-museum-london/beauty-and-destruction-wartime-london-in-art/",""],["p","becoming-america-how-science-shaped-a-nation","whats-on","Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation","South Kensington","Science Museum, Frankland Road, Brompton, SW7 2AD","A 1776 print of the Declaration, George III's microscope, and the science behind a new nation.","/museums/science-museum/becoming-america-how-science-shaped-a-nation/",""],["p","bedtime-stories","whats-on","Bedtime Stories","Mayfair","1 Three Kings' Yard, W1K 4JP","Antiquities shown against contemporary design, during Frieze and PAD 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for.","/venues/the-comedy-store/beginners-showcase/",""],["p","being-human","whats-on","Being Human","St Pancras","Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE","Fifty objects on what it is to be a person now, including a jukebox of epidemics.","/museums/wellcome-collection/being-human/",""],["p","belcea-quartet-beethoven-cycle","whats-on","Belcea Quartet Beethoven Cycle","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","The Belcea play their way through the Beethoven quartets, a year early for the anniversary.","/venues/wigmore-hall/belcea-quartet-beethoven-cycle/",""],["p","belcea-quartet-beethoven-op-18-no-1-and-the-grosse-fuge","whats-on","Belcea Quartet: Beethoven, Op. 18 No. 1 and the Grosse Fuge","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Beethoven's Op. 130 with the fugue he was talked out of, two hundred years on.","/venues/wigmore-hall/belcea-quartet-beethoven-op-18-no-1-and-the-grosse-fuge/",""],["p","belcea-quartet-beethoven-early-middle-and-late","whats-on","Belcea Quartet: 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hundred.","/venues/moth-club/ben-watt-and-tracey-thorn/",""],["p","benjamin-appl-with-the-jerusalem-quartet","whats-on","Benjamin Appl with the Jerusalem Quartet","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Baritone and string quartet, which is an unusual thing to hear.","/venues/wigmore-hall/benjamin-appl-with-the-jerusalem-quartet/",""],["p","benjamin-steer","whats-on","Benjamin Steer","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Songs about anxiety and being in your twenties, to an audience that knows the words.","/venues/koko/benjamin-steer/",""],["p","benny-sings","whats-on","Benny Sings","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Dutch songwriting that sounds like a 1970s soul record made by one person in a small room.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/benny-sings/",""],["p","beno-rothenberg-memorial-lecture-2026-from-mine-to-masterpiece","whats-on","Beno Rothenberg Memorial Lecture 2026: from mine to masterpiece","Bloomsbury","31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 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itself.","/museums/museum-of-brands/branding-britain/",""],["p","breakin-convention-open-art-surgery","whats-on","Breakin' Convention: Open Art Surgery","Clerkenwell","Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN","Hip hop choreographers show unfinished work and are told what is wrong with it.","/venues/sadlers-wells/breakin-convention-open-art-surgery/",""],["p","breaking-barriers-making-leaders-women-law-and-global-finance","whats-on","Breaking Barriers, Making Leaders: Women, Law and Global Finance","Strand","Bush House, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG","The chief executive of Hong Kong's exchange on the route from law into running a market.","/societies/kings-college-london/breaking-barriers-making-leaders-women-law-and-global-finance/",""],["p","breaking-the-waves","whats-on","Breaking the Waves","Covent Garden","32-35 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4ES","Missy Mazzoli's opera of the Lars von Trier film, reaching the UK for the first 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cathedral.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/brittens-war-requiem/",""],["p","brodsky-quartet-memories","whats-on","Brodsky Quartet: Memories","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Bartók's last quartet, written as he was leaving Hungary for good.","/venues/kings-place/brodsky-quartet-memories/",""],["p","bronka-hates-london","whats-on","Bronka Hates London","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Afro-Brazilian rhythm and Brazilian electronic music at very high tempo.","/venues/jazz-cafe/bronka-hates-london/",""],["p","brother-strut","whats-on","Brother Strut","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Session players who have backed Stevie Wonder and Amy Winehouse, doing it for themselves.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/brother-strut/",""],["p","bruckner-4-with-esa-pekka-salonen","whats-on","Bruckner 4 with Esa-Pekka Salonen","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Romantic symphony, opening on a horn call over a string tremor.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/bruckner-4-with-esa-pekka-salonen/",""],["p","bubble-explorers","whats-on","Bubble Explorers","South Kensington","Frankland Road, Brompton, SW7 2AD","A family show about bubbles, which is more science than it sounds.","/museums/science-museum/bubble-explorers/",""],["p","buckingham-palace-summer-opening","whats-on","Buckingham Palace Summer Opening","St James's","Buckingham Palace, SW1A 1AA","Nineteen State Rooms, open to the public for eleven weeks a year.","/museums/buckingham-palace/buckingham-palace-summer-opening/",""],["p","bugged-out-2001-on","whats-on","Bugged Out: 2001&On","Edmonton","Drumsheds, Meridian Water, Glover Drive, N18 3HF","Twenty-odd names from the decade dance music and indie stopped arguing.","/venues/drumsheds/bugged-out-2001-on/",""],["p","bustronome","whats-on","Bustronome","Victoria Embankment","Coach Bay 40B, Victoria Embankment, WC2N 6PB","A tasting menu on the top deck of a glass-roofed 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writers.","",""],["p","clare-woods-garden-without-seasons","whats-on","Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons","Ealing","Ealing Green, W5 5EQ","Huge, high-colour paintings of plants, hung through Soane's own country villa.","/art/pitzhanger-manor/clare-woods-garden-without-seasons/",""],["p","classical-coffee-mornings","whats-on","Classical Coffee Mornings","South Kensington","4 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP","Chamber music at eleven on a Sunday in the Elgar Room, with a coffee and a pastry in the price.","/venues/royal-albert-hall/classical-coffee-mornings/",""],["p","classical-kate-bush","whats-on","Classical Kate Bush","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Cloudbusting and forty players from the West London Sinfonia, on the orchestral arrangements.","/venues/cadogan-hall/classical-kate-bush/",""],["p","classically-black","whats-on","Classically Black","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","A whole day put on by Black Lives in Music, from workshops to a live 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politics for people who have given up following it.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/cody-dahler-the-state-of-this/",""],["p","colin-edwin-and-john-wesley-voyage-35","whats-on","Colin Edwin and John Wesley: Voyage 35","Shepherd's Bush","O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 8TT","Porcupine Tree's bassist and touring guitarist, with a violinist.","/venues/o2-shepherds-bush-empire/colin-edwin-and-john-wesley-voyage-35/",""],["p","colin-self-unseen","whats-on","Colin Self: Unseen","Soho","17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ","The first London retrospective for a British Pop artist who never behaved like one.","/art/frith-street-gallery/colin-self-unseen/",""],["p","colin-thubron-in-conversation","whats-on","Colin Thubron in conversation","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","Sixty years of travel writing, from Damascus to the Amur.","/literary/daunt-books-marylebone/colin-thubron-in-conversation/",""],["p","collecting-greece-irene-y-panagopoulos-in-conversation","whats-on","Collecting Greece: Irene Y. Panagopoulos in conversation","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","The collector, the curator and the director on what a collection is for.","/international-culture/the-hellenic-centre/collecting-greece-irene-y-panagopoulos-in-conversation/",""],["p","coltrane-100-joe-lovano-melissa-aldana-nduduzo-makhathini-linda-may-han-oh-and-jeff-watts","whats-on","Coltrane 100: Joe Lovano, Melissa Aldana, Nduduzo Makhathini, Linda May Han Oh and Jeff Watts","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Two tenors, a South African pianist and Coltrane's own rhythm-section logic, for the centenary.","/venues/barbican-centre/coltrane-100-joe-lovano-melissa-aldana-nduduzo-makhathini-linda-may-han-oh-and-jeff-watts/",""],["p","coltrane-at-100","whats-on","Coltrane at 100","Stoke Newington","Abney Park, Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH","Denys Baptiste and Gary Crosby play the Coltrane centenary in a cemetery 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8DS","The strand for concerts that refuse to sit still: opera, dance and staged music across the season.","/venues/barbican-centre/concert-theatre/",""],["p","concerto-copenhagen-bachs-four-orchestral-suites","whats-on","Concerto Copenhagen: Bach's four orchestral suites","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","All four suites in one evening, one player to a part.","/venues/smith-square-hall/concerto-copenhagen-bachs-four-orchestral-suites/",""],["p","concours-of-elegance","whats-on","Concours of Elegance","Hampton","Hampton Court Palace, Clock Court, Hampton Wick, KT8 9AU","Sixty of the rarest cars in the world parked in the Fountain Garden.","/museums/hampton-court-palace/concours-of-elegance/",""],["p","concrete-and-clay-archiving-the-barbican","whats-on","Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican","Barbican Estate","Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","The Barbican's own archive on the mezzanine, with the 1:22 model at the centre.","/museums/barbican-centre/concrete-and-clay-archiving-the-barbican/",""],["p","conquest-the-making-of-norman-england","whats-on","Conquest: The Making of Norman England","St Pancras","British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB","The Norman Conquest read from the documents, a thousand years after William was born.","/museums/british-library/conquest-the-making-of-norman-england/",""],["p","constantinople-to-istanbul-one-city-two-empires","whats-on","Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","Sixteen hundred years of one city, Byzantine and Ottoman, in the V&A's first show on it.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/constantinople-to-istanbul-one-city-two-empires/",""],["p","constantinople-estuary","whats-on","Constantinople: ESTUARY","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Persian setar, West African kora and a pair of hands on a drum, at 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comedy, ten pounds.","/cinemas/coldharbour-blue/crafty-movie-night-27-dresses/",""],["p","craig-taborn-and-peter-evans","whats-on","Craig Taborn and Peter Evans","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","Piano and trumpet, both of them at the edge of what the instruments do.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/craig-taborn-and-peter-evans/",""],["p","crash-test-dummies","whats-on","Crash Test Dummies","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Thirty-five years of the deepest voice in Canadian alternative rock.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/crash-test-dummies/",""],["p","creating-the-world-of-wuschel","whats-on","Creating the world of Wuschel","South Kensington","50-51 Exhibition Road, SW7 2PH","The Gruffalo's illustrator, with his working sketches on the wall.","/international-culture/goethe-institut-london/creating-the-world-of-wuschel/",""],["p","critical-moment","whats-on","Critical Moment","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","New dance made and performed entirely by people over sixty.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/critical-moment/",""],["p","croonian-prize-lecture-advances-in-computational-protein-design","whats-on","Croonian Prize Lecture: Advances in computational protein design","St James's","6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG","David Baker on designing proteins that have never existed, in the Royal Society's oldest lecture series.","/societies/royal-society/croonian-prize-lecture-advances-in-computational-protein-design/",""],["p","crossing-borders","whats-on","Crossing Borders","Forest Hill","Horniman Museum and Gardens, Animal Walk, Forest Hill, SE23 3BX","A free day of kite-making, bandura and Honduran dance, led by refugees and people seeking sanctuary.","/museums/horniman-museum-and-gardens/crossing-borders/",""],["p","crybabies-the-scaring","whats-on","Crybabies: The Scaring","Soho","Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Sketch comedy, in the dark, deliberately silly about horror.","/venues/soho-theatre/crybabies-the-scaring/",""],["p","crypt-close-up-rachel-podger-and-lucie-horsch","whats-on","Crypt Close-Up: Rachel Podger and Lucie Horsch","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Baroque violin and recorder in the crypt, on showpieces and folk songs.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/crypt-close-up-rachel-podger-and-lucie-horsch/",""],["p","crypt-close-up-ruby-hughes-and-jonas-nordberg","whats-on","Crypt Close-Up: Ruby Hughes and Jonas Nordberg","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Lute songs at eight in the evening, in the crypt under the church.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/crypt-close-up-ruby-hughes-and-jonas-nordberg/",""],["p","culture-with-kenyatta-hill-and-cedric-myton","whats-on","Culture with Kenyatta Hill and Cedric Myton","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Two Sevens Clash and the Congos' falsetto, on one bill.","/venues/jazz-cafe/culture-with-kenyatta-hill-and-cedric-myton/",""],["p","curator-talk-painting-the-french-riviera","whats-on","Curator talk: Painting the French Riviera","Piccadilly","Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD","How a malarial coastline became the light every painter wanted.","/art/royal-academy-of-arts/curator-talk-painting-the-french-riviera/",""],["p","curators-tour-of-manasa-chitra","whats-on","Curator's tour of Manasa Chitra","Beckenham","Orchard Way, Eden Park, BR3 3BY","Half an hour on the pictures with the curator who put them together.","/science/bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/curators-tour-of-manasa-chitra/",""],["p","curio-curio","whats-on","Curio Curio","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","MPB, psychedelic disco and analogue soul, asking where Brazilian music goes next.","/venues/jazz-cafe/curio-curio/",""],["p","cut-capers","whats-on","Cut Capers","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Eleven people from Bristol, a brass section, and something between a band and a club night.","/venues/jazz-cafe/cut-capers/",""],["p","desiree","whats-on","DESIREE","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","South African selector who has played Panorama Bar, DC-10, Burning Man and fabric.","/venues/koko/desiree/",""],["p","dj-ez","whats-on","DJ EZ","Brixton","Electric Brixton, 1 Town Hall Parade, SW2 1RJ","The UK garage DJ who once played twenty-four hours without a break.","/venues/electric-brixton/dj-ez/",""],["p","dj-krush","whats-on","DJ Krush","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","The Japanese producer who built instrumental hip-hop out of jazz records.","/venues/jazz-cafe/dj-krush/",""],["p","dreamscapes","whats-on","DREAMSCAPES","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","London improvisers playing in the round, recording as they go.","/venues/kings-place/dreamscapes/",""],["p","d-antidote-non-ordinary-services","whats-on","D_Antidote: Non-Ordinary Services","Notting Hill","The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","Four nights of something the theatre files under neither play nor performance.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/d-antidote-non-ordinary-services/",""],["p","d-antidote-palingenesis","whats-on","D_Antidote: Palingenesis","Notting Hill","The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","The second half of D_Antidote's residency, overlapping the first.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/d-antidote-palingenesis/",""],["p","dabeull","whats-on","Dabeull","Limehouse","Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, E1 0HX","French modern funk, played on the machines it was made on.","/venues/troxy/dabeull/",""],["p","daily-j","whats-on","Daily J","Shepherd's Bush","Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, W12 7LJ","A new band in a room that holds a few hundred.","/venues/bush-hall/daily-j/",""],["p","dame-sarah-connolly-and-joseph-middleton","whats-on","Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Song from a mezzo who has sung most of the great roles and keeps coming back to this.","/venues/wigmore-hall/dame-sarah-connolly-and-joseph-middleton/",""],["p","damien-dempsey","whats-on","Damien Dempsey","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The Dublin songwriter whose audience sings the whole set back at him.","/venues/koko/damien-dempsey/",""],["p","danfong-wang-the-sparkle-the-blossom-and-the-milky-land","whats-on","DanFong Wang: The Sparkle, The Blossom and The Milky Land","Canada Water","1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, SE16 2UA","Catholic and Buddhist funeral rites in embroidery and soft sculpture, in a Taiwanese artist's first British solo show.","/art/southwark-park-galleries/danfong-wang-the-sparkle-the-blossom-and-the-milky-land/",""],["p","dance-in-a-day-lindy-hop","whats-on","Dance in a Day: Lindy Hop","Broadgate","230 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4QH","Learn enough Lindy Hop in an afternoon to get through the evening.","/literary/bishopsgate-institute/dance-in-a-day-lindy-hop/",""],["p","dandy","whats-on","Dandy","Vauxhall","The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY","A Saturday club night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.","/venues/the-royal-vauxhall-tavern/dandy/",""],["p","daniel-foxx-how-lovely","whats-on","Daniel Foxx: How Lovely","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","A break-up handled with none of the grace of Julia Roberts.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/daniel-foxx-how-lovely/",""],["p","danny-and-the-champions-of-the-world","whats-on","Danny and the Champions of the World","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Seven albums of English country soul, the latest widely praised.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/danny-and-the-champions-of-the-world/",""],["p","darbar-festival-2026","whats-on","Darbar Festival 2026","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Nine days of Indian classical music, including a violin and veena duel that starts at 00:00.","/venues/barbican-centre/darbar-festival-2026/",""],["p","darbar-carnatic-music-at-lunchtime","whats-on","Darbar: Carnatic music at lunchtime","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","South Indian classical music in a Georgian church, for an hour at 12:00.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/darbar-carnatic-music-at-lunchtime/",""],["p","dark-arts-at-the-studio-tour","whats-on","Dark Arts at the Studio Tour","Leavesden","Warner Bros. 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promises.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/daron-acemoglu-what-happened-to-liberal-democracy/",""],["p","daughter-of-bala-the-betsi-cadwaladr-story","whats-on","Daughter of Bala: The Betsi Cadwaladr Story","Lambeth","2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7EP","The Welsh nurse who went to Scutari in her sixties and fell out with Nightingale.","/science/florence-nightingale-museum/daughter-of-bala-the-betsi-cadwaladr-story/",""],["p","dave-okumu-and-friends-music-that-changes-the-world","whats-on","Dave Okumu and Friends: Music that Changes the World","Islington","Compton Terrace, N1 2XD","Nina Simone to Sly Stone to Kendrick Lamar, in a Victorian chapel, with a band assembled for the night.","/venues/union-chapel/dave-okumu-and-friends-music-that-changes-the-world/",""],["p","david-bowie-centre","whats-on","David Bowie Centre","Hackney Wick","V&A East Storehouse, 2 Parkes Street, E20 3AX","Bowie's archive, permanently, for five pounds - and you can order any object up.","",""],["p","david-elms-describes-a-room","whats-on","David Elms Describes A Room","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","The cult hit returns: a man, a room, and a description that will not stop.","/venues/soho-theatre/david-elms-describes-a-room/",""],["p","david-larbi-poetry-night","whats-on","David Larbi: Poetry Night","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","A poet with a million readers online, reading in a candlelit cathedral.","/sacred/southwark-cathedral/david-larbi-poetry-night/",""],["p","david-mccloskey-in-conversation-with-clarissa-ward","whats-on","David McCloskey in conversation with Clarissa Ward","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","A former CIA analyst who writes spy novels, questioned by a war correspondent.","/literary/daunt-books-marylebone/david-mccloskey-in-conversation-with-clarissa-ward/",""],["p","david-onac-atlantic-requiem","whats-on","David Onac: Atlantic Requiem","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","A new requiem for the Africans trafficked across the Atlantic, built partly from insurance records.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/david-onac-atlantic-requiem/",""],["p","david-shrigley","whats-on","David Shrigley","Dulwich","Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD","Shrigley takes on the Dutch and Flemish seventeenth century, in Dulwich's summer 2027 show.","/museums/dulwich-picture-gallery/david-shrigley/",""],["p","david-and-yuko-juda-art-foundation-award","whats-on","David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Award","Mayfair","16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT","Seven artists shortlisted for a £50,000 grant, shown together for ten days.","/art/annely-juda-fine-art/david-and-yuko-juda-art-foundation-award/",""],["p","day-of-the-dead-family-festival","whats-on","Day of the Dead Family Festival","Forest Hill","Horniman Museum and Gardens, Animal Walk, Forest Hill, SE23 3BX","Marigold paths, giant calaveras and mariachi through the Horniman for Día de Muertos.","/museums/horniman-museum-and-gardens/day-of-the-dead-family-festival/",""],["p","dea-matrona","whats-on","Dea Matrona","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Two women from Belfast who learned it from Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/dea-matrona/",""],["p","deadly-live","whats-on","Deadly Live!","Wembley Park","OVO Arena Wembley, Engineers Way, HA9 0AA","Steve Backshall with the animals, on an arena stage.","/venues/ovo-arena-wembley/deadly-live/",""],["p","death-cab-for-cutie","whats-on","Death Cab for Cutie","Limehouse","Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, E1 0HX","Two nights from the band who wrote Transatlanticism.","/venues/troxy/death-cab-for-cutie/",""],["p","declaring-independence-usa-250","whats-on","Declaring Independence: USA 250","Bloomsbury","British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG","The Museum's own take on 1776, for the 250th anniversary.","/museums/british-museum/declaring-independence-usa-250/",""],["p","defected-london","whats-on","Defected London","Edmonton","Drumsheds, Meridian Water, Glover Drive, N18 3HF","The house label takes all four halls, with Glitterbox and DFTD on their own stages.","/venues/drumsheds/defected-london/",""],["p","demi-adejuyigbe-sells-out","whats-on","Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","Jokes, songs and bits, performed with a full band.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/demi-adejuyigbe-sells-out/",""],["p","denbies-wine-estate","whats-on","Denbies Wine Estate","Dorking, Surrey","Train from Waterloo — About 50 minutes to Dorking, then a 15-minute walk.","England's largest single estate, and the easiest vineyard to reach without a car.","",""],["p","dennis-quin-ellia-jaya-wildish-and-btay","whats-on","Dennis Quin, Ellia Jaya, Wildish and BTAY","Shoreditch","XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP","Four DJs in the basement.","/venues/xoyo/dennis-quin-ellia-jaya-wildish-and-btay/",""],["p","dennis-severs-house","whats-on","Dennis Severs' House","Spitalfields","18 Folgate Street, E1 6BX","Ten rooms lit by candles, each one just abandoned by people who never existed.","","/img/dennis-severs-house-480.jpg?v=6ff10bd4"],["p","dennis-severs-tour","whats-on","Dennis Severs' Tour","Spitalfields","18 Folgate Street, E1 6BX","Severs' own tour of the house, rebuilt as a play and performed to an audience of seven.","/museums/dennis-severs-house/dennis-severs-tour/",""],["p","depot-open-days-design-classics","whats-on","Depot open days: design classics","Acton","Museum Depot, 118-120 Gunnersbury Lane, W3 9BQ","The museum's Acton storehouse thrown open for three days, with the 1938 stock and the first Routemaster.","",""],["p","deptford-literature-festival","whats-on","Deptford Literature Festival","Deptford","Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, SE8 4RJ","A week of readings, workshops and talks around Deptford Lounge, run by London Writers Centre.","",""],["p","designer-maker-user","whats-on","Designer Maker User","Kensington","Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG","A thousand designed objects, sorted by who made them and who ended up using them.","/museums/design-museum/designer-maker-user/",""],["p","desire-under-the-elms","whats-on","Desire Under the Elms","Angel & Islington","Almeida Street, N1 1TA","O'Neill's New England farm tragedy, which is Greek underneath.","/venues/almeida-theatre/desire-under-the-elms/",""],["p","det-norske-teatret-skodespelet-by-jon-fosse","whats-on","Det Norske Teatret: Skodespelet by Jon Fosse","Notting Hill","The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","Norway's Nynorsk national theatre performing the Nobel laureate, in Nynorsk.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/det-norske-teatret-skodespelet-by-jon-fosse/",""],["p","deva-live-in-uk-2-0","whats-on","Deva Live In UK 2.0","Wembley Park","OVO Arena Wembley, Engineers Way, HA9 0AA","The 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room.","/museums/dulwich-picture-gallery/dulwich-picture-gallerys-permanent-galleries/",""],["p","duo-safar-imed-alibi-and-zied-zouari-with-justin-adams","whats-on","Duo Safar: Imed Alibi and Zied Zouari with Justin Adams","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Two Tunisian musicians, a violin and a drum, with a guitarist from Robert Plant's band.","/venues/kings-place/duo-safar-imed-alibi-and-zied-zouari-with-justin-adams/",""],["p","dutch-graft-of-the-manor","whats-on","Dutch & Graft of The Manor","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","South London MCs whose nights in Beckenham became a following across the country.","/venues/koko/dutch-graft-of-the-manor/",""],["p","dvorak-piano-quartet","whats-on","Dvorak Piano Quartet","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","A Czech group playing both Dvorak piano quartets in one evening.","/venues/conway-hall/dvorak-piano-quartet/",""],["p","dvoraks-violin-concerto-with-james-ehnes","whats-on","Dvorak's violin concerto with James 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teenager.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/ed-maverick/",""],["p","edele-andaya-all-dayer-2","whats-on","Edele Andaya: All-Dayer 2","Shoreditch","XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP","A second all-day party from the same host.","/venues/xoyo/edele-andaya-all-dayer-2/",""],["p","edinburgh-quartet-at-conway-hall","whats-on","Edinburgh Quartet at Conway Hall","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Haydn and late Schubert, with Rebecca Clarke and Puccini's funeral piece between.","/venues/conway-hall/edinburgh-quartet-at-conway-hall/",""],["p","edmund-finnis-and-bruckners-ninth","whats-on","Edmund Finnis and Bruckner's Ninth","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Sheku Kanneh-Mason in a new cello concerto, then Bruckner's unfinished last symphony.","/venues/barbican-centre/edmund-finnis-and-bruckners-ninth/",""],["p","edvard-munch","whats-on","Edvard Munch","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","The Frieze of Life and Munch's soul paintings, seen through 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year.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/elgar-the-dream-of-gerontius/",""],["p","eli-brown-panic-attack-tour","whats-on","Eli Brown: Panic Attack Tour","Brixton","Electric Brixton, 1 Town Hall Parade, SW2 1RJ","Bristol techno at fifteen hundred capacity.","/venues/electric-brixton/eli-brown-panic-attack-tour/",""],["p","elias-string-quartet","whats-on","Elias String Quartet","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A British quartet named after a Mendelssohn oratorio, on twenty-eight years together.","/venues/wigmore-hall/elias-string-quartet/",""],["p","elisabeth-leonskaja-schubert","whats-on","Elisabeth Leonskaja: Schubert","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A recital of Schubert from the pianist whose complete set is the one to own.","/venues/wigmore-hall/elisabeth-leonskaja-schubert/",""],["p","elise-nguyen-quoc-sous-ultra-vide","whats-on","Elise Nguyen Quoc: sous ultra-vide","Bethnal Green","2 Herald Street, E2 6JT","New work in the Bethnal Green gallery that has been finding artists early since 2005.","/art/herald-st/elise-nguyen-quoc-sous-ultra-vide/",""],["p","eliza-a-bloomin-new-ballet","whats-on","Eliza: A Bloomin' New Ballet","Clerkenwell","Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN","Pygmalion done as ballet, in the studio, for one night.","/venues/sadlers-wells/eliza-a-bloomin-new-ballet/",""],["p","ella-the-bossa-beat","whats-on","Ella & The Bossa Beat","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A father and daughter, Brazilian jazz and bossa nova, playing together.","/venues/jazz-cafe/ella-the-bossa-beat/",""],["p","ella-mai","whats-on","Ella Mai","Hammersmith","Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","The London singer who had to go to America to be heard here.","/venues/eventim-apollo/ella-mai/",""],["p","ella-thompson","whats-on","Ella Thompson","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Melbourne soul recorded live to tape, with the city's independent players on 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British saxophonist's international quartet, improvising with very little written down.","/venues/kings-place/emma-rawiczs-cloudwalker-with-philip-dizack/",""],["p","emma-reyes","whats-on","Emma Reyes","St James's","25-26 Mason's Yard, SW1Y 6BU","A Colombian painter who wrote one of the great memoirs of a childhood and hid the paintings.","/art/white-cube-masons-yard/emma-reyes/",""],["p","emma-ruth-rundle","whats-on","Emma Ruth Rundle","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","After Engine of Hell, a record she set out to make hopeful.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/emma-ruth-rundle/",""],["p","emma-jean-thackray-dear-miles-a-love-letter","whats-on","Emma-Jean Thackray: Dear Miles - A Love Letter","Dalston","11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH","A letter to Miles Davis, written as a set, by a trumpeter who found him by accident at thirteen.","/venues/earth/emma-jean-thackray-dear-miles-a-love-letter/",""],["p","english-national-ballet-rhythm-riot","whats-on","English National Ballet: Rhythm Riot","Clerkenwell","Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN","A triple bill with no tutus, no tiaras and no story in the first piece.","/venues/sadlers-wells/english-national-ballet-rhythm-riot/",""],["p","english-touring-opera-ariadne-and-dido-and-aeneas","whats-on","English Touring Opera: Ariadne and Dido and Aeneas","Hackney","291 Mare Street, E8 1EJ","Two abandoned queens in one evening, three hundred years apart.","/venues/hackney-empire/english-touring-opera-ariadne-and-dido-and-aeneas/",""],["p","english-touring-opera-glucks-orpheus-and-eurydice","whats-on","English Touring Opera: Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice","Hackney","291 Mare Street, E8 1EJ","The first opera anyone still stages, rebuilt with 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School","Barbican","Silk Street, EC2Y 9AP","Hundreds of public performances a year at Milton Court and on Silk Street, most of them free.","/venues/milton-court-concert-hall/free-concerts-at-the-guildhall-school/",""],["p","free-daily-tours-of-the-v-a","whats-on","Free daily tours of the V&A","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","Volunteer-led introductions to the collection, several times a day, no booking.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/free-daily-tours-of-the-v-a/",""],["p","free-lunchtime-organ-recitals","whats-on","Free lunchtime organ recitals","Victoria","42 Francis Street, SW1P 1QW","Thirty minutes on the Willis grand organ at quarter past one, free, every Wednesday in term.","/venues/westminster-cathedral/free-lunchtime-organ-recitals/",""],["p","french-79","whats-on","French 79","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","The producer Jean-Michel Jarre called the heir to the French Touch.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/french-79/",""],["p","french-literary-season-launch","whats-on","French Literary Season Launch","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","Four hundred novels came out in France in August. An evening on which dozen matter.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/french-literary-season-launch/",""],["p","freshers-moving-in-rave","whats-on","Freshers Moving In Rave","Elephant and Castle","Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, SE1 6DP","The start-of-term rave, which Ministry has run for decades.","/venues/ministry-of-sound/freshers-moving-in-rave/",""],["p","fretwork-at-forty","whats-on","Fretwork at forty","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Eight viols, forty years on, conducted by George Benjamin.","/venues/wigmore-hall/fretwork-at-forty/",""],["p","frida-the-making-of-an-icon","whats-on","Frida: The Making of an Icon","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","Thirty Kahlo paintings, her clothes and jewellery, and the two hundred objects that made her a brand.","/museums/tate-modern/frida-the-making-of-an-icon/",""],["p","friday-night-is-music-night-with-joe-stilgoe","whats-on","Friday Night is Music Night with Joe Stilgoe","Muswell Hill","Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY","The BBC's longest-running live music programme, recorded in front of an audience.","/venues/alexandra-palace/friday-night-is-music-night-with-joe-stilgoe/",""],["p","friday-night-life-drawing-bathers-by-the-sea","whats-on","Friday night life drawing: bathers by the sea","Piccadilly","Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD","Draw from a life model in the Academy after hours, with a drink.","/art/royal-academy-of-arts/friday-night-life-drawing-bathers-by-the-sea/",""],["p","frieze-london-and-frieze-masters","whats-on","Frieze London and Frieze Masters","Regent's Park","The Regent's Park, NW1 4NR","The two big art fairs in two tents at opposite ends of the park, for five days in October.","",""],["p","frieze-sculpture-2026","whats-on","Frieze Sculpture 2026","Regent's Park","The Regent's Park, The Regent's Park, NW1 4NR","Eleven sculptors in the English Gardens, free, for six weeks either side of the fair.","/outdoors/the-regents-park/frieze-sculpture-2026/",""],["p","frog-and-middleman","whats-on","Frog and Middleman","Shoreditch","Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ","Queens indie rock about American places the writer has never been.","/venues/village-underground/frog-and-middleman/",""],["p","from-agreement-to-adjudication-the-good-friday-agreement-in-court","whats-on","From Agreement to Adjudication: the Good Friday Agreement in court","Bloomsbury","4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG","Northern Ireland's most senior judge on what happens when a peace settlement is read as law.","/societies/university-college-london/from-agreement-to-adjudication-the-good-friday-agreement-in-court/",""],["p","from-crisis-to-stability-to-what-greece-in-a-fragmenting-world","whats-on","From crisis to stability to what? Greece in a fragmenting world","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","The editor of Kathimerini on where Greece goes after the decade that nearly broke it.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/from-crisis-to-stability-to-what-greece-in-a-fragmenting-world/",""],["p","funeral-parade-presents-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2","whats-on","Funeral Parade presents A Nightmare on Elm Street 2","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","The sequel that put a boy in the scream queen's part, introduced by the film curator Sarah Cleary.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/funeral-parade-presents-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-2/",""],["p","funeral-parade-presents-the-skin-i-live-in","whats-on","Funeral Parade presents The Skin I Live In","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","Almodovar's surgeon-and-captive thriller, introduced by the artist and writer Maz Murray.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/funeral-parade-presents-the-skin-i-live-in/",""],["p","funny-women-glitter-challenge","whats-on","Funny Women Glitter Challenge","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","Eight women who took a summer comedy challenge, doing it for real on the Store’s stage.","/venues/the-comedy-store/funny-women-glitter-challenge/",""],["p","future-classics-screening-the-new-italian-cinema-5","whats-on","Future Classics: Screening the New Italian Cinema #5","Westminster","4-5 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6JP","The fifth of a series showing Italian films that have not reached British screens.","/international-culture/italian-cultural-institute/future-classics-screening-the-new-italian-cinema-5/",""],["p","future-jazz-showcase","whats-on","Future Jazz Showcase","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","The Jazz Cafe's flagship night for the musicians it has been watching before anyone else was.","/venues/jazz-cafe/future-jazz-showcase/",""],["p","future-sounds-rap-party-x-out-spoken","whats-on","Future Sounds: RAP Party x Out-Spoken","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Ten writers, live literature and music, in one evening.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/future-sounds-rap-party-x-out-spoken/",""],["p","gbsr-duo-perform-sarah-davachi","whats-on","GBSR Duo perform Sarah Davachi","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","A new Sarah Davachi piece, first performance, in a hall wired to move the sound around you.","/venues/kings-place/gbsr-duo-perform-sarah-davachi/",""],["p","gee-lee-friends","whats-on","GEE LEE & Friends","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Rolling house with UK garage, hip-hop and jazz in it, from one of London's new names.","/venues/jazz-cafe/gee-lee-friends/",""],["p","gabor-mate-trauma-illness-and-healing-in-a-toxic-culture","whats-on","Gabor Maté: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture","Hammersmith","Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","The physician on why he thinks modern illness is social.","/venues/eventim-apollo/gabor-mate-trauma-illness-and-healing-in-a-toxic-culture/",""],["p","gabriel-orozco-chronotopic","whats-on","Gabriel Orozco: Chronotopic","Bermondsey Village","144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ","Twenty-odd years of Orozco in Bermondsey's enormous rooms, curated by Briony Fer.","/art/white-cube-bermondsey/gabriel-orozco-chronotopic/",""],["p","gaerea","whats-on","Gaerea","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Portuguese black metal, played in hoods.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/gaerea/",""],["p","gaidaa","whats-on","Gaidaa","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Dutch-Sudanese songwriting that moves between neo-soul, R&B and jazz without picking.","/venues/jazz-cafe/gaidaa/",""],["p","garden-museum-harvest-festival","whats-on","Garden Museum Harvest Festival","Lambeth","Garden Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1 7LB","Urban growers, rooftop beekeepers and fermenters take over Lambeth's church for a Sunday.","/museums/garden-museum/garden-museum-harvest-festival/",""],["p","garden-history-tours","whats-on","Garden history tours","Hampton","Clock Court, Hampton Wick, KT8 9AU","A free ninety-minute walk round sixty acres of formal garden.","/museums/hampton-court-palace/garden-history-tours/",""],["p","garden-art-garden","whats-on","Garden/Art/Garden","Lambeth","Lambeth Road, SE1 7LB","A run of talks arguing that a garden is a work of art and should be looked at like one.","/museums/garden-museum/garden-art-garden/",""],["p","garefowl","whats-on","Garefowl","Soho","Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ","Hallowe'en night in a deconsecrated chapel, which is the right room for it.","/venues/stone-nest/garefowl/",""],["p","gareth","whats-on","Gareth","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Northern Irish folk warmth and Nashville storytelling, in the same songs.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/gareth/",""],["p","gary-crosby-quartet-feat-cherise","whats-on","Gary Crosby Quartet feat. 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ARIA for album of the year.","/venues/electric-brixton/genesis-owusu/",""],["p","georg-baselitz-the-heroes-1965-66","whats-on","Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965-66","St James's","Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ","The paintings that made Baselitz notorious, in a Mayfair townhouse.","/art/thaddaeus-ropac/georg-baselitz-the-heroes-1965-66/",""],["p","georgia-tegou-in-the-quiet-of-us","whats-on","Georgia Tegou: In the Quiet of Us","Clerkenwell","Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN","Three nights of new contemporary work in the studio upstairs.","/venues/sadlers-wells/georgia-tegou-in-the-quiet-of-us/",""],["p","gerald-clayton-trio","whats-on","Gerald Clayton Trio","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","A pianist with six Grammy nominations, playing without anywhere to hide.","/venues/cadogan-hall/gerald-clayton-trio/",""],["p","german-expressionism-modern-painting-19001918","whats-on","German Expressionism: Modern Painting 1900–1918","Trafalgar Square","National Gallery, 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downstairs.","/venues/soho-theatre/ginger-johnson-show-pony/",""],["p","ginton","whats-on","Ginton","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","An Amsterdam producer who plays guitar over his own sun-soaked house.","/venues/jazz-cafe/ginton/",""],["p","girls","whats-on","Girls","Waterloo","66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ","In the Maria, the Young Vic's smaller room.","/venues/young-vic/girls/",""],["p","gladys-west-the-mathematics-under-gps","whats-on","Gladys West: the mathematics under GPS","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","The geodesist whose Earth model made satellite navigation possible.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/gladys-west-the-mathematics-under-gps/",""],["p","glenn-underground","whats-on","Glenn Underground","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Forty years of Strictly Jaz Unit, played on vinyl for as long as they will let him.","/venues/jazz-cafe/glenn-underground/",""],["p","gli-stivali-di-medea","whats-on","Gli stivali di Medea","Westminster","4-5 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 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daughter in the 1940s.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/golden-threads-dress-from-saudi-arabia/",""],["p","goldfish","whats-on","Goldfish","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","The end of the Klondike gold rush, a dying child and a lie that has to keep going.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/goldfish/",""],["p","goldie-dare-to-dream","whats-on","Goldie: Dare to Dream","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Drum and bass written out for an orchestra, by the man who made Timeless.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/goldie-dare-to-dream/",""],["p","goldsmiths-choral-union-mozarts-requiem-on-remembrance-sunday","whats-on","Goldsmiths Choral Union: Mozart's Requiem on Remembrance Sunday","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","The Requiem at five o'clock on Remembrance Sunday, with Haydn and Schubert around it.","/venues/smith-square-hall/goldsmiths-choral-union-mozarts-requiem-on-remembrance-sunday/",""],["p","good-health-good-wealth","whats-on","Good Health Good 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Michael Berkeley premiere.","/venues/westminster-cathedral/grand-organ-festival/",""],["p","grease","whats-on","Grease","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","Rydell High in a Fleet Street basement theatre.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/grease/",""],["p","grease-at-the-bridewell","whats-on","Grease at the Bridewell","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","Rydell High in a Victorian swimming bath off Fleet Street, staged by City Academy's studio company.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/grease-at-the-bridewell/",""],["p","great-sacred-music","whats-on","Great Sacred Music","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Thirty-five minutes of choral music and commentary, every Thursday at one, free.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/great-sacred-music/",""],["p","greeces-gender-divide-femicide-through-the-lens","whats-on","Greece's Gender Divide: Femicide Through the Lens","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","How film and the news cover the killing of women, and what that coverage hides.","/international-culture/the-hellenic-centre/greeces-gender-divide-femicide-through-the-lens/",""],["p","greek-tragedy-upside-down","whats-on","Greek Tragedy Upside Down","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","Electra and Medea read through queer and feminist theory.","/international-culture/the-hellenic-centre/greek-tragedy-upside-down/",""],["p","green-careers-conference","whats-on","Green Careers Conference","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","A half-day for students who want to work in the environment, with employers in the room.","/science/linnean-society/green-careers-conference/",""],["p","green-velvet-at-koko","whats-on","Green Velvet at KOKO","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The Chicago house producer behind Flash and La La Land, playing the theatre for the first time.","/venues/koko/green-velvet-at-koko/",""],["p","greenwich-trio-with-boris-bizjak","whats-on","Greenwich Trio with Boris Bizjak","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Piano trio plus flute, which is a rarer combination than it sounds.","/venues/conway-hall/greenwich-trio-with-boris-bizjak/",""],["p","gresham-college-lectures","whats-on","Gresham College lectures","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Free public lectures since 1597, from a professor of music, of astronomy, of law and the rest, in a medieval hall off Holborn.","",""],["p","gresham-college-a-balancing-act-dice-dominos-turtles-and-the-gomboc","whats-on","Gresham College: A Balancing Act: Dice, Dominos, Turtles and the Gömböc","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Dice, dominoes, tortoises and a shape that can only rest one way up.","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-as-co-worker-shared-agency-and-the-dynamics-of-collaboration","whats-on","Gresham College: AI As Co-Worker? Shared Agency and the Dynamics of Collaboration","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Collaboration means shared goals, taking turns, and repairing it when it goes wrong. Can a machine do the third?","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-and-the-second-fight-for-free-culture","whats-on","Gresham College: AI and the Second Fight for Free Culture","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The second great copyright shock, and why the people arguing sound exactly like last time.","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-as-companion-from-digital-pets-to-simulated-empathy","whats-on","Gresham College: AI as Companion? From Digital Pets to Simulated Empathy","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Care robots, digital pets, and machines that recognise feeling without having any.","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-as-just-another-fork-in-the-cutlery-box","whats-on","Gresham College: AI as Just Another Fork in the Cutlery Box","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The most responsible use of these systems might be as a narrow tool that does one thing well.","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-as-muse-creativity-provocation-and-human-ownership","whats-on","Gresham College: AI as Muse? Creativity, Provocation and Human Ownership","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Not a creator: a provocateur. What generative systems are actually good for.","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-as-therapist-intimacy-without-understanding","whats-on","Gresham College: AI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Machines that hold a therapeutic conversation without understanding a word of it.","",""],["p","gresham-college-ai-as-a-jeeves-the-dream-of-seamless-help","whats-on","Gresham College: AI as a Jeeves? The Dream of Seamless Help","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Wodehouse's Jeeves understands context and human weakness. No assistant since has managed either.","",""],["p","gresham-college-archives-cultural-heritage-and-film-history-in-the-digital-age","whats-on","Gresham College: Archives, Cultural Heritage and Film History in the Digital Age","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Film history is detective work, and the archive's silences are part of the evidence.","",""],["p","gresham-college-around-the-world-with-indian-cinema","whats-on","Gresham College: Around the World with Indian Cinema","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A century of Indian cinema, and how it held its own audience against Hollywood.","",""],["p","gresham-college-big-little-lives-recovering-the-histories-of-everyone-else","whats-on","Gresham College: Big Little Lives: Recovering the Histories of Everyone Else","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","We no longer write history as the deeds of great men. Recovering everyone else is harder than it sounds.","",""],["p","gresham-college-building-with-magnets-the-mathematics-of-repulsion-and-attraction","whats-on","Gresham College: Building with Magnets: The Mathematics of Repulsion and Attraction","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Magnets stick together. What shape does a thing built entirely of them want to be?","",""],["p","gresham-college-can-we-end-malaria","whats-on","Gresham College: Can We End Malaria?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A pope, a Peruvian tree bark, and four hundred years of nearly beating malaria.","",""],["p","gresham-college-can-we-have-a-world-without-pain","whats-on","Gresham College: Can We Have a World Without Pain?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Pain is there to protect you. Consider surgery without anaesthetic anyway.","",""],["p","gresham-college-can-weight-loss-medicines-cure-obesity","whats-on","Gresham College: Can Weight-Loss Medicines Cure Obesity?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A weekly injection has changed what obesity treatment looks like. Whether it cures anything is another question.","",""],["p","gresham-college-can-you-be-your-own-therapist","whats-on","Gresham College: Can You Be Your Own Therapist?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The stories you tell about yourself, and whether you can revise them alone.","",""],["p","gresham-college-carbon-our-flexible-friend-that-built-the-natural-world","whats-on","Gresham College: Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Carbon went from a school chemistry lesson to a word in every political argument. Helen Czerski on what it actually does.","",""],["p","gresham-college-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-orange-rain","whats-on","Gresham College: Cloudy, with a Chance of Orange Rain","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Rain made of methane, sulphuric acid clouds, and what they tell us about our own air.","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-orange-rain/",""],["p","gresham-college-cosmic-collisions","whats-on","Gresham College: Cosmic Collisions","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Galaxies collide over billions of years. Watching one frame of it and reconstructing the rest.","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-cosmic-collisions/",""],["p","gresham-college-cosmologys-mad-idea-inflation-the-creation-of-our-universe","whats-on","Gresham College: Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","The universe only makes sense if it once expanded faster than anything since. The evidence for that, and how it might be proved.","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-cosmologys-mad-idea-inflation-the-creation-of-our-universe/",""],["p","gresham-college-creativity-and-the-limits-to-ai","whats-on","Gresham College: Creativity and the Limits to AI","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Who owns an idea decides how creative a society can afford to be.","",""],["p","gresham-college-dance-of-the-droplets-earths-freshwater-carousel-and-how-it-is-changing","whats-on","Gresham College: Dance of the Droplets: Earth’s Freshwater Carousel and How It Is Changing","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Almost all the world's water is salt. The small remainder runs the planet.","",""],["p","gresham-college-do-machines-make-music","whats-on","Gresham College: Do Machines Make Music?","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Musical automata in ninth-century Baghdad, a synthesiser the size of a room in 1896, and everything since.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/gresham-college-do-machines-make-music/",""],["p","gresham-college-energy-energy-everywhere-tapping-into-earths-natural-energy-systems","whats-on","Gresham College: Energy, Energy, Everywhere: Tapping into Earth’s Natural Energy Systems","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Fossil fuels are ancient sunlight. Helen Czerski on collecting the current supply instead.","",""],["p","gresham-college-festival-of-astronomical-ideas","whats-on","Gresham College: Festival of Astronomical Ideas","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A day of talks, demonstrations and performances where astronomy meets everything else.","",""],["p","gresham-college-from-deficit-to-difference-how-neurodiversity-shapes-language-use","whats-on","Gresham College: From Deficit to Difference: How Neurodiversity Shapes Language Use","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Autistic people are said to struggle with metaphor and irony. The evidence says something more specific.","",""],["p","gresham-college-going-to-the-playhouse-with-shakespeare","whats-on","Gresham College: Going to the Playhouse with Shakespeare","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","An afternoon at the playhouse in 1600, with Shakespeare as your guide.","",""],["p","gresham-college-guantanamo-on-the-euphrates-what-next-for-detainees-in-syria","whats-on","Gresham College: Guantanamo on the Euphrates: What Next for Detainees in Syria?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The camps in north-east Syria, and the British citizens still held in them.","",""],["p","gresham-college-how-did-our-garden-grow-the-history-of-hatton-gardens","whats-on","Gresham College: How Did Our Garden Grow? The History of Hatton Gardens","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Hatton Garden was an actual garden. How it became the diamond quarter.","",""],["p","gresham-college-how-true-stories-make-us-care","whats-on","Gresham College: How True Stories Make Us Care","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","How a reporter makes you care about people whose names you cannot pronounce.","",""],["p","gresham-college-how-urgently-do-we-need-new-antibiotics","whats-on","Gresham College: How Urgently Do We Need New Antibiotics?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Henry VIII died of an infected leg. How close are we to that world returning?","",""],["p","gresham-college-how-versatile-are-therapeutic-antibodies","whats-on","Gresham College: How Versatile are Therapeutic Antibodies?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The body's most specific weapon, redirected at cancer and at itself.","",""],["p","gresham-college-how-to-draw-a-straight-line-the-mathematics-of-linkages","whats-on","Gresham College: How to Draw a Straight Line? The Mathematics of Linkages","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","How do you make a machine draw a perfectly straight line using only bars and pivots?","",""],["p","gresham-college-how-to-see-the-world-as-a-child-sees-it","whats-on","Gresham College: How to See the World As a Child Sees It","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Artworks made with children, designed to let adults see what they see.","",""],["p","gresham-college-is-the-hiv-pandemic-over","whats-on","Gresham College: Is the HIV Pandemic Over?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Where the treatment of HIV has got to, and what still stands between that and the end of the epidemic.","",""],["p","gresham-college-journalism-as-a-public-good","whats-on","Gresham College: Journalism as a Public Good","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The business model for news is dying and the information is not getting better. What replaces it?","",""],["p","gresham-college-language-revitalisation-and-the-in-visibility-of-indigenous-languages","whats-on","Gresham College: Language Revitalisation and the (In)Visibility of Indigenous Languages","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Britain's indigenous languages are not on an equal footing, and were never meant to be.","",""],["p","gresham-college-language-and-reconciliation-the-mapping-of-ireland-and-brian-friels-drama-translations","whats-on","Gresham College: Language and Reconciliation: The Mapping of Ireland and Brian Friel's Drama Translations","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Brian Friel's Translations, the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, and what happens when a country is renamed.","",""],["p","gresham-college-life-death-and-bubbles-the-story-of-earths-nitrogen","whats-on","Gresham College: Life, Death and Bubbles: The Story of Earth’s Nitrogen","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","In 1898 a scientist warned the world would starve. The fix he hoped for changed the planet's chemistry.","",""],["p","gresham-college-loops-leverage-and-the-send-crisis","whats-on","Gresham College: Loops, Leverage and the SEND Crisis","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Special educational needs provision is in crisis and bankrupting councils. Where the system actually breaks.","",""],["p","gresham-college-loves-transcendence-in-the-poetry-of-john-donne-george-herbert-and-rs-thomas","whats-on","Gresham College: Love's Transcendence in the Poetry of John Donne, George Herbert and RS Thomas","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Donne, Herbert and R S Thomas, and the language three poets found for what cannot be said plainly.","",""],["p","gresham-college-managed-by-microbes-our-worlds-dependence-on-invisible-life","whats-on","Gresham College: Managed by Microbes: Our World’s Dependence on Invisible Life","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The microbes on Earth outweigh every animal forty times over, and run most of what matters.","",""],["p","gresham-college-material-witness-understanding-the-objects-of-auschwitz","whats-on","Gresham College: Material Witness: Understanding the Objects of Auschwitz","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Shoes, suitcases, spectacles, hair. What careful analysis of these objects can still recover.","",""],["p","gresham-college-musical-myths-and-miracles","whats-on","Gresham College: Musical Myths and Miracles","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Music has been credited with healing, harm and hidden powers for three thousand years. Which claims survive?","/venues/lso-st-lukes/gresham-college-musical-myths-and-miracles/",""],["p","gresham-college-new-light-through-old-windows-modern-literary-adaptation-from-a-writers-perspective","whats-on","Gresham College: New Light Through Old Windows – Modern Literary Adaptation, from a Writer’s Perspective","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Adaptation is not the easy commercial option. A playwright on why it is harder than starting fresh.","",""],["p","gresham-college-new-molecules-on-an-old-planet-how-pollution-clashes-with-the-earth-system","whats-on","Gresham College: New Molecules on an Old Planet: How Pollution Clashes with the Earth System","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Hundreds of manufactured molecules are now circulating through the Earth system. Follow one.","",""],["p","gresham-college-offence-and-the-future-of-courtesy","whats-on","Gresham College: Offence and the Future of Courtesy","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Free expression and the giving of offence, and whether courtesy is a way through.","",""],["p","gresham-college-one-gay-mans-accidental-creation-of-the-modern-tattoo-industry","whats-on","Gresham College: One Gay Man's Accidental Creation of the Modern Tattoo Industry","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A Swiss physicist in Cold War America, a vast private archive, and the accidental invention of an industry.","",""],["p","gresham-college-our-sovereign-soil","whats-on","Gresham College: Our Sovereign Soil","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","What is actually in the ground under a new housing development, and who decided that was acceptable.","",""],["p","gresham-college-our-sun-our-star","whats-on","Gresham College: Our Sun, Our Star","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Our star is the only one we can watch closely, and it is an ordinary one. Both facts matter.","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-our-sun-our-star/",""],["p","gresham-college-plato-on-truth-lies-and-power","whats-on","Gresham College: Plato on Truth, Lies and Power","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Athens invented public argument and immediately discovered propaganda. Plato's response.","",""],["p","gresham-college-play-it-again-ludwig-waves-strings-and-the-stradivarius","whats-on","Gresham College: Play it Again Ludwig: Waves, Strings, and the Stradivarius","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","What makes one violin worth a house and another one firewood.","",""],["p","gresham-college-rather-trivial-things-finding-the-precious-in-an-alternative-museum-history","whats-on","Gresham College: Rather Trivial Things? Finding the Precious in an Alternative Museum History","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Museums keep what somebody decided was precious. Two centuries of who that somebody was.","",""],["p","gresham-college-rethinking-copyright-in-the-age-of-ai","whats-on","Gresham College: Rethinking Copyright in the Age of AI","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Two futures for copyright: patch the old system, or build a different one.","",""],["p","gresham-college-rethinking-deterrence-for-a-disrupted-world","whats-on","Gresham College: Rethinking Deterrence for a Disrupted World","Bank","Mercers' Hall, Ironmonger Lane, EC2V 8HE","Thirty-five years of American military dominance are over. What deters anybody now?","",""],["p","gresham-college-shakespeare-now-creativity-and-controversy","whats-on","Gresham College: Shakespeare Now: Creativity and Controversy","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Who should play Richard III? The arguments contemporary Shakespeare cannot avoid.","",""],["p","gresham-college-shakespeare-and-the-shrinking-canon","whats-on","Gresham College: Shakespeare and the Shrinking Canon","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Pepys thought Romeo and Juliet the worst play he had ever seen. How the canon narrowed.","",""],["p","gresham-college-shakespearean-england-and-views-of-the-irish-language","whats-on","Gresham College: Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","How the Irish language looked from Shakespeare's England, and how long that view has lasted.","",""],["p","gresham-college-sixteenth-century-london-dialect-how-londoners-spoke-in-sir-thomas-greshams-time","whats-on","Gresham College: Sixteenth-Century London Dialect: How Londoners Spoke in Sir Thomas Gresham’s Time","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","How Londoners actually sounded in the 1560s, and how anybody can know.","",""],["p","gresham-college-speaking-through-othello-black-performance-and-the-training-of-feeling","whats-on","Gresham College: Speaking Through Othello: Black Performance and the Training of Feeling","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","What it does to an actor to inhabit Shakespeare's most freighted role.","",""],["p","gresham-college-staying-afloat-thinking-about-sinking","whats-on","Gresham College: Staying Afloat: Thinking About Sinking","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A floating plank always settles the same way up. Ships depend on understanding why.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-2027-annual-lord-mayors-event","whats-on","Gresham College: The 2027 Annual Lord Mayor's Event","Moorgate","Guildhall, Gresham Street, EC2V 7HH","The annual lecture given at the invitation of the Lord Mayor, in the Guildhall.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-chaotic-solar-system","whats-on","Gresham College: The Chaotic Solar System","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","The solar system is not a clockwork. Chris Lintott on the parts that are genuinely unpredictable.","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-the-chaotic-solar-system/",""],["p","gresham-college-the-future-of-creativity","whats-on","Gresham College: The Future of Creativity","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","People have said since the 1950s that a machine will never be creative. Daniel Susskind on why that is getting harder to say.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-future-of-music-new-branches-on-the-evolutionary-tree-of-music","whats-on","Gresham College: The Future of Music: New Branches on the Evolutionary Tree of Music","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Every generation predicts where music is going, and gets it wrong in interesting ways.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/gresham-college-the-future-of-music-new-branches-on-the-evolutionary-tree-of-music/",""],["p","gresham-college-the-global-fight-against-lgbti-rights","whats-on","Gresham College: The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The organised international campaign against LGBTI rights, traced through a decade of fieldwork.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-grays-inn-reading-2027","whats-on","Gresham College: The Gray's Inn Reading 2027","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Richard Susskind on the law, given as the annual Gray's Inn Reading.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-great-green-mirage","whats-on","Gresham College: The Great Green Mirage","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Planting trees around a development does not make it healthy. Ian Mudway on greenwashing as planning policy.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-internet-and-the-first-fight-for-free-culture","whats-on","Gresham College: The Internet and the First Fight for Free Culture","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The printing press, the photocopier, then the internet. Each one broke copyright differently.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-maths-of-christmas","whats-on","Gresham College: The Maths of Christmas","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The geometry of a holly leaf, the folding of a snowflake, and the rest of the festive mathematics.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-myth-and-promise-of-the-u-k-jury-trial","whats-on","Gresham College: The Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","The jury on trial: what happens to justice if half of criminal trials stop using one.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-polluter-never-pays","whats-on","Gresham College: The Polluter Never Pays","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Rachel Carson warned about this in 1962. Ian Mudway on why the law still does not make polluters pay.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-practices-and-politics-of-film-subtitles","whats-on","Gresham College: The Practices and Politics of Film Subtitles","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Subtitles are not a neutral window. Every one is a decision about who the film is for.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-prisons-memory-archive-in-the-north-of-ireland","whats-on","Gresham College: The Prisons Memory Archive in the North of Ireland","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Three hundred hours of film made by walking former prisoners back through their own prisons.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-romantic-history-of-copyright","whats-on","Gresham College: The Romantic History of Copyright","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Copyright was invented for printers. Then the Romantics made it about genius.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-science-of-puppetry-how-real-can-they-be","whats-on","Gresham College: The Science of Puppetry – How Real Can They Be?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","A scientist and the man who built the Muppets on what makes a puppet seem alive.","",""],["p","gresham-college-the-sir-thomas-gresham-annual-lecture-2027","whats-on","Gresham College: The Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture 2027","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","The college's annual lecture in the name of the merchant who founded it.","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-the-sir-thomas-gresham-annual-lecture-2027/",""],["p","gresham-college-the-uses-of-rhetoric-past-and-present","whats-on","Gresham College: The Uses of Rhetoric, Past and Present","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Melissa Lane and Quentin Skinner on what rhetoric was for, and what it is doing now.","",""],["p","gresham-college-what-do-you-need-a-mathematician-for-perspectives-from-the-17th-century","whats-on","Gresham College: What Do You Need a Mathematician For? Perspectives from the 17th Century","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","In 1634 a professor had to argue in public that mathematics was worth paying for. The argument is older than you think.","",""],["p","gresham-college-what-history-is-not","whats-on","Gresham College: What History is NOT","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","History is not a list of dates, a set of great men, or a heritage to be defended. Sathnam Sanghera on what it is instead.","",""],["p","gresham-college-what-is-talent-nature-nurture-and-the-myth-of-the-muse","whats-on","Gresham College: What Is Talent? Nature, Nurture, and the Myth of the Muse","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Are great musicians born or made? The honest answer is more interesting than either.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/gresham-college-what-is-talent-nature-nurture-and-the-myth-of-the-muse/",""],["p","gresham-college-what-is-jazz","whats-on","Gresham College: What is Jazz?","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Jazz sounds free and takes a lifetime to get that way. What is happening when someone improvises?","/venues/lso-st-lukes/gresham-college-what-is-jazz/",""],["p","gresham-college-what-is-the-purpose-of-yoga-transcendence-or-transformation","whats-on","Gresham College: What is the Purpose of Yoga: Transcendence or Transformation?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Two and a half thousand years of yoga, and the moment the body stopped being the obstacle.","",""],["p","gresham-college-whats-new-in-space","whats-on","Gresham College: What's New in Space?","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","With so much wrong down here, why spend anything looking up?","/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-whats-new-in-space/",""],["p","gresham-college-where-is-queer-love-in-the-shoah-history","whats-on","Gresham College: Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Why there are almost no stories of queer love from the Holocaust, and what that absence is made of.","",""],["p","gresham-college-why-is-there-music","whats-on","Gresham College: Why Is There Music?","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Every culture on earth makes music. Nobody can say what it is for.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/gresham-college-why-is-there-music/",""],["p","gresham-college-women-of-bath-and-willesden-ordinary-women-in-english-literature","whats-on","Gresham College: Women of Bath and Willesden: Ordinary Women in English Literature","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Chaucer's Wife of Bath as the first ordinary woman in English literature, and everyone who followed her.","",""],["p","gresham-college-a-mystery-still-historical-trans-gender-variance-and-james-miranda-barry","whats-on","Gresham College: “A Mystery Still”: Historical (Trans) Gender Variance and James “Miranda” Barry","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","James Barry, army surgeon, and two centuries of speculation about his body.","",""],["p","guided-tour-of-lowther-lodge","whats-on","Guided tour of Lowther Lodge","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","An hour among the things the expeditions brought back, in the house they were planned 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bear.","/museums/tower-of-london/halloween-at-the-tower-of-london/",""],["p","halloween-pt-1-arodes","whats-on","Halloween pt.1: Arodes","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The first half of the Halloween weekender, with Anywherelse dressing the theatre.","/venues/koko/halloween-pt-1-arodes/",""],["p","halloween-with-jamie-fielding","whats-on","Halloween with Jamie Fielding","Shoreditch","XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP","Hallowe'en night in the XOYO basement.","/venues/xoyo/halloween-with-jamie-fielding/",""],["p","halloween-ahmed-spins","whats-on","Halloween: Ahmed Spins","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Halloween night itself, with hypnotic Afro house from Miami.","/venues/koko/halloween-ahmed-spins/",""],["p","hamilton-at-the-national-archives","whats-on","Hamilton at The National Archives","Kew","The National Archives, Bessant Drive, Kew, TW9 4DU","Four costumes from the musical in the entrance hall: Washington, George III, Alexander 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This is that third.","",""],["p","hidden-london-moorgate-metropolitan-maze","whats-on","Hidden London: Moorgate — Metropolitan maze","Moorgate","News Update newsagents, Moorgate station, EC2Y 9AE","Disused tracks and vintage tiling left over from 160 years of rebuilds.","",""],["p","hidden-london-piccadilly-circus-the-heart-of-london","whats-on","Hidden London: Piccadilly Circus — the heart of London","Piccadilly Circus","Piccadilly Circus station, Exit 4, W1J 9HS","Edwardian tunnels sealed in 1929, under the busiest circus in London.","",""],["p","highgate-cemetery","whats-on","Highgate Cemetery","Highgate","Swain's Lane, N6 6PJ","Egyptian Avenue, the Circle of Lebanon, and ivy over everything.","","/img/highgate-cemetery-480.jpg?v=fd03635e"],["p","hijingo","whats-on","Hijingo","Shoreditch","90 Worship Street, EC2A 2BE","Bingo staged as a game show, with lasers.","",""],["p","hilary-duff","whats-on","Hilary Duff","Greenwich Peninsula","The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX","The Lizzie McGuire pop records, back on the road after two decades.","/venues/the-o2-arena/hilary-duff/",""],["p","hindi-pakhwada-celebration","whats-on","Hindi Pakhwada Celebration","Mayfair","8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF","Poetry, music and dance for the Hindi fortnight, staged by the teachers who keep the language going here.","/international-culture/the-nehru-centre/hindi-pakhwada-celebration/",""],["p","historians-in-conversation-tom-cutterham-and-leanne-oboyle","whats-on","Historians in Conversation: Tom Cutterham and Leanne O'Boyle","Covent Garden","36 Craven Street, WC2N 5NF","Britain's part in the American Revolution, argued in the house Franklin lived in.","/science/benjamin-franklin-house/historians-in-conversation-tom-cutterham-and-leanne-oboyle/",""],["p","hogwarts-in-the-snow","whats-on","Hogwarts in the Snow","Leavesden","Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, WD25 7LR","The Great Hall dressed for Christmas and the model of Hogwarts under snow, the studio's winter season.","/harry-potter/warner-bros-studio-tour-london/hogwarts-in-the-snow/",""],["p","hokusai-thirty-six-views-of-mount-fuji-from-the-iuchi-collection","whats-on","Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection","Dulwich","Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD","The complete series, Great Wave and Red Fuji included, in the UK for the first time.","/museums/dulwich-picture-gallery/hokusai-thirty-six-views-of-mount-fuji-from-the-iuchi-collection/",""],["p","holly-stars-a-scandal-in-bohemia","whats-on","Holly Stars: A Scandal in Bohemia","Bloomsbury","The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SR","Sherlock Holmes solved by his neighbour, who cannot leave anything alone.","/venues/museum-of-comedy/holly-stars-a-scandal-in-bohemia/",""],["p","holy-fool","whats-on","Holy Fool","Finsbury 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them.","/societies/royal-astronomical-society/how-does-solar-wind-control-earths-radiation-belt-dynamics/",""],["p","how-we-lost-america","whats-on","How We Lost America","Chiswick","Hogarth Lane, W4 2QN","The American Revolution told from the losing side, in the house of its best satirist.","/art/hogarths-house/how-we-lost-america/",""],["p","how-do-britains-private-schools-reproduce-privilege","whats-on","How do Britain's private schools reproduce privilege?","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","An ethnographer who spent a long time inside one of them, on the thing they actually teach.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/how-do-britains-private-schools-reproduce-privilege/",""],["p","how-social-media-changed-politics-globally","whats-on","How social media changed politics globally","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","A decade of research on mobile broadband, algorithmic feeds and the decline of incumbent 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Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Countertenor and harp, tracing the Viennese song from Gluck to Schumann.","/venues/wigmore-hall/iestyn-davies-and-oliver-wass-a-viennese-evening/",""],["p","ilford-boy","whats-on","Ilford Boy","Covent Garden","41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX","Danny Lee Wynter on the families you are given and the ones you pick.","/venues/donmar-warehouse/ilford-boy/",""],["p","imagine-childrens-festival","whats-on","Imagine Children's Festival","South Bank","Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Southbank Centre's February half-term festival for children: authors, illustrators, music, circus, and much of it free.","/venues/southbank-centre/imagine-childrens-festival/",""],["p","improvox","whats-on","ImproVox","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","An evening given to the human voice improvising against whatever sounds turn up, paid for by whatever you think it was worth.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/improvox/",""],["p","in-conversation-with-marc-levy","whats-on","In Conversation with Marc Levy","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","France's biggest-selling novelist on a bookseller jailed for selling banned books.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/in-conversation-with-marc-levy/",""],["p","in-focus-nurse-catherine-pine","whats-on","In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine","Lambeth","2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7EP","The nurse who took hunger-striking suffragettes into her own nursing home.","/science/florence-nightingale-museum/in-focus-nurse-catherine-pine/",""],["p","inaugural-lecture-sheila-singh-on-brain-tumour-stem-cells","whats-on","Inaugural lecture: Sheila Singh on brain tumour stem cells","Southwark","Great Maze Pond, SE1 9RT","A neurosurgeon-scientist on chasing the cells that make brain cancer come back.","/societies/kings-college-london/inaugural-lecture-sheila-singh-on-brain-tumour-stem-cells/",""],["p","incendiary-samuel-pepys-in-words-and-music","whats-on","Incendiary: Samuel Pepys in Words and Music","Whitechapel","1 Graces Alley, E1 8JB","Pepys's diary read against the music he would have heard.","/venues/wiltons-music-hall/incendiary-samuel-pepys-in-words-and-music/",""],["p","incident-at-vichy","whats-on","Incident at Vichy","Dalston","Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL","Arthur Miller's men in a waiting room in occupied France, working out what is happening to them.","/venues/arcola-theatre/incident-at-vichy/",""],["p","ingrid-michaelson","whats-on","Ingrid Michaelson","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","A New York songwriter who built a career without a label and kept it.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/ingrid-michaelson/",""],["p","ink","whats-on","Ink","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","Eighty ink paintings from China, Hong 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free.","/science/wapping-hydraulic-power-station/inside-wapping-hydraulic-power-station/",""],["p","international-anthem-video-showcase","whats-on","International Anthem Video Showcase","Loughborough Junction","259-260 Hardess Street, SE24 0HN","The Chicago label's film archive on a big screen, with Jeff Parker, Makaya McCraven and Jaimie Branch.","/cinemas/coldharbour-blue/international-anthem-video-showcase/",""],["p","international-assistance-and-the-end-of-the-war-ukrainian-perspectives","whats-on","International Assistance and the End of the War: Ukrainian Perspectives","Strand","Bush House North East Wing, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG","Survey data on what Ukrainians will accept as an ending, and how foreign aid moves that line.","/societies/kings-college-london/international-assistance-and-the-end-of-the-war-ukrainian-perspectives/",""],["p","international-music-day-at-the-academy","whats-on","International Music Day at the Academy","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","An afternoon of lectures, playing and tours in the Academy's museum, free.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/international-music-day-at-the-academy/",""],["p","interstellar-in-70mm","whats-on","Interstellar in 70mm","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","Nolan's space film run off a 70mm print, on one of the few London screens still able to show one.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/interstellar-in-70mm/",""],["p","introduction-to-abneys-ecology","whats-on","Introduction to Abney's Ecology","Stoke Newington","Abney Park, Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH","What grows and lives in a Victorian cemetery that was left alone until it became a wood.","/outdoors/abney-park/introduction-to-abneys-ecology/",""],["p","introduction-to-the-gardens","whats-on","Introduction to the Gardens","Kew","Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE","An hour with a Kew guide, twice a day, included in the 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self-portrait.","/museums/dulwich-picture-gallery/jacqueline-marval/",""],["p","jaga-jazzist","whats-on","Jaga Jazzist","Barbican","Silk Street, EC2Y 9AP","Eight Norwegians, thirty years of refusing to settle on a genre.","/venues/milton-court-concert-hall/jaga-jazzist/",""],["p","jakub-hrusa-conducts-janacek-and-bartok","whats-on","Jakub Hrusa conducts Janacek and Bartok","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","The Royal Opera's music director with a student orchestra, at lunchtime, for sixteen pounds.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/jakub-hrusa-conducts-janacek-and-bartok/",""],["p","james-campbells-comedy-4-kids-reducks","whats-on","James Campbell's Comedy 4 Kids: Reducks","Bloomsbury","The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SR","The man who invented stand-up for children, back at it after ten years of writing books.","/venues/museum-of-comedy/james-campbells-comedy-4-kids-reducks/",""],["p","james-carter-trane-a-centennial-supreme","whats-on","James Carter: 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house.","/venues/southwark-playhouse-elephant/jane-eyre-a-musical/",""],["p","japanese-women-photographers-from-1950s-to-now","whats-on","Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now","Soho","The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW","Twenty-seven photographers, two hundred works, and a history of Japanese photography retold.","/museums/the-photographers-gallery/japanese-women-photographers-from-1950s-to-now/",""],["p","jason-moran","whats-on","Jason Moran","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Solo piano from the man Rolling Stone called the most provocative thinker in jazz.","/venues/wigmore-hall/jason-moran/",""],["p","javiera-mena","whats-on","Javiera Mena","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Twenty years of Chilean synth-pop from one of Latin American music's most inventive writers.","/venues/jazz-cafe/javiera-mena/",""],["p","jay-park","whats-on","Jay Park","Wembley Park","OVO Arena Wembley, Engineers Way, HA9 0AA","The Korean-American rapper who built his own labels, with LNGSHOT.","/venues/ovo-arena-wembley/jay-park/",""],["p","jazz-re-fest","whats-on","Jazz Re:fest","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","A day of British jazz in a Victorian theatre, run by Jazz re:freshed.","/venues/koko/jazz-re-fest/",""],["p","jazz-every-night-under-the-pizza-restaurant","whats-on","Jazz every night under the pizza restaurant","Soho","10 Dean Street, W1D 3RD","A basement on Dean Street that has booked jazz nightly for half a century, under a branch of PizzaExpress.","/venues/pizza-express-live-dean-street/jazz-every-night-under-the-pizza-restaurant/",""],["p","jazz-on-screen-ascenseur-pour-lechafaud","whats-on","Jazz on Screen: Ascenseur pour l'echafaud","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Louis Malle's first film, with the score Miles Davis improvised to the picture.","/venues/barbican-centre/jazz-on-screen-ascenseur-pour-lechafaud/",""],["p","jazz-on-screen-blues-like-showers-of-rain-and-jazz-is-our-religion","whats-on","Jazz on Screen: Blues Like Showers of Rain and Jazz Is Our Religion","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Two documentaries on the roots of the blues and the life of the jazz musician.","/venues/barbican-centre/jazz-on-screen-blues-like-showers-of-rain-and-jazz-is-our-religion/",""],["p","jazz-on-screen-coltrane-and-the-cinema","whats-on","Jazz on Screen: Coltrane and the Cinema","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Three films that use Coltrane rather than explain him, ending on Spike Lee.","/venues/barbican-centre/jazz-on-screen-coltrane-and-the-cinema/",""],["p","jazz-on-screen-miles-davis-on-the-late-show","whats-on","Jazz on Screen: Miles Davis on The Late Show","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Miles Davis as BBC Two's arts programme filmed him, dug out of the archive.","/venues/barbican-centre/jazz-on-screen-miles-davis-on-the-late-show/",""],["p","jazz-seven-nights-a-week-at-the-606","whats-on","Jazz seven nights a week at the 606","Chelsea","90 Lots Road, SW10 0QD","A basement in Chelsea with live jazz every night, where you have to eat to drink.","/venues/606-club/jazz-seven-nights-a-week-at-the-606/",""],["p","jazzanova-live-feat-wayne-snow","whats-on","Jazzanova Live feat. Wayne Snow","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","The Berlin collective that has been rebuilding jazz from records since 1995.","/venues/blue-note-london/jazzanova-live-feat-wayne-snow/",""],["p","jean-rondeau-plays-the-goldberg-variations-on-the-organ","whats-on","Jean Rondeau plays the Goldberg Variations on the organ","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Goldbergs on the Festival Hall's neighbour's organ, not on a harpsichord.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/jean-rondeau-plays-the-goldberg-variations-on-the-organ/",""],["p","jean-rondeau-nicolas-altstaedt-and-thomas-dunford","whats-on","Jean Rondeau, Nicolas Altstaedt and Thomas Dunford","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Harpsichord, cello and lute on French baroque music, from three players who tour together.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/jean-rondeau-nicolas-altstaedt-and-thomas-dunford/",""],["p","jeanette-winterson-creativity-artists-us","whats-on","Jeanette Winterson: Creativity, Artists, Us","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Winterson on art, machines and what is coming.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/jeanette-winterson-creativity-artists-us/",""],["p","jeffrey-sachs-geography-and-the-wealth-of-nations","whats-on","Jeffrey Sachs: geography and the wealth of nations","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","Two hundred and fifty years after Adam Smith, the same claim tested against new geospatial data.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/jeffrey-sachs-geography-and-the-wealth-of-nations/",""],["p","jen-brister-reactive","whats-on","Jen Brister: Reactive","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","She has been told to chill out. It is not going well.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/jen-brister-reactive/",""],["p","jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure","whats-on","Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure","Strand","Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA","A new film about a facility that stores copies of you, and the wreck of it as a walk-in set.","/museums/somerset-house/jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure/",""],["p","jerusalem-quartet","whats-on","Jerusalem Quartet","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","One of the great quartets of the last thirty years, on the first of two nights.","/venues/wigmore-hall/jerusalem-quartet/",""],["p","jesse-glazzard-the-sound-of-dirt-and-beauty","whats-on","Jesse Glazzard: The Sound of Dirt and Beauty","The Mall","Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH","A photographer reimagining family, shown for six days during the ICA's book fair.","/art/institute-of-contemporary-arts/jesse-glazzard-the-sound-of-dirt-and-beauty/",""],["p","jesus-christ-superstar","whats-on","Jesus Christ Superstar","Covent Garden","Catherine Street, WC2B 5JF","Lloyd Webber and Rice's 1970 rock opera, in the house Lloyd Webber owns.","/venues/theatre-royal-drury-lane/jesus-christ-superstar/",""],["p","jesus-rafael-soto-penetrable-bbl-jaune","whats-on","Jesús Rafael Soto: Pénétrable BBL Jaune","Kensington Gardens","Serpentine, Mount Walk, Knightsbridge, W2 3XA","A hanging field of yellow rods outside Serpentine South that you are meant to walk through.","/museums/serpentine/jesus-rafael-soto-penetrable-bbl-jaune/",""],["p","jewish-book-week","whats-on","Jewish Book Week","King's Cross","Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG","London's longest-running literary festival: nine days of talks and debates at Kings Place each spring.","",""],["p","jim-bob","whats-on","Jim Bob","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Carter USM's singer, fourteen top forty singles behind him and twelve albums since.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/jim-bob/",""],["p","joan-as-police-woman-twenty-years-of-real-life","whats-on","Joan as Police Woman: twenty years of Real Life","Islington","Compton Terrace, N1 2XD","Joan Wasser's first album, twenty years on.","/venues/union-chapel/joan-as-police-woman-twenty-years-of-real-life/",""],["p","joe-lycett-do-you-really-lycett","whats-on","Joe Lycett: Do You Really Lycett?","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","He was leashed. The leash has been removed.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/joe-lycett-do-you-really-lycett/",""],["p","joel-ross-quartet","whats-on","Joel Ross Quartet","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","The vibraphone player who has changed what the instrument is for.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/joel-ross-quartet/",""],["p","john-butcher-phil-durrant-and-mark-wastell-plus-maggie-nicols","whats-on","John Butcher, Phil Durrant and Mark Wastell, plus Maggie Nicols","Dalston","18-22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL","Four players who have spent decades making music with no plan and no key.","/venues/cafe-oto/john-butcher-phil-durrant-and-mark-wastell-plus-maggie-nicols/",""],["p","john-constable-views-of-nature","whats-on","John Constable: views of nature","Bloomsbury","British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG","Constable's cloud studies and sketches, free, in the Museum's drawings rooms.","/museums/british-museum/john-constable-views-of-nature/",""],["p","john-simpson-leaders-and-lunatics","whats-on","John Simpson: Leaders and Lunatics","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Sixty years of interviewing the people in charge, and telling one kind from the other.","/venues/cadogan-hall/john-simpson-leaders-and-lunatics/",""],["p","jonny-mansfield-quartet-with-emmanuel-michael","whats-on","Jonny Mansfield Quartet with Emmanuel Michael","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","A vibraphone-led quartet launching a record, with a guitarist added for the night.","/venues/kings-place/jonny-mansfield-quartet-with-emmanuel-michael/",""],["p","jonny-woos-un-royal-variety","whats-on","Jonny Woo's Un-Royal Variety","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","Alternative performance, drag, dance and pop, curated as a punk pastiche of a royal gala.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/jonny-woos-un-royal-variety/",""],["p","jordan-brookes-the-part-of-you-thats-always-screaming","whats-on","Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That's Always Screaming","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","The 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, still working the gates of hell.","/venues/soho-theatre/jordan-brookes-the-part-of-you-thats-always-screaming/",""],["p","joseph-morpurgo-highlander-70","whats-on","Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","His first new show in nine years, from a comedian who has never done the same thing twice.","/venues/soho-theatre/joseph-morpurgo-highlander-70/",""],["p","josephine-davies-jazz-orchestra","whats-on","Josephine Davies' Jazz Orchestra","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","A saxophonist and composer writing for a full orchestra rather than a quartet.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/josephine-davies-jazz-orchestra/",""],["p","josh-meader-trio","whats-on","Josh Meader Trio","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Australian fusion guitar played faster than seems reasonable, and still melodic.","/venues/jazz-cafe/josh-meader-trio/",""],["p","joshua-james","whats-on","Joshua James","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A staple of London's queer house scene, playing all night.","/venues/jazz-cafe/joshua-james/",""],["p","journey-of-ayurveda","whats-on","Journey of Ayurveda","Mayfair","8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF","A documentary on the Indian medical tradition, in the run-up to Ayurveda Day.","/international-culture/the-nehru-centre/journey-of-ayurveda/",""],["p","joyce-manor","whats-on","Joyce Manor","Camden Town","Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP","Californian emo-punk, and almost every song under three minutes.","/venues/electric-ballroom/joyce-manor/",""],["p","judas-priest","whats-on","Judas Priest","Hammersmith","Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","Birmingham's other metal band, fifty-five years in and still in leather.","/venues/eventim-apollo/judas-priest/",""],["p","judicial-institute-annual-lecture-2026-whats-in-an-anniversary","whats-on","Judicial Institute Annual Lecture 2026: what's in an anniversary?","Bloomsbury","30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH","The Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales on what legal history is for.","/societies/university-college-london/judicial-institute-annual-lecture-2026-whats-in-an-anniversary/",""],["p","julia-fischer-plays-brahms","whats-on","Julia Fischer plays Brahms","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Brahms concerto, then Tchaikovsky's Manfred, which he thought his best and then hated.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/julia-fischer-plays-brahms/",""],["p","julia-wolf","whats-on","Julia Wolf","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","New York songwriting that turns intrusive thoughts into hooks, over two nights.","/venues/koko/julia-wolf/",""],["p","julian-siegel-quartet","whats-on","Julian Siegel Quartet","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","One of the most complete saxophonists in Britain, with his long-standing quartet.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/julian-siegel-quartet/",""],["p","julio-le-parc-light-colour-action","whats-on","Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","Seven decades of kinetic light works that only finish when you walk into them.","/museums/tate-modern/julio-le-parc-light-colour-action/",""],["p","julius-caesar","whats-on","Julius Caesar","Bankside","21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT","The assassination, by candlelight, in a room built from seventeenth-century drawings.","/venues/shakespeares-globe/julius-caesar/",""],["p","jumpers","whats-on","Jumpers","Swiss Cottage","Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU","Stoppard's philosophers, acrobats, and a man shot in front of a party.","/venues/hampstead-theatre/jumpers/",""],["p","jurassic-oceans-monsters-of-the-deep","whats-on","Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep","South Kensington","Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD","Pliosaurs, ichthyosaurs and the mosasaur, and you get to touch a fossil poo.","/museums/natural-history-museum/jurassic-oceans-monsters-of-the-deep/",""],["p","justin-caguiat-change-ringing","whats-on","Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing","Kensington Gardens","Serpentine, Mount Walk, Knightsbridge, W2 3XA","Heat-sensitive paintings and bronze bells cast as flowers, rung to an English change-ringing score.","/museums/serpentine/justin-caguiat-change-ringing/",""],["p","k-music-festival-adg7-chang-kiha-lil-cherry-goldbuuda","whats-on","K-Music Festival: ADG7, Chang Kiha, Lil Cherry & GOLDBUUDA","Dalston","EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH","Shamanic folk-pop, Korean indie rock and hip hop, on one opening night.","/venues/earth/k-music-festival-adg7-chang-kiha-lil-cherry-goldbuuda/",""],["p","kalanga-workshop-with-bakani-pick-up","whats-on","KALANGA workshop with Bakani Pick-Up","East Village","Sadler's Wells East, Stratford Walk, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 2AR","A movement workshop with the Zimbabwean-born choreographer.","/venues/sadlers-wells-east/kalanga-workshop-with-bakani-pick-up/",""],["p","kard","whats-on","KARD","Shepherd's Bush","O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 8TT","The rare K-pop group with men and women in it.","/venues/o2-shepherds-bush-empire/kard/",""],["p","kilimanjaro","whats-on","KILIMANJARO","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","South African amapiano and Afro house against the club music he grew up with in Britain.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/kilimanjaro/",""],["p","kizzi-friends","whats-on","KIZZI & Friends","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","The Radio 1 resident bringing her own selectors, first time on this stage.","/venues/jazz-cafe/kizzi-friends/",""],["p","koko-jazz-club-soul-sounds-of-the-70s-with-vula","whats-on","KOKO Jazz Club: Soul Sounds of the 70s with Vula","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick and Donny Hathaway, sung by the voice on Oh My Gosh.","/venues/koko/koko-jazz-club-soul-sounds-of-the-70s-with-vula/",""],["p","kokoroko","whats-on","KOKOROKO","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","Eight players, West African highlife and horns arranged like a choir.","/venues/blue-note-london/kokoroko/",""],["p","kahil-elzabar-isaiah-collier","whats-on","Kahil El'Zabar & Isaiah Collier","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","Two generations of Chicago's spiritual jazz on one bill.","/venues/blue-note-london/kahil-elzabar-isaiah-collier/",""],["p","kaidi-akinnibi-and-mackwood","whats-on","Kaidi Akinnibi and Mackwood","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","A double headline from two of the south London players the rest of the scene watches.","/venues/kings-place/kaidi-akinnibi-and-mackwood/",""],["p","kalandra","whats-on","Kalandra","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Norwegian four-piece whose Nordic folk comes out as something closer to dream pop.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/kalandra/",""],["p","kamilla-arku-emahoy-bonis-ellington-and-bonds","whats-on","Kamilla Arku: Emahoy, Bonis, Ellington and Bonds","St James's","197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL","An hour of piano music by composers the recital circuit mostly skips.","/venues/st-jamess-piccadilly/kamilla-arku-emahoy-bonis-ellington-and-bonds/",""],["p","kane-brown-crowd-work-king","whats-on","Kane Brown: Crowd Work King","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","A show with no script, built out of whoever turns up.","/venues/the-comedy-store/kane-brown-crowd-work-king/",""],["p","karan-aujla","whats-on","Karan Aujla","Greenwich Peninsula","The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX","Punjabi pop at arena scale, which is now normal and was not ten years ago.","/venues/the-o2-arena/karan-aujla/",""],["p","karina-canellakis-conducts-beethovens-fifth","whats-on","Karina Canellakis conducts Beethoven's Fifth","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The four notes, with Elgar and 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photographer's first solo show in Britain, in a converted Clapham chapel.","/art/studio-voltaire/katherine-hubbard-the-great-room/",""],["p","katie-norris-mother-succubus","whats-on","Katie Norris: Mother Succubus","Soho","Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Character comedy from half of Norris & Parker.","/venues/soho-theatre/katie-norris-mother-succubus/",""],["p","katie-pritchard-is-sir-elton-scone","whats-on","Katie Pritchard is Sir Elton Scone","Bloomsbury","The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SR","A musical comedy gameshow with no rules and a suit made out of curtains.","/venues/museum-of-comedy/katie-pritchard-is-sir-elton-scone/",""],["p","kelsey-lu","whats-on","Kelsey Lu","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","A cellist who sings, back after seven years with Sampha, Kamasi Washington and Kim Gordon on the record.","/venues/koko/kelsey-lu/",""],["p","kemah-bob-love-child","whats-on","Kemah Bob: Love Child","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","The end of an extended adolescence, announced from the stage.","/venues/soho-theatre/kemah-bob-love-child/",""],["p","kendal-mountain-festival-live-tour-2027","whats-on","Kendal Mountain Festival Live Tour 2027","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","The Lake District's adventure film festival, on the road, with a speaker in the room.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/kendal-mountain-festival-live-tour-2027/",""],["p","kensington-symphony-orchestra-rachmaninovs-third","whats-on","Kensington Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninov's Third","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","The symphony Rachmaninov wrote by Lake Lucerne, from an orchestra that has played new music since 1956.","/venues/smith-square-hall/kensington-symphony-orchestra-rachmaninovs-third/",""],["p","kenwood-highlight-tours","whats-on","Kenwood highlight tours","Hampstead","Kenwood House, Lime Avenue, Highgate, NW3 7JR","Vermeer's Guitar Player and Rembrandt's late self-portrait, in an hour with a volunteer.","/museums/kenwood-house/kenwood-highlight-tours/",""],["p","kevin-bridges-here-if-you-need-me","whats-on","Kevin Bridges: Here If You Need Me","Hammersmith","Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","Six weeks of the Glasgow comedian in one West London theatre.","/venues/eventim-apollo/kevin-bridges-here-if-you-need-me/",""],["p","keyboard-music","whats-on","Keyboard Music","South Bank","Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Organ, harpsichord, fortepiano and grand, each piece on the instrument it was written for.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/keyboard-music/",""],["p","keyon-harrold","whats-on","Keyon Harrold","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","The trumpeter who played Miles Davis on screen, playing himself.","/venues/blue-note-london/keyon-harrold/",""],["p","keys-club-experience","whats-on","Keys Club experience","Tower Hill","Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB","A Warder, forty-five minutes, and a room the public does not normally get into.","/museums/tower-of-london/keys-club-experience/",""],["p","khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns","whats-on","Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns","St Luke's","16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW","Brooklyn interiors, remembered and rebuilt in paint and collage.","/art/victoria-miro/khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns/",""],["p","kian-soltani-plays-dvorak","whats-on","Kian Soltani plays Dvorak","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Dvorak cello concerto, written in America by a composer who wanted to go home.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/kian-soltani-plays-dvorak/",""],["p","kid-francescoli","whats-on","Kid Francescoli","Brixton","Electric Brixton, 1 Town Hall Parade, SW2 1RJ","Marseille electronic pop, live with a band.","/venues/electric-brixton/kid-francescoli/",""],["p","kiell-smith-bynoe-and-friends-kool-story-bro","whats-on","Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","Improvisers build a show from the audience’s own stories, with a surprise guest each night.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/kiell-smith-bynoe-and-friends-kool-story-bro/",""],["p","kimberly-akimbo","whats-on","Kimberly Akimbo","Swiss Cottage","Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU","The Broadway musical about a teenager ageing four times too fast, in its European premiere.","/venues/hampstead-theatre/kimberly-akimbo/",""],["p","kirsty-mann-corpse","whats-on","Kirsty Mann: Corpse","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","She bought a derelict house where somebody had died, and did not believe in ghosts.","/venues/soho-theatre/kirsty-mann-corpse/",""],["p","knit-stitch","whats-on","Knit + Stitch","Muswell Hill","Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY","Four days of textiles, with workshops and several hundred stalls.","/venues/alexandra-palace/knit-stitch/",""],["p","knock2bag-comedy-night-with-lou-sanders","whats-on","Knock2Bag Comedy Night with Lou Sanders","Hackney","MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, E9 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Free.","/museums/national-maritime-museum/komij-mour-ijin-our-life-is-here/",""],["p","koper8-tom-rainey-and-ingrid-laubrock","whats-on","Koper8: Tom Rainey and Ingrid Laubrock","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","Two of New York's finest improvisers in a room that holds about a hundred.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/koper8-tom-rainey-and-ingrid-laubrock/",""],["p","korea","whats-on","Korea","Bloomsbury","British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG","Two thousand years of Korean art, most of it never seen in Britain before.","/museums/british-museum/korea/",""],["p","kronos-quartet","whats-on","Kronos Quartet","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Fifty years of a string quartet, turned on Mahalia Jackson.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/kronos-quartet/",""],["p","krzysztof-grzybacz-haruspex","whats-on","Krzysztof Grzybacz: Haruspex","Mayfair","5 Hanover Square, W1S 1HQ","Oil on linen from a young Polish painter, in Pace's Hanover Square rooms.","/art/pace/krzysztof-grzybacz-haruspex/",""],["p","kyle-eastwood","whats-on","Kyle Eastwood","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","Bassist, bandleader, and a writer of film scores who plays them live.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/kyle-eastwood/",""],["p","kyoto-jazz-massive-with-the-echoes-of-a-new-dawn-orchestra","whats-on","Kyoto Jazz Massive with the Echoes of a New Dawn Orchestra","Islington","Upper Street, N1 2UD","The Japanese duo Gilles Peterson championed, back in Europe after fifteen years away.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/kyoto-jazz-massive-with-the-echoes-of-a-new-dawn-orchestra/",""],["p","lantidote-and-naissam-jalal-with-roberto-negro","whats-on","L'Antidote and Naissam Jalal with Roberto Negro","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Persian percussion, an Albanian cello and a Lebanese piano, then a flute and piano duo.","/venues/cadogan-hall/lantidote-and-naissam-jalal-with-roberto-negro/",""],["p","lear","whats-on","LEAR","Hackney Wick","The Yard Theatre, 43 White 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again.","/venues/koko/lapsley-long-way-home-at-10/",""],["p","lara-ricote-inkling","whats-on","Lara Ricote: Inkling","Finsbury Park","Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace, N4 3JP","The Edinburgh Best Newcomer of 2022, on saluting the mystery of being alive.","/venues/park-theatre/lara-ricote-inkling/",""],["p","larry-dean-hellbent","whats-on","Larry Dean: Hellbent","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","Recently married, emotionally feral, and refusing to grow up.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/larry-dean-hellbent/",""],["p","lasting-impressions-women-printmakers-1900-now","whats-on","Lasting Impressions: Women Printmakers 1900 – Now","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","Kollwitz, Faith Ringgold, Laura Knight and the Guerrilla Girls, in prints.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/lasting-impressions-women-printmakers-1900-now/",""],["p","laughter-is-the-best-medicine","whats-on","Laughter is the Best Medicine","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 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call bimbocore.","/venues/electric-brixton/lime-garden/",""],["p","linda-may-han-oh-and-melissa-aldana","whats-on","Linda May Han Oh and Melissa Aldana","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Grammy-winning bass and saxophone, seventy-five minutes without a break.","/venues/wigmore-hall/linda-may-han-oh-and-melissa-aldana/",""],["p","linnean-society-treasures-tour","whats-on","Linnean Society Treasures Tour","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","Behind the scenes at Burlington House, into the bombproof vault where Linnaeus's collections are kept.","/science/linnean-society/linnean-society-treasures-tour/",""],["p","linnean-society-treasures-tour-november","whats-on","Linnean Society Treasures Tour","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","Behind the scenes at Burlington House, into the bombproof vault where Linnaeus's collections are kept.","/science/linnean-society/linnean-society-treasures-tour-november/",""],["p","linnean-society-treasures-tour-december","whats-on","Linnean Society Treasures Tour","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","Behind the scenes at Burlington House, into the bombproof vault where Linnaeus's collections are kept.","/science/linnean-society/linnean-society-treasures-tour-december/",""],["p","lion-babe","whats-on","Lion Babe","Camden Town","Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP","New York soul duo, live with a band.","/venues/electric-ballroom/lion-babe/",""],["p","listening-glossary-launch","whats-on","Listening Glossary launch","Dalston","18-22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL","A book about how people listen, launched by seven of the people who wrote it.","/venues/cafe-oto/listening-glossary-launch/",""],["p","little-dockers","whats-on","Little dockers","Isle of Dogs","Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL","Free sensory sessions for babies and toddlers.","/museums/london-museum-docklands/little-dockers/",""],["p","liv-east","whats-on","Liv East","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","East London neo-soul with Moodymann, Theo Parrish and Annie Mac behind her.","/venues/jazz-cafe/liv-east/",""],["p","live-drafts-dirty-little-mark","whats-on","Live Drafts: Dirty Little Mark","Hackney Wick","The Yard Theatre, 43 White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Another draft, another single night.","/venues/the-yard-theatre/live-drafts-dirty-little-mark/",""],["p","live-drafts-the-radical-wedding-engine","whats-on","Live Drafts: The Radical Wedding Engine","Hackney Wick","The Yard Theatre, 43 White Post Lane, E9 5EN","One night of a play still being written.","/venues/the-yard-theatre/live-drafts-the-radical-wedding-engine/",""],["p","live-drafts-untitled-bruce-rowley-project","whats-on","Live Drafts: Untitled Bruce Rowley Project","Hackney Wick","The Yard Theatre, 43 White Post Lane, E9 5EN","An unfinished play read aloud, once, in front of an audience.","/venues/the-yard-theatre/live-drafts-untitled-bruce-rowley-project/",""],["p","living-with-risk-the-geography-of-disasters","whats-on","Living with risk: the geography of disasters","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","Floods, fires and earthquakes are natural; who they ruin is decided beforehand.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/living-with-risk-the-geography-of-disasters/",""],["p","lizz-wright-with-kenny-banks-sr-and-rian-peters","whats-on","Lizz Wright with Kenny Banks Sr and Rian Peters","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","A contralto from Georgia who sings gospel, blues and Americana as if they were one thing.","/venues/cadogan-hall/lizz-wright-with-kenny-banks-sr-and-rian-peters/",""],["p","lizzie-siddal-beyond-the-muse","whats-on","Lizzie Siddal: Beyond the Muse","Highgate","Swain's Lane, N6 6PJ","A solo play in the chapel that puts the Pre-Raphaelites' favourite model back at her own easel.","/outdoors/highgate-cemetery/lizzie-siddal-beyond-the-muse/",""],["p","localism-heavenly-jukebox","whats-on","Localism: Heavenly Jukebox","Fitzrovia","The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD","The label's own records, played late in its own basement.","/venues/the-social/localism-heavenly-jukebox/",""],["p","london-brass-at-forty","whats-on","London Brass at forty","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Ten players, four decades, and new pieces written for them.","/venues/kings-place/london-brass-at-forty/",""],["p","london-cable-car","whats-on","London Cable Car","Greenwich Peninsula","Edmund Halley Way, SE10 0FR","Ten minutes across the Thames at ninety metres, on an Oyster card.","",""],["p","london-childrens-literature-festival","whats-on","London Children's Literature Festival","Barnes","Judith Kerr Marquee, Barnes Green, SW13 0HN","The UK's largest children's book festival: a June weekend of authors and illustrators in marquees on Barnes Green.","",""],["p","london-cocktail-week","whats-on","London Cocktail Week","City-wide","Bars across London","A £20 wristband for cut-price signature cocktails in hundreds of bars - moved from October to March.","",""],["p","london-day-by-day","whats-on","London Day by Day","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","Twenty drawings of alleyways, shopfronts and churchyards, made in the street.","/sacred/southwark-cathedral/london-day-by-day/",""],["p","london-design-festival","whats-on","London Design Festival","City-wide","Design districts across London","Nine days of installations, open studios and design districts across the city.","",""],["p","london-eye","whats-on","London Eye","South Bank","Riverside Building, County Hall, SE1 7PB","Thirty minutes round the wheel, with Parliament directly opposite.","","/img/own-london-eye-480.jpg?v=abc1adf6"],["p","london-festival-of-architecture","whats-on","London Festival of Architecture","Across London","Venues across London","A month of 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Centre, with Dua Lipa curating the 2026 festival.","/venues/southbank-centre/london-literature-festival/",""],["p","london-metropolitan-orchestra-a-schnell-premiere","whats-on","London Metropolitan Orchestra: a Schnell premiere","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","A whole evening of one living composer, ending on a concerto nobody has heard.","/venues/cadogan-hall/london-metropolitan-orchestra-a-schnell-premiere/",""],["p","london-mozart-players-and-sean-shibe","whats-on","London Mozart Players and Sean Shibe","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Baroque concertos rearranged for guitar, and Scottish tunes after them.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/london-mozart-players-and-sean-shibe/",""],["p","london-mozart-players-mozart-with-roderick-williams-and-sophie-bevan","whats-on","London Mozart Players: Mozart with Roderick Williams and Sophie Bevan","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Late Mozart, symphonic and operatic, with two of the best British singers.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/london-mozart-players-mozart-with-roderick-williams-and-sophie-bevan/",""],["p","london-museum-docklands-permanent-galleries","whats-on","London Museum Docklands' permanent galleries","Isle of Dogs","London Museum Docklands, No. 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, E14 4AL","Four hundred years of the port, in a sugar warehouse that survived the Blitz.","/museums/london-museum-docklands/london-museum-docklands-permanent-galleries/",""],["p","london-museum-opens-at-smithfield","whats-on","London Museum opens at Smithfield","Smithfield","General Market, West Smithfield, EC1A 9AG","The Museum of London's ten-year move into Smithfield's General Market, with trains running past the galleries.","",""],["p","london-new-years-eve-fireworks","whats-on","London New Year's Eve Fireworks","South Bank","The Thames between Westminster and Waterloo bridges","Twelve minutes of fireworks off the Eye, and the only ticketed view of them.","",""],["p","london-oratorio","whats-on","London Oratorio","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Es Devlin's choral piece about London, sung by several choirs at once with Jacob Collier.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/london-oratorio/",""],["p","london-oyster-championships","whats-on","London Oyster Championships","Mayfair","Bentley's terrace, 11-15 Swallow Street, W1B 4DG","England's fastest shuckers, on a Piccadilly terrace, judged by Stanley Tucci.","",""],["p","london-piano-festival","whats-on","London Piano Festival","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Four days of pianists, in conversation and at the keyboard.","/venues/kings-place/london-piano-festival/",""],["p","london-podcast-festival","whats-on","London Podcast Festival","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Eleven days of podcasts recorded in front of an audience.","/venues/kings-place/london-podcast-festival/",""],["p","london-restaurant-festival","whats-on","London Restaurant Festival","City-wide","Restaurants 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time.","/museums/london-transport-museum/london-transport-museum-guided-tours/",""],["p","london-voices-video-games-go-choral","whats-on","London Voices: Video Games Go Choral","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Halo and BioShock next to Howells and Part, sung by the choir that recorded them.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/london-voices-video-games-go-choral/",""],["p","londons-new-years-day-parade","whats-on","London's New Year's Day Parade","St James's","Piccadilly, Regent Street, Pall Mall and Whitehall","Ten thousand performers walking from Piccadilly to Whitehall, on the first afternoon of the year.","",""],["p","lord-mayors-show","whats-on","Lord Mayor's Show","The City","Mansion House and the streets of the City","Eight hundred years of a new Lord Mayor being shown to the city, in a gold coach.","",""],["p","lorna-simpson-previous-ongoing","whats-on","Lorna Simpson: Previous & Ongoing","Mayfair","23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET","The conceptual photographer who turned to painting, and stayed.","/art/hauser-wirth/lorna-simpson-previous-ongoing/",""],["p","los-bitchos","whats-on","Los Bitchos","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Instrumental cumbia, surf guitar and Turkish psychedelia, played by a London band with guests.","/venues/koko/los-bitchos/",""],["p","los-piranas","whats-on","Los Pirañas","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Colombian tropical music taken apart with noise and improvisation, by three people.","/venues/jazz-cafe/los-piranas/",""],["p","lost-music-venues","whats-on","Lost Music Venues","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","Fifty vanished gig venues from the 1980s to the 2010s, in flyers, posters and merch.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/lost-music-venues/",""],["p","lost-worlds-by-luxmuralis","whats-on","Lost Worlds by Luxmuralis","Greenwich","Old Royal Naval College, College Way, East Greenwich, SE10 9JF","Wren's dome and the Painted Hall lit from cave art to Atlantis, after dark.","/museums/old-royal-naval-college/lost-worlds-by-luxmuralis/",""],["p","lou-wall-where-are-all-the-tall-grandmas","whats-on","Lou Wall: Where Are All The Tall Grandmas?","Finsbury Park","Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace, N4 3JP","An hour investigating the disappearance of tall old women.","/venues/park-theatre/lou-wall-where-are-all-the-tall-grandmas/",""],["p","louis-fratino-prose","whats-on","Louis Fratino: Prose","Mayfair","24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ","Intimate paintings of gay domestic life that borrow openly from Picasso and Hartley.","/art/david-zwirner/louis-fratino-prose/",""],["p","louise-alder-and-joseph-middleton","whats-on","Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","One of the best British sopranos of her generation, singing song.","/venues/wigmore-hall/louise-alder-and-joseph-middleton/",""],["p","love-is-colder-than-death","whats-on","Love is Colder than Death","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","Fassbinder's first film, introduced by Sophie Monks Kaufman, in a season about gangsters with feelings.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/love-is-colder-than-death/",""],["p","loves-labours-lost","whats-on","Love's Labour's Lost","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","Shakespeare's comedy as a rock musical at a college reunion.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/loves-labours-lost/",""],["p","lovett","whats-on","Lovett","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","Mrs Lovett before the pies, and before Sweeney Todd.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/lovett/",""],["p","lucia-and-the-best-boys","whats-on","Lucia and The Best Boys","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Glasgow's Lucia Fairfull, fronting a band built for volume and heartbreak at once.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/lucia-and-the-best-boys/",""],["p","lucy-beaumont-bad-at-quiz-shows-good-with-weirdos","whats-on","Lucy Beaumont: Bad at Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","She lost a contestant £79,000 on The Wheel and did not revise for Mastermind.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/lucy-beaumont-bad-at-quiz-shows-good-with-weirdos/",""],["p","lucy-dodd-the-good-the-true-and-the-beautiful","whats-on","Lucy Dodd: The good, the true and the beautiful","Mayfair","7A Grafton Street, W1S 4EJ","Paintings made with earth, ash and plant matter carted down from a Scottish studio.","/art/spruth-magers/lucy-dodd-the-good-the-true-and-the-beautiful/",""],["p","lucy-parham-and-simon-russell-beale","whats-on","Lucy Parham and Simon Russell Beale","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A composer's life in letters and music, read and played.","/venues/wigmore-hall/lucy-parham-and-simon-russell-beale/",""],["p","lucy-worsley-my-royal-life","whats-on","Lucy Worsley: My Royal Life","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Twenty years as chief curator of the royal palaces, and what she found in them.","/venues/cadogan-hall/lucy-worsley-my-royal-life/",""],["p","luminiscence","whats-on","Luminiscence","Victoria","Westminster Cathedral, 42 Francis Street, SW1P 1QW","A 360° projection concert inside Westminster Cathedral, narrated by Hugh Bonneville.","",""],["p","lunar-tours","whats-on","Lunar Tours","Greenwich","Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Blackheath Avenue, SE10 8XJ","The Observatory's history of watching, mapping and reaching the Moon, plus a mirror Moon to touch.","/museums/royal-observatory-greenwich/lunar-tours/",""],["p","lunch-hour-lecture-student-london","whats-on","Lunch Hour Lecture: Student London","Bloomsbury","Gower Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 6BT","Two hundred years of student life in the capital, at one o'clock with a packed lunch thrown in.","/societies/university-college-london/lunch-hour-lecture-student-london/",""],["p","lunch-hour-lecture-the-architecture-of-ucls-bloomsbury-campus","whats-on","Lunch Hour Lecture: the architecture of UCL's Bloomsbury campus","Bloomsbury","Gower Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 6BT","Colin Thom of the Survey of London on the buildings behind the portico.","/societies/university-college-london/lunch-hour-lecture-the-architecture-of-ucls-bloomsbury-campus/",""],["p","lusaint","whats-on","Lusaint","Hackney Central","Oslo, 1a Amhurst Road, E8 1LL","Soul singing with a lot of space in it, with Ewan Sim supporting.","/venues/oslo/lusaint/",""],["p","luxury-live","whats-on","Luxury Live","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","An etiquette expert and a broadcaster on how to be opulent, recorded live.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/luxury-live/",""],["p","lynda-benglis","whats-on","Lynda Benglis","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","The latex pours and Day-Glo floors that rewrote what sculpture could be.","/museums/tate-modern/lynda-benglis/",""],["p","mnek","whats-on","MNEK","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The writer behind other people's hits, out front for his own.","/venues/koko/mnek/",""],["p","mourn","whats-on","MOURN","Soho","Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ","Three nights from FIGURE and Alkanna Graeca.","/venues/stone-nest/mourn/",""],["p","murugiah-ever-feel-like","whats-on","MURUGIAH: Ever Feel Like…","Kings Cross","1 Myddelton Passage, EC1R 1AG","Flower-headed, skull-headed characters from an illustrator who trained as an architect.","/art/quentin-blake-centre-for-illustration/murugiah-ever-feel-like/",""],["p","maarja-nuut-and-shards-combing-hair-into-sand","whats-on","Maarja Nuut and Shards: Combing Hair Into Sand","Barbican","Silk Street, EC2Y 9AP","An Estonian song cycle for voices, violin, percussion and electronics.","/venues/milton-court-concert-hall/maarja-nuut-and-shards-combing-hair-into-sand/",""],["p","mad-lover-langlois-de-swarte-and-dunford","whats-on","Mad Lover: Langlois de Swarte and Dunford","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Violin and lute on the music of Charles II's London, which was wilder than its reputation.","/venues/smith-square-hall/mad-lover-langlois-de-swarte-and-dunford/",""],["p","maddie-zahm","whats-on","Maddie Zahm","Shepherd's Bush","Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, W12 7LJ","Songs about leaving the church you grew up in.","/venues/bush-hall/maddie-zahm/",""],["p","made-in-prague-ballerinas","whats-on","Made in Prague: Ballerinas","Notting Hill","The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","A Czech film for one night, part of the Made in Prague festival.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/made-in-prague-ballerinas/",""],["p","madelon-vriesendorp-mind-games","whats-on","Madelon Vriesendorp: Mind Games","Holborn","Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3BP","Fifty works by the Soane Medal winner who paints skyscrapers in bed together.","/museums/sir-john-soanes-museum/madelon-vriesendorp-mind-games/",""],["p","magic-lantern-show-victorian-halloween","whats-on","Magic Lantern Show: Victorian Halloween","Lambeth","2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7EP","A triple magic lantern, three projections at once, doing Victorian ghosts.","/science/florence-nightingale-museum/magic-lantern-show-victorian-halloween/",""],["p","magic-mountains-berg-and-strauss-in-1915","whats-on","Magic Mountains: Berg and Strauss in 1915","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Juliet Stevenson reads Thomas Mann between two enormous scores written in the same wartime year.","/venues/cadogan-hall/magic-mountains-berg-and-strauss-in-1915/",""],["p","magic-and-mess-the-artists-studio-revealed","whats-on","Magic and Mess: The Artist's Studio Revealed","Holland Park","Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ","Fifty-six pictures of painters' studios, Cézanne and Matisse among them, shown inside the grandest studio in London.","/museums/leighton-house-museum/magic-and-mess-the-artists-studio-revealed/",""],["p","magnum","whats-on","Magnum","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Birmingham melodic rock, more than fifty years 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and Others","Westminster","4-5 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6JP","A seminar on Curzio Malaparte, who wrote the century's strangest war books and changed sides more than once.","/international-culture/italian-cultural-institute/malaparte-englishmen-and-others/",""],["p","man-to-man","whats-on","Man to Man","Chelsea","Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS","A woman puts on her dead husband's trousers in 1930s Germany, and does not take them off for forty years.","/venues/royal-court-theatre/man-to-man/",""],["p","man-woman-chainsaw","whats-on","Man/Woman/Chainsaw","Camden Town","Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP","Six south Londoners with a violin, and one of the most argued-about new bands in the city.","/venues/electric-ballroom/man-woman-chainsaw/",""],["p","manasa-chitra-the-art-of-mental-health-from-bengaluru-to-bethlem","whats-on","Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem","Beckenham","Orchard Way, Eden Park, BR3 3BY","Paintings from a Bangalore asylum in 1957, and from people living with mental illness in Bengaluru now.","/science/bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/manasa-chitra-the-art-of-mental-health-from-bengaluru-to-bethlem/",""],["p","manchester-collective-and-sidiki-dembele","whats-on","Manchester Collective and Sidiki Dembele","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","West African percussion and a string band, on songs from Mali, Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/manchester-collective-and-sidiki-dembele/",""],["p","manon","whats-on","Manon","Covent Garden","Royal Opera House, Bow Street, WC2E 9DD","MacMillan's 1974 ballet of a woman caught between love and money, revived on the main stage.","/venues/royal-opera-house/manon/",""],["p","mansur-brown","whats-on","Mansur Brown","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","A classically trained guitarist from Brixton who plays like nobody else in London jazz.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/mansur-brown/",""],["p","manu-delago-and-max-zt","whats-on","Manu 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culture.","/venues/village-underground/margins-united-festival-2026/",""],["p","maria-jose-llergo","whats-on","Maria Jose Llergo","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Flamenco from a singer who grew up in an Andalusian village and now fills concert halls.","/venues/jazz-cafe/maria-jose-llergo/",""],["p","mariam-batsashvili-bach-and-liszt","whats-on","Mariam Batsashvili: Bach and Liszt","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","A Georgian pianist on the two composers she is known for.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/mariam-batsashvili-bach-and-liszt/",""],["p","marina-herlop","whats-on","Marina Herlop","Dalston","11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH","A classically trained pianist who writes in an invented vocal language, performing one continuous piece.","/venues/earth/marina-herlop/",""],["p","marina-hyde-what-a-time-to-be-alive","whats-on","Marina Hyde: What a Time to Be Alive!","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The Guardian columnist on Westminster, Silicon Valley and Hollywood, in one afternoon.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/marina-hyde-what-a-time-to-be-alive/",""],["p","mariza","whats-on","Mariza","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The best-known fado singer alive, in the hall she has filled before.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/mariza/",""],["p","mark-guiliana-beat-music","whats-on","Mark Guiliana: Beat Music","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","The drummer from Bowie's Blackstar, playing electronic music with his hands.","/venues/jazz-cafe/mark-guiliana-beat-music/",""],["p","mark-kavuma-the-banger-factory","whats-on","Mark Kavuma & the Banger Factory","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","A trumpeter and the loose collective he has built around him.","/venues/blue-note-london/mark-kavuma-the-banger-factory/",""],["p","mark-lettieri-group","whats-on","Mark Lettieri Group","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","The Snarky Puppy guitarist with his own band, two nights.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/mark-lettieri-group/",""],["p","mark-padmore-and-harriet-burns-in-sweet-music-is-such-art","whats-on","Mark Padmore and Harriet Burns: In Sweet Music Is Such Art","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Padmore and a soprano on Schumann, Brahms and Britten's Purcell.","/venues/conway-hall/mark-padmore-and-harriet-burns-in-sweet-music-is-such-art/",""],["p","marks-of-a-maker-memory-boxes","whats-on","Marks of a Maker: memory boxes","Bloomsbury","Malet Place, WC1E 6BT","Make a box for your own things, using what ancient Egypt put on the ones it buried.","/museums/petrie-museum-of-egyptian-archaeology/marks-of-a-maker-memory-boxes/",""],["p","marks-of-a-maker-the-stories-coffins-tell-us","whats-on","Marks of a Maker: the stories coffins tell us","Bloomsbury","Gower Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 6BT","Pigment analysis, wood technology and experimental archaeology, on ancient Egyptian coffins.","/societies/university-college-london/marks-of-a-maker-the-stories-coffins-tell-us/",""],["p","marland","whats-on","Marland","Fitzrovia","The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD","At The Social, Fitzrovia.","/venues/the-social/marland/",""],["p","marta-pereira-da-costa","whats-on","Marta Pereira da Costa","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","The first woman to play the Portuguese guitar professionally, and she has taken fado somewhere else.","/venues/jazz-cafe/marta-pereira-da-costa/",""],["p","martin-guerre","whats-on","Martin Guerre","Waterloo","The Old Vic, The Cut, SE1 8NB","The imposter who came home to a French village, and the wife who let him.","/venues/the-old-vic/martin-guerre/",""],["p","martin-taylor-and-guy-barker-the-spirit-of-django","whats-on","Martin Taylor and Guy Barker: The Spirit of Django","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Django Reinhardt's tunes, orchestrated, with a big band and a chamber orchestra on the same stage.","/venues/smith-square-hall/martin-taylor-and-guy-barker-the-spirit-of-django/",""],["p","marty-gleeson-dog-ear","whats-on","Marty Gleeson: Dog Ear","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","An Irish comedian takes you by the hand and then loses an eye.","/venues/soho-theatre/marty-gleeson-dog-ear/",""],["p","mary-beard-more-secret-histories-of-ancient-rome","whats-on","Mary Beard: More Secret Histories of Ancient Rome","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Rome from the people the histories leave out, with questions from the floor.","/venues/cadogan-hall/mary-beard-more-secret-histories-of-ancient-rome/",""],["p","mary-cassatt-radical-impressionist","whats-on","Mary Cassatt: Radical Impressionist","Soho","National Portrait Gallery, WC2H 0HE","The first UK retrospective of the American Impressionist, a century after her death.","/museums/national-portrait-gallery/mary-cassatt-radical-impressionist/",""],["p","mary-coughlan","whats-on","Mary Coughlan","Islington","Compton Terrace, N1 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Algeria.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/mathieu-belezi-on-the-violence-of-empire/",""],["p","matt-carmichael","whats-on","Matt Carmichael","Primrose Hill","2 Regent's Park Road, NW1 7AY","A Glasgow saxophonist launching an album that sits between John Coltrane and Big Thief.","/venues/cecil-sharp-house/matt-carmichael/",""],["p","matt-hansen","whats-on","Matt Hansen","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","A billion streams, three million followers, and no record label.","/venues/koko/matt-hansen/",""],["p","matt-maeson-and-steinza","whats-on","Matt Maeson and Steinza","Shepherd's Bush","O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 8TT","Virginian songwriting that came out of playing prisons.","/venues/o2-shepherds-bush-empire/matt-maeson-and-steinza/",""],["p","matt-rogers","whats-on","Matt Rogers","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Half of Las Culturistas, doing stand-up rather than the podcast.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/matt-rogers/",""],["p","matthew-holness-work-in-progress","whats-on","Matthew Holness: Work in Progress","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","The creator of Garth Marenghi, doing live music and readings from a fictional pulp novelist.","/venues/soho-theatre/matthew-holness-work-in-progress/",""],["p","max-hastings-the-end-of-wwii","whats-on","Max Hastings: The end of WWII","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","The last months of the war in Europe, from the Rhine crossing to Belsen.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/max-hastings-the-end-of-wwii/",""],["p","max-olesker-making-the-cut","whats-on","Max Olesker: Making the Cut","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","To marry her he had to convert to Orthodox Judaism, which was awkward, as he was already Jewish.","/venues/soho-theatre/max-olesker-making-the-cut/",""],["p","maya-ricote-ay-am","whats-on","Maya Ricote: Ay Am!","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","A debut clown show by a Latina character freshly defrosted from cryogenic storage.","/venues/soho-theatre/maya-ricote-ay-am/",""],["p","meera-syal-vigilauntie","whats-on","Meera Syal: Vigilauntie","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The only Asian family in a West Midlands mining village, and everything that followed.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/meera-syal-vigilauntie/",""],["p","megan-moroney","whats-on","Megan Moroney","Hammersmith","Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","Georgia country songwriting with a sharp tongue.","/venues/eventim-apollo/megan-moroney/",""],["p","melody-gardot","whats-on","Melody Gardot","South Kensington","4 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP","One night with the London Philharmonic, a South African choir and Ibrahim Maalouf.","/venues/royal-albert-hall/melody-gardot/",""],["p","melvyn-robinson-hill-drawings","whats-on","Melvyn Robinson: Hill Drawings","Primrose Hill","Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, NW1 7AY","Paintings of chalk hill figures, in the folk society's gallery.","/venues/cecil-sharp-house/melvyn-robinson-hill-drawings/",""],["p","memoriam","whats-on","Memoriam","Elephant and Castle","Southwark Playhouse Borough, 77-85 Newington Causeway, SE1 6BD","Noga Flaishon's new play in the Large.","/venues/southwark-playhouse-borough/memoriam/",""],["p","memotone-and-shell-company","whats-on","Memotone and Shell Company","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","An ambient matinee, built for sitting still.","/venues/kings-place/memotone-and-shell-company/",""],["p","mendelssohns-violin-concerto-with-nicola-benedetti","whats-on","Mendelssohn's violin concerto with Nicola Benedetti","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The concerto that starts with the tune, before the orchestra gets a word in.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/mendelssohns-violin-concerto-with-nicola-benedetti/",""],["p","messiah-from-scratch","whats-on","Messiah from Scratch","South Kensington","4 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP","You bring a score and sing it yourself, in the Albert Hall, having rehearsed that afternoon.","/venues/royal-albert-hall/messiah-from-scratch/",""],["p","metamorphoses-porcelain-sculpture-by-rachel-kneebone","whats-on","Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone","Marylebone","Wallace Collection, George Street, Marylebone, W1H 5BJ","Nine white porcelain sculptures set among Fragonard, Boulle and the armour.","/museums/wallace-collection/metamorphoses-porcelain-sculpture-by-rachel-kneebone/",""],["p","mexican-independence-day-2026-grupo-canaveral","whats-on","Mexican Independence Day 2026: Grupo Cañaveral","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Cumbia for the fiestas patrias, in an art deco town hall.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/mexican-independence-day-2026-grupo-canaveral/",""],["p","mi-casa","whats-on","Mi Casa","Shoreditch","Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ","South African house, played live by the trio who made it popular.","/venues/village-underground/mi-casa/",""],["p","mica-millar","whats-on","Mica Millar","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A Manchester soul singer who has stayed independent and been reviewed at five stars for it.","/venues/jazz-cafe/mica-millar/",""],["p","mica-paris","whats-on","Mica Paris","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","One of the voices British soul is built on, two shows in an evening.","/venues/jazz-cafe/mica-paris/",""],["p","michael-anastassiades-in-conversation-with-emily-king","whats-on","Michael Anastassiades in Conversation with Emily King","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","The lighting designer on why a good object is never finished the first time.","/international-culture/the-hellenic-centre/michael-anastassiades-in-conversation-with-emily-king/",""],["p","michael-faraday-prize-lecture-life-in-the-fast-lane","whats-on","Michael Faraday Prize Lecture: Life in the fast lane","St James's","6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG","Why some species ride out a catastrophe and others vanish, read off the fossil record.","/societies/royal-society/michael-faraday-prize-lecture-life-in-the-fast-lane/",""],["p","michael-jordan-a-collectivist-economic-perspective-on-ai","whats-on","Michael Jordan: a collectivist, economic perspective on AI","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","One of machine learning's founding figures, arguing the field has been asking the wrong question.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/michael-jordan-a-collectivist-economic-perspective-on-ai/",""],["p","michael-morpurgos-private-peaceful","whats-on","Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful","Whitechapel","1 Graces Alley, E1 8JB","Morpurgo's First World War novel, told by one actor alone.","/venues/wiltons-music-hall/michael-morpurgos-private-peaceful/",""],["p","micky-flanagan-warm-up-show","whats-on","Micky Flanagan: Warm Up Show","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The man who gave Britain \"out out\", trying new material in a 960-seat room.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/micky-flanagan-warm-up-show/",""],["p","midori","whats-on","Midori","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","The violinist who broke two strings at Tanglewood at fourteen and finished the piece.","/venues/wigmore-hall/midori/",""],["p","mike-lindup-trio","whats-on","Mike Lindup Trio","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Level 42's keyboard player and voice, in a trio, doing the jazz end of it.","/venues/jazz-cafe/mike-lindup-trio/",""],["p","mikey-and-nicky","whats-on","Mikey and Nicky","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","Elaine May's gangster film over one night, introduced by Christina Newland.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/mikey-and-nicky/",""],["p","milena-casado","whats-on","Milena Casado","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","A Spanish trumpeter and composer at the start of a career worth watching.","/venues/blue-note-london/milena-casado/",""],["p","milkshake","whats-on","Milkshake","Elephant and Castle","Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, SE1 6DP","The Tuesday student night, still going.","/venues/ministry-of-sound/milkshake/",""],["p","milner-prize-lecture-highlights-from-40-years-of-complexity-theory","whats-on","Milner Prize Lecture: Highlights from 40 years of Complexity Theory","St James's","6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG","What makes a computational problem hard, and why forty years of work has not made most of them easy.","/societies/royal-society/milner-prize-lecture-highlights-from-40-years-of-complexity-theory/",""],["p","mingus-big-band","whats-on","Mingus Big Band","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","Six nights of Charles Mingus's music played by the band that exists to play it.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/mingus-big-band/",""],["p","mirror-moon","whats-on","Mirror Moon","Greenwich","Blackheath Avenue, SE10 8XJ","Luke Jerram's lunar surface, close enough to touch.","/museums/royal-observatory-greenwich/mirror-moon/",""],["p","mission-breakout","whats-on","Mission: Breakout","Kentish Town","141-145 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8PB","Escape rooms inside a Tube station that closed in 1924.","",""],["p","mixed-messages-live","whats-on","Mixed Messages Live","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","Three novelists and a host on mixed-race identity, in the theatre’s pub rather than its auditorium.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/mixed-messages-live/",""],["p","mnemosyne-grove-georgia-metaxas-and-marta-weiss","whats-on","Mnemosyne Grove: Georgia Metaxas and Marta Weiss","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","A Greek-Australian photographer's family archive set against Ithaca and Palairos.","/international-culture/the-hellenic-centre/mnemosyne-grove-georgia-metaxas-and-marta-weiss/",""],["p","modern-oli","whats-on","Modern Oli","Hackney Central","Oslo, 1a Amhurst Road, E8 1LL","At Oslo, Hackney Central.","/venues/oslo/modern-oli/",""],["p","monet-and-renoir-painting-side-by-side","whats-on","Monet and Renoir: Painting Side by Side","Trafalgar Square","National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","Two friends painting the same river bank, hung side by side for the first time.","/museums/national-gallery/monet-and-renoir-painting-side-by-side/",""],["p","monet-painting-time","whats-on","Monet: Painting Time","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","Tate Modern's first Monet show, from the Gare Saint-Lazare to the water lilies.","/museums/tate-modern/monet-painting-time/",""],["p","monika-sosnowska-weight-of-matter","whats-on","Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter","Camberwell","South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH","Half-tonne steel and concrete sculptures of collapsed modernism, across the gallery and the old fire station.","/museums/south-london-gallery/monika-sosnowska-weight-of-matter/",""],["p","monteverdi-choir-rossinis-petite-messe-solennelle","whats-on","Monteverdi Choir: Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle","Muswell Hill","Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY","Rossini's late mass, which is neither little nor especially solemn.","/venues/alexandra-palace/monteverdi-choir-rossinis-petite-messe-solennelle/",""],["p","monumental-botanical-art","whats-on","Monumental Botanical Art","Kew","Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE","Botanical painting in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, included with entry to the gardens.","/outdoors/royal-botanic-gardens-kew/monumental-botanical-art/",""],["p","moo-canoes","whats-on","Moo Canoes","Hackney Wick","The Milk Float, Sweetwater Moorings, White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Cow-print canoes on the canals, from a barge in Hackney Wick.","",""],["p","moon-celebration-week","whats-on","Moon Celebration Week","Greenwich","National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, SE10 9NF","Nine days of lunar tours, planetarium shows and LEGO across Greenwich's two museums.","/museums/national-maritime-museum/moon-celebration-week/",""],["p","mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music","whats-on","Mopomoso: international free improvised music","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","The longest-running free improvisation night in Britain, on a Sunday afternoon.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/mopomoso-international-free-improvised-music/",""],["p","morcheeba-alex-cornish","whats-on","Morcheeba + Alex Cornish","Limehouse","490 Commercial Road, E1 0HX","Thirty years of trip-hop in an art deco cinema on the Commercial Road.","/venues/troxy/morcheeba-alex-cornish/",""],["p","morden-extension-centenary-station-tours","whats-on","Morden Extension Centenary: station tours","South London","Seven stations between Clapham South and Morden","A hundred years of Charles Holden's Northern line stations, walked one stop at a time.","",""],["p","morfydd-owen-in-her-footsteps","whats-on","Morfydd Owen: In Her Footsteps","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","The Welsh composer who studied here, wrote a great deal, and died at twenty-six.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/morfydd-owen-in-her-footsteps/",""],["p","moriartys-game","whats-on","Moriarty's Game","Marylebone","Starts on Marylebone High Street, W1U","A puzzle trail played through real streets, bars and shops.","",""],["p","morton-feldman-unsettled-memory","whats-on","Morton Feldman: Unsettled Memory","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","Feldman, whose music asks you to sit still longer than you meant to.","/venues/lso-st-lukes/morton-feldman-unsettled-memory/",""],["p","moses-boyd","whats-on","Moses Boyd","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The drummer who took London jazz into sound system culture, with his first album in six years.","/venues/koko/moses-boyd/",""],["p","moses-yoofee-trio","whats-on","Moses Yoofee Trio","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","Berlin piano trio playing jazz with the rhythmic logic of hip hop.","/venues/blue-note-london/moses-yoofee-trio/",""],["p","mount-auburn-cemetery-boston","whats-on","Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston","Highgate","Swain's Lane, N6 6PJ","The American garden cemetery that opened seven years before Highgate, in a free evening talk.","/outdoors/highgate-cemetery/mount-auburn-cemetery-boston/",""],["p","movana-chen-questioning-the-line","whats-on","Movana Chen: Questioning the Line","Notting Hill","The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","The Hong Kong artist who knits shredded books into cloth.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/movana-chen-questioning-the-line/",""],["p","moving-mountains-intrepid-women-climbers","whats-on","Moving mountains: intrepid women climbers","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","Nine mountaineers with peaks named after them, and almost nothing written about them.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/moving-mountains-intrepid-women-climbers/",""],["p","mozart-piano-gala","whats-on","Mozart Piano Gala","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Five pianists, two instruments, and everything Mozart wrote for four hands.","/venues/kings-place/mozart-piano-gala/",""],["p","mozart-in-focus-with-yunchan-lim","whats-on","Mozart in Focus with Yunchan Lim","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Six Mozart recitals across the season from the pianist who won the Van Cliburn at eighteen.","/venues/wigmore-hall/mozart-in-focus-with-yunchan-lim/",""],["p","mozarts-requiem-by-candlelight","whats-on","Mozart's Requiem by Candlelight","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","The Requiem by candle, with Whitacre before it.","/venues/st-martin-in-the-fields/mozarts-requiem-by-candlelight/",""],["p","mr-moores-bizarre-secret-society","whats-on","Mr Moore's Bizarre Secret Society","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","A disused Victorian tearoom, a tea tournament, and the misfits who run it.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/mr-moores-bizarre-secret-society/",""],["p","mrs-dalloway","whats-on","Mrs Dalloway","Hackney Wick","The Yard Theatre, 43 White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Virginia Woolf's day in June, staged.","/venues/the-yard-theatre/mrs-dalloway/",""],["p","much-ado-about-nothing","whats-on","Much Ado About Nothing","Bankside","21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT","The one where two people who cannot stand each other are tricked into love, outdoors.","/venues/shakespeares-globe/much-ado-about-nothing/",""],["p","mudlarking-weekend","whats-on","Mudlarking Weekend","Isle of Dogs","London Museum Docklands, Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL","Two days of foreshore finds, expert talks and digs, for Totally Thames.","/museums/london-museum-docklands/mudlarking-weekend/",""],["p","mudlarking-treasures-from-the-thames","whats-on","Mudlarking: Treasures from the Thames","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","What the river gives up, shown by the people who found it.","/sacred/southwark-cathedral/mudlarking-treasures-from-the-thames/",""],["p","muireann-bradley","whats-on","Muireann Bradley","Soho","136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ","An eighteen-year-old from Donegal playing pre-war American country blues, note for note and then some.","/venues/stone-nest/muireann-bradley/",""],["p","mulaa-joans","whats-on","Mulaa Joans","Shoreditch","Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ","A nineteen-year-old songwriter with a voice that sounds older than that.","/venues/village-underground/mulaa-joans/",""],["p","museum-late-and-life-drawing","whats-on","Museum Late and Life Drawing","Southwark","9a St Thomas Street, The Borough, SE1 9RY","Drawing a living body in the room where they cut up unanaesthetised ones.","/science/old-operating-theatre-museum-and-herb-garret/museum-late-and-life-drawing/",""],["p","musquiqui-chihying-a-life-of-navigation","whats-on","Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation","Southbank","Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XZ","Four wry video works on jogging, Toyotas, AI and gaming, free in the HENI Project Space.","/museums/hayward-gallery/musquiqui-chihying-a-life-of-navigation/",""],["p","my-hero-academia-in-concert","whats-on","My Hero Academia in Concert","Hammersmith","Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","The anime's score played live against the film.","/venues/eventim-apollo/my-hero-academia-in-concert/",""],["p","my-new-band-believe","whats-on","My New Band Believe","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","What the bassist of black midi did next, and most of the critics' lists agreed with him.","/venues/koko/my-new-band-believe/",""],["p","myles-sanko","whats-on","Myles Sanko","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A soul-jazz singer with a voice built for exactly this size of room.","/venues/jazz-cafe/myles-sanko/",""],["p","myth-and-reality-military-art-in-the-age-of-queen-victoria","whats-on","Myth and Reality: Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria","Chelsea","National Army Museum, SW3 4HT","A hundred Victorian paintings of soldiers, and the moment artists stopped painting only the generals.","/museums/national-army-museum/myth-and-reality-military-art-in-the-age-of-queen-victoria/",""],["p","ndr-radio-philharmonic-with-nikolai-lugansky","whats-on","NDR Radio Philharmonic with Nikolai Lugansky","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Rachmaninov's First Concerto - the one he rewrote twenty-six years later - with Lugansky.","/venues/cadogan-hall/ndr-radio-philharmonic-with-nikolai-lugansky/",""],["p","nigo-from-japan-with-love","whats-on","NIGO: From Japan with Love","Kensington","Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG","Seven hundred objects from the man who founded A Bathing Ape and now runs KENZO.","/museums/design-museum/nigo-from-japan-with-love/",""],["p","nina","whats-on","NINA","Battersea","Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN","Chekhov's Seagull turned inside out, on coercion and who gets to make things.","/venues/battersea-arts-centre/nina/",""],["p","ninagawa-mika-captive-blooms","whats-on","NINAGAWA Mika: Captive Blooms","Soho","The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW","Goldfish, cherry blossom and saturated flowers on the walls of Ramillies Street, free, for a year.","/museums/the-photographers-gallery/ninagawa-mika-captive-blooms/",""],["p","novamondo","whats-on","NOVAMONDO","Shoreditch","XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP","Ejeca, Alex Culross, Ryan Nicholls, BTAY and Ryan Arnold.","/venues/xoyo/novamondo/",""],["p","nadja-restored","whats-on","Nadja, restored","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","David Lynch's vampire commission of 1994 in a new 4K restoration, its first London showing.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/nadja-restored/",""],["p","nalini-malani","whats-on","Nalini Malani","Bankside","Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG","Nearly two hundred works across six decades from the Mumbai artist of Partition.","/museums/tate-modern/nalini-malani/",""],["p","nan-goldin-you-never-did-anything-wrong","whats-on","Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong","Southbank","Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XZ","Four Goldin films, one premiering, in her first UK institutional show since 2002.","/museums/hayward-gallery/nan-goldin-you-never-did-anything-wrong/",""],["p","nao-cola-yamazaki-in-conversation-with-sharlene-teo","whats-on","Nao-Cola Yamazaki in conversation with Sharlene Teo","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","A Japanese novelist in translation, questioned by the author of Ponti.","/literary/daunt-books-marylebone/nao-cola-yamazaki-in-conversation-with-sharlene-teo/",""],["p","nash-ensemble-with-harriet-walter","whats-on","Nash Ensemble with Harriet Walter","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Chamber music with a narrator, and a free live stream if you cannot get there.","/venues/wigmore-hall/nash-ensemble-with-harriet-walter/",""],["p","natanya-the-attitude-tour","whats-on","Natanya: The Attitude Tour","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","North West London pop, written and produced by the person singing it.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/natanya-the-attitude-tour/",""],["p","nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives","whats-on","Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","Six weeks of the actress who worked for Truffaut, Godard and Chabrol, in the order she met them.","/cinemas/cine-lumiere/nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives/",""],["p","national-dance-company-wales-blue-glas","whats-on","National Dance Company Wales: Blue | Glas","East Village","Sadler's Wells East, Stratford Walk, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 2AR","Wales's national contemporary dance company, three nights in Stratford.","/venues/sadlers-wells-east/national-dance-company-wales-blue-glas/",""],["p","national-hygiene-week-5-entry","whats-on","National Hygiene Week: £5 entry","Lambeth","2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7EP","Bring soap, get in for five pounds.","/science/florence-nightingale-museum/national-hygiene-week-5-entry/",""],["p","national-maritime-museum-treasures-tour","whats-on","National Maritime Museum Treasures Tour","Greenwich","National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, SE10 9NF","Royal barges, Roman anchors, Tudor ship models and Nelson, in an hour with a guide.","/museums/national-maritime-museum/national-maritime-museum-treasures-tour/",""],["p","national-symphony-orchestra-enigma-variations","whats-on","National Symphony Orchestra: Enigma Variations","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","Elgar's portraits of his friends, and Mathilde Milwidsky in the Mendelssohn.","/venues/cadogan-hall/national-symphony-orchestra-enigma-variations/",""],["p","nayab-midha-rajkumari","whats-on","Nayab Midha: Rajkumari","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","India’s highest-selling spoken word show, on the stories we were handed and never fitted.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/nayab-midha-rajkumari/",""],["p","nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-on-freedom","whats-on","Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: On freedom","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","Six years a hostage in Iran, told by the woman who was held.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-on-freedom/",""],["p","nectar-woode","whats-on","Nectar Woode","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Neo-soul with jazz, folk and gospel in it, and Elton John among the people who noticed.","/venues/koko/nectar-woode/",""],["p","nelson-goerner-bach-schumann-and-schubert","whats-on","Nelson Goerner: Bach, Schumann and Schubert","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Bach's most improvisatory toccata, then two of the great unstable romantic works.","/venues/wigmore-hall/nelson-goerner-bach-schumann-and-schubert/",""],["p","neon-frights-with-lou-sanders","whats-on","Neon Frights with Lou Sanders","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The monthly comedy showcase, done for Halloween.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/neon-frights-with-lou-sanders/",""],["p","neon-nights-bridget-christie","whats-on","Neon Nights: Bridget Christie","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The theatre’s monthly bill of comedians, with a Taskmaster headliner.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/neon-nights-bridget-christie/",""],["p","neon-nights-michelle-de-swarte","whats-on","Neon Nights: Michelle De Swarte","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The monthly showcase, headed by a Live at the Apollo regular.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/neon-nights-michelle-de-swarte/",""],["p","neon-nights-the-foc-it-up-takeover","whats-on","Neon Nights: the FOC It Up takeover","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The monthly showcase handed over to a comedy club run by and for women of colour.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/neon-nights-the-foc-it-up-takeover/",""],["p","nero","whats-on","Nero","Elephant and Castle","Southwark Playhouse Elephant, 1 Dante Place, SE11 4RX","A new musical about the emperor, by the writers of Spring Awakening.","/venues/southwark-playhouse-elephant/nero/",""],["p","new-comedian-of-the-year-2026-heats","whats-on","New Comedian of the Year 2026: heats","Bloomsbury","The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SR","Forty heats to find one new comedian, and the past winners tell you why it matters.","/venues/museum-of-comedy/new-comedian-of-the-year-2026-heats/",""],["p","new-regency-orchestra","whats-on","New Regency Orchestra","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","An eighteen-piece Afro-Cuban big band, made in London.","/venues/blue-note-london/new-regency-orchestra/",""],["p","new-years-eve-at-the-comedy-store","whats-on","New Year's Eve at the Comedy Store","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","Four comics, a band and a party that runs past midnight.","/venues/the-comedy-store/new-years-eve-at-the-comedy-store/",""],["p","new-years-steam-up","whats-on","New Year's Steam Up","Sunbury Common","Snakey Lane, Hanworth, TW13 6XH","Three days of steam between Christmas and New Year.","/science/kempton-steam-museum/new-years-steam-up/",""],["p","new-excavations-at-tintagel","whats-on","New excavations at Tintagel","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BE","Jacqueline Nowakowski on what the 2016 and 2017 digs found, and how far the trade reached.","/societies/society-of-antiquaries-of-london/new-excavations-at-tintagel/",""],["p","nexup-the-return","whats-on","NexUp: The Return","Edmonton","Drumsheds, Meridian Water, Glover Drive, N18 3HF","Fourteen DJs and a set of back-to-backs 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room.","/venues/southwark-playhouse-borough/night-city/",""],["p","nights-of-al-andalus-algerian-songs-of-memory-and-heritage","whats-on","Nights of Al-Andalus: Algerian songs of memory and heritage","St James's","197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL","Nouba, the Andalusian classical music that left Spain in 1492 and stayed in Algeria.","/venues/st-jamess-piccadilly/nights-of-al-andalus-algerian-songs-of-memory-and-heritage/",""],["p","nik-west","whats-on","Nik West","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","Funk bass played hard, by a player Prince took on tour.","/venues/blue-note-london/nik-west/",""],["p","niki-gorick-dock-life","whats-on","Niki Gorick: Dock Life","Greenwich","43 King William Walk, SE10 9HT","Photographs of the docklands as they are now, under the last tea clipper.","/museums/cutty-sark-museum/niki-gorick-dock-life/",""],["p","nina-contis-christmas-cabaret","whats-on","Nina Conti's Christmas Cabaret","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The ventriloquist whose audience masks have been watched a hundred and seventy million times.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/nina-contis-christmas-cabaret/",""],["p","nine-night","whats-on","Nine Night","Kilburn","269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR","Natasha Gordon's play about a Jamaican wake that runs for nine nights.","/venues/kiln-theatre/nine-night/",""],["p","no-hay-banda-a-two-day-residency","whats-on","No Hay Banda: a two-day residency","Dalston","18-22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL","The Montreal ensemble that stages new music rather than performing it.","/venues/cafe-oto/no-hay-banda-a-two-day-residency/",""],["p","no-mans-land","whats-on","No Man's Land","Covent Garden","Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX","Pinter's two old writers drinking through an evening, with Simon Russell Beale and Rupert Everett.","/venues/donmar-warehouse/no-mans-land/",""],["p","nobuyuki-tsujii-and-the-philharmonia-chamber-players","whats-on","Nobuyuki Tsujii and the Philharmonia Chamber 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Rachel Chinouriri.","/venues/jazz-cafe/nothing-but-love-launch-party/",""],["p","notting-hill-carnival","whats-on","Notting Hill Carnival","Notting Hill","Streets around Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park","Europe's biggest street party, and seventy-odd sound systems on the streets of W10.","",""],["p","nous-quartet","whats-on","Nous Quartet","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","An Italian quartet in the oldest chamber series in Europe.","/venues/conway-hall/nous-quartet/",""],["p","nouvelle-vague-a-date-with-depeche-mode","whats-on","Nouvelle Vague: A Date with Depeche Mode","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Thirteen Depeche Mode songs recorded in Rio with Brazilian musicians and sung by other people.","/venues/koko/nouvelle-vague-a-date-with-depeche-mode/",""],["p","novara-medias-downstream-irl-trauma-farming","whats-on","Novara Media's Downstream IRL: Trauma Farming","Dalston","EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH","A live recording asking whether pain has become a personal brand.","/venues/earth/novara-medias-downstream-irl-trauma-farming/",""],["p","now-then-peter-s-smith","whats-on","Now & Then: Peter S Smith","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","Sixty years of one printmaker's work, hung in a theatre bar.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/now-then-peter-s-smith/",""],["p","nox-at-the-studio-tour","whats-on","Nox at the Studio Tour","Leavesden","Warner Bros. 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Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Six people from Hancock County, Kentucky, who outsold Zach Bryan on a debut EP.","/venues/koko/ole-60/",""],["p","olivia-jia-faun","whats-on","Olivia Jia: Faun","Bethnal Green","1st Floor, 47 Approach Road, E2 9LY","Imaginary desks, painted book by book, holding a family's history.","/art/the-approach/olivia-jia-faun/",""],["p","olly-alexander-the-future-of-queer-storytelling","whats-on","Olly Alexander: The Future of Queer Storytelling","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Years and Years singer and It's a Sin lead, on telling those stories.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/olly-alexander-the-future-of-queer-storytelling/",""],["p","omar-badawy-guided-detour","whats-on","Omar Badawy: Guided Detour","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","He walked into a far-right march by accident, and that was not the worst of the day.","/venues/soho-theatre/omar-badawy-guided-detour/",""],["p","once-upon-a-time-in-italy-2-the-1970s","whats-on","Once Upon a Time in Italy 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nine days, several hundred buildings open their doors for free.","",""],["p","open-house-at-the-geological-society","whats-on","Open House at the Geological Society","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BG","William Smith's first geological map of England and Wales, and two tiers of library, open to anyone for one day.","/societies/geological-society-of-london/open-house-at-the-geological-society/",""],["p","open-house-at-the-linnean-society","whats-on","Open House at the Linnean Society","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","The rooms where Darwin and Wallace were first read out, open with no booking.","/science/linnean-society/open-house-at-the-linnean-society/",""],["p","open-house-at-the-royal-society","whats-on","Open House at the Royal Society","St James's","6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG","Two days when the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence opens its four Nash houses to anyone who walks up.","/societies/royal-society/open-house-at-the-royal-society/",""],["p","open-house-at-the-society-of-antiquaries","whats-on","Open House at the Society of Antiquaries","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BE","The one Friday a year the Society's Burlington House apartments are open to anyone who walks in.","/societies/society-of-antiquaries-of-london/open-house-at-the-society-of-antiquaries/",""],["p","opening-gala-jazz-voice","whats-on","Opening Gala: Jazz Voice","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The festival opens with a hall-sized big band and a bill of singers.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/opening-gala-jazz-voice/",""],["p","opera-holland-park-sings-in-earls-court","whats-on","Opera Holland Park sings in Earls Court","Kensington","St Philip's Church, Earls Court Road, W8 6QH","The October free concert in the same series, in a church off Earls Court Road.","",""],["p","opera-holland-park-sings-in-notting-hill","whats-on","Opera Holland Park sings in Notting 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various.","/science/linnean-society/orchidaceae-taxonomy-diversification-and-biogeography/",""],["p","os-garotin","whats-on","Os Garotin","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Brazilian soul out of São Gonçalo, three voices and a lot of warmth.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/os-garotin/",""],["p","oscar-mbo","whats-on","Oscar Mbo","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","South African house, the soulful and Afro end of it, in the Theatre.","/venues/koko/oscar-mbo/",""],["p","oscar-murillo-unfinished-thinking","whats-on","Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking","Mayfair","24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ","Paintings and social maps from the Colombian-British artist who shared the Turner Prize.","/art/david-zwirner/oscar-murillo-unfinished-thinking/",""],["p","ossie-clark-celia-birtwell","whats-on","Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell","Bermondsey","Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF","The cutter and the print-maker who dressed 1960s London, from a private collection.","/museums/fashion-and-textile-museum/ossie-clark-celia-birtwell/",""],["p","out-of-chaos-paper-from-the-floor-of-francis-bacons-studio","whats-on","Out of Chaos: paper from the floor of Francis Bacon's studio","Notting Hill","10 Portland Road, W11 4LA","Photographs Bacon walked on, trod into the floor of the studio and painted from.","/art/michael-hoppen-gallery/out-of-chaos-paper-from-the-floor-of-francis-bacons-studio/",""],["p","out-of-the-sand-ancient-egypt-rediscovered","whats-on","Out of the Sand: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered","St James's","26 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL","Egyptian antiquities in the oldest commercial gallery in the world, free to walk into.","/art/colnaghi/out-of-the-sand-ancient-egypt-rediscovered/",""],["p","outernet","whats-on","Outernet","St Giles","St Giles Square, WC2H 8NE","Four storeys of wraparound screen by Tottenham Court Road, free to walk into.","",""],["p","outsider-animals-cherishing-shunned-creatures","whats-on","Outsider Animals: Cherishing Shunned Creatures","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","What the rat, the raccoon and the gull know that the chimpanzee does not.","/science/linnean-society/outsider-animals-cherishing-shunned-creatures/",""],["p","oxygene-at-50","whats-on","Oxygene at 50","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Jean-Michel Jarre's synthesiser record rewritten for strings, winds and live improvisation.","/venues/jazz-cafe/oxygene-at-50/",""],["p","pad-london","whats-on","PAD London","Mayfair","Berkeley Square, W1J","Design and decorative art from the world's dealers, in a tent on Berkeley Square.","",""],["p","pj-morton","whats-on","PJ Morton","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Maroon 5's keyboard player, who is a much better soul singer than that suggests.","/venues/koko/pj-morton/",""],["p","platform-simone-brewster","whats-on","PLATFORM: Simone Brewster","Kensington","Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG","Jewellery, stools, paintings and a bench called Negrita, in the museum's free annual display.","/museums/design-museum/platform-simone-brewster/",""],["p","paddy-young-will-sir-be-laughing-alone","whats-on","Paddy Young: Will Sir Be Laughing Alone?","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","You are born alone and you die alone, but what about the middle part.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/paddy-young-will-sir-be-laughing-alone/",""],["p","paint-pattern-print-the-textiles-of-susan-collier-and-sarah-campbell","whats-on","Paint! Pattern! Print! The Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell","Bermondsey","Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF","The sisters whose painted patterns went onto Liberty silk and everybody's sofa.","/museums/fashion-and-textile-museum/paint-pattern-print-the-textiles-of-susan-collier-and-sarah-campbell/",""],["p","paint-powder-and-politics-hair-in-the-georgian-age","whats-on","Paint, Powder and Politics: Hair in the Georgian Age","Covent Garden","36 Craven Street, WC2N 5NF","How a hairstyle told a room your politics.","/science/benjamin-franklin-house/paint-powder-and-politics-hair-in-the-georgian-age/",""],["p","painting-the-french-riviera","whats-on","Painting the French Riviera","Piccadilly","Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD","Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne and Klein on the Côte d'Azur, in 160 works.","/museums/royal-academy-of-arts/painting-the-french-riviera/",""],["p","pale-waves","whats-on","Pale Waves","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","Manchester four-piece, goth in look and pure pop underneath.","/venues/koko/pale-waves/",""],["p","paloma-contreras-lomas-disco-inferno","whats-on","Paloma Contreras Lomas: Disco Inferno","Kennington","Gasworks Gallery, 155 Vauxhall Street, SE11 5RH","A Mexican artist's first UK solo show, in a Vauxhall gallery that is always free.","/art/gasworks-gallery/paloma-contreras-lomas-disco-inferno/",""],["p","pan-amsterdam","whats-on","Pan Amsterdam","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A trumpeter who raps, and has worked with Iggy Pop.","/venues/jazz-cafe/pan-amsterdam/",""],["p","parliament-choir-mozarts-requiem","whats-on","Parliament Choir: Mozart's Requiem","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","The Requiem from the choir drawn from both Houses and the people who work in them.","/venues/smith-square-hall/parliament-choir-mozarts-requiem/",""],["p","pass-the-meerkat","whats-on","Pass The Meerkat","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Eight friends with microphones, doing the podcast in front of a room.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/pass-the-meerkat/",""],["p","paul-foot-the-future","whats-on","Paul Foot: The Future","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Whatever happened to jetpacks, friendly robots and solar-powered bidets.","/venues/soho-theatre/paul-foot-the-future/",""],["p","paul-lewis-mozart-schubert-and-poulenc","whats-on","Paul Lewis: Mozart, Schubert and Poulenc","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A late substitution, and one of the great Schubert pianists instead.","/venues/wigmore-hall/paul-lewis-mozart-schubert-and-poulenc/",""],["p","pavel-haas-quartet-with-pavel-nikl-and-ivan-vokac","whats-on","Pavel Haas Quartet with Pavel Nikl and Ivan Vokac","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A Czech quartet turned sextet, which means the big Brahms and Tchaikovsky 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corner.","/museums/royal-academy-of-arts/peggy-guggenheim-in-london-the-making-of-a-collector/",""],["p","pekka-kuusisto-and-aurora-orchestra-four-seasons","whats-on","Pekka Kuusisto and Aurora Orchestra: Four Seasons","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Vivaldi's seasons against Nordic folk, with a violinist who improvises.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/pekka-kuusisto-and-aurora-orchestra-four-seasons/",""],["p","percussion-by-female-composers","whats-on","Percussion by female composers","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","Free lunchtime hour of percussion, ending on Marimba Spiritual.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/percussion-by-female-composers/",""],["p","perspectives-on-the-mulliner-book","whats-on","Perspectives on The Mulliner Book","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","Free evening on a Tudor keyboard manuscript, and what living composers do with it.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/perspectives-on-the-mulliner-book/",""],["p","pete-bas","whats-on","Pete & 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London.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/philharmonia-orchestra-tchaikovsky-grieg-and-beethoven/",""],["p","philippe-aghion-what-kind-of-economy-do-we-want","whats-on","Philippe Aghion: what kind of economy do we want?","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","The 2025 Nobel laureate in economics, a year on, on building an economy that generates meaningful work.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/philippe-aghion-what-kind-of-economy-do-we-want/",""],["p","philippe-sands-on-ecocide","whats-on","Philippe Sands on ecocide","Bloomsbury","4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG","The barrister who helped write a definition of ecocide, on whether it can become a crime.","/societies/university-college-london/philippe-sands-on-ecocide/",""],["p","phillip-allen-farm","whats-on","Phillip Allen: Farm","Bethnal Green","1st Floor, 47 Approach Road, E2 9LY","Oil laid on thickly enough to stand proud of the 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S. Eliot Prize winners, in one room.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/poetry-club-anthony-joseph-rachel-long-and-roger-robinson/",""],["p","poetry-club-november","whats-on","Poetry Club: November","Notting Hill","The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","The Coronet's poetry night returns.","/venues/the-coronet-theatre/poetry-club-november/",""],["p","poetry-and-spoken-word-open-mic-with-greenwich-libraries","whats-on","Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic with Greenwich Libraries","Shooters Hill","Castle Wood, Shooters Hill, SE18 3RT","Eltham Library's monthly open mic, moved for one night into the castle's first-floor room.","/monuments/severndroog-castle/poetry-and-spoken-word-open-mic-with-greenwich-libraries/",""],["p","poets-of-the-fall-and-rabbit-cult","whats-on","Poets Of The Fall and Rabbit Cult","Shepherd's Bush","O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 8TT","Finnish rock with a following built partly through video games.","/venues/o2-shepherds-bush-empire/poets-of-the-fall-and-rabbit-cult/",""],["p","pokey-lafarge","whats-on","Pokey LaFarge","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","He heard Bill Monroe at sixteen and has been working backwards through American music since.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/pokey-lafarge/",""],["p","police-cops-the-musical-workshop-presentation","whats-on","Police Cops The Musical: workshop presentation","Battersea","Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN","The next version of the show, scripts in hand and nothing finished.","/venues/battersea-arts-centre/police-cops-the-musical-workshop-presentation/",""],["p","polish-jazz-festival","whats-on","Polish Jazz Festival","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","A fortnight of Polish jazz at Cadogan Hall, from the legends to the new wave.","/venues/cadogan-hall/polish-jazz-festival/",""],["p","portrait-of-a-city-a-century-of-american-photography","whats-on","Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography","Dulwich","Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD","Stieglitz to Arbus to Bruce Davidson: a hundred years of American city life in 34 photographers.","/museums/dulwich-picture-gallery/portrait-of-a-city-a-century-of-american-photography/",""],["p","portraits-for-guitar","whats-on","Portraits for Guitar","Soho","Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ","Ahmed Dickinson plays Cuban and Trinidadian composers for classical guitar.","/venues/stone-nest/portraits-for-guitar/",""],["p","power-politics-thucydides-to-trump","whats-on","Power Politics: Thucydides to Trump","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","What has ever restrained raw power, and for how long?","/international-culture/the-hellenic-centre/power-politics-thucydides-to-trump/",""],["p","power-up-evening-sessions","whats-on","Power Up evening sessions","South Kensington","Frankland Road, Brompton, SW7 2AD","A hundred and sixty consoles, no children, and the games the daytime cannot show.","/museums/science-museum/power-up-evening-sessions/",""],["p","power-perfume-and-scandal","whats-on","Power, Perfume and Scandal","Kensington Gardens","Kensington Palace, Kensington Garen, W8 4PX","Costumed intrigue in Queen Caroline's court, weekends through the autumn.","/museums/kensington-palace/power-perfume-and-scandal/",""],["p","prabodhan-an-awakening","whats-on","Prabodhan: an awakening","Mayfair","8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF","A Bharatanatyam recital by Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya.","/international-culture/the-nehru-centre/prabodhan-an-awakening/",""],["p","pride","whats-on","Pride","Borough & Bermondsey","3 Potters Fields Park, SE1 2SG","The miners' strike, a gay rights group in London, and the alliance nobody expected.","/venues/bridge-theatre/pride/",""],["p","pride-in-london","whats-on","Pride in London","Westminster","Parade from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall","A million people, a parade through the middle of town, and stages in four squares.","",""],["p","prime-meridian","whats-on","Prime Meridian","Greenwich","Greenwich Park, SE10 8HT","Stand in both hemispheres, and look over London, without paying to go in.","",""],["p","privacy-and-deepfakes","whats-on","Privacy and Deepfakes","Bloomsbury","4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG","Can a lie about you be a breach of your privacy? 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house.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/reading-group-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson/",""],["p","reading-group-une-femme-en-contre-jour","whats-on","Reading Group: Une femme en contre-jour","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","Gaëlle Josse's novel about Vivian Maier, the nanny who left 150,000 negatives.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/reading-group-une-femme-en-contre-jour/",""],["p","rebecca-f-kuang-the-future-of-education","whats-on","Rebecca F Kuang: The Future of Education","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The author of Babel and Yellowface on what learning is for now.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/rebecca-f-kuang-the-future-of-education/",""],["p","rebecca-warren-there-will-be-another-you","whats-on","Rebecca Warren: There Will Be Another You","Bethnal Green","60 Three Colts Lane, E2 6GQ","Turner-shortlisted sculpture across both of Maureen Paley's east London 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downstairs.","/venues/soho-theatre/sophie-duker-hot-beef-injection/",""],["p","sorry-paaji","whats-on","Sorry Paaji","Shoreditch","XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP","An all-women Punjabi party, in the daytime.","/venues/xoyo/sorry-paaji/",""],["p","soul-and-the-point-of-unity-at-st-pauls","whats-on","Soul and The Point of Unity at St Paul's","The City","St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD","Two light works by Mykola Kabluka for the London Design Festival: a participatory projection across the west front, and a…","/royal/st-pauls-cathedral/soul-and-the-point-of-unity-at-st-pauls/",""],["p","sound-vision","whats-on","Sound & Vision","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","St Bride's annual design conference, this year on music and how it looks.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/sound-vision/",""],["p","sound-gallery","whats-on","Sound Gallery","St Pancras","British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB","Seven million recordings in the archive, and a curated handful you can stand and listen 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centuries.","/museums/st-bartholomews-hospital-museum/talk-celebration-and-ceremony-at-barts-charterhouse-and-the-royal-hospital-chelsea/",""],["p","talks-at-the-royal-institution","whats-on","Talks at the Royal Institution","Mayfair","21 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, W1S 4BS","Scientists talking in the lecture theatre where Faraday demonstrated electricity and the Christmas Lectures are filmed.","/museums/faraday-museum/talks-at-the-royal-institution/",""],["p","tamer-hosny","whats-on","Tamer Hosny","Wembley Park","OVO Arena Wembley, Engineers Way, HA9 0AA","One of the biggest names in Egyptian pop, with Nasser supporting.","/venues/ovo-arena-wembley/tamer-hosny/",""],["p","tania-giannouli-and-nils-petter-molvaer-with-elliot-galvin-and-laura-jurd","whats-on","Tania Giannouli and Nils Petter Molvaer, with Elliot Galvin and Laura Jurd","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","A Norwegian trumpet and a Greek piano, then two British improvisers, on one 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unplayable.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/tchaikovskys-first-piano-concerto-with-seong-jin-cho/",""],["p","temi-wilkey-lover-girl","whats-on","Temi Wilkey: Lover Girl","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","A self-described lover girl, somehow always single, who has built herself another one.","/venues/soho-theatre/temi-wilkey-lover-girl/",""],["p","tenderness-and-rage","whats-on","Tenderness and Rage","St Pancras","Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE","HIV and AIDS from the 1980s wards to today's activists, and a placard-making table.","/museums/wellcome-collection/tenderness-and-rage/",""],["p","tenille-townes","whats-on","Tenille Townes","Dalston","EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH","Canadian country songwriting about other people's lives.","/venues/earth/tenille-townes/",""],["p","teresa-krasny-in-conversation-with-jackie-wullschlager","whats-on","Teresa Krasny in conversation with Jackie Wullschläger","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","In conversation with the Financial Times's chief art critic.","/literary/daunt-books-marylebone/teresa-krasny-in-conversation-with-jackie-wullschlager/",""],["p","terror-at-the-haunted-starbucks","whats-on","Terror at the Haunted Starbucks","Bloomsbury","The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SR","The Weirdos' annual Halloween show: part comedy farce, part horror pantomime, barely rehearsed.","/venues/museum-of-comedy/terror-at-the-haunted-starbucks/",""],["p","thames-rockets","whats-on","Thames Rockets","South Bank","The London Eye Pier, Boarding Gate One, SE1 7PB","A sightseeing tour that stops being one somewhere past Wapping.","",""],["p","the-12-ensemble-and-james-mcvinnie-poulenc-organ-concerto","whats-on","The 12 Ensemble and James McVinnie: Poulenc Organ Concerto","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Poulenc's concerto for organ, strings and timpani, which he called half-monastery, half-music 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Garen, W8 4PX","Sophia Duleep Singh, suffragette and Punjabi princess, and the five women who shaped her.","/museums/kensington-palace/the-last-princesses-of-punjab/",""],["p","the-last-ship","whats-on","The Last Ship","Covent Garden","Catherine Street, WC2B 5JF","Sting's musical about the Wallsend shipyard he grew up beside.","/venues/theatre-royal-drury-lane/the-last-ship/",""],["p","the-late-late-show","whats-on","The Late Late Show","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","Twelve pounds gets you into Ronnie's at quarter past eleven, every night of the week.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/the-late-late-show/",""],["p","the-lemonheads","whats-on","The Lemonheads","Limehouse","Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, E1 0HX","Evan Dando, still touring the songs that made him briefly famous.","/venues/troxy/the-lemonheads/",""],["p","the-leslie-bethell-annual-lecture-on-brazil","whats-on","The Leslie Bethell Annual Lecture on Brazil","Strand","King's Building, Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS","The president of 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Palace.","/outdoors/royal-botanic-gardens-kew/the-nash-sessions-jazz-cats-quartet/",""],["p","the-national-army-museums-permanent-galleries","whats-on","The National Army Museum's permanent galleries","Chelsea","National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3 4HT","Five free galleries on what a soldier's life has actually been, for 350 years.","/museums/national-army-museum/the-national-army-museums-permanent-galleries/",""],["p","the-national-gallerys-permanent-galleries","whats-on","The National Gallery's permanent galleries","Trafalgar Square","National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","Van Eyck, Leonardo, Velázquez, Turner and the Sunflowers, free, off Trafalgar Square.","/art/national-gallery/the-national-gallerys-permanent-galleries/",""],["p","the-national-maritime-museums-permanent-galleries","whats-on","The National Maritime Museum's permanent galleries","Greenwich","National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, SE10 9NF","Nelson's coat with the bullet hole in it, and ten 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company.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/the-nutcracker-and-the-mouse-king/",""],["p","the-odyssey-in-70mm","whats-on","The Odyssey in 70mm","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","Nolan's Homer, in the format he shot it for, on a screen that can still run it.","/cinemas/prince-charles-cinema/the-odyssey-in-70mm/",""],["p","the-painted-hall","whats-on","The Painted Hall","Greenwich","Old Royal Naval College, College Way, Greenwich, SE10 9JF","Three thousand seven hundred square metres of baroque ceiling, painted over nineteen years.","/museums/old-royal-naval-college/the-painted-hall/",""],["p","the-painted-hall-talk-and-tour-with-its-architects","whats-on","The Painted Hall: talk and tour with its architects","Greenwich","College Way, East Greenwich, SE10 9JF","Forty thousand square feet of Baroque ceiling, explained by the people who repaired it.","/museums/old-royal-naval-college/the-painted-hall-talk-and-tour-with-its-architects/",""],["p","the-planets","whats-on","The 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Europe.","",""],["p","the-wallace-collection-at-war","whats-on","The Wallace Collection at War","Marylebone","Wallace Collection, George Street, Marylebone, W1H 5BJ","The year Hertford House emptied its galleries and filled them with Soviet banners.","/museums/wallace-collection/the-wallace-collection-at-war/",""],["p","the-wallace-collections-permanent-galleries","whats-on","The Wallace Collection's permanent galleries","Marylebone","The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1U 3BN","Fragonard's The Swing, the Laughing Cavalier and an armoury, free in a Marylebone house.","/art/wallace-collection/the-wallace-collections-permanent-galleries/",""],["p","the-wanted-2-0","whats-on","The Wanted 2.0","King's Cross","Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL","The boy band's return, without Tom Parker.","/venues/scala/the-wanted-2-0/",""],["p","the-witch-introduced-by-robert-eggers","whats-on","The Witch, introduced by Robert Eggers","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 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world, drawn out for David Attenborough's hundredth year.","/societies/royal-society/the-beauty-of-the-earth/",""],["p","the-big-dig","whats-on","The big dig","Isle of Dogs","Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL","Be an archaeologist for the day, in a Georgian sugar warehouse.","/museums/london-museum-docklands/the-big-dig/",""],["p","the-big-picture-in-international-relations-thinking-with-barry-buzan","whats-on","The big picture in international relations: thinking with Barry Buzan","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","Four scholars on whether large-scale theorising still has a job, and on the man who kept doing it.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/the-big-picture-in-international-relations-thinking-with-barry-buzan/",""],["p","the-conservative-tradition-in-sociological-thought","whats-on","The conservative tradition in sociological thought","Holborn","LSE campus, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","Shamus Khan on the strand of sociology the discipline prefers not to claim.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/the-conservative-tradition-in-sociological-thought/",""],["p","the-deer-rut-in-bushy-park","whats-on","The deer rut in Bushy Park","Hampton","Bushy Park, Hampton Court Road, TW12 2EJ","The same spectacle as Richmond, with a fraction of the people watching it.","/outdoors/bushy-park/the-deer-rut-in-bushy-park/",""],["p","the-deer-rut-in-richmond-park","whats-on","The deer rut in Richmond Park","Richmond","Richmond Park, TW10 5HS","Stags roaring and clashing antlers across the bracken, free, and the best wildlife spectacle in London.","/outdoors/richmond-park/the-deer-rut-in-richmond-park/",""],["p","the-geography-of-global-health","whats-on","The geography of global health","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","Why an outbreak's path is set as much by roads and rents as by the pathogen.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/the-geography-of-global-health/",""],["p","the-good-the-black-and-the-boujee","whats-on","The good, the 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Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","Four people who work on African climate finance on what a practical agenda looks like, chaired by Nicholas Stern.","/societies/london-school-of-economics/the-road-to-cop32-the-african-agenda-for-climate-action/",""],["p","the-stories-of-literature-in-language-teaching","whats-on","The stories of literature in language teaching","Bloomsbury","20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL","Amos Paran on a career spent arguing that language learners should be given real books.","/societies/university-college-london/the-stories-of-literature-in-language-teaching/",""],["p","thee-sinseers","whats-on","Thee Sinseers","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","East Los Angeles sweet soul, made new without being made modern.","/venues/jazz-cafe/thee-sinseers/",""],["p","thelma-louise","whats-on","Thelma & Louise","Waterloo","66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ","The 1991 road film on a stage, in the main house.","/venues/young-vic/thelma-louise/",""],["p","theo-croker","whats-on","Theo Croker","Soho","47 Frith 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Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte","Mayfair","20 Grosvenor Hill, W1K 3QD","Magritte across every period, and the artists who never got over him.","/art/gagosian-grosvenor-hill/this-is-still-not-a-pipe-the-afterlife-of-magritte/",""],["p","this-must-be-the-place-artists-for-whitechapel-gallery","whats-on","This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery","Whitechapel","Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX","Twenty-four painters' new work for the gallery's 125th birthday, in the Assembly Room, all for sale.","/museums/whitechapel-gallery/this-must-be-the-place-artists-for-whitechapel-gallery/",""],["p","thomas-ades-conducts-sibelius-and-norgard","whats-on","Thomas Ades conducts Sibelius and Norgard","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Ades conducts his own Creation piece with Chamayou, and Sibelius's Fifth.","/venues/barbican-centre/thomas-ades-conducts-sibelius-and-norgard/",""],["p","thomas-ades-haydn-janacek-bartok-and-his-own","whats-on","Thomas Adès: Haydn, Janáček, Bartók and his own","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","The composer at the keyboard, opening a residency of three.","/venues/wigmore-hall/thomas-ades-haydn-janacek-bartok-and-his-own/",""],["p","thomas-dunford-and-the-jupiter-ensemble","whats-on","Thomas Dunford and the Jupiter Ensemble","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A lutenist who founded his own band to play baroque music like a group of friends.","/venues/wigmore-hall/thomas-dunford-and-the-jupiter-ensemble/",""],["p","thomas-houseago-deaths-sacred-mirror","whats-on","Thomas Houseago: Death's Sacred Mirror","St James's","22 Old Bond Street, W1S 4PY","New sculptures set among Aztec artefacts, a Beuys and a Bourgeois, all chosen by the sculptor.","/art/levy-gorvy-dayan/thomas-houseago-deaths-sacred-mirror/",""],["p","thomas-hamlet-in-concert","whats-on","Thomas: Hamlet, in concert","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","The French Hamlet, with the mad scene that made Ophelie famous, sung in concert.","/venues/cadogan-hall/thomas-hamlet-in-concert/",""],["p","thompson-twins-tom-bailey","whats-on","Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey","Greenwich Peninsula","The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX","Doctor! Doctor! and Hold Me Now, played by the man who wrote them.","/venues/the-o2-arena/thompson-twins-tom-bailey/",""],["p","those-people","whats-on","Those People","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Two best friends trying to make something profound and failing, on purpose.","/venues/soho-theatre/those-people/",""],["p","threads-through-the-cross","whats-on","Threads Through the Cross","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","The life of Christ in twelve large embroidered panels, hung down the nave.","/sacred/southwark-cathedral/threads-through-the-cross/",""],["p","threads-of-colour-natural-dyeing-with-mariana-leyva","whats-on","Threads of Colour: natural dyeing with Mariana Leyva","Forest Hill","Animal Walk, Forest Hill, SE23 3BX","An afternoon dyeing cloth with plants grown in the museum's own dye garden.","/museums/horniman-museum-and-gardens/threads-of-colour-natural-dyeing-with-mariana-leyva/",""],["p","thurston-moore-and-mark-wastell","whats-on","Thurston Moore and Mark Wastell","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","Sonic Youth's guitarist playing free improvisation with a British percussionist.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/thurston-moore-and-mark-wastell/",""],["p","thuy-tien-nguyen-press-release","whats-on","Thuy Tien Nguyen: Press, Release","Kennington","Gasworks Gallery, 155 Vauxhall Street, SE11 5RH","A first British solo show, free, in Kennington.","/art/gasworks-gallery/thuy-tien-nguyen-press-release/",""],["p","tia-gordon","whats-on","Tia Gordon","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Quiet British R&B built over years of releasing things herself.","/venues/jazz-cafe/tia-gordon/",""],["p","tim-key-loganberry","whats-on","Tim Key: Loganberry","Whitechapel","1 Graces Alley, E1 8JB","The poet from Peep Show and Alan Partridge, in a room that suits him exactly.","/venues/wiltons-music-hall/tim-key-loganberry/",""],["p","tim-key-loganberry-walthamstow","whats-on","Tim Key: Loganberry","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","The suit goes on, the poems come out, and the continental lager goes down.","/venues/soho-theatre-walthamstow/tim-key-loganberry-walthamstow/",""],["p","tim-maias-universe","whats-on","Tim Maia's Universe","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","Brazilian soul's great outsized figure, celebrated by a band of people who knew the catalogue.","/venues/jazz-cafe/tim-maias-universe/",""],["p","tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends","whats-on","Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends","Soho","National Portrait Gallery, WC2H 0HE","Five years of Tim Walker photographing queer trailblazers, in his fairytale style.","/museums/national-portrait-gallery/tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends/",""],["p","timothy-ridout-and-the-munich-chamber-orchestra","whats-on","Timothy Ridout and the Munich Chamber Orchestra","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","A viola concerto by Bach that Bach never wrote, reconstructed from three cantatas.","/venues/wigmore-hall/timothy-ridout-and-the-munich-chamber-orchestra/",""],["p","tine-thing-helseth-and-friends-the-boulangerie","whats-on","Tine Thing Helseth and Friends: The Boulangerie","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","An afternoon around Nadia and Lili Boulanger, who between them taught half of twentieth-century music.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/tine-thing-helseth-and-friends-the-boulangerie/",""],["p","to-begin-the-world-over-again-the-life-of-thomas-paine","whats-on","To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine","Covent Garden","36 Craven Street, WC2N 5NF","A one-man play about the corset-maker who wrote Common Sense.","/science/benjamin-franklin-house/to-begin-the-world-over-again-the-life-of-thomas-paine/",""],["p","to-lhasa-and-beyond-thomas-manning","whats-on","To Lhasa and beyond: Thomas Manning","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","The first Englishman into Lhasa, who would rather have been reading Chinese.","/societies/royal-geographical-society/to-lhasa-and-beyond-thomas-manning/",""],["p","toby-lee","whats-on","Toby Lee","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","A self-taught blues guitarist who has been performing since he was ten.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/toby-lee/",""],["p","together-on-cable-street-90","whats-on","Together on Cable Street 90","Mile End","Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Southern Grove, E3 4PX","Print a banner for the Cable Street ninetieth, from woodblocks cut as the plants of the park.","/outdoors/tower-hamlets-cemetery-park/together-on-cable-street-90/",""],["p","tokio-hotel","whats-on","Tokio Hotel","Wembley Park","OVO Arena Wembley, Engineers Way, HA9 0AA","The German band who were enormous at sixteen, on their arena tour.","/venues/ovo-arena-wembley/tokio-hotel/",""],["p","tom-aspaul","whats-on","Tom Aspaul","Vauxhall","The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY","The pop songwriter behind other people's hits, singing his own.","/venues/the-royal-vauxhall-tavern/tom-aspaul/",""],["p","tom-towelling-teaches-you-to-knit","whats-on","Tom Towelling Teaches You to Knit","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Songs, dancing and the threads that tie us all together, from a Sean Lock Award winner.","/venues/soho-theatre/tom-towelling-teaches-you-to-knit/",""],["p","tom-ward-post-millennium-tension","whats-on","Tom Ward: Post-millennium Tension","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","A man who would rather live in 1993 giving the present one last go, for his son’s sake.","/venues/the-comedy-store/tom-ward-post-millennium-tension/",""],["p","tony-kofi-and-denys-baptiste-cannonball-and-coltrane","whats-on","Tony Kofi and Denys Baptiste: Cannonball and Coltrane","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","Two British saxophonists on the two Americans who defined the instrument.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/tony-kofi-and-denys-baptiste-cannonball-and-coltrane/",""],["p","tosca","whats-on","Tosca","Covent 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unlocked.","/museums/tower-of-london/tower-of-london-opening-ceremony-experience/",""],["p","tower-of-london-river-tour","whats-on","Tower of London River Tour","Tower Hill","Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB","Forty minutes on the Thames, leaving from the Tower every hour.","/museums/tower-of-london/tower-of-london-river-tour/",""],["p","trance-classical","whats-on","Trance Classical","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Tiesto and Armin van Buuren played by an orchestra, with a laser show.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/trance-classical/",""],["p","trans-is-human","whats-on","Trans Is Human","Kings Cross, London","Queer Britain, 2 Granary Square, N1C 4BH","Thirteen portraits by Mariano Vivanco of trans people from across the UK.","/museums/queer-britain/trans-is-human/",""],["p","trash-boat","whats-on","Trash Boat","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","St Albans alternative rock, four albums into an argument with what people expect of them.","/venues/koko/trash-boat/",""],["p","treasures-of-the-british-library","whats-on","Treasures of the British Library","St Pancras","British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB","Two thousand years of writing in one room, and it costs nothing.","/museums/british-library/treasures-of-the-british-library/",""],["p","trial-by-jury-the-zoo","whats-on","Trial by Jury & The Zoo","Covent Garden","32-35 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4ES","Two short Victorian comedies by Sullivan, one of them almost never staged.","/venues/london-coliseum/trial-by-jury-the-zoo/",""],["p","trio-archai","whats-on","Trio Archai","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","Three piano trios across a century and a half, from a prize-winning young group.","/venues/conway-hall/trio-archai/",""],["p","trio-avant-the-archduke","whats-on","Trio Avant: the Archduke","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","Beethoven's last and largest piano trio, free at lunchtime.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/trio-avant-the-archduke/",""],["p","trio-mediaeval-and-arve-henriksen-rimur","whats-on","Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen: Rimur","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Icelandic verse-singing and a Norwegian trumpet that sounds like a shakuhachi.","/venues/smith-square-hall/trio-mediaeval-and-arve-henriksen-rimur/",""],["p","trish-clowes-with-adriano-adewale-and-ross-stanley","whats-on","Trish Clowes with Adriano Adewale and Ross Stanley","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","A saxophonist who writes for her instrument as though it were a voice.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/trish-clowes-with-adriano-adewale-and-ross-stanley/",""],["p","trooping-the-colour","whats-on","Trooping the Colour","Whitehall","Horse Guards Parade, SW1A 2AX","Fourteen hundred soldiers, two hundred horses and the King's official birthday.","","/img/trooping-the-colour-480.jpg?v=d2283a1a"],["p","tudor-kitchen-weekends","whats-on","Tudor Kitchen 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maschera","Covent Garden","Royal Opera House, Bow Street, WC2E 9DD","A new production of Verdi's masked-ball opera, where a conspiracy and a love affair run into each other.","/venues/royal-opera-house/un-ballo-in-maschera/",""],["p","unboxing-the-universe","whats-on","Unboxing the Universe","Greenwich","Romney Road, SE10 9NF","Science theatre about space, for anyone who will sit still for it.","/museums/national-maritime-museum/unboxing-the-universe/",""],["p","underdog-the-other-other-bronte","whats-on","Underdog: The Other Other Bronte","St James's","224 Piccadilly, W1J 9HP","Anne Bronte, who wrote two novels and got forgotten, tells you what she thinks of that.","/venues/criterion-theatre/underdog-the-other-other-bronte/",""],["p","underground-monk-show","whats-on","Underground Monk Show","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Monks find magic water, magic water grants wishes, monks lose their minds.","/venues/soho-theatre/underground-monk-show/",""],["p","unfinished-business-the-mystery-of-margate-and-turners-bequest","whats-on","Unfinished Business: The Mystery of Margate and Turner's Bequest","St Margarets","Sandycombe Lodge, 40 Sandycoombe Road, Twickenham TW1 2LR","One unfinished seascape, and the will that tied up thirty thousand works for decades.","/art/turners-house/unfinished-business-the-mystery-of-margate-and-turners-bequest/",""],["p","unforgettables-poetry-music-and-memory","whats-on","Unforgettables: poetry, music and memory","Mayfair","8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF","Ghazals by Ghalib and Majaz, sung rather than read.","/international-culture/the-nehru-centre/unforgettables-poetry-music-and-memory/",""],["p","unprocessed","whats-on","Unprocessed","Camden Town","Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP","German progressive metal that keeps folding jazz chords into the riffs.","/venues/electric-ballroom/unprocessed/",""],["p","up-at-the-o2","whats-on","Up at The O2","Greenwich Peninsula","Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0DX","Over the roof of the Dome on a walkway, 52 metres up.","",""],["p","upstairs-at-ronnies","whats-on","Upstairs at Ronnie's","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","The second room above the club, with its own bill every night and its own door.","/venues/ronnie-scotts/upstairs-at-ronnies/",""],["p","urban-elephant","whats-on","Urban Elephant","Elephant and Castle","Castle Square, Sayer Street and Walworth Square, SE17","A free day of the Elephant's own music and dance in the new squares of Elephant and Castle, ending with a lantern procession at…","",""],["p","urushi-now-contemporary-japanese-lacquer","whats-on","Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","A 7,000-year-old Japanese craft, as practised by artists working now.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/urushi-now-contemporary-japanese-lacquer/",""],["p","v-a-illustration-awards-2026","whats-on","V&A Illustration Awards 2026","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","The year's best illustration, from picture books to advertising, free for a month.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/v-a-illustration-awards-2026/",""],["p","v-a-x-ldf-awakenings","whats-on","V&A x LDF: Awakenings","South Kensington","Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","The V&A's London Design Festival installations, scattered through the galleries.","/museums/victoria-and-albert-museum/v-a-x-ldf-awakenings/",""],["p","voces8-and-jack-liebeck-flight-of-the-soul","whats-on","VOCES8 and Jack Liebeck: Flight of the Soul","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Bach's D minor Partita broken up and threaded through eight voices.","/venues/kings-place/voces8-and-jack-liebeck-flight-of-the-soul/",""],["p","vadym-kholodenko-berliozs-symphonie-fantastique-for-piano","whats-on","Vadym Kholodenko: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique for piano","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Liszt's transcription of the whole symphony, played by one person.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/vadym-kholodenko-berliozs-symphonie-fantastique-for-piano/",""],["p","van-eyck-the-portraits","whats-on","Van Eyck: The Portraits","Trafalgar Square","National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","The portraits of the man who made oil paint do what it does.","/museums/national-gallery/van-eyck-the-portraits/",""],["p","vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury","whats-on","Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury","Millbank","Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG","Three hundred works and a Charleston studio moved into the gallery.","/museums/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury/",""],["p","vanessa-paradis","whats-on","Vanessa Paradis","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The French singer and actress, on a rare London night.","/venues/koko/vanessa-paradis/",""],["p","vangelis-albedo-0-39","whats-on","Vangelis: Albedo 0.39","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The 1976 synthesiser album about the reflectivity of the Earth, rescored for orchestra and jazz quartet.","/venues/queen-elizabeth-hall/vangelis-albedo-0-39/",""],["p","vauxhall-city-farm","whats-on","Vauxhall City Farm","Vauxhall","165 Tyers Street, SE11 5HS","A working farm ten minutes' walk from Westminster, free to walk into.","",""],["p","veronique-gens-a-public-vocal-masterclass","whats-on","Veronique Gens: a public vocal masterclass","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","Watch one of France's great sopranos take Academy singers apart and put them back together.","/venues/royal-academy-of-music/veronique-gens-a-public-vocal-masterclass/",""],["p","vertical-farm-tour","whats-on","Vertical farm tour","Canada Water","Corner Corner, Maritime Street, SE16 7LL","Three quarters of an hour inside London's largest indoor farm, which is in a warehouse in Canada Water.","/venues/corner-corner/vertical-farm-tour/",""],["p","victor-patrascan-in-london","whats-on","Victor Patrascan in London","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","A Romanian comic banned by one government for being, officially, too funny.","/venues/the-comedy-store/victor-patrascan-in-london/",""],["p","viennese-modernism-in-british-exile","whats-on","Viennese Modernism in British Exile","Knightsbridge","28 Rutland Gate, SW7 1PQ","The Austrian designers and artists who arrived between 1930 and 1950, and what they did to British 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Kneebone, van Essen and Grayson Perry - on children, memory and belonging.","/museums/foundling-museum/voices-in-the-room/",""],["p","vortex-jam-session","whats-on","Vortex Jam Session","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","Sunday nights in Gillett Square: a set from a good band, then anyone can play.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/vortex-jam-session/",""],["p","vox-luminis-monteverdi-vespers","whats-on","Vox Luminis: Monteverdi Vespers","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","The 1610 Vespers, one voice to a part.","/venues/wigmore-hall/vox-luminis-monteverdi-vespers/",""],["p","voyage-to-the-deep","whats-on","Voyage to the Deep","Forest Hill","Animal Walk, Forest Hill, SE23 3BX","A Jules Verne submarine you can climb into, in a Forest Hill museum.","/museums/horniman-museum-and-gardens/voyage-to-the-deep/",""],["p","voyage-to-the-deep-underwater-adventures","whats-on","Voyage to the Deep: Underwater Adventures","Forest Hill","Horniman Museum and Gardens, Animal Walk, Forest Hill, SE23 3BX","Take the Nautilus through a kelp forest and meet the giant squid.","/museums/horniman-museum-and-gardens/voyage-to-the-deep-underwater-adventures/",""],["p","vundabar-and-yot-club","whats-on","Vundabar and Yot Club","Shoreditch","Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ","Boston indie rock with a rhythm section that will not sit still.","/venues/village-underground/vundabar-and-yot-club/",""],["p","willow","whats-on","WILLOW","Camden Town","KOKO, 1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","The pop-punk turn, played live by the person who made it.","/venues/koko/willow/",""],["p","wow-london-festival","whats-on","WOW London Festival","South Bank","Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The world's biggest festival about women, back at the Festival Hall for International Women's Day.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/wow-london-festival/",""],["p","wu-lyf","whats-on","WU LYF","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","The Manchester band who broke up in 2012, playing again.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/wu-lyf/",""],["p","wwt-london-wetland-centre","whats-on","WWT London Wetland Centre","Barnes","Queen Elizabeth Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT","Forty hectares of lake and reedbed, twenty minutes from Hammersmith.","",""],["p","waaju-x-majid-bekkas","whats-on","Waaju X Majid Bekkas","Covent Garden","Blue Note London, 42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","A London band and a Moroccan gnawa master, on the same stage.","/venues/blue-note-london/waaju-x-majid-bekkas/",""],["p","wagner-tristan-und-isolde-in-concert","whats-on","Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, in concert","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Six hours of Wagner on a Sunday afternoon, sung without staging.","/venues/smith-square-hall/wagner-tristan-und-isolde-in-concert/",""],["p","wakaliga-uganda","whats-on","Wakaliga Uganda","Victoria Park Village","64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5QZ","The Kampala studio that makes action films for a few hundred pounds each, in a Bow gallery.","/art/chisenhale-gallery/wakaliga-uganda/",""],["p","waldmuller-landscapes","whats-on","Waldmüller: Landscapes","Trafalgar Square","National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","Alpine light from a painter who worked outdoors decades before the Impressionists.","/museums/national-gallery/waldmuller-landscapes/",""],["p","walter-trout","whats-on","Walter Trout","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Fifty years of blues guitar from a man who played with Canned Heat and John Mayall before going out alone.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/walter-trout/",""],["p","wanda-and-marion-wulz-avant-garde-photography-in-20th-century-italy","whats-on","Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy","Canonbury","Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, N1 2AN","The Trieste sisters whose studio portraits turned Futurist.","/museums/estorick-collection-of-modern-italian-art/wanda-and-marion-wulz-avant-garde-photography-in-20th-century-italy/",""],["p","warner-bros-studio-tour-london","whats-on","Warner Bros. 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from.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/weaving-history-ken-follett-and-the-bayeux-tapestry/",""],["p","weeknight-tapes-fatboy-slim-live-on-brighton-beach","whats-on","Weeknight Tapes: Fatboy Slim Live on Brighton Beach","Hackney Central","Oslo, 1a Amhurst Road, E8 1LL","The 2001 beach party, on a screen in a Hackney bar.","/venues/oslo/weeknight-tapes-fatboy-slim-live-on-brighton-beach/",""],["p","weeknight-tapes-the-cure-in-orange","whats-on","Weeknight Tapes: The Cure in Orange","Hackney Central","Oslo, 1a Amhurst Road, E8 1LL","The Cure filmed in a Roman amphitheatre in 1986.","/venues/oslo/weeknight-tapes-the-cure-in-orange/",""],["p","wegz","whats-on","Wegz","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Egypt's biggest rapper, touring Europe with a live band for the first time.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/wegz/",""],["p","wellcome-collection-lates-the-friendship-effect","whats-on","Wellcome Collection Lates: The Friendship Effect","St 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himself.","",""],["p","will-guidara-and-rory-sutherland-on-hospitality","whats-on","Will Guidara and Rory Sutherland on hospitality","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","The restaurateur behind Eleven Madison Park, in conversation with an advertising man who studies why people behave as they do.","/venues/cadogan-hall/will-guidara-and-rory-sutherland-on-hospitality/",""],["p","william-boyd","whats-on","William Boyd","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","Any Human Heart, and forty years of novels since A Good Man in Africa.","/literary/daunt-books-marylebone/william-boyd/",""],["p","william-crozier-dance-of-the-living-1961-1974","whats-on","William Crozier: Dance of the Living 1961-1974","St James's","21 Cork Street, W1S 3LZ","Thirteen years of a Scottish-Irish painter's most abrasive work.","/art/flowers-gallery/william-crozier-dance-of-the-living-1961-1974/",""],["p","william-tyler","whats-on","William Tyler","Dalston","EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 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once.","/science/london-zoo/winnie-the-pooh-at-london-zoo/",""],["p","winston-churchill-the-painter","whats-on","Winston Churchill: The Painter","Marylebone","Wallace Collection, George Street, Marylebone, W1H 5BJ","Fifty Churchill canvases, half from private hands, in the first retrospective since his death.","/museums/wallace-collection/winston-churchill-the-painter/",""],["p","winston-taylor-photo-portrait-prize-2026","whats-on","Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026","Soho","National Portrait Gallery, WC2H 0HE","The photographic portrait prize formerly known as Taylor Wessing, in its new name.","/museums/national-portrait-gallery/winston-taylor-photo-portrait-prize-2026/",""],["p","winter-archaeology-festival-2026","whats-on","Winter Archaeology Festival 2026","Bloomsbury","31-34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY","The archaeology labs open for a day, with the people who work in them explaining what they do.","/societies/university-college-london/winter-archaeology-festival-2026/",""],["p","wishbone-ash","whats-on","Wishbone Ash","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","The band that made two lead guitars playing in harmony a thing other bands copied.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/wishbone-ash/",""],["p","witches-of-lacrima-a-magical-writing-adventure","whats-on","Witches of Lacrima: a magical writing adventure","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","Invent a potion, describe a powder, choose a seed: a writing workshop for children.","/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/witches-of-lacrima-a-magical-writing-adventure/",""],["p","women-of-southwark-the-untold-story","whats-on","Women of Southwark: The Untold Story","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","An hour on the women the cathedral's monuments mostly leave 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library.","/literary/st-bride-foundation/wood-engraving-taster-day/",""],["p","wordplay","whats-on","WordPlay","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Free songs and live music for under-fives in a squishy space.","/venues/royal-festival-hall/wordplay/",""],["p","world-news-day-book-drive","whats-on","World News Day Book Drive","Covent Garden","36 Craven Street, WC2N 5NF","Bring a book, get into Franklin's house free.","/science/benjamin-franklin-house/world-news-day-book-drive/",""],["p","world-press-photo-exhibition-2026","whats-on","World Press Photo Exhibition 2026","Bermondsey","MPB Gallery, 42-44 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UD","The year in photojournalism, one room, forty-two photographers.","",""],["p","writing-a-new-story-of-tudor-art","whats-on","Writing a New Story of Tudor Art","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BE","Christina Faraday on the first book to look at English art across the whole sixteenth century.","/societies/society-of-antiquaries-of-london/writing-a-new-story-of-tudor-art/",""],["p","xhosa-cole-presents-freemonk","whats-on","Xhosa Cole presents Freemonk","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","Two nights of Thelonious Monk taken apart by the BBC Young Jazz Musician of 2018.","/venues/the-vortex-jazz-club/xhosa-cole-presents-freemonk/",""],["p","xue-ruozhe-one-table-two-chairs","whats-on","Xue Ruozhe: One Table, Two Chairs","Mayfair","16 Clifford Street, W1S 3RG","Paintings built on the bare stage of Chinese opera, where a table and two chairs make a palace.","/art/massimo-de-carlo/xue-ruozhe-one-table-two-chairs/",""],["p","yasar","whats-on","Yasar","Islington","Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD","Turkish pop at Islington Assembly Hall.","/venues/islington-assembly-hall/yasar/",""],["p","yasuaki-shimizu","whats-on","Yasuaki Shimizu","Barbican","Silk Street, EC2Y 9AP","The Japanese saxophonist who recorded the Bach cello suites on a tenor, in a fifty-year 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Georgian houses on Croom's Hill given over entirely to fans, six thousand of them, with an orangery for tea behind.","","/img/fan-museum-480.jpg?v=ab43fbd4"],["p","faraday-museum","museums","Faraday Museum","Mayfair","21 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, W1S 4BS","Faraday's basement laboratory, where electricity was tamed, under the Royal Institution's lecture theatre, free.","",""],["p","fashion-and-textile-museum","museums","Fashion and Textile Museum","Bermondsey","83 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3XF","Zandra Rhodes's pink and orange museum on Bermondsey Street, given entirely to three or four fashion and textile shows a year.","","/img/fashion-and-textile-museum-480.jpg?v=f87c2aca"],["p","fenton-house","museums","Fenton House","Hampstead","Hampstead Grove, NW3 6SP","A merchant's house of 1686 at the top of Hampstead, with early harpsichords kept in playing order and an orchard of thirty kinds…","","/img/fenton-house-480.jpg?v=78c9e939"],["p","fleming-museum","museums","Fleming 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it.","","/img/foundling-museum-480.jpg?v=8857de81"],["p","freud-museum","museums","Freud Museum","Hampstead","20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3 5SX","Freud's last home, with the analytic couch still in the study.","","/img/freud-museum-480.jpg?v=b456a61a"],["p","fulham-palace","museums","Fulham Palace","Fulham","Bishop's Avenue, Fulham, SW6 6DX","The Bishops of London's country house for thirteen centuries, free, with a walled garden and the botanic garden a bishop planted…","","/img/fulham-palace-480.jpg?v=9cbf30ba"],["p","fusiliers-museum","museums","Fusiliers Museum","Tower Hill","Tower Hill, Whitechapel, EC3N 4AB","The regiment raised at the Tower in 1685, told inside the Tower itself.","",""],["p","galton-collection","museums","Galton Collection","Bloomsbury","Gower Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 6BT","UCL's collection from the founder of eugenics, shown critically.","",""],["p","garden-museum","museums","Garden Museum","Lambeth","Lambeth Road, SE1 7LB","Britain's only museum of gardens, in a church beside Lambeth Palace saved for the plant hunters buried in its yard, with a tower…","","/img/garden-museum-480.jpg?v=b8cc0eb8"],["p","garricks-temple-to-shakespeare","museums","Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare","Hampton","Hampton Court Road, TW12 2EN","18th-century folly built by actor David Garrick to celebrate the genius of William Shakespeare, includes display on Garrick's…","",""],["p","gasworks-gallery","museums","Gasworks Gallery","Kennington","155 Vauxhall Street, SE11 5RH","Contemporary art organisation with exhibition space and studios.","",""],["p","gods-own-junkyard","museums","God's Own Junkyard","Walthamstow","Shernhall Street, E17 9HQ","A Walthamstow warehouse hung floor to ceiling with neon, from Soho's strip clubs to Batman's Gotham, free to walk into.","",""],["p","golden-hinde","museums","Golden Hinde","Bankside","Winchester Square, The Borough, SE1 9BB","A full-size, seaworthy copy of Drake's ship, which has sailed round the world itself, in a dock beside Southwark Cathedral.","","/img/golden-hinde-480.jpg?v=5088de8b"],["p","goldsmiths-centre","museums","Goldsmiths' Centre","Clerkenwell","42 Britton Street, EC1M 5AD","Changing exhibits of contemporary jewellery and silversmithing, operated by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.","",""],["p","gordon-museum-of-pathology","museums","Gordon Museum of Pathology","Southwark","Talbot Yard, The Borough, SE1 1YP","The largest medical Museum in the United Kingdom, part of King's College London.","","/img/gordon-museum-of-pathology.jpg?v=da4c0b9d"],["p","grant-museum-of-zoology-and-comparative-anatomy","museums","Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy","Bloomsbury","21 University Street, WC1E 6DE","One crowded Victorian room of skeletons and specimens, free.","","/img/grant-museum-of-zoology-and-comparative-anatomy-480.jpg?v=4c19625e"],["p","guards-museum","museums","Guards Museum","Victoria","Petty France, Victoria, SW1H 9HF","Three centuries of the five regiments of Foot Guards, in the barracks beside Buckingham Palace where they still live.","","/img/guards-museum-480.jpg?v=7a070871"],["p","guildhall-art-gallery","museums","Guildhall Art Gallery","Bassishaw","Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE","The City's own paintings, free, over the walls of London's Roman amphitheatre, which the builders found underneath.","","/img/guildhall-art-gallery-480.jpg?v=128a8e7f"],["p","gunnersbury-park-museum","museums","Gunnersbury Park Museum","Acton","Pope's Lane, W5 4AZ","The Rothschilds' Regency mansion in its park, free, with the story of Ealing and Hounslow inside and the Victorian kitchens below.","",""],["p","hackney-museum","museums","Hackney Museum","Hackney","285 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1GR","Hackney told through a thousand years of arrivals, free, in one room built around a Saxon boat pulled out of the River Lea.","","/img/hackney-museum-480.jpg?v=ac623e4e"],["p","hall-place","museums","Hall Place","Crayford","Bourne Road, Bexley, DA5 1PQ","A Lord Mayor's house of 1537 in 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Heath Robinson, the man whose name means a ridiculous machine, in the park of the village where he drew…","","/img/heath-robinson-museum-480.jpg?v=34258647"],["p","hms-belfast","museums","HMS Belfast","Southwark","The Queen's Walk, SE1 2JH","A Second World War cruiser kept as she was, nine decks to climb through, moored between the bridges.","","/img/own-hms-belfast-480.jpg?v=439bec86"],["p","hogarths-house","museums","Hogarth's House","Chiswick","Hogarth Lane, W4 2QN","Hogarth's country retreat, free, beside the road that roars where his fields were, with the fullest public set of his prints…","","/img/hogarths-house-480.jpg?v=2e953815"],["p","honeywood-museum","museums","Honeywood Museum","Carshalton","SM5 3NX","17th-century house with details from different eras of ownership, local history exhibits.","","/img/honeywood-museum-480.jpg?v=849b418a"],["p","honourable-artillery-company-museum","museums","Honourable Artillery Company Museum","Finsbury","City Road, Finsbury, EC1Y 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criticised.","","/img/jack-the-ripper-museum-480.jpg?v=2d279b64"],["p","jewel-tower","museums","Jewel Tower","Westminster","Abingdon Street, SW1P 3JX","Edward III's strongroom, one of two pieces of the medieval Palace of Westminster left standing.","","/img/jewel-tower-480.jpg?v=136b988f"],["p","jewish-museum-london","museums","Jewish Museum London","Camden Town","129-131 Albert Street, NW1 7NB","Anglo-Jewish history — currently without a building of its own.","","/img/jewish-museum-london-480.jpg?v=dbffbc4e"],["p","keats-house","museums","Keats House","Hampstead","10 Keats Grove, Belsize Park, NW3 2RR","The Hampstead house where Keats wrote the odes and fell in love with the girl next door, before Rome and the end.","","/img/keats-house-480.jpg?v=c2d8eaac"],["p","kennel-club-dog-art-gallery","museums","Kennel Club Dog Art Gallery","Mayfair","10 Clarges Street, Mayfair, W1J 7EW","Exhibits and collection of dog paintings, open by appointment.","",""],["p","kensington-palace","museums","Kensington Palace","Kensington Gardens","Kensington Garen, W8 4PX","The palace where Victoria was born and woke up Queen, half a working royal home and half open to the public, on the edge of…","","/img/kensington-palace-480.jpg?v=f85d7397"],["p","kenwood-house","museums","Kenwood House","Hampstead","Lime Avenue, Highgate, NW3 7JR","A Robert Adam villa on the edge of the Heath with a Rembrandt and a Vermeer inside, and all of it free.","","/img/kenwood-house-480.jpg?v=ad8b759f"],["p","kew-palace","museums","Kew Palace","Kew","Ferry Lane, Kew, TW8 0DX","The smallest of the royal palaces, a merchant's red-brick house of 1631 inside Kew Gardens, where George III was kept during his…","","/img/kew-palace-480.jpg?v=cf939d53"],["p","kings-gallery","museums","King's Gallery","Victoria","Buckingham Gate, Victoria, SW1E 6JP","The Royal Collection's shop window at Buckingham Palace: 450 works at a time from a million, changing with each 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Garden.","","/img/london-transport-museum-480.jpg?v=4c41f354"],["p","london-transport-museum-depot","museums","London Transport Museum Depot","Acton","W3 9BQ","Houses the majority of the museum's collection, open day visits and tours.","","/img/london-transport-museum-depot-480.jpg?v=22a54b91"],["p","madame-tussauds-london","museums","Madame Tussauds London","Marylebone","8-10 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR","Waxworks since 1835, and priced as a major attraction.","","/img/madame-tussauds-london-480.jpg?v=5b0a408a"],["p","magic-circle-museum","museums","Magic Circle Museum","Fitzrovia","18-20 Stephenson Way, Fitzrovia, NW1 2DA","The Magic Circle's own collection of two centuries of stage magic, in its Euston headquarters, seen only on booked evenings.","",""],["p","mall-galleries","museums","Mall Galleries","Trafalgar Square","12 The Mall, Covent Garden, SW1Y 5AH","Gallery exhibits of the Federation of British 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Long Room and the dressing rooms.","",""],["p","morley-gallery","museums","Morley Gallery","South Bank","147 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HT","Part of Morley College, exhibitions include painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles, installations…","",""],["p","museum-of-brands","museums","Museum of Brands","Notting Hill","111-117 Lancaster Road, W11 1QT","Robert Opie's twelve thousand tins, wrappers and adverts, walked in date order down a Time Tunnel from Victorian soap to last…","","/img/museum-of-brands-480.jpg?v=7d43232e"],["p","museum-of-comedy","museums","Museum of Comedy","Bloomsbury","Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SH","Comedy's props, scripts and posters in the crypt of a Hawksmoor church, with shows most nights.","","/img/museum-of-comedy-480.jpg?v=3244dcee"],["p","museum-of-croydon","museums","Museum of Croydon","Croydon","Katharine Street, Broad Green, CR0 1NX","Croydon's story told in Croydon's own voices, free, in the Clocktower, with a room of Chinese porcelain beneath it.","","/img/museum-of-croydon-480.jpg?v=0f0803eb"],["p","museum-of-domestic-design-and-architecture","museums","Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture","Colindale","Boulevard Drive, Colindale, NW9 5HF","Open by appointment only, research museum of Middlesex University, 19th- and 20th-century decorative arts for the home including…","",""],["p","museum-of-homelessness","museums","Museum of Homelessness","Finsbury Park","Seven Sisters Road, N4 2DE","Social history museum and holder the national collection of homelessness for the UK.","",""],["p","museum-of-immigration-and-diversity","museums","Museum of Immigration and Diversity","Spitalfields","19 Princelet Street, E1 6QH","Open selected days only.","","/img/museum-of-immigration-and-diversity-480.jpg?v=dd0c7dd0"],["p","museum-of-richmond","museums","Museum of Richmond","Richmond","Whittaker Avenue, TW9 1TP","Richmond's vanished palace and its famous view, told in the Old Town Hall, free.","","/img/museum-of-richmond-480.jpg?v=7c23ed9d"],["p","museum-of-the-home","museums","Museum of the Home","Shoreditch","136 Kingsland Road, E2 8EA","Rooms staged decade by decade, free, in Hoxton almshouses.","","/img/museum-of-the-home-480.jpg?v=ae46db73"],["p","museum-of-the-order-of-st-john","museums","Museum of the Order of St John","Clerkenwell","St John's Lane, EC1M 4DA","A Tudor gatehouse and a Norman crypt in Clerkenwell, free, and the road from the crusader knights to the St John Ambulance.","","/img/museum-of-the-order-of-st-john-480.jpg?v=49be93c3"],["p","museum-of-wimbledon","museums","Museum of Wimbledon","Wimbledon","22 Ridgway, SW19 4QN","Wimbledon's own story, from the Iron Age fort on the common to the tennis, kept by the Wimbledon Society since 1916 and free at…","","/img/museum-of-wimbledon-480.jpg?v=54100fdb"],["p","musical-museum","museums","Musical Museum","Brentford","399 Brentford High Street, TW8 0DU","Self-playing pianos, orchestrions and a Wurlitzer cinema organ that rises from the floor, demonstrated rather than displayed, in…","","/img/musical-museum-480.jpg?v=2c574b81"],["p","national-army-museum","museums","National Army Museum","Chelsea","SW3 4HT","The British Army's own museum, free, beside the Royal Hospital, and unusually frank about what soldiers have been asked to do.","","/img/national-army-museum-480.jpg?v=9c4356ee"],["p","national-gallery","museums","National Gallery","Trafalgar Square","Orange Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 7HS","Western painting from Giotto to Cézanne, 2,300 pictures on one floor, free, on the north side of Trafalgar Square.","","/img/own-national-gallery-480.jpg?v=cad2479f"],["p","national-maritime-museum","museums","National Maritime Museum","Greenwich","Romney Road, SE10 9NF","Britain and the sea, free, in Greenwich: Nelson's coat with the bullet hole, Turner's Trafalgar and a map of the oceans to walk…","","/img/national-maritime-museum-480.jpg?v=34a72803"],["p","national-portrait-gallery","museums","National Portrait Gallery","Soho","WC2H 0HE","British history told through faces, from the Chandos Shakespeare to last year's photographs, reopened in 2023 with far more room.","","/img/national-portrait-gallery-480.jpg?v=0636eea1"],["p","natural-history-museum","museums","Natural History Museum","South Kensington","Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD","A cathedral of terracotta animals with a blue whale diving through the nave, free, and the finest building in South Kensington.","","/img/own-natural-history-museum-480.jpg?v=2aba25a6"],["p","novelty-automation","museums","Novelty Automation","Holborn","1a Princeton Street, WC1R 4AX","Tim Hunkin's handmade satirical arcade in a Holborn shopfront: nuclear reactors, divorces and the housing ladder, played with…","","/img/novelty-automation.jpg?v=d645d0d0"],["p","old-operating-theatre-museum-and-herb-garret","museums","Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret","Southwark","9a St Thomas Street, The Borough, SE1 9RY","Europe's oldest surviving operating theatre, from the years before anaesthetics, in a church attic up fifty-two spiral steps.","",""],["p","old-royal-naval-college","museums","Old Royal Naval College","Greenwich","College Way, East Greenwich, SE10 9JF","Built as a home for old and wounded sailors, with a dining hall whose ceiling took one painter nineteen years.","","/img/own-old-royal-naval-college-480.jpg?v=e62ca94a"],["p","old-speech-room-gallery-and-museum-harrow-school","museums","Old Speech Room Gallery and Museum, Harrow School","Harrow","5 High Street, Sudbury Hill, HA1 3HP","Egyptian and Greek antiquities, English watercolours, Modern British paintings, sculpture, printed books and natural history.","",""],["p","orleans-house-gallery","museums","Orleans House Gallery","Twickenham","Riverside, TW1 3DJ","James Gibbs's baroque Octagon Room of 1720, all that is left of a Thames-side villa, free, with the borough's art collection…","","/img/orleans-house-gallery-480.jpg?v=97e25a65"],["p","osterley-park-and-house","museums","Osterley Park and House","Isleworth","Jersey Road, TW7 4RB","Robert Adam's most complete house, remodelled for a banking family in the 1760s down to the door handles, in a park beside the M4.","","/img/osterley-park-and-house-480.jpg?v=284e9a52"],["p","peckham-platform","museums","Peckham Platform","Peckham","89 Peckham High Street, SE15 5RS","Contemporary art.","","/img/peckham-platform-480.jpg?v=a36872e0"],["p","petrie-museum-of-egyptian-archaeology","museums","Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology","Bloomsbury","Malet Place, WC1E 6BT","Eighty thousand Egyptian and Sudanese objects in two dim rooms of wooden cases, free, with the oldest dress in the world among…","","/img/petrie-museum-of-egyptian-archaeology-480.jpg?v=ca7667a7"],["p","pitzhanger-manor","museums","Pitzhanger Manor","Ealing","Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W5 5EQ","Soane's own country villa of 1800, restored to his design in 2019: a house of tricks with light and coloured glass, and a gallery…","","/img/own-pitzhanger-manor-480.jpg?v=8d102872"],["p","polish-institute-and-sikorski-museum","museums","Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum","South Kensington","20 Princes Gate, SW7 1PT","Contributions of the Polish Armed Forces in the West in World War II.","","/img/polish-institute-and-sikorski-museum-480.jpg?v=e91c5ff8"],["p","pollocks-toy-museum-croydon","museums","Pollock's Toy Museum Croydon","Croydon","Unit 49, Whitgift Centre, Croydon, CR0 1UQ","Toy theatres, tin toys and a Polyphon that still plays, in a shopping centre unit in Croydon.","",""],["p","pollocks-toy-museum-leadenhall-market","museums","Pollock's Toy Museum Leadenhall Market","City of London","Unit 32-33, Leadenhall Market, EC3V 1LR","A one-room version of London's oldest toy museum, in a Victorian market arcade.","",""],["p","postal-museum","museums","Postal Museum","Clerkenwell","15-20 Phoenix Place, WC1X 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SW13 9LP","Municipal art gallery.","",""],["p","rivington-place","museums","Rivington Place","Shoreditch","Rivington Place, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY","International visual arts centre, home to InIVA and Autograph ABP.","","/img/rivington-place-480.jpg?v=ed4fd05f"],["p","rose-theatre-exhibition","museums","Rose Theatre Exhibition","Bankside","Park Street, SE1 9HA","Excavations of an Elizabethan theatre.","",""],["p","royal-academy-of-arts","museums","Royal Academy of Arts","Piccadilly","Piccadilly, W1J 0BD","Artists have run this place since 1768: loan exhibitions most of the year, rooms of their own work, and the Summer Exhibition…","","/img/own-royal-academy-of-arts-480.jpg?v=3112e0b5"],["p","royal-academy-of-music-museum","museums","Royal Academy of Music Museum","Regent's Park","Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","Stradivari violins kept in playing order, composers' letters and a working piano workshop, free, in Nash's York 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a…","","/img/valentines-mansion-480.jpg?v=f496148d"],["p","vestry-house-museum","museums","Vestry House Museum","Walthamstow","2 Vestry Road, E17 9NH","Local history, culture.","","/img/vestry-house-museum-480.jpg?v=3666ce90"],["p","victoria-and-albert-museum","museums","Victoria and Albert Museum","South Kensington","Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","The world's largest museum of art and design: 2.8 million objects, 145 galleries, and the Cast Courts with Trajan's Column in two…","","/img/victoria-and-albert-museum-480.jpg?v=1c1d9203"],["p","wallace-collection","museums","Wallace Collection","Marylebone","George Street, Marylebone, W1H 5BJ","Four generations of a family's buying, the Laughing Cavalier, Fragonard's Swing and one of Europe's great armouries, free in a…","",""],["p","walthamstow-pumphouse-museum","museums","Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum","Walthamstow","10 South Access Road, E17 8AX","The museum is due to become the Lea Valley Experience, pioneering achievements in road, rail, air 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hollow-post…","","/img/wimbledon-windmill-museum-480.jpg?v=ad6b11a7"],["p","world-rugby-museum","museums","World Rugby Museum","Twickenham","Whitton Road, TW2 7BA","Rugby's memory, 37,000 pieces of it, under the South Stand at Twickenham.","","/img/world-rugby-museum-480.jpg?v=c7388c4c"],["p","young-v-a","museums","Young V&A","Bethnal Green","Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA","The V&A's East End museum, rebuilt for children and free to walk into.","","/img/young-v-a-480.jpg?v=43473e07"],["c","museums","museums","Museums","","","We've included every museum in London. Use the filters to find something for you.","",""],["p","2-willow-road","art","2 Willow Road","Hampstead","2 Willow Road, NW3 1TH","Ernő Goldfinger's own modernist terrace, kept as the family left it.","","/img/2-willow-road-480.jpg?v=8eddee65"],["p","achilles-statue","art","Achilles statue","Belgravia","Hyde Park, near Hyde Park Corner, W1K 1BE","London's first public nude, cast from captured French cannon and paid for by the women of England.","","/img/achilles-statue-480.jpg?v=1cc7eb67"],["p","albert-memorial","art","Albert Memorial","Knightsbridge","Kensington Gardens, SW7 2AP","The most extravagant thing the Victorians built, and worth walking round twice.","","/img/albert-memorial-480.jpg?v=be97b322"],["p","alison-jacques","art","Alison Jacques","Mayfair","22 Cork Street, W1S 3NG","The gallery that revived Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney and Sheila Hicks, on Cork Street.","",""],["p","almine-rech","art","Almine Rech","Mayfair","11 St George Street, W1S 2FD","The Paris gallery of James Turrell, Jeff Koons's editions and a wide list of painters, on St George Street.","",""],["p","annely-juda-fine-art","art","Annely Juda Fine Art","Mayfair","16 Hanover Square, W1S 1HT","The gallery of the Russian avant-garde and British abstraction since 1968, now on Hanover Square.","",""],["p","rivington-place","art","Autograph, Rivington Place","Shoreditch","Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA","Autograph's gallery of photography and film in David Adjaye's black-brick building in Shoreditch.","","/img/rivington-place-480.jpg?v=ed4fd05f"],["p","bankside-gallery","art","Bankside Gallery","Bankside","48 Hopton Street, SE1 9JH","The home of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, next door to Tate Modern.","","/img/bankside-gallery-480.jpg?v=d1a540c1"],["p","barbican-centre","art","Barbican Centre","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","The City's concrete arts centre of 1982, concert hall, theatres, cinemas, a gallery and a tropical conservatory, inside an estate…","","/img/own-barbican-centre-3-480.jpg?v=8d3a2e35"],["p","ben-brown-fine-arts","art","Ben Brown Fine Arts","Mayfair","12 Brook's Mews, W1K 4DG","A Mayfair mews gallery for Lucio Fontana, Alighiero Boetti and the photographs of Candida Höfer.","",""],["p","ben-uri-gallery-the-london-jewish-museum-of-art","art","Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art","St John's Wood","108 Boundary Road","The art of the émigrés: a century of Jewish and immigrant artists in Britain, in a small free gallery off Abbey Road.","","/img/ben-uri-gallery-the-london-jewish-museum-of-art-480.jpg?v=fc8a188b"],["p","boadicea-and-her-daughters","art","Boadicea and Her Daughters","Westminster","Westminster Bridge, Victoria Embankment, SW1A 2JH","Thornycroft's bronze of the queen who burned Roman London, charging at Parliament from the end of Westminster Bridge.","","/img/boadicea-and-her-daughters-480.jpg?v=029bbb80"],["p","bonhams","art","Bonhams","Mayfair","101 New Bond Street, W1S 1SR","The New Bond Street salerooms of the third of the London houses, with viewings of everything from Old Masters to motorcars.","","/img/bonhams-480.jpg?v=a183de1e"],["p","british-museum","art","British Museum","Bloomsbury","Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG","Eight million objects and the first national museum in the world, free since 1759: the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures…","","/img/british-museum-480.jpg?v=6d20fa16"],["p","broadgate-venus","art","Broadgate Venus","Broadgate","Exchange Square, Broadgate, EC2A 2EH","Fernando Botero's reclining bronze woman, five tons of her, in Exchange Square.","","/img/broadgate-venus-480.jpg?v=26d4e2d1"],["p","cabinet","art","Cabinet","Vauxhall","132 Tyers Street, SE11 5HS","The most uncompromising gallery in London, in a building of its own at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.","",""],["p","camden-arts-centre","art","Camden Arts Centre","Hampstead","52 Arkwright Road, NW3 6DG","A Victorian library in Hampstead turned into one of London's best 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mews.","",""],["p","charles-i-at-charing-cross","art","Charles I at Charing Cross","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DS","The oldest bronze equestrian statue in England, and the point from which every distance to London is measured.","","/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1"],["p","chisenhale-gallery","art","Chisenhale Gallery","Victoria Park Village","64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5QZ","The Bow gallery where careers begin: one commission at a time in a former veneer factory on the canal.","",""],["p","christies","art","Christie's","St James's","8 King Street, SW1Y 6QT","King Street, St James's, since 1823: the salerooms whose viewings put Old Masters and Impressionists on public show for free.","",""],["p","colnaghi","art","Colnaghi","St James's","26 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL","The oldest commercial gallery in the world, dealing in Old Masters since 1760, now on Bury Street.","",""],["p","connaught-brown","art","Connaught Brown","St James's","2 Albemarle Street, W1S 4HD","Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern British pictures on Albemarle Street.","",""],["p","courtauld-gallery","art","Courtauld Gallery","Strand","Strand, WC2R 1LA","One floor of Impressionists in Somerset House: Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Van Gogh's bandaged self-portrait and a wall of…","","/img/courtauld-gallery-480.jpg?v=6f391cf0"],["p","cristea-roberts-gallery","art","Cristea Roberts Gallery","St James's","43 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5JG","The prints and editions gallery on Pall Mall: Hodgkin, Hockney, Paula Rego, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry.","",""],["p","crystal-palace-dinosaurs","art","Crystal Palace Dinosaurs","Crystal Palace","Crystal Palace Park, Thicket Road, SE20 8DT","The first dinosaurs ever built, life-size, wrong in every detail and protected at the highest historic grade.","","/img/crystal-palace-dinosaurs-480.jpg?v=ae166476"],["p","daniel-katz-gallery","art","Daniel Katz Gallery","Mayfair","6 Hill Street, W1J 5NF","European sculpture from the medieval to the nineteenth century, in a Mayfair townhouse.","",""],["p","david-zwirner","art","David Zwirner","Mayfair","24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ","Zwirner's Mayfair townhouse, five floors of the gallery that represents Yayoi Kusama, Luc Tuymans and the Judd and Flavin estates.","",""],["p","dickinson","art","Dickinson","St James's","58 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6LX","Simon Dickinson's Jermyn Street rooms, where museum-quality Old Masters and Impressionists pass through on their way between…","",""],["p","dorich-house","art","Dorich House","Kingston Vale","67 Kingston Vale, SW15 3RN","A sculptor's modernist studio-house of 1936 on the edge of Richmond Park, designed by her, filled with her bronzes and her…","","/img/dorich-house-480.jpg?v=48caecb8"],["p","draped-seated-woman","art","Draped Seated Woman","Canary Wharf","Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, E14 4QJ","'Old Flo': Henry Moore's seated woman, back in the East End at Canary Wharf after twenty years away.","",""],["p","dulwich-picture-gallery","art","Dulwich Picture Gallery","Dulwich","Gallery Road, SE21 7AD","England's first purpose-built public art gallery, Soane's masterpiece of 1817, with a collection assembled for a king of Poland…","","/img/dulwich-picture-gallery-480.jpg?v=663b7372"],["p","estorick-collection-of-modern-italian-art","art","Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art","Canonbury","39a Canonbury Square, N1 2AN","The only collection of modern Italian art in Britain, Futurists to Morandi, in a Georgian house on Canonbury Square.","","/img/estorick-collection-of-modern-italian-art-480.jpg?v=40c6cf63"],["p","flowers-gallery","art","Flowers Gallery","St James's","21 Cork Street, W1S 3LZ","Angela Flowers's gallery, going since 1970, with British painters and a strong photography programme on Cork Street.","",""],["p","foundling-museum","art","Foundling Museum","Bloomsbury","40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ","The story of Britain's first children's charity, and the artists who funded it.","","/img/foundling-museum-480.jpg?v=8857de81"],["p","frith-street-gallery","art","Frith Street Gallery","Soho","17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ","Jane Hamlyn's gallery in Soho, thirty-five years of Tacita Dean, Cornelia Parker, Fiona Tan and Callum Innes.","",""],["p","fulcrum","art","Fulcrum","Broadgate","Broadgate, Liverpool Street, EC2M 2QS","Richard Serra's five leaning slabs of steel at the Liverpool Street entrance to Broadgate.","","/img/fulcrum-480.jpg?v=5be3fe99"],["p","gagosian-davies-street","art","Gagosian Davies Street","Mayfair","17-19 Davies Street, W1K 3DE","The small Gagosian on Davies Street, a single room for one work or one idea.","",""],["p","gagosian-grosvenor-hill","art","Gagosian Grosvenor Hill","Mayfair","20 Grosvenor Hill, W1K 3QD","Gagosian's main London room, museum-scale shows of the biggest names in a Mayfair mews.","",""],["p","gasworks-gallery","art","Gasworks Gallery","Kennington","155 Vauxhall Street, SE11 5RH","A Vauxhall gallery and residency that gives international artists their first London show, opposite the Oval.","",""],["p","girl-with-a-dolphin","art","Girl with a Dolphin","Butler's Wharf","St Katharine's Way, E1W 1LD","David Wynne's girl and dolphin leaping over a fountain beside Tower Bridge.","","/img/girl-with-a-dolphin-480.jpg?v=7edd7514"],["p","golden-boy-of-pye-corner","art","Golden Boy of Pye Corner","West Smithfield","Giltspur Street at Cock Lane, EC1A 9DD","A small gilded boy high on a corner, marking where the Great Fire stopped and blaming it on gluttony.","","/img/golden-boy-of-pye-corner-480.jpg?v=a039d355"],["p","greengrassi","art","greengrassi","Kennington","1a Kempsford Road, SE11 4NU","Cornelia Grassi's gallery in a Kennington warehouse, shared with Corvi-Mora, with Tomma Abts and Lisa Yuskavage on the list.","",""],["p","guildhall-art-gallery","art","Guildhall Art Gallery","Bassishaw","Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE","The City's own paintings, free, over the walls of London's Roman amphitheatre, which the builders found underneath.","","/img/guildhall-art-gallery-480.jpg?v=128a8e7f"],["p","hauser-wirth","art","Hauser & Wirth","Mayfair","23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET","The Savile Row galleries of the Swiss dealers, two floors of museum-grade shows behind a tailor's street.","",""],["p","hayward-gallery","art","Hayward Gallery","Southbank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XZ","The Southbank Centre's concrete gallery of 1968, big contemporary shows under sixty-six pyramid rooflights, with no collection to…","","/img/hayward-gallery-480.jpg?v=12db8ba8"],["p","hazlitt-holland-hibbert","art","Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert","St James's","38 Bury Street, SW1Y 6BB","Bury Street dealers in British art from the Camden Town Group to the 1960s: Sickert, Nicholson, Hitchens, Hockney.","",""],["p","herald-st","art","Herald St","Bethnal Green","2 Herald Street, E2 6JT","A Bethnal Green gallery of the generation after the YBAs: Pablo Bronstein, Nicole Wermers, Matthew Darbyshire.","",""],["p","hogarths-house","art","Hogarth's House","Chiswick","Hogarth Lane, W4 2QN","Hogarth's country retreat, free, beside the road that roars where his fields were, with the fullest public set of his prints…","","/img/hogarths-house-480.jpg?v=2e953815"],["p","hollybush-gardens","art","Hollybush Gardens","Gray's Inn","1-2 Warner Yard, EC1R 5EY","A Clerkenwell gallery in a Victorian yard, with Lubaina Himid, Andrea Büttner and Claire Barclay.","",""],["p","horse-and-rider","art","Horse and Rider","St James's","Dover Street, W1S 4LD","Elisabeth Frink's horse and rider at the corner of Dover Street and Piccadilly, 1975.","","/img/horse-and-rider-480.jpg?v=be874de1"],["p","huxley-parlour","art","Huxley-Parlour","St James's","3-5 Swallow Street, W1B 4DE","Photography and painting in two Mayfair galleries, with a line in the twentieth-century masters.","",""],["p","institute-of-contemporary-arts","art","Institute of Contemporary Arts","The Mall","The Mall","The avant-garde's clubhouse since 1946: galleries, two cinemas and a bar behind Nash's grandest terrace on the Mall, deliberately…","","/img/institute-of-contemporary-arts.jpg?v=483f68fb"],["p","kate-macgarry","art","Kate MacGarry","Shoreditch","27 Old Nichol Street, E2 7HR","A Shoreditch gallery of painters and makers - Francis Upritchard, Goshka Macuga, Peter McDonald - on Old Nichol Street.","",""],["p","kenwood-house","art","Kenwood House","Hampstead","Lime Avenue, Highgate, NW3 7JR","A Robert Adam villa on the edge of the Heath with a Rembrandt and a Vermeer inside, and all of it free.","","/img/kenwood-house-480.jpg?v=ad8b759f"],["p","kings-gallery","art","King's Gallery","Victoria","Buckingham Gate, Victoria, SW1E 6JP","The Royal Collection's shop window at Buckingham Palace: 450 works at a time from a million, changing with each exhibition.","","/img/kings-gallery-480.jpg?v=09491763"],["p","knife-edge-two-piece","art","Knife Edge Two Piece","Westminster","Abingdon Street Gardens, SW1P 3JY","Henry Moore's bronze on the green beside Parliament, given by the sculptor himself in 1967.","","/img/knife-edge-two-piece.jpg?v=701f61e5"],["p","l-cornelissen-and-son","art","L. Cornelissen & Son","Bloomsbury","105 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3RY","A Victorian artists’ colourman where raw pigment is still sold by the jar.","","/img/own-cornelissen-480.jpg?v=5e2038d1"],["p","leake-street-arches","art","Leake Street Arches","Waterloo","Leake Street, SE1 7NN","The graffiti tunnel under Waterloo station, where painting the walls is the point.","",""],["p","leighton-house-museum","art","Leighton House Museum","Holland Park","12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ","The Victorian painter's house built around an Arab Hall of Damascus tiles, gold mosaic and a fountain, in Holland Park.","","/img/leighton-house-museum-480.jpg?v=19a86a66"],["p","lethaby-gallery","art","Lethaby Gallery","Kings Cross","1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA","Central Saint Martins' public gallery in the Granary Building at King's Cross, showing the college's collections and its…","",""],["p","lisson-gallery","art","Lisson Gallery","Paddington","27 Bell Street, NW1 5BY","The gallery that brought minimal and 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Mayfair townhouse on Clifford Street.","",""],["p","maureen-paley","art","Maureen Paley","Bethnal Green","60 Three Colts Lane, E2 6GQ","The East End gallery that showed Wolfgang Tillmans and Gillian Wearing first, still in Bethnal Green.","",""],["p","michael-hoppen-gallery","art","Michael Hoppen Gallery","Notting Hill","10 Portland Road, W11 4LA","London's leading photography dealer, from Daido Moriyama and Sarah Moon to the great mid-century names, now in Holland Park.","",""],["p","modern-art","art","Modern Art","St James's","8 Bennet Street, SW1A 1RP","Stuart Shave's gallery, now on Bennet Street in St James's, with a list from Barry McGee to Yngve Holen.","",""],["p","national-gallery","art","National Gallery","Trafalgar Square","Orange Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 7HS","Western painting from Giotto to Cézanne, 2,300 pictures on one floor, free, on the north side of Trafalgar Square.","","/img/own-national-gallery-480.jpg?v=cad2479f"],["p","national-portrait-gallery","art","National Portrait Gallery","Soho","WC2H 0HE","British history told through faces, from the Chandos Shakespeare to last year's photographs, reopened in 2023 with far more room.","","/img/national-portrait-gallery-480.jpg?v=0636eea1"],["p","newton-after-blake","art","Newton after Blake","King's Cross","British Library piazza, Euston Road, NW1 2DB","Eduardo Paolozzi's giant Newton, bent over his compasses in the British Library piazza.","","/img/newton-after-blake-480.jpg?v=bcb6e27b"],["p","orleans-house-gallery","art","Orleans House Gallery","Twickenham","Riverside, TW1 3DJ","James Gibbs's baroque Octagon Room of 1720, all that is left of a Thames-side villa, free, with the borough's art collection…","","/img/orleans-house-gallery-480.jpg?v=97e25a65"],["p","osborne-samuel","art","Osborne Samuel","St James's","21 Cork Street, W1S 3LZ","Modern British sculpture and prints on Cork Street: Moore, Hepworth, Lynn Chadwick and the Grosvenor School.","",""],["p","oxo-tower","art","Oxo Tower","South Bank","Barge House Street, SE1 9PH","Advertising was banned on the skyline, so the name was built into the windows.","","/img/oxo-tower-480.jpg?v=55f48b4c"],["p","pace","art","Pace","Mayfair","5 Hanover Square, W1S 1HQ","The New York gallery's London home on Hanover Square, with Rothko, Calder and Agnes Martin behind it and Loie Hollowell and Adam…","",""],["p","parliament-square-statues","art","Parliament Square statues","Westminster","Parliament Square, SW1P 3JX","Twelve statesmen on one square: Churchill, Mandela, Gandhi, Lincoln, and Millicent Fawcett, the first woman.","","/img/parliament-square-statues-480.jpg?v=0c09db7f"],["p","peter-pan-statue","art","Peter Pan statue","Paddington","Kensington Gardens, W2 2UH","The boy who wouldn't grow up, put up overnight so that the children would think he had arrived by magic.","","/img/peter-pan-statue-480.jpg?v=4db7cdcf"],["p","philip-mould-company","art","Philip Mould & Company","St James's","18-19 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5LU","Five centuries of British portraits on Pall Mall, from Tudor panels to Cedric Morris, by the dealer from Fake or Fortune.","",""],["p","phillips","art","Phillips","Mayfair","30 Berkeley Square, W1J 6EX","Berkeley Square's auction house, given over to twentieth-century and contemporary art, design and photographs.","",""],["p","piano-nobile","art","Piano Nobile","Notting Hill","96 & 129 Portland Road, W11 4LW","Modern British painting in Holland Park, with the scholarship of a museum department.","",""],["p","pilar-corrias","art","Pilar Corrias","Mayfair","51 Conduit Street, W1S 2YT","Two Mayfair galleries for a list that leans to painting and film: Christina Quarles, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Philippe Parreno.","",""],["p","piscator","art","Piscator","St Pancras","Euston Station forecourt, Euston Road, NW1 2RT","Paolozzi's block of bronze machinery outside Euston station, named for a theatre director.","",""],["p","pitzhanger-manor","art","Pitzhanger Manor","Ealing","Ealing Green, W5 5EQ","John Soane's own country house in Ealing, restored, with a gallery beside it showing contemporary art.","","/img/own-pitzhanger-manor-480.jpg?v=8d102872"],["p","quantum-cloud","art","Quantum Cloud","Greenwich Peninsula","Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0DX","Antony Gormley's thirty-metre cloud of steel beside the O2, with a figure hidden in it.","","/img/quantum-cloud-480.jpg?v=dc555051"],["p","queens-house","art","Queen's House","Greenwich","SE10 9NF","Inigo Jones's first classical house in England, free, with the Armada Portrait.","","/img/queens-house-480.jpg?v=29e6cf9e"],["p","quentin-blake-centre-for-illustration","art","Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration","Kings Cross","1 Myddelton Passage, EC1R 1AG","The UK's only public gallery for illustration, founded by Quentin Blake, now open in the old New River Head waterworks in…","",""],["p","rangers-house-wernher-collection","art","Ranger's House (Wernher Collection)","Greenwich","Chesterfield Walk, East Greenwich, SE10 8QX","A Georgian villa on the edge of Greenwich Park holding a diamond magnate's cabinet of the splendidly ugly, and the outside of the…","","/img/rangers-house-wernher-collection-480.jpg?v=01ce3b59"],["p","richard-green","art","Richard Green","Mayfair","147 New Bond Street, W1S 2TS","New Bond Street's Old Master and Impressionist dealer, with Dutch still lifes and French landscapes in the window.","",""],["p","robilant-voena","art","Robilant+Voena","St James's","38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL","Italian Old Masters and the Italian twentieth century, from Milan and Turin to Dover Street.","",""],["p","royal-academy-of-arts","art","Royal Academy of Arts","Piccadilly","Piccadilly, W1J 0BD","Artists have run this place since 1768: loan exhibitions most of the year, rooms of their own work, and the Summer Exhibition…","","/img/own-royal-academy-of-arts-480.jpg?v=3112e0b5"],["p","rush-hour","art","Rush Hour","Broadgate","Broadgate, EC2M 2QS","George Segal's six bronze commuters walking nowhere, outside Broadgate's offices.","","/img/rush-hour-480.jpg?v=e354a031"],["p","saatchi-gallery","art","Saatchi Gallery","Chelsea","King's Road, SW3 4RY","The gallery that made the Young British Artists, now a charity filling fifteen rooms of a Chelsea barracks with big shows, some…","","/img/saatchi-gallery-480.jpg?v=4fdbe0ee"],["p","sadie-coles-hq","art","Sadie Coles HQ","Mayfair","17 Savile Row, W1S 3PN","The gallery of Sarah Lucas, Urs Fischer and Helen Marten, now headquartered on Savile Row.","",""],["p","sam-fogg","art","Sam Fogg","Mayfair","15D Clifford Street, W1S 4JZ","Medieval art - manuscripts, sculpture, stained glass - in first-floor rooms on Clifford Street.","",""],["p","serpentine","art","Serpentine","Kensington Gardens","Mount Walk, Knightsbridge, W2 3XA","Two small free galleries in Kensington Gardens, and a pavilion each summer.","",""],["p","shaftesbury-memorial-fountain","art","Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain","St James's","Piccadilly Circus, W1J 9HT","Eros, who is not Eros, on the fountain at Piccadilly Circus.","","/img/shaftesbury-memorial-fountain-480.jpg?v=ed5db40b"],["p","shepherd-and-sheep","art","Shepherd and Sheep","St Paul's","Paternoster Square, EC4M 7DX","Elisabeth Frink's shepherd and his flock in Paternoster Square, under the dome of St Paul's.","","/img/shepherd-and-sheep-480.jpg?v=90977402"],["p","shoreditch-street-art","art","Shoreditch street art","Shoreditch","Redchurch Street and Brick Lane, E2","The streets around Brick Lane, where London's street art has been made and painted over for twenty years.","","/img/shoreditch-street-art-480.jpg?v=20502f54"],["p","single-form","art","Single Form","Nine Elms","Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ","Hepworth's memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld, in bronze beside the Battersea Park boating lake.","","/img/single-form-480.jpg?v=701380ab"],["p","sir-john-soanes-museum","art","Sir John Soane's Museum","Holborn","13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3BP","An architect's house left exactly as he arranged it, and the strangest interior in London.","","/img/sir-john-soanes-museum-480.jpg?v=157bf66f"],["p","soas-gallery","art","SOAS Gallery","Bloomsbury","10 Thornhaugh Street, WC1H 0XG","The university's own gallery: three or four free exhibitions a year from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with a Japanese garden…","",""],["p","somerset-house","art","Somerset House","Strand","Strand, WC2R 1LA","A Georgian government palace on the Strand, now a courtyard of fountains and an ice rink, with the Courtauld's Impressionists…","","/img/own-somerset-house-480.jpg?v=a5484d4f"],["p","sothebys","art","Sotheby's","Mayfair","34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA","The New Bond Street salerooms, where the week's best pictures hang for a few days, free, before they are sold.","","/img/sothebys-480.jpg?v=78da679d"],["p","south-bank-lion","art","South Bank Lion","Westminster","Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7PB","A thirteen-ton lion in artificial stone, which nobody can make any more, saved by a king.","","/img/south-bank-lion-480.jpg?v=dd27fea2"],["p","south-london-gallery","art","South London Gallery","Camberwell","65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH","Contemporary art in Camberwell, free since 1891, in a Victorian gallery and the old fire station across the road.","","/img/south-london-gallery-480.jpg?v=e2fe867c"],["p","southwark-park-galleries","art","Southwark Park Galleries","Canada Water","1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, SE16 2UA","Two free galleries in a park — one a purpose-built room by the lake, one a deconsecrated church.","",""],["p","spruth-magers","art","Sprüth Magers","Mayfair","7A Grafton Street, W1S 4EJ","The Berlin and Cologne gallery of Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Rosemarie Trockel, on Grafton Street.","",""],["p","stephen-friedman-gallery","art","Stephen Friedman Gallery","Mayfair","5-6 Cork Street, W1S 3NX","The Cork Street gallery of Yinka Shonibare, Kehinde Wiley and Mamma Andersson.","",""],["p","stern-pissarro-gallery","art","Stern Pissarro Gallery","St James's","66 St James's Street, SW1A 1NE","Impressionists and the Pissarro family on St James's Street, run by the painter's great-granddaughter.","",""],["p","studio-voltaire","art","Studio Voltaire","Clapham","1A Nelsons Row, SW4 7JR","A Clapham chapel that has become one of the most respected small galleries in London, with studios for sixty artists.","","/img/studio-voltaire-480.jpg?v=cbe90194"],["p","sunbeam-weekly-and-the-pilgrims-pocket","art","Sunbeam Weekly and the Pilgrim's Pocket","Rotherhithe","Bermondsey Wall East, SE16 4TU","A Mayflower pilgrim reading over the shoulder of a Bermondsey boy, on the river path.","","/img/own-sunshine-weekly-480.jpg?v=8ce0cf7e"],["p","tate-britain","art","Tate Britain","Millbank","Millbank, SW1P 4RG","Five hundred years of British art in one walk, and the largest Turner collection in the world, free, on Millbank.","","/img/tate-britain-480.jpg?v=420f8b87"],["p","tate-modern","art","Tate Modern","Bankside","Bankside, SE1 9TG","The national collection of modern art in a power station on Bankside, free, and the most visited gallery in the country.","","/img/tate-modern-480.jpg?v=f017f793"],["p","thaddaeus-ropac","art","Thaddaeus Ropac","St James's","Ely House, 37 Dover Street, W1S 4NJ","The Austrian dealer's London house: Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg's estate in an eighteenth-century…","",""],["p","the-approach","art","The Approach","Bethnal Green","1st Floor, 47 Approach Road, E2 9LY","A gallery above a pub in Bethnal Green, since 1997, and one of the best in the East End.","",""],["p","the-burghers-of-calais","art","The Burghers of Calais","Westminster","Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, SW1P 3JA","Rodin's six men walking to their deaths, in a garden beside the House of Lords.","","/img/the-burghers-of-calais-480.jpg?v=0f383827"],["p","the-line","art","The Line","Stratford","Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to North Greenwich","London's sculpture walk: Gormley, Damien Hirst, Thomas J Price and Tracey Emin along the waterways from Stratford to Greenwich.","",""],["p","the-navigators","art","The Navigators","St Olave's Estate","Hay's Galleria, Tooley Street, SE1 2HD","David Kemp's kinetic ship-monster in Hay's Galleria, a fountain that moves.","","/img/the-navigators-480.jpg?v=30338cbc"],["p","the-photographers-gallery","art","The Photographers' Gallery","Soho","16-18 Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW","Britain's first public gallery for photography alone, since 1971, on several floors behind Oxford Street.","","/img/the-photographers-gallery-480.jpg?v=02468dbb"],["p","the-showroom","art","The Showroom","Paddington","63 Penfold Street, NW8 8PQ","A small commissioning gallery in Marylebone with a long record of showing artists before anyone else.","",""],["p","the-weiss-gallery","art","The Weiss Gallery","St James's","59 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6LX","Tudor and Stuart portraits, the best in the trade, on Jermyn Street.","",""],["p","three-standing-figures","art","Three Standing Figures","Battersea","Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ","Henry Moore's three draped figures in Darley Dale stone, in Battersea Park since the 1948 open-air exhibition.","","/img/three-standing-figures-480.jpg?v=a7bd4e80"],["p","timothy-taylor","art","Timothy Taylor","Mayfair","15 Bolton Street, W1J 8BG","Painting first, in a Mayfair gallery: Sean Scully, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith and the Antoni Tapies estate.","",""],["p","nelsons-column","art","Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","The symbolic heart of London: Barry's square with Nelson fifty-two metres above it, and Landseer's lions to climb on.","","/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb"],["p","trinity-fine-art","art","Trinity 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2RL","The world's largest museum of art and design: 2.8 million objects, 145 galleries, and the Cast Courts with Trajan's Column in two…","","/img/victoria-and-albert-museum-480.jpg?v=1c1d9203"],["p","victoria-memorial","art","Victoria Memorial","Victoria","Queen's Gardens, The Mall, SW1A 1AA","Twenty-three hundred tons of white marble in front of the Palace, with a gilded Victory on top.","","/img/victoria-memorial-480.jpg?v=6ff38e58"],["p","victoria-miro","art","Victoria Miro","St Luke's","16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW","A former furniture factory on the Regent's Canal, with a garden, that shows Yayoi Kusama, Grayson Perry and Chris Ofili.","","/img/victoria-miro-480.jpg?v=fcc6b905"],["p","waddington-custot","art","Waddington Custot","Mayfair","11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT","The Cork Street gallery of the twentieth-century masters: Miró, Dubuffet, Peter Blake, Bill Woodrow.","",""],["p","wallace-collection","art","Wallace Collection","Marylebone","George Street, Marylebone, W1H 5BJ","Four generations of a family's buying, the Laughing Cavalier, Fragonard's Swing and one of Europe's great armouries, free in a…","",""],["p","wellington-arch","art","Wellington Arch","Belgravia","Apsley Way, Belgravia, W1J 7NT","Decimus Burton's arch at Hyde Park Corner, with the largest bronze sculpture in Europe on top and balconies inside to climb to.","","/img/wellington-arch-480.jpg?v=3fc925e4"],["p","white-cube-bermondsey","art","White Cube Bermondsey","Bermondsey Village","144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ","Jay Jopling's 58,000 square feet on Bermondsey Street, the largest commercial gallery space in Europe when it opened.","",""],["p","white-cube-masons-yard","art","White Cube Mason's Yard","St James's","25-26 Mason's Yard, SW1Y 6BU","The St James's White Cube, a freestanding box of galleries in a courtyard off Duke Street.","",""],["p","whitechapel-gallery","art","Whitechapel Gallery","Whitechapel","77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX","The East End's gallery since 1901, free, where Guernica hung in 1939 and Rothko, Pollock and Hockney were first shown to London.","","/img/whitechapel-gallery-480.jpg?v=b1cfcfa0"],["p","william-morris-gallery","art","William Morris Gallery","Walthamstow","Forest Road, E17 4PP","Morris's boyhood home in Walthamstow, free, and the only museum devoted to him: the patterns, the politics and the workshop.","","/img/william-morris-gallery-480.jpg?v=ef789a85"],["p","winged-figure","art","Winged Figure","East Marylebone","John Lewis, Holles Street, W1C 1DX","Barbara Hepworth's aluminium and steel wing on the side of John Lewis, Oxford Street, since 1963.","","/img/winged-figure-480.jpg?v=5fedf148"],["c","art","art","Art","","","Public and commercial galleries, sculptures on streets, artists' houses and famous auction houses. Use the filters to narrow it…","",""],["p","100-club","venues","100 Club","Fitzrovia","100 Oxford Street, W1D 1LL","The oldest independent music venue in the world, a basement under Oxford Street where jazz started in 1942 and punk in 1976.","","/img/100-club-480.jpg?v=d208d7ef"],["p","2northdown","venues","2Northdown","King's Cross","2 Northdown Street, N1 9BG","A hundred seats two minutes from King's Cross, where the work-in-progress hour lives.","",""],["p","606-club","venues","606 Club","Chelsea","90 Lots Road, SW10 0QD","A basement at the wrong end of Chelsea that has been booking British musicians only, seven nights a week, since 1976.","","/img/606-club-480.jpg?v=3a69626d"],["p","alexandra-palace","venues","Alexandra Palace","Muswell Hill","Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY","A vast Victorian pleasure palace on a hill, with the world's first television studios inside it.","",""],["p","almeida-theatre","venues","Almeida Theatre","Angel & Islington","Almeida Street, N1 1TA","A Victorian scientific institute, derelict for years, now 325 seats that reach the West End.","",""],["p","arcola-theatre","venues","Arcola Theatre","Dalston","24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL","A former textile factory in Dalston, running on solar panels and a pay-what-you-can night.","",""],["p","backyard-comedy-club","venues","Backyard Comedy Club","Bethnal Green","231 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 0EL","Lee Hurst's own club in Bethnal Green, purpose-built and rebuilt.","",""],["p","barbican-centre","venues","Barbican Centre","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","The concert hall at the centre of the Barbican, and the London Symphony Orchestra's home.","","/img/own-barbican-centre-3-480.jpg?v=8d3a2e35"],["p","battersea-arts-centre","venues","Battersea Arts Centre","Battersea","Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN","Battersea's 1893 town hall, half of it burnt in 2015 and rebuilt as a ruin on purpose.","",""],["p","bearcat-comedy-club","venues","Bearcat Comedy Club","Twickenham","The Turk's Head, 28 Winchester Road, TW1 1LF","Saturday nights in a St Margarets pub, and one of the oldest clubs in the country.","",""],["p","bethnal-green-working-mens-club","venues","Bethnal Green Working Men's Club","Bethnal Green","42-44 Pollard Row, E2 6NB","A real working men's club, still with its members, hired out for cabaret six nights a week.","",""],["p","bloomsbury-theatre","venues","Bloomsbury Theatre","Bloomsbury","15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH","A 545-seat theatre off Gower Street that books touring stand-ups, family shows and new work, with a 70-seat studio behind it.","",""],["p","blue-note-london","venues","Blue Note London","Covent Garden","42-49 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4EJ","The New York club's first London room, two shows a night under St Martin's Lane.","",""],["p","bridge-theatre","venues","Bridge Theatre","Borough & Bermondsey","3 Potters Fields Park, SE1 2SG","The first big commercial theatre built in London for eighty years, and it changes 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everything.","",""],["p","cadogan-hall","venues","Cadogan Hall","Chelsea","5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ","A Byzantine-looking Christian Science church of 1907, emptied of its congregation and turned into a 950-seat hall.","","/img/cadogan-hall-480.jpg?v=be6ba700"],["p","cafe-oto","venues","Café OTO","Dalston","18-22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL","A café by day and, by night, the room in Europe most likely to be putting on something nobody has a name for.","","/img/cafe-oto-480.jpg?v=0a5bbe0d"],["p","cecil-sharp-house","venues","Cecil Sharp House","Primrose Hill","2 Regent's Park Road, NW1 7AY","The home of English folk since 1930, with a mural that took Ivon Hitchens three years.","",""],["p","christ-church-spitalfields","venues","Christ Church Spitalfields","Spitalfields","Commercial Street, E1 6LY","Hawksmoor's largest church, and the home of the Spitalfields Music festival.","","/img/christ-church-spitalfields-480.jpg?v=f5ea2aca"],["p","colour-factory","venues","Colour Factory","Hackney Wick","8a Queen's Yard, White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Nightclub, live-music room and food court at once, in Queen's Yard at Hackney Wick.","",""],["p","conway-hall","venues","Conway Hall","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","The oldest continuous chamber music series in the world, in a hall built for freethinkers, on Sunday evenings from October.","","/img/conway-hall-480.jpg?v=63c375f8"],["p","corner-corner","venues","Corner Corner","Canada Water","Maritime Street, SE16 7LL","A Canada Water warehouse of street food and free jazz, with a working farm inside it.","",""],["p","corsica-studios","venues","Corsica Studios","Elephant and Castle","4-5 Elephant Road, SE17 1LB","Two low rooms under the railway at Elephant, independent since 2004.","",""],["p","crazy-coqs","venues","Crazy Coqs","Soho","21 Sherwood Street, W1F 7ED","An intact art deco cabaret room in the basement of a Piccadilly hotel, doing songbook, jazz singers and cabaret.","","/img/crazy-coqs-480.jpg?v=ee96c4ba"],["p","criterion-theatre","venues","Criterion Theatre","St James's","224 Piccadilly, W1J 9HP","A Victorian theatre thirty feet under Piccadilly Circus, reached by going down.","",""],["p","dalston-superstore","venues","Dalston Superstore","Dalston","117 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB","A queer bar upstairs and a basement club under it, open since 2009.","",""],["p","donmar-warehouse","venues","Donmar Warehouse","Covent Garden","41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX","A hops warehouse and banana-ripening depot, now 251 seats and no bad ones.","",""],["p","downstairs-at-the-kings-head","venues","Downstairs at the King's Head","Crouch End","2 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA","A cellar under a Crouch End pub where the circuit works out what is funny.","",""],["p","drumsheds","venues","Drumsheds","Edmonton","Meridian Water, Glover Drive, N18 3HF","A flat-pack furniture warehouse turned into a fifteen-thousand-capacity club.","",""],["p","e1","venues","E1","Wapping","110 Pennington Street, E1W 2BB","Two rooms in a Wapping warehouse, one of them very long and very loud.","",""],["p","earth","venues","EartH","Dalston","11-17 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BH","An art deco cinema left exactly as forty years of neglect found it, and used for gigs.","",""],["p","efg-london-jazz-festival","venues","EFG London Jazz Festival","City-wide","Venues across London","Ten days in November when every jazz room in London, and a good many rooms that are not, has something on.","",""],["p","electric-ballroom","venues","Electric Ballroom","Camden Town","184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP","An Irish dance hall that became a punk venue and has stayed in the same family throughout.","",""],["p","electric-brixton","venues","Electric Brixton","Brixton","1 Town Hall Parade, SW2 1RJ","The old Fridge, next to Brixton Town Hall, holding fifteen hundred.","",""],["p","eventim-apollo","venues","Eventim Apollo","Hammersmith","45 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH","The Hammersmith Odeon under another name, and one of the best-preserved art deco theatres in Britain.","",""],["p","fabric","venues","fabric","Farringdon","77a Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ","Three rooms in a Smithfield cold store, and a dancefloor that plays through your feet.","",""],["p","fold","venues","FOLD","Canning Town","Stephenson Street, Canning Town, E16 4SA","A warehouse in Canning Town with no photographs allowed and sets that run all night.","",""],["p","green-note","venues","Green Note","Camden Town","106 Parkway, NW1 7AN","Sixty seats in a Camden back room, folk and acoustic seven nights a week.","",""],["p","hackney-empire","venues","Hackney Empire","Hackney","291 Mare Street, E8 1EJ","Frank Matcham's music hall of 1901, by common consent the most beautiful theatre in London, saved from bingo and back on Mare…","","/img/hackney-empire-480.jpg?v=336ea082"],["p","hampstead-theatre","venues","Hampstead Theatre","Swiss Cottage","Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU","New plays only, in a purpose-built house behind Swiss Cottage.","",""],["p","hen-and-chickens-theatre","venues","Hen and Chickens Theatre","Highbury","109 St Paul's Road, N1 2NA","Fifty-four seats above an Islington pub, running comedy and new plays since 1985.","",""],["p","hoopla","venues","Hoopla","London Bridge","The Miller, 96 Snowsfields, SE1 3SS","The first improv theatre in the country, upstairs at a London Bridge pub.","",""],["p","hootananny-brixton","venues","Hootananny Brixton","Brixton","95 Effra Road, SW2 1DF","Reggae, ska and Balkan brass in a Brixton pub, free most nights.","",""],["p","islington-assembly-hall","venues","Islington Assembly Hall","Islington","Upper Street, N1 2UD","The art deco ballroom attached to Islington Town Hall, with the original sprung floor.","",""],["p","jazz-cafe","venues","Jazz Cafe","Camden","5 Parkway, NW1 7PG","A former bank in Camden where the definition of jazz has always been generous and the balcony is the place to be.","","/img/jazz-cafe-480.jpg?v=7e211405"],["p","kiln-theatre","venues","Kiln Theatre","Kilburn","269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR","The house that put public inquiries on stage, word for word.","",""],["p","kings-place","venues","Kings Place","King's Cross","90 York Way, N1 9AG","Two halls in an office building behind King's Cross, and the one concert room in London built inside a single tree.","","/img/kings-place-480.jpg?v=83c823b8"],["p","koko","venues","KOKO","Camden Town","1A Camden High Street, NW1 7JE","A 1900 theatre with three tiers of gilt balcony, rebuilt after a fire and reopened in 2022.","",""],["p","lafayette","venues","Lafayette","King's Cross","11 Goods Way, N1C 4DP","Six hundred people in a new brick room behind the gasholders.","",""],["p","leicester-square-theatre","venues","Leicester Square Theatre","Leicester Square","6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX","Four hundred seats off Leicester Square, and the house most touring comedians play in London.","",""],["p","london-coliseum","venues","London Coliseum","Covent Garden","32-35 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4ES","Frank Matcham's 1904 variety palace, the largest theatre in London, where English National Opera sings everything in English.","","/img/london-coliseum-480.jpg?v=019efbb6"],["p","lso-st-lukes","venues","LSO St Luke's","Old Street","161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG","A Hawksmoor church that stood roofless for thirty years, rebuilt by the London Symphony Orchestra as its rehearsal and concert…","","/img/lso-st-lukes-480.jpg?v=bc1c006c"],["p","lyceum-theatre","venues","Lyceum Theatre","Covent Garden","21 Wellington Street, WC2E 7DN","Bram Stoker managed the house here, and watched his employer turn into Dracula.","",""],["p","lyric-hammersmith-theatre","venues","Lyric Hammersmith Theatre","Hammersmith","Lyric Square, King Street, W6 0QL","A Frank Matcham auditorium taken down piece by piece and rebuilt inside a 1970s block.","",""],["p","milton-court-concert-hall","venues","Milton Court Concert Hall","Barbican","Silk Street, EC2Y 9AP","The Guildhall School's own hall, where the players are conservatoire students and the seats cost a few pounds.","",""],["p","ministry-of-sound","venues","Ministry of Sound","Elephant and Castle","103 Gaunt Street, SE1 6DP","The club built around a sound system, in a disused Elephant bus garage since 1991.","",""],["p","moth-club","venues","MOTH Club","Hackney","Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, E9 6NU","A veterans' social club in Hackney with a gold tinsel ceiling, hired out for gigs six nights a week.","",""],["p","museum-of-comedy","venues","Museum of Comedy","Bloomsbury","The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SR","A comedy museum and a hundred-seat club, in the crypt of a Hawksmoor church.","","/img/museum-of-comedy-480.jpg?v=3244dcee"],["p","national-theatre","venues","National Theatre","South Bank","South Bank, SE1 9PX","Lasdun's stacked concrete terraces, hated on sight and now hard to imagine the river without.","","/img/national-theatre-480.jpg?v=7edb969c"],["p","o2-academy-brixton","venues","O2 Academy Brixton","Brixton","211 Stockwell Road, SW9 9SL","The best-raked floor in London: a 1929 cinema whose stalls slope towards the stage.","",""],["p","o2-shepherds-bush-empire","venues","O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire","Shepherd's Bush","Shepherd's Bush Green, W12 8TT","Frank Matcham's 1903 music hall, with three balconies stacked almost on top of the stage.","",""],["p","official-london-theatre-ticket-booth","venues","Official London Theatre Ticket Booth","Leicester Square","Clocktower Building, Leicester Square, WC2H 7DE","The West End's shared box office, selling off what has not sold for this afternoon and tonight.","",""],["p","omeara","venues","Omeara","Southwark","6 O'Meara Street, SE1 1TE","Three hundred and fifty people in a railway arch, built by a Mumford.","",""],["p","opera-holland-park","venues","Opera Holland Park","Holland Park","Holland Park, W8 6LU","A canopy raised in the park every summer, in front of the ruins of a Jacobean house, with peacocks interrupting.","","/img/opera-holland-park-480.jpg?v=b3c22efe"],["p","oslo","venues","Oslo","Hackney Central","1a Amhurst Road, E8 1LL","A Victorian railway building by Hackney Central, with a bar below and a room above.","",""],["p","ovo-arena-wembley","venues","OVO Arena Wembley","Wembley Park","Engineers Way, HA9 0AA","A 1934 swimming pool, twelve and a half thousand seats, and the arena everyone still calls Wembley.","",""],["p","palace-theatre","venues","Palace Theatre","Seven Dials","113 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5AY","Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, in the theatre it has filled since 2016.","","/img/palace-theatre-480.jpg?v=272da0fe"],["p","park-theatre","venues","Park Theatre","Finsbury Park","Clifton Terrace, N4 3JP","Two houses beside Finsbury Park station, built from nothing in 2013.","",""],["p","peacock-theatre","venues","Peacock Theatre","St Clement Danes","Portugal Street, WC2A 2HT","Sadler's Wells' West End house, for the dance that wants a bigger room than Rosebery Avenue.","","/img/peacock-theatre-480.jpg?v=b84c3df7"],["p","phonox","venues","Phonox","Brixton","418 Brixton Road, SW9 7AY","Two nights a week, one resident each, in the old Plan B on Brixton Road.","",""],["p","pizza-express-live-dean-street","venues","Pizza Express Live Dean Street","Soho","10 Dean Street, W1D 3RD","The best-known jazz room in Britain to sit underneath a pizza restaurant, and a serious booking policy despite it.","","/img/pizza-express-live-dean-street-480.jpg?v=a4f4f55e"],["p","queen-elizabeth-hall","venues","Queen Elizabeth Hall","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The Southbank's middle-sized hall, where the early music and the odder programming go.","",""],["p","regents-park-open-air-theatre","venues","Regent's Park Open Air Theatre","Marylebone","Inner Circle, Regent's Park, NW1 4NR","A thousand seats among the trees, for eighteen weeks of the year.","",""],["p","rich-mix","venues","Rich Mix","Shoreditch","35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA","A former garment factory on Bethnal Green Road with three cinema screens and a stage.","",""],["p","riverside-studios","venues","Riverside Studios","Hammersmith","Crisp Road, W6 9RL","Where Doctor Who and Hancock were made, now a theatre with a cinema running beside it.","",""],["p","ronnie-scotts","venues","Ronnie Scott's","Soho","47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT","London's jazz club since 1959, with three bills a night and a house band that plays until the small hours.","","/img/own-ronnie-scotts-480.jpg?v=03d46f14"],["p","roundhouse","venues","Roundhouse","Chalk Farm","Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH","A Victorian engine shed in the round, where the audience stands under a ring of iron columns.","","/img/roundhouse-480.jpg?v=44ade82a"],["p","royal-academy-of-music","venues","Royal Academy of Music","Marylebone","1 Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT","Britain's oldest music college, with a small free museum of instruments and student concerts most days of term.","","/img/royal-academy-of-music-480.jpg?v=b5db4b32"],["p","royal-albert-hall","venues","Royal Albert Hall","South Kensington","4 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP","Victoria's memorial to her husband, built as an amphitheatre for five thousand, and the home of the Proms since the war.","","/img/royal-albert-hall-480.jpg?v=f03a4073"],["p","royal-court-theatre","venues","Royal Court Theatre","Chelsea","Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS","The theatre that made new writing the point, and helped end stage censorship.","",""],["p","royal-festival-hall","venues","Royal Festival Hall","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","The one building the Festival of Britain left behind, with the most generous free foyer in London under the auditorium.","","/img/royal-festival-hall-480.jpg?v=46b08cca"],["p","royal-opera-house","venues","Royal Opera House","Covent Garden","Bow Street, WC2E 9DD","The house of the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet, and the third theatre to stand on the spot after the first two burned down.","","/img/royal-opera-house-480.jpg?v=782f46a7"],["p","sadlers-wells","venues","Sadler's Wells","Clerkenwell","Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN","The country's dance house, on a site that has had a theatre on it since 1683.","",""],["p","sadlers-wells-east","venues","Sadler's Wells East","East Village","Stratford Walk, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 2AR","Sadler's Wells' fourth stage: a 550-seat dance theatre on the Olympic Park, open all day.","","/img/sadlers-wells-east-480.jpg?v=8d100265"],["p","scala","venues","Scala","King's Cross","275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL","Four floors of a 1920 cinema, stacked so you can hear the band from the stairs.","",""],["p","shakespeares-globe","venues","Shakespeare's Globe","Bankside","21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT","A working copy of Shakespeare's playhouse, in oak and thatch, a few hundred yards from where the first one stood.","","/img/own-shakespeares-globe-480.jpg?v=309aba21"],["p","smith-square-hall","venues","Sinfonia Smith Square","Westminster","Smith Square, SW1P 3HA","Thomas Archer's baroque church, burnt out in the Blitz and rebuilt as a concert hall, still standing alone in its square.","","/img/smith-square-hall-480.jpg?v=a72ba4fe"],["p","soho-jazz-festival","venues","Soho Jazz Festival","Soho","Ten rooms across Soho, Frith Street to Archer Street","Four September nights when ten Soho rooms run as one festival, and a pass gets you into all of them.","",""],["p","soho-theatre","venues","Soho Theatre","Soho","21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE","Three stages on Dean Street, and the room most British comedians play before anyone has heard of them.","",""],["p","soho-theatre-walthamstow","venues","Soho Theatre Walthamstow","Walthamstow","186 Hoe Street, E17 4QH","A 1930 Granada cinema brought back as a 960-seat theatre, and Soho Theatre's second house.","",""],["p","southbank-centre","venues","Southbank Centre","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX","Three concert halls, a gallery and a poetry library on one concrete raft, and the foyers are free.","",""],["p","southwark-playhouse-borough","venues","Southwark Playhouse Borough","Elephant and Castle","77-85 Newington Causeway, SE1 6BD","Two black-box stages under the railway at Borough, and a company that has moved six times.","",""],["p","southwark-playhouse-elephant","venues","Southwark Playhouse Elephant","Elephant and Castle","1 Dante Place, SE11 4RX","The company's second house, purpose-built in 2023 after thirty years of borrowed rooms.","",""],["p","st-jamess-piccadilly","venues","St James's Piccadilly","St James's","197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL","Wren's own favourite of his churches, with free lunchtime recitals three days a week.","","/img/own-st-jamess-piccadilly-480.jpg?v=723f7264"],["p","st-martin-in-the-fields","venues","St Martin-in-the-Fields","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","Free lunchtime recitals under Gibbs's ceiling, and candlelit concerts by night, in the church on the corner of Trafalgar Square.","","/img/st-martin-in-the-fields-480.jpg?v=f9f394b5"],["p","st-pauls-cathedral","venues","St Paul's Cathedral","St Paul's","St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD","Choral evensong under the dome, sung by the cathedral choir most afternoons, free and unticketed.","","/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981-480.jpg?v=09bb1dd5"],["p","stone-nest","venues","Stone Nest","Soho","136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ","A Welsh chapel of 1888 that became the Limelight, then a squat, and is now a theatre.","",""],["p","studio-338","venues","Studio 338","Greenwich Peninsula","338 Boord Street, SE10 0PF","A club with a terrace and palm trees, on an industrial road behind the Greenwich Peninsula.","",""],["p","temple-church","venues","Temple Church","Temple","Temple, EC4Y 7BB","The round church of the Knights Templar, with a choir of professional singers and one of the great English organs.","","/img/temple-church-480.jpg?v=f15f7b51"],["p","the-bill-murray","venues","The Bill Murray","Islington","39 Queen's Head Street, N1 8NQ","Angel Comedy's own pub, where much of the circuit tries material for free.","",""],["p","the-camden-head","venues","The Camden Head","Islington","2 Camden Walk, N1 8DY","Free stand-up every night of the year, upstairs in an Islington pub.","",""],["p","the-comedy-store","venues","The Comedy Store","Piccadilly","1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE","The club that made British stand-up what it is, running since 1979.","",""],["p","the-coronet-theatre","venues","The Coronet Theatre","Notting Hill","103 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB","An 1898 theatre at Notting Hill Gate, worn back to the brick and left that way.","",""],["p","the-free-association","venues","The Free Association","Southwark","26 Old Union Yard Arches, 228 Union Street, SE1 0LR","London's improv school and its stage, in a railway arch behind Union Street.","",""],["p","the-garage","venues","The Garage","Highbury","20-22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RA","Highbury Corner's indie room, where the band you have just heard of plays next month.","",""],["p","the-o2-arena","venues","The O2 Arena","Greenwich Peninsula","Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX","Twenty thousand people under the Millennium Dome, and for years the busiest music arena in the world.","",""],["p","the-old-vic","venues","The Old Vic","Waterloo","The Cut, SE1 8NB","The 1818 house where the National Theatre began, and never a subsidised one.","",""],["p","the-place","venues","The Place","Bloomsbury","17 Duke's Road, WC1H 9PY","A Victorian drill hall behind Euston where British contemporary dance was invented.","",""],["p","the-royal-vauxhall-tavern","venues","The Royal Vauxhall Tavern","Vauxhall","372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY","The first building in Britain protected for its place in LGBTQ history, and still a cabaret pub.","",""],["p","the-social","venues","The Social","Fitzrovia","5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD","A record label's basement bar off Oxford Street, open since 1999.","",""],["p","the-top-secret-comedy-club","venues","The Top Secret Comedy Club","Covent Garden","170 Drury Lane, WC2B 5PD","A Drury Lane basement where the bill is not announced until you are in it.","",""],["p","the-vortex-jazz-club","venues","The Vortex Jazz Club","Dalston","11 Gillett Square, N16 8AZ","Eighty-odd seats above a square in Dalston, and the room where British jazz mostly gets tried out first.","","/img/the-vortex-jazz-club-480.jpg?v=8f337025"],["p","the-windmill-brixton","venues","The Windmill Brixton","Brixton","22 Blenheim Gardens, SW2 5BZ","A back-street pub with a dog on the roof, and the room half of British guitar music came out of.","",""],["p","the-yard-theatre","venues","The Yard Theatre","Hackney Wick","43 White Post Lane, E9 5EN","A warehouse theatre in Hackney Wick, built out of salvage in four weeks.","",""],["p","theatre-royal-haymarket","venues","Theatre Royal Haymarket","St James's","18 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HT","Nash's portico of 1821, put where it is to close the view down Charles Street.","",""],["p","theatre-royal-drury-lane","venues","Theatre Royal, Drury Lane","Covent Garden","Catherine Street, WC2B 5JF","Four theatres have stood on this ground since 1663, and one of them is still working.","",""],["p","trinity-laban","venues","Trinity Laban","Deptford","Creekside, Deptford, SE8 3DZ","Herzog & de Meuron's Stirling Prize building in Deptford, and the country's dance conservatoire.","",""],["p","troxy","venues","Troxy","Limehouse","490 Commercial Road, E1 0HX","The country's largest cinema when it opened in 1933, in art deco, off the Commercial Road.","",""],["p","union-chapel","venues","Union Chapel","Islington","Compton Terrace, N1 2XD","A working Congregational church, a homeless drop-in and one of the best-sounding rooms in London, in that order.","","/img/union-chapel-480.jpg?v=a6c381b9"],["p","up-the-creek","venues","Up the Creek","Greenwich","302 Creek Road, SE10 9SW","Malcolm Hardee's club, where the audience heckling is part of the show.","",""],["p","venue-mot-unit-18","venues","Venue MOT Unit 18","New Cross","18-20 Surrey Canal Road, SE14 5RT","A former MOT garage under the railway at New Cross, with the roller door still on it.","",""],["p","village-underground","venues","Village Underground","Shoreditch","54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ","Three hollowed-out Jubilee line carriages on the roof, and a Victorian warehouse under them.","",""],["p","westminster-abbey","venues","Westminster Abbey","Westminster","20 Dean's Yard, SW1P 3PA","The Abbey choir singing in the building most of the English choral repertoire was written for.","","/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d"],["p","westminster-cathedral","venues","Westminster Cathedral","Victoria","42 Francis Street, SW1P 1QW","The best Catholic choir in the country, singing the Latin repertoire daily in a vast dark Byzantine basilica.","","/img/westminster-cathedral-480.jpg?v=0cfc1413"],["p","wigmore-hall","venues","Wigmore Hall","Marylebone","36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP","Five hundred and fifty-two seats, an Arts and Crafts cupola over the stage, and the chamber acoustic every other hall in London…","","/img/wigmore-hall-480.jpg?v=92a8905d"],["p","wiltons-music-hall","venues","Wilton's Music Hall","Whitechapel","1 Graces Alley, E1 8JB","The oldest surviving grand music hall in the world, built behind a row of houses and left standing by accident.","","/img/wiltons-music-hall-480.jpg?v=e5e989bb"],["p","xoyo","venues","XOYO","Shoreditch","32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP","A Shoreditch basement that gives a DJ thirteen weeks and lets them programme it.","",""],["p","young-vic","venues","Young Vic","Waterloo","66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ","Built of breeze blocks to last five years, and still here fifty on.","",""],["c","venues","venues","Performance venues","","","London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the…","",""],["p","bertha-dochouse","cinemas","Bertha DocHouse","Bloomsbury","The Brunswick, WC1N 1AW","The only screen in Britain that shows nothing but documentary, seven days a week.","",""],["p","bfi-imax","cinemas","BFI IMAX","Waterloo","1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, SE1 8XR","The largest cinema screen in Britain, in a glass drum in the middle of a roundabout.","",""],["p","bfi-southbank","cinemas","BFI Southbank","South Bank","Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT","Four screens run by the people who keep the national film archive, and two free rooms beside them.","",""],["p","cine-lumiere","cinemas","Cine Lumiere","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","Two screens inside the Institut francais, and the place in London for French and European film.","",""],["p","close-up-film-centre","cinemas","Close-Up Film Centre","Shoreditch","97 Sclater Street, E1 6HR","Forty seats, a cafe, and a lending library of twenty-six thousand films.","",""],["p","coldharbour-blue","cinemas","Coldharbour Blue","Loughborough Junction","259-260 Hardess Street, SE24 0HN","A railway arch in Loughborough Junction where the members walk in without booking.","",""],["p","electric-cinema-portobello","cinemas","Electric Cinema Portobello","Notting Hill","191 Portobello Road, W11 2ED","A cinema of 1911 with the seats taken out and leather armchairs, sofas and beds put in.","",""],["p","genesis-cinema","cinemas","Genesis Cinema","Mile End","93-95 Mile End Road, E1 4UJ","A family-run cinema on a site that has been selling entertainment since 1848, with the music hall's name still on its bar.","",""],["p","institute-of-contemporary-arts","cinemas","Institute of Contemporary Arts","The Mall","The Mall","Two screens on the Mall showing the films that have no distributor, in the building that showed them first.","","/img/institute-of-contemporary-arts.jpg?v=483f68fb"],["p","peckhamplex","cinemas","Peckhamplex","Peckham","95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST","An independent multiplex on Rye Lane where every ticket is £6.99.","",""],["p","phoenix-cinema","cinemas","Phoenix Cinema","East Finchley","52 High Road, N2 9PJ","An Edwardian barrel-vaulted ceiling over fourteen Art Deco panels, with films shown under it since 1912.","",""],["p","prince-charles-cinema","cinemas","Prince Charles Cinema","Leicester Square","7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY","The last independent left by Leicester Square, and it shows up to fifty-six different films a week.","",""],["p","regent-street-cinema","cinemas","Regent Street Cinema","Fitzrovia","307 Regent Street, W1B 2HW","The room where the Lumiere brothers showed moving pictures to a paying British audience in 1896.","",""],["p","rich-mix","cinemas","Rich Mix","Shoreditch","35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA","A former garment factory on Bethnal Green Road with three cinema screens and a stage.","",""],["p","rio-cinema","cinemas","Rio Cinema","Dalston","107 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB","Films have been shown at this address since 1909, and the room you sit in is the Art Deco one of 1937.","",""],["p","riverside-studios","cinemas","Riverside Studios","Hammersmith","Crisp Road, W6 9RL","Where Doctor Who and Hancock were made, now a theatre with a cinema running beside it.","",""],["p","the-arzner","cinemas","The Arzner","Bermondsey","10 Bermondsey Square, SE1 3UN","London's queer cinema: forty-eight seats, a bar that stays open past the film, and a door policy printed on every page.","",""],["p","the-castle-cinema","cinemas","The Castle Cinema","Homerton","First floor, 64-66 Brooksby's Walk, E9 6DA","Two screens on a first floor off Chatsworth Road, paid for by the people who wanted them.","",""],["p","the-garden-cinema","cinemas","The Garden Cinema","Covent Garden","39-41 Parker Street, WC2B 5PQ","Three small screens off Drury Lane, programmed in seasons, with the bar snacks chosen not to rustle.","",""],["p","the-lexi-cinema","cinemas","The Lexi Cinema","Kensal Rise","194b Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3JU","London's only social enterprise cinema: volunteers on the door, and the profits go to a project in South Africa.","",""],["c","cinemas","cinemas","Cinemas","","","London's cinemas worth crossing town for: the repertory and arthouse houses, the picture palaces kept going, the one IMAX, and…","",""],["p","a-soho-saunter","tours","A Soho Saunter","Soho","Leicester Square underground station, exit 1 by Wyndham's Theatre","Soho at opening time, when the deliveries are arriving and the waiters are putting the tables out.","",""],["p","a-village-in-piccadilly","tours","A Village in Piccadilly","Piccadilly","Piccadilly Circus underground station, exit 4 between the Eros statue and the Criterion canopy","The arcades, the gentlemen's clubs and the courtyards of the richest square half-mile in London.","",""],["p","changing-of-the-guard-tour","tours","Changing of the Guard Tour","Piccadilly","Piccadilly Circus underground station, by the Eros statue","The guard change with a music writer, who marches you in time with the band and explains what the ceremony is for.","",""],["p","charles-dickenss-london","tours","Charles Dickens's London","Embankment","Embankment underground station, the Villiers Street exit","The lost city Dickens wrote, walked in the order the novels put it.","",""],["p","chelsea-londons-ancient-riverside-village","tours","Chelsea: London's Ancient Riverside Village","Chelsea","Sloane Square underground station","From the Royal Hospital along the riverside village Chelsea was before it was an address.","",""],["p","darkest-victorian-london","tours","Darkest Victorian London","Southwark","Monument underground station, the Fish Street Hill exit","The Victorian underside of Southwark, in the corners the rebuilding missed.","",""],["p","death-debauchery-and-doctors-in-soho","tours","Death, Debauchery and Doctors in Soho","Soho","Tottenham Court Road station, exit 1 opposite the Flying Horse pub","Cholera, John Snow and the pump that proved how disease travels, among the side streets of Soho.","",""],["p","disastrous-london","tours","Disastrous London","Barbican","Barbican underground station","Plague pits, the Fire, the Blitz and the executions, with pubs, in the square mile that had all of them.","",""],["p","firsts-and-inventions-in-the-history-of-medicine","tours","Firsts and Inventions in the History of Medicine","Bloomsbury","Russell Square underground station","The Bloomsbury streets where the first vaccination, the first anaesthetic and the first antiseptic happened.","",""],["p","ghosts-of-the-old-city","tours","Ghosts of the Old City","St Paul's","St Paul's underground station, exit 2","The City after dark, when the offices empty and the alleys are the oldest thing about it.","",""],["p","gin-lane-hogarth-and-the-gin-craze","tours","Gin Lane: Hogarth and the Gin Craze","Soho","Leicester Square underground station, exit 4 on Cranbourn Street","Hogarth's 1751 print, and the streets of Covent Garden and St Giles it was drawn about.","",""],["p","harry-potter-film-locations-in-the-city","tours","Harry Potter Film Locations in the City","City of London","Bank underground station, exit 3 by the Wellington statue","The City places that were filmed for the Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley and Gringotts.","",""],["p","haunted-london","tours","Haunted London","Monument","Monument underground station, the Fish Street Hill exit","Sunday night in the alleys off Eastcheap, which are too narrow to open an umbrella in.","",""],["p","hidden-london","tours","Hidden London","Monument","Monument underground station, the Fish Street Hill exit","The forgotten corners of the City, from a guide who has spent years finding them.","",""],["p","in-the-footsteps-of-sherlock-holmes","tours","In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes","Embankment","Embankment underground station, the Villiers Street exit","The places from the stories, and the ones the television and films used instead.","",""],["p","inside-covent-garden","tours","Inside Covent Garden","Covent Garden","Covent Garden underground station","A walk that goes indoors - into the interiors round Covent Garden most people only see the doors of.","",""],["p","jack-the-ripper-matinee","tours","Jack the Ripper Matinee","Tower Hill","Tower Hill underground station, by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand","The same Ripper walk as the nightly one, in daylight.","",""],["p","jack-the-ripper-walking-tour","tours","Jack the Ripper Walking Tour","Tower Hill","Tower Hill underground station, by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand","The Whitechapel murders walked every night of the week, by guides who have been arguing about the case for years.","",""],["p","jack-the-rippers-whitechapel","tours","Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel","Whitechapel","Whitechapel station","The small-group Ripper walk, booked ahead, starting in Whitechapel rather than at the Tower.","",""],["p","jewish-london","tours","Jewish London","City of London","Bank underground station, by the London Troops War Memorial","The other Jewish London - the City rather than the East End.","",""],["p","legal-and-illegal-london-the-inns-of-court","tours","Legal and Illegal London: the Inns of Court","Holborn","Holborn underground station, main exit","Through the four Inns and the courts, on the law's own ground.","",""],["p","literary-london","tours","Literary London","Bloomsbury","Holborn underground station, the main exit onto Kingsway","Bloomsbury's squares, and the writers who worked in the houses round them.","",""],["p","little-venice","tours","Little Venice","Maida Vale","Warwick Avenue underground station","The canal basin where the Grand Union meets the Regent's, and the stucco streets around it.","",""],["p","londons-secret-village-clerkenwell","tours","London's Secret Village: Clerkenwell","Clerkenwell","St Paul's underground station, exit 2","Clerkenwell on its hillside, ten minutes from St Paul's and a different city.","",""],["p","musicity-x-low-line","tours","Musicity x Low Line","Southwark","Old Union Yard Arches, Union Street, SE1 1SD","Fifteen musicians were each given a spot along the railway viaduct and asked to write about it. Walk the line and listen.","",""],["p","notting-hill-and-portobello-market","tours","Notting Hill and Portobello Market","Notting Hill","Holland Park underground station","Saturday morning, when the whole length of Portobello Road is trading.","",""],["p","old-camden-town","tours","Old Camden Town","Camden","Camden Town underground station","Canals, catacombs, ironwork and the market, in the order they happened.","",""],["p","old-hampstead-village","tours","Old Hampstead Village","Hampstead","Hampstead underground station","The hill village London never quite swallowed, from the deepest station on the network.","",""],["p","old-kensington","tours","Old Kensington","Kensington","High Street Kensington underground station, by the Wasabi at the end of the arcade between the station and the High Street","The village behind the High Street, including the road with the embassies and the police box.","",""],["p","old-london-secret-places","tours","Old London: Secret Places","City of London","St Paul's underground station, exit 2","St Paul's to the Tower the long way, through the lanes between.","",""],["p","old-marylebone","tours","Old Marylebone","Marylebone","Bond Street underground station, the Marylebone Lane exit on the north side of Oxford Street","The village street and the Georgian grid behind Oxford Street.","",""],["p","old-mayfair","tours","Old Mayfair","Mayfair","Green Park underground station, the north exit on the corner of Piccadilly and Stratton Street","The parallelogram between Piccadilly and Oxford Street, where the money has always lived.","",""],["p","old-westminster","tours","Old Westminster","Westminster","St James's Park station, the Broadway exit opposite the Conrad hotel","The village that became the seat of government, three days a week from St James's Park.","",""],["p","old-westminster-by-gaslight","tours","Old Westminster by Gaslight","Westminster","Westminster underground station, exit 4 opposite Big Ben","The same ground as the daytime Westminster walk, after dark and under the lamps.","",""],["p","past-the-palace","tours","Past the Palace","St James's","Embankment underground station, the Villiers Street exit","The royal quarter through the keyhole rather than over the railings.","",""],["p","reel-london-film-locations","tours","Reel London: Film Locations","City of London","Barbican underground station","The City on screen, from Bond to Bridget Jones, led by working actors.","",""],["p","revolting-london","tours","Revolting London","Tower Hill","Tower Hill underground station, by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand","Two thousand years of rebellion, and what was done to the rebels.","",""],["p","rocknroll-london-the-pub-walk","tours","Rock'n'Roll London: the Pub Walk","Soho","Tottenham Court Road station, exit 1 opposite the Flying Horse pub","Soho's music history, walked between the pubs that were part of it.","",""],["p","rotherhithe-lost-village-secret-tunnel","tours","Rotherhithe: Lost Village, Secret Tunnel","Rotherhithe","Bermondsey underground station","The village the Mayflower sailed from, and the first tunnel ever driven under a river.","",""],["p","royal-london-and-the-guard-change","tours","Royal London and the Guard Change","Westminster","St James's Park underground station, the Broadway exit opposite the Conrad hotel","Walk with the Guards and their band from the barracks, then watch the ceremony.","",""],["p","secrets-and-splendours-of-st-pauls","tours","Secrets and Splendours of St Paul's","St Paul's","St Paul's underground station, exit 2","Wren's cathedral with a guide, inside and out.","",""],["p","seven-deadly-sins","tours","Seven Deadly Sins","Covent Garden","Covent Garden underground station","Lust, avarice, pride and the other four, each pinned to a specific address.","",""],["p","shakespeare-with-lute","tours","Shakespeare with Lute","Barbican","Barbican underground station","Shakespeare's London with a lutenist playing the music as you go.","",""],["p","shakespeares-and-dickenss-london","tours","Shakespeare's and Dickens's London","City of London","St Paul's underground station, exit 2","Two writers' City, guided by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor who performs as he goes.","",""],["p","t-s-eliot-and-the-waste-land","tours","T S Eliot and The Waste Land","Blackfriars","Blackfriars underground station","The City of the poem, walked in the order the poem takes it.","",""],["p","tate-britain-tour","tours","Tate Britain Tour","Pimlico","Pimlico underground station, just beyond the ticket barriers","Five hundred years of British painting with an arts critic choosing the route.","",""],["p","thames-sightseeing-brunels-river","tours","Thames Sightseeing: Brunel's River","Embankment","Embankment underground station, the river exit","A river trip rather than a walk, with a guide on the boat as far as Brunel's tunnel.","",""],["p","the-along-the-thames-pub-walk","tours","The Along the Thames Pub Walk","Blackfriars","Blackfriars underground station, the exit on the corner of New Bridge Street and Queen Victoria Street","Friday evening along the river, taking in the last galleried coaching inn in London.","",""],["p","the-ancient-city-at-night","tours","The Ancient City at Night","Bank","Bank underground station, exit 3 by the Wellington statue","The oldest ground in London and the newest buildings on it, after the offices empty.","",""],["p","the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour","tours","The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour","Soho","Tottenham Court Road station, exit 1","Four days a week through the Soho and Marylebone the Beatles actually used - the clubs, the offices, the rooftop.","",""],["p","the-beatles-in-my-life","tours","The Beatles: In My Life","Marylebone","Marylebone station","The Marylebone and St John's Wood addresses, including the registry office two of them married in.","",""],["p","the-blitz-london-turned-crimson","tours","The Blitz: London Turned Crimson","St Paul's","St Paul's underground station, exit 2","The night the City burned, told where it happened.","",""],["p","the-british-museum-tour","tours","The British Museum Tour","Bloomsbury","Russell Square underground station","Two hours in the British Museum with somebody choosing what to look at.","",""],["p","the-city-churches","tours","The City Churches","Cannon Street","Cannon Street station, the Dowgate Hill exit","Wren's spires, and the churches under them that most people never go into.","",""],["p","the-east-enders-pub-walk","tours","The East Ender's Pub Walk","Spitalfields","Liverpool Street station, the Bishopsgate west exit at the top of the escalator, near Eataly","Thursday afternoon from a courtyard off Bishopsgate, into the East End's pubs.","",""],["p","the-famous-square-mile","tours","The Famous Square Mile","City of London","Monument underground station, the Fish Street Hill exit","The classic City walk: two thousand years in two hours, guided by a barrister.","",""],["p","the-heart-of-the-city","tours","The Heart of the City","Tower Hill","Tower Hill underground station, by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand","The Gherkin, the Cheesegrater, Lloyd's, and the money that put them there.","",""],["p","the-hidden-pubs-of-old-london-town","tours","The Hidden Pubs of Old London Town","Temple","Temple underground station","Four or five pubs down alleys you would not find on your own, on a Wednesday evening.","",""],["p","the-london-of-oscar-wilde","tours","The London of Oscar Wilde","Mayfair","Green Park underground station, the north exit on the corner of Piccadilly and Stratton Street","Wilde's addresses, from the height of it to the Old Bailey.","",""],["p","the-lure-of-the-underground","tours","The Lure of the Underground","Marylebone","Baker Street station, the Marylebone Road exit","The world's first underground railway, told from the station that still looks like 1863.","",""],["p","the-national-gallery-tour","tours","The National Gallery Tour","Trafalgar Square","Embankment underground station, the Villiers Street exit","From the Wilton Diptych to the Sunflowers, with somebody choosing which thirty pictures.","",""],["p","the-old-jewish-quarter","tours","The Old Jewish Quarter","Whitechapel","Tower Hill underground station, by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand","The East End the poorest arrivals made, from Tower Hill into Whitechapel.","",""],["p","the-old-palace-quarter","tours","The Old Palace Quarter","St James's","Green Park underground station, the Green Park exit by the fountain","St James's and Mayfair's quiet streets, rated by its own guides as one of the best they do.","",""],["p","the-tate-modern-tour","tours","The Tate Modern Tour","Bankside","Tate Modern, just inside the west entrance to the Turbine Hall","A power station turned into the most visited modern art gallery in the world, with a guide.","",""],["p","the-unknown-east-end","tours","The Unknown East End","Whitechapel","Whitechapel station, the Whitechapel Road exit","The neighbourhood the government was frightened of, and the one that produced the most.","",""],["p","the-victoria-and-albert-museum-tour","tours","The Victoria and Albert Museum Tour","South Kensington","South Kensington underground station, just beyond the ticket barrier","The first museum of art and design anywhere, and still the largest, with somebody to navigate it.","",""],["p","this-is-london-the-highlights-tour","tours","This is London: the Highlights Tour","Westminster","St James's Park underground station, the Broadway exit opposite the Conrad hotel","Sunday at half past nine, before the crowds, through the set pieces.","",""],["p","undiscovered-london-bermondsey","tours","Undiscovered London: Bermondsey","Bermondsey","Bermondsey underground station","The warehouses and docks of what was once the biggest port in the world, while they are still there.","",""],["p","westminster-abbey-tour","tours","Westminster Abbey Tour","Westminster","Outside the west front of Westminster Abbey","The abbey with a guide, which is the difference between a building and a thousand years of argument.","",""],["p","westminster-at-war","tours","Westminster at War","Westminster","Embankment underground station, the river exit","The nerve centre of the war, sandbagged, bombed and still governing.","",""],["c","tours","tours","Guided Tours","","","Guided tours worth booking: walks led by people who know the streets, and the bus, river and cycling tours that earn their fare.…","",""],["p","berry-bros-rudd","shopping","Berry Bros. & Rudd","St James's","3 St James's Street, SW1A 1EG","Wine merchants on the same site since 1698, in a shop whose floor slopes and whose scales weighed Byron.","","/img/berry-bros-rudd-480.jpg?v=2d82b24e"],["p","bond-street","shopping","Bond Street","Mayfair","Bond Street, W1S","The jewellers at the bottom, the fashion houses at the top, and the auction rooms in between.","",""],["p","brick-lane","shopping","Brick Lane","Spitalfields","Brick Lane, E1","Vintage clothes by the kilo and by the piece, north of the railway.","",""],["p","brompton-road","shopping","Brompton Road","Knightsbridge","Brompton Road, SW3","Harrods, Harvey Nichols round the corner, and the shops that gather near them.","",""],["p","burlington-arcade","shopping","Burlington Arcade","Mayfair","Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, W1J","The first shopping arcade in Britain, still patrolled by beadles in top hats who will stop you whistling.","","/img/street-burlington-arcade-480.jpg?v=5489ffe9"],["p","camden-high-street","shopping","Camden High Street","Chalk Farm","Camden High Street, NW1","The markets, and the shops that grew out of them.","",""],["p","carnaby-street","shopping","Carnaby Street","Soho","Carnaby Street, W1F","Independent labels and the streets off it, sixty years after the boutiques made it famous.","","/img/carnaby-street-480.jpg?v=04ff387c"],["p","cecil-court","shopping","Cecil Court","Seven Dials","Cecil Court, WC2N","A pedestrian lane of antiquarian bookshops, maps and prints, the book trade's since the 1890s.","","/img/cecil-court-480.jpg?v=de6d1805"],["p","charing-cross-road","shopping","Charing Cross Road","Seven Dials","Charing Cross Road, WC2H","The bookshop street, Foyles at the top of it.","","/img/charing-cross-road-480.jpg?v=07695816"],["p","chelsea-design-district","shopping","Chelsea Design District","Lot's Village","Lots Road, SW10","The interiors trade's showrooms along Lots Road and the western King's Road.","",""],["p","coal-drops-yard","shopping","Coal Drops Yard","Somers Town","Stable Street, N1C 4DQ","Victorian coal sheds at King's Cross, a curved roof over the shops that took them.","",""],["p","columbia-road","shopping","Columbia Road","Shoreditch","Columbia Road, E2","The flower market on Sunday mornings, and the small shops behind the stalls.","",""],["p","daunt-books-marylebone","shopping","Daunt Books Marylebone","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","An Edwardian bookshop with oak galleries and a stained-glass window, arranged by country rather than by subject.","","/img/own-daunt-books-marylebone-480.jpg?v=6559ec88"],["p","floris-london","shopping","Floris London","St James's","89 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JH","A perfumer on the same Jermyn Street site since 1730, still run by the founder's family nine generations on.","","/img/floris-london-480.jpg?v=f30aac58"],["p","fortnum-mason","shopping","Fortnum & Mason","St James's","181-184 Piccadilly, W1A 1ER","The Piccadilly grocer since 1707, and still the most reliable place in London to buy something British to take home.","","/img/fortnum-mason-480.jpg?v=9e0e4d11"],["p","foyles","shopping","Foyles","Soho","107 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DT","Four miles of shelving up an atrium, on the road that used to be nothing but bookshops.","","/img/foyles-480.jpg?v=ee329b23"],["p","hamleys","shopping","Hamleys","Soho","188-196 Regent Street, W1B 5BT","Seven floors of toys with somebody demonstrating one on every landing.","","/img/hamleys-480.jpg?v=22d80275"],["p","harrods","shopping","Harrods","Knightsbridge","87-135 Brompton Road, SW1X 7XL","Three hundred departments behind a terracotta front, and food halls tiled like a cathedral.","","/img/harrods-480.jpg?v=70832cbb"],["p","harvey-nichols","shopping","Harvey Nichols","Knightsbridge","109-125 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7RJ","Eight floors of fashion and beauty, with a food market and a dining room on the fifth.","","/img/harvey-nichols-480.jpg?v=235baeb0"],["p","hatchards","shopping","Hatchards","St James's","187 Piccadilly, W1J 9LE","London's oldest bookshop, opened in 1797 and still selling books over five floors of Piccadilly.","","/img/hatchards-480.jpg?v=7c738126"],["p","hatton-garden","shopping","Hatton Garden","Hatton Garden","Hatton Garden, EC1N","The jewellery trade's own street: rings made and priced without a Bond Street frontage.","",""],["p","james-smith-sons","shopping","James Smith & Sons","Bloomsbury","Hazelwood House, 53 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1BL","An umbrella shop of 1857 with its Victorian shopfront entirely intact, still making sticks and umbrellas on the premises.","","/img/james-smith-sons-480.jpg?v=d5062aba"],["p","jermyn-street","shopping","Jermyn Street","St James's","Jermyn Street, SW1Y","Shirtmakers, shoemakers, a cheesemonger and a perfumer, most of them here for a century or more.","","/img/jermyn-street-480.jpg?v=cf6b7a88"],["p","john-lewis-oxford-street","shopping","John Lewis Oxford Street","Fitzrovia","300 Oxford Street, W1C 1DX","The flagship of a shop owned by the people who work in it.","","/img/john-lewis-oxford-street-480.jpg?v=d1dd6f61"],["p","kings-road","shopping","King's Road","Chelsea","King's Road, SW3","Fashion since the sixties, and the interiors shops that followed.","",""],["p","liberty-london","shopping","Liberty London","Soho","Regent Street, W1B 5AH","A mock-Tudor department store built from two warships, and the printed fabrics that carry its name worldwide.","","/img/liberty-london-480.jpg?v=8466f8dd"],["p","lock-co-hatters","shopping","Lock & Co. Hatters","St James's","6 St James's Street, SW1A 1EF","The oldest hat shop in the world, trading from the same premises since 1676, where the bowler was invented.","","/img/lock-co-hatters-480.jpg?v=d13911b7"],["p","marylebone-high-street","shopping","Marylebone High Street","Marylebone","Marylebone High Street, W1U","A village street in the West End, Daunt Books at its heart.","",""],["p","oxford-street","shopping","Oxford Street","Mayfair","Oxford Street, W1C","Selfridges, John Lewis and the high street at its densest.","",""],["p","paxton-whitfield","shopping","Paxton & Whitfield","St James's","93 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JE","Cheesemonger to Jermyn Street since 1797, with a counter of British farmhouse cheese cut to order.","","/img/paxton-whitfield-480.jpg?v=f69078a0"],["p","peter-jones","shopping","Peter Jones","Chelsea","Sloane Square, SW1W 8EL","A wall of glass curving round Sloane Square, and one of the first modern buildings in Britain.","","/img/peter-jones-480.jpg?v=03f86300"],["p","portobello-road","shopping","Portobello Road","Notting Hill","Portobello Road, W11","The antiques stretch, at its fullest on a Saturday morning.","",""],["p","regent-street","shopping","Regent Street","Soho","Regent Street, W1B","The big names' flagships under one curved Regency facade.","",""],["p","savile-row","shopping","Savile Row","Mayfair","Savile Row, W1S","The tailors' street, where a suit is cut for you and takes months.","",""],["p","selfridges","shopping","Selfridges","Marylebone","400 Oxford Street, W1A 1AB","The store that invented the shop window as entertainment, at the end of Oxford Street nobody wanted.","","/img/selfridges-480.jpg?v=985f0a15"],["p","seven-dials","shopping","Seven Dials","Seven Dials","Seven Dials, WC2H","The seven streets off the sundial: independent fashion, beauty and the Neal's Yard shops.","",""],["p","sloane-street","shopping","Sloane Street","Hans Town","Sloane Street, SW1X","The fashion houses' other row, from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square.","",""],["p","turnbull-asser","shopping","Turnbull & Asser","St James's","71-72 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6PF","The Jermyn Street shirtmaker, cutting bespoke on the premises since 1885 and holding a royal warrant for most of a century.","","/img/turnbull-asser-480.jpg?v=4acee55e"],["p","twinings","shopping","Twinings","Covent Garden","216 Strand, WC2R 1AP","The oldest tea shop in London, nine feet wide, on the site Thomas Twining took in 1706.","","/img/twinings-480.jpg?v=5fb21d4f"],["p","waterstones-piccadilly","shopping","Waterstones Piccadilly","St James's","203-206 Piccadilly, W1J 9HD","The largest bookshop in Europe, eight miles of shelves in the modernist Simpson's building on Piccadilly.","","/img/waterstones-piccadilly-480.jpg?v=d07eaeed"],["p","westfield-london","shopping","Westfield London","Shepherd's Bush","Ariel Way, W12 7GF","Two hundred shops under one roof at White City.","",""],["p","westfield-stratford-city","shopping","Westfield Stratford City","East Village","Montfichet Road, E20 1EJ","Beside the Olympic Park, the other Westfield.","",""],["c","shopping","shopping","Shopping","","","Where to go: the streets and quarters each known for one thing, and the stores big enough to be a day out. Filter by what you are…","",""],["p","abney-park","outdoors","Abney Park","Stoke Newington","Abney Park, Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH","A Victorian arboretum turned woodland, with a Gothic chapel in the middle of it.","","/img/abney-park-480.jpg?v=377c4255"],["p","battersea-park","outdoors","Battersea Park","Battersea","Battersea Park, Albert Bridge Road, SW11 4NJ","A boating lake, a Peace Pagoda and a riverside promenade facing Chelsea.","","/img/battersea-park-480.jpg?v=4aef0c21"],["p","beckenham-place-park","outdoors","Beckenham Place Park","Beckenham","Beckenham Hill Road, BR3 1SY","Ninety-six hectares of Lewisham's biggest park: a Georgian mansion, ancient woodland and the swimming lake that was dug back in…","","/img/beckenham-place-park-480.jpg?v=92f099a9"],["p","boating-on-the-serpentine","outdoors","Boating on the Serpentine","Hyde Park","Hyde Park Boathouse, Hyde Park, W2 2UH","Pedalos and rowing boats in the middle of Hyde Park.","",""],["p","brockwell-lido","outdoors","Brockwell Lido","Herne Hill","Dulwich Road, SE24 0PA","A historically protected lido of 1937, fifty metres of cold water and a very good café.","","/img/brockwell-lido-480.jpg?v=df015fc3"],["p","brompton-cemetery","outdoors","Brompton Cemetery","West Brompton","Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Road, SW10 9UG","A cemetery built as a garden, with a domed chapel and colonnades at the end of it.","","/img/brompton-cemetery-480.jpg?v=fdc0901b"],["p","burgess-park","outdoors","Burgess Park","Camberwell","Albany Road, SE5 0AL","A hundred and forty acres made by demolishing the streets that were here, with a canal bridge left stranded in the middle.","","/img/burgess-park-480.jpg?v=d49b1a31"],["p","bushy-park","outdoors","Bushy Park","Hampton","Bushy Park, Hampton Court Road, TW12 2EJ","Richmond's quieter neighbour: a mile of chestnuts, the Diana Fountain and free-roaming deer.","","/img/bushy-park-480.jpg?v=758249c7"],["p","camley-street-natural-park","outdoors","Camley Street Natural Park","King's Cross","12 Camley Street, N1C 4PW","Two acres of woodland and pond on a coal yard, behind St Pancras.","",""],["p","cannizaro-park","outdoors","Cannizaro Park","Wimbledon","West Side Common, Wimbledon, SW19 4UE","Thirty-five acres of gardens behind Wimbledon Common, and hardly anyone in them.","","/img/own-cannizaro-park-480.jpg?v=d1352f51"],["p","charing-cross-station","outdoors","Charing Cross: the Weald and the Kent coast by train","Covent Garden","Strand, WC2N 5HF","Sevenoaks and Knole in half an hour, Tunbridge Wells and the Weald in an hour, Hastings and the Kent coast beyond.","","/img/charing-cross-station-480.jpg?v=27391467"],["p","charlton-lido","outdoors","Charlton Lido","Charlton","Hornfair Park, Shooters Hill Road, SE18 4LX","A heated 50-metre pool in south-east London, open through the winter.","",""],["p","chelsea-physic-garden","outdoors","Chelsea Physic Garden","Chelsea","66 Royal Hospital Road, SW3 4HS","Four walled acres of plants kept for what they do, not how they look, since 1673.","","/img/chelsea-physic-garden-480.jpg?v=066939d7"],["p","crystal-palace-park","outdoors","Crystal Palace Park","Crystal Palace","Thicket Road, SE19 2GA","The park laid out around the Crystal Palace, with the terraces where it stood, the first dinosaur sculptures in the world beside…","",""],["p","ealing-beaver-project-safari","outdoors","Ealing Beaver Project Safari","Greenford","Paradise Fields, Greenford, UB6 0UW","Wild beavers, back in a west London field, watched from a few metres away.","",""],["p","epping-forest","outdoors","Epping Forest","Chingford","Rangers Road, Chingford, E4 7QH","Six thousand acres of ancient wood running from Chingford up into Essex, bought for Londoners by the City in 1878 after the first…","","/img/epping-forest-480.jpg?v=7a7a0513"],["p","euston-station","outdoors","Euston: Tring, Berkhamsted and Bletchley by train","Somers Town","Euston Road, NW1 2RT","Tring and the Ashridge beechwoods in forty minutes, Berkhamsted's castle and canal, and Bletchley Park for the codebreakers.","","/img/euston-station-480.jpg?v=0b9a6721"],["p","fenchurch-street-station","outdoors","Fenchurch Street: Leigh-on-Sea and Southend by train","Tower Hill","Fenchurch Place, EC3M 4AJ","The estuary in under an hour: cockles at Old Leigh, the mile-long pier at Southend, and the beach at Chalkwell.","","/img/fenchurch-street-station-480.jpg?v=f024d258"],["p","garden-museum","outdoors","Garden Museum","Lambeth","Lambeth Road, SE1 7LB","Three gardens in a deconsecrated churchyard next to Lambeth Palace, one of them Dan Pearson's.","","/img/garden-museum-480.jpg?v=b8cc0eb8"],["p","goboat-canary-wharf","outdoors","GoBoat Canary Wharf","Canary Wharf","22 Churchill Place, E14 5RE","A picnic boat in the old docks, with the towers straight overhead.","",""],["p","goboat-kingston","outdoors","GoBoat Kingston","Kingston upon Thames","Riverside Walk, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1QN","The upper Thames, where the river stops looking like London.","",""],["p","goboat-paddington","outdoors","GoBoat Paddington","Paddington","Merchant Square, Paddington Basin, W2 1AS","Drive your own picnic boat out of Paddington Basin.","",""],["p","goboat-thames-ditton","outdoors","GoBoat Thames Ditton","Thames Ditton","44 Summer Road, Thames Ditton, KT7 0QQ","The quietest of the four, on the river opposite Hampton Court Park.","",""],["p","grays-inn-walks","outdoors","Gray's Inn Walks","Holborn","Gray's Inn, WC1R 5ET","Nearly six acres of private garden behind Holborn, laid out when Francis Bacon ran the Inn and open two and a half hours a day.","",""],["p","greenwich-park","outdoors","Greenwich Park","Greenwich","Greenwich Park, Blackheath Gate, Charlton Way, SE10 8QY","A hill, a herd of deer, and the view down over the Queen's House to Canary Wharf.","","/img/own-greenwich-park-480.jpg?v=89f76025"],["p","grosvenor-square","outdoors","Grosvenor Square","Mayfair","Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, W1K","London's second largest garden square, dug up for a year and replanted as a wood.","","/img/grosvenor-square-480.jpg?v=10b55968"],["p","hampstead-heath","outdoors","Hampstead Heath","Hampstead","Hampstead Heath, NW5 1QR","Eight hundred acres of proper countryside, and the best view in London.","","/img/hampstead-heath-480.jpg?v=a8599621"],["p","hampstead-heath-swimming-ponds","outdoors","Hampstead Heath Swimming Ponds","Hampstead Heath","Hampstead Heath, NW3","Swim in a pond on the Heath, all year round if you can take it.","",""],["p","highgate-cemetery","outdoors","Highgate Cemetery","Highgate","Swain's Lane, N6 6PJ","Egyptian Avenue, the Circle of Lebanon, and ivy over everything.","","/img/highgate-cemetery-480.jpg?v=fd03635e"],["p","hyde-park","outdoors","Hyde Park","Hyde Park","Hyde Park, W2 2UH","The Serpentine down the middle, and the only central park big enough to lose people in.","","/img/hyde-park-480.jpg?v=ce02576a"],["p","inner-temple-garden","outdoors","Inner Temple Garden","Temple","Crown Office Row, Inner Temple, EC4Y 7HL","The garden where Shakespeare has the Wars of the Roses begin, with a gardener on the payroll since 1307.","",""],["p","isabella-plantation","outdoors","Isabella Plantation","Richmond","Richmond Park, TW10 5HS","Forty acres of woodland garden inside Richmond Park, at its best when the azaleas flower in late April and early May, free.","",""],["p","kensal-green-cemetery","outdoors","Kensal Green Cemetery","Kensal Green","Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, W10 4RA","The first and grandest of the seven, seventy-two acres of Greek Revival mausolea.","","/img/kensal-green-cemetery-480.jpg?v=114ba1f9"],["p","kensington-gardens","outdoors","Kensington Gardens","Kensington","Kensington Gardens, W2 2UH","Hyde Park's formal other half: the Italian Gardens, the Albert Memorial and a palace.","","/img/kensington-gardens-480.jpg?v=e8e12d6e"],["p","kings-cross-station","outdoors","King's Cross: Cambridge, Ely and York by train","King's Cross","Euston Road, N1C 4AP","Cambridge in under an hour, Ely's cathedral in the fens in a little over, and York in two.","","/img/kings-cross-station-480.jpg?v=784a822f"],["p","kyoto-garden-holland-park","outdoors","Kyoto Garden, Holland Park","Holland Park","Holland Park, Ilchester Place, W8 6LU","A Japanese garden with a waterfall and koi, and peacocks that ignore you.","",""],["p","lincolns-inn-fields","outdoors","Lincoln's Inn Fields","Holborn","Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3TL","The largest of London's garden squares, with three tennis courts in the middle of the legal quarter.","",""],["p","lincolns-inn-gardens","outdoors","Lincoln's Inn Gardens","Holborn","Lincoln's Inn, WC2A 3TL","Eleven acres behind Chancery Lane, with a parkland at the north end you can sit in all day and a lawn you can picnic on in summer.","",""],["p","liverpool-street-station","outdoors","Liverpool Street: Constable country and the Essex coast by train","Broadgate","Bishopsgate, EC2M 7PY","Constable's Dedham Vale in an hour, the Essex coast at Frinton and Walton, and Cambridge the slow way.","","/img/liverpool-street-station-480.jpg?v=fa2b5dde"],["p","london-bridge-station","outdoors","London Bridge: Brighton, the Downs and the Weald by train","Borough Market","Station Approach Road, SE1 9SP","Brighton in an hour, the Seven Sisters by way of Seaford, and the Weald, from the station under the Shard.","","/img/london-bridge-station-480.jpg?v=a6654790"],["p","london-fields-lido","outdoors","London Fields Lido","London Fields","London Fields West Side, E8 3EU","Fifty metres, heated to 24 degrees, open all year and floodlit after dark.","",""],["p","london-kayak-company","outdoors","London Kayak Company","Greenwich","8 Springham Walk, River Gardens Walk, SE10 0YP","The tidal Thames from a kayak, with someone who knows the tides.","",""],["p","marylebone-station","outdoors","Marylebone: the Chilterns by train","Marylebone","Melcombe Place, NW1 6JJ","The smallest terminus and the quickest way into open country: beechwoods and red kites in forty minutes.","","/img/marylebone-station-480.jpg?v=021cba85"],["p","moo-canoes","outdoors","Moo Canoes","Hackney Wick","The Milk Float, Sweetwater Moorings, White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Cow-print canoes on the canals, from a barge in Hackney Wick.","",""],["p","morden-hall-park","outdoors","Morden Hall Park","Morden","Morden Hall Road, SM4 5JD","A country estate on the Wandle at the bottom of the Northern line: the snuff mills that paid for it, a rose garden, wetland…","","/img/morden-hall-park-480.jpg?v=48b30e5c"],["p","mount-street-gardens","outdoors","Mount Street Gardens","Mayfair","Mount Street Gardens, Mayfair, W1K 2TH","A walled garden behind Mount Street, sheltered enough for palms and mimosa, and lined with benches.","","/img/mount-street-gardens-480.jpg?v=05575f17"],["p","mudchute-park-and-farm","outdoors","Mudchute Park and Farm","Isle of Dogs","Pier Street, E14 3HP","Thirty-two acres of farm on the spoil of Millwall Dock, sheep grazing under the towers of Canary Wharf, free every day.","","/img/mudchute-park-and-farm-480.jpg?v=388a0987"],["p","myddelton-house-gardens","outdoors","Myddelton House Gardens","Enfield","Bulls Cross, Enfield, EN2 9HG","The garden that E. A. Bowles, the Crocus King, made over fifty years at Enfield: a bed of lunatic plants, Enfield's old market…","","/img/myddelton-house-gardens-480.jpg?v=df883981"],["p","nunhead-cemetery","outdoors","Nunhead Cemetery","Nunhead","Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, SE15 3LP","The wildest of the Magnificent Seven, with a ruined chapel and a sightline to St Paul's.","","/img/nunhead-cemetery-480.jpg?v=1f0be5c4"],["p","oxleas-wood","outdoors","Oxleas Wood","Shooters Hill","Shooters Hill, SE18 3RT","Eight thousand years of woodland on the south side of Shooters Hill, the forest London's road builders failed to cut through…","","/img/oxleas-wood-480.jpg?v=f22e8552"],["p","paddington-station","outdoors","Paddington: the Thames valley and the Cotswolds by train","Paddington","Praed Street, W2 1HQ","The Thames valley, the Ridgeway at Goring, the Cotswolds in an hour and a quarter, and Bath and Oxford besides.","","/img/paddington-station-480.jpg?v=cc5099f6"],["p","parkland-walk-finsbury-park-to-highgate","outdoors","Parkland Walk: Finsbury Park to Highgate","Stroud Green","Oxford Road, Stroud Green, to Holmesdale Road, Highgate","London's longest nature reserve, laid along a railway line that closed in 1970.","",""],["p","parliament-hill-lido","outdoors","Parliament Hill Lido","Gospel Oak","Gordon House Road, NW5 1LT","Sixty metres of unheated stainless steel, open every day of the year.","","/img/parliament-hill-lido-480.jpg?v=4521f816"],["p","postmans-park","outdoors","Postman's Park","City of London","King Edward Street, EC1A 7BT","A small garden on the churchyards of three City churches, named for the postmen who ate their lunch in it, with Watts's memorial…","",""],["p","primrose-hill","outdoors","Primrose Hill","Primrose Hill","Primrose Hill, Primrose Hill Road, NW3 3NA","Two hundred feet of grass and the whole skyline laid out in front of you.","","/img/primrose-hill-480.jpg?v=d870a03a"],["p","queen-elizabeth-olympic-park","outdoors","Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park","Stratford","Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, E20 2ST","The 2012 park, grown in: wildflower meadow, waterways and the venues still in use.","","/img/queen-elizabeth-olympic-park-480.jpg?v=cc3ac157"],["p","regents-canal-little-venice-to-limehouse","outdoors","Regent's Canal: Little Venice to Limehouse","Little Venice","Little Venice to Limehouse Basin, along the towpath","Towpath straight across the middle of London, and hardly a road to cross.","","/img/regents-canal-little-venice-to-limehouse-480.jpg?v=7c4a7a78"],["p","richmond-park","outdoors","Richmond Park","Richmond","Richmond Park, TW10 5HS","Six hundred red and fallow deer, and a protected view of St Paul's ten miles off.","","/img/richmond-park-480.jpg?v=d8a21d72"],["p","royal-botanic-gardens-kew","outdoors","Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew","Kew","Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE","Three hundred acres of botanic garden, and a walkway through the canopy.","",""],["p","ruislip-lido","outdoors","Ruislip Lido","Ruislip","Reservoir Road, Ruislip, HA4 7TY","A canal reservoir of 1811 with a sandy beach, a miniature railway round it and Ruislip Woods behind, free, and no swimming.","","/img/ruislip-lido-480.jpg?v=d78d2df7"],["p","serpentine-lido","outdoors","Serpentine Lido","Hyde Park","Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, W2 2UH","Swim in the Serpentine, in the middle of Hyde Park, with a lawn to lie on after.","",""],["p","southwark-park","outdoors","Southwark Park","Rotherhithe","Gomm Road, SE16 2ET","One of London's first public parks, with a boating lake and a contemporary art gallery in it.","","/img/southwark-park-480.jpg?v=54587dcc"],["p","st-jamess-park-and-green-park","outdoors","St James's Park and Green Park","St James's","St James's Park and Green Park, SW1A 2BJ","The best view in London from a footbridge, and a colony of pelicans that predates every building in it.","","/img/st-jamess-park-and-green-park-480.jpg?v=f50bdb57"],["p","st-pancras-international","outdoors","St Pancras: the Kent coast by fast train","Somers Town","Euston Road, N1C 4QP","The fast line: Folkestone in under an hour, Dover's cliffs and Canterbury in a little over, Margate and Broadstairs in an hour…","","/img/st-pancras-international-480.jpg?v=024984dc"],["p","thames-path-richmond-to-teddington-lock","outdoors","Thames Path: Richmond to Teddington Lock","Richmond","Richmond Bridge to Teddington Lock, along the Surrey bank","The stretch of river that stopped looking like London somewhere around 1750.","","/img/thames-path-richmond-to-teddington-lock-480.jpg?v=d03dd52e"],["p","thames-path-westminster-to-greenwich","outdoors","Thames Path: Westminster to Greenwich","South Bank","Westminster Bridge to the Cutty Sark, along the south bank","The best long walk in London: the south bank end to end, flat, and almost never beside a road.","","/img/thames-path-westminster-to-greenwich-480.jpg?v=7510fd16"],["p","the-inns-of-court-garden-walk","outdoors","The Inns of Court garden walk","Holborn","Field Court, Gray's Inn, WC1R 5ET to the Inner Temple, EC4Y 7HL","Four gardens in a mile, three of them behind gates that are open two and a half hours a day.","",""],["p","the-regents-park","outdoors","The Regent's Park","Regent's Park","The Regent's Park, NW1 4NR","Twelve thousand roses in Queen Mary's Gardens, and an open-air theatre in the trees.","","/img/the-regents-park-480.jpg?v=b61cc1ad"],["p","tooting-bec-lido","outdoors","Tooting Bec Lido","Tooting","Tooting Bec Road, SW16 1RU","Ninety-one metres of unheated fresh water, and the brightest changing rooms in England.","","/img/tooting-bec-lido-480.jpg?v=d081fe08"],["p","tower-hamlets-cemetery-park","outdoors","Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park","Mile End","Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Southern Grove, E3 4PX","A working nature reserve that happens to hold a quarter of a million burials.","","/img/tower-hamlets-cemetery-park-480.jpg?v=f807e524"],["p","trent-park","outdoors","Trent Park","Cockfosters","Cockfosters Road, EN4 0PS","Three hundred hectares of Enfield Chase, Henry IV's hunting ground, around the house where bugged German generals talked the war…","","/img/trent-park-480.jpg?v=9ba8a37b"],["p","victoria-park","outdoors","Victoria Park","Hackney","Victoria Park, Grove Road, E3 5TB","East London's own, with two lakes, a good café and the canal along its edge.","","/img/victoria-park-480.jpg?v=2d758de7"],["p","victoria-station","outdoors","Victoria: Kent and the Sussex coast by train","Victoria","Victoria Street, SW1V 1JU","Kent orchards in forty minutes, Brighton in an hour and the white cliffs by lunchtime: the terminus with the most coast and…","","/img/victoria-station-480.jpg?v=05e52929"],["p","walthamstow-wetlands","outdoors","Walthamstow Wetlands","Walthamstow","2 Forest Road, N17 9NH","Ten Victorian reservoirs beside the Lea, 211 hectares of water and reed and one of the largest urban wetlands in Europe, free.","",""],["p","wanstead-park","outdoors","Wanstead Park","Wanstead","Warren Road, E11 2LT","The grounds of a vanished Palladian palace, kept by the City as part of Epping Forest: lakes, a ruined grotto and a temple that…","","/img/wanstead-park-480.jpg?v=0fd81e55"],["p","waterloo-station","outdoors","Waterloo: Surrey, Hampshire and the New Forest by train","Waterloo","Waterloo Road, SE1 8SW","Box Hill in fifty minutes, Windsor and Hampton Court in less, the New Forest in an hour and a half, and the sea beyond.","","/img/waterloo-station-480.jpg?v=c067b729"],["p","west-norwood-cemetery","outdoors","West Norwood Cemetery","West Norwood","West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, SE27 9JU","Gothic Revival on a hill, and the finest Greek necropolis outside Greece.","","/img/west-norwood-cemetery-480.jpg?v=21462b57"],["p","wimbledon-common","outdoors","Wimbledon Common","Wimbledon","Windmill Road, SW19 5NR","Eleven hundred acres of heath, bog and old woodland, saved from Earl Spencer in 1871 and still run by their own conservators…","","/img/wimbledon-common-480.jpg?v=07e0117f"],["p","wwt-london-wetland-centre","outdoors","WWT London Wetland Centre","Barnes","Queen Elizabeth Walk, Barnes, SW13 9WT","Forty hectares of lake and reedbed, twenty minutes from Hammersmith.","",""],["p","york-house-gardens","outdoors","York House Gardens","Twickenham","Sion Road, Twickenham, TW1 3DD","The riverside garden of Twickenham's town hall, where Sir Ratan Tata's marble sea nymphs climb out of a pool, free.","","/img/york-house-gardens-480.jpg?v=584dac9a"],["c","outdoors","outdoors","Outdoors & Nature","","","Ideal for a sunny day. And for a cold rainy day: \"There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing\".","",""],["p","alchemy","coffee","Alchemy","Blackfriars","8 Ludgate Broadway, EC4V 6DU","The Wimbledon roaster's own bar, with up to five coffees on any given day.","",""],["p","alchemy-coffee","coffee","Alchemy Coffee","Shoreditch","Paul Street","The Paul Street bar from a roaster based out in Wimbledon.","",""],["p","algerian-coffee-stores","coffee","Algerian Coffee Stores","Soho","52 Old Compton Street, W1D 4PB","Espresso for about a pound and a half at the counter of an 1887 bean merchant, to take away - there is nowhere to sit and never…","","/img/algerian-coffee-stores-480.jpg?v=e2a09d68"],["p","allpress-london-roastery-and-cafe","coffee","Allpress London Roastery and Cafe","Dalston","55 Dalston Lane, E8 2NG","The Dalston Lane roastery, where the machines are the decor.","",""],["p","allpress-redchurch","coffee","Allpress Espresso","Shoreditch","58 Redchurch Street, E2 7DP","The Kiwi espresso bar the rest of Redchurch Street grew up around.","",""],["p","arabica-battersea-power-station","coffee","% Arabica","Nine Elms","Circus Road West, SW11 8BU","A counter built around a heritage brick column inside the Power Station.","",""],["p","arabica-broadway-market","coffee","% Arabica","Broadway Market","33 Broadway Market, E8 4PH","The UK flagship, where they roast your beans while you wait.","",""],["p","arabica-covent-garden","coffee","% Arabica","Covent Garden","5 King Street, WC2E 8HN","The first %Arabica in Britain, a few steps off the Piazza.","",""],["p","arabica-spitalfields","coffee","% Arabica","Spitalfields","2 Market Street, E1 6DT","A kiosk whose doors shut into the % logo.","",""],["p","association-coffee","coffee","Association Coffee","Aldgate","10-12 Creechurch Lane, EC3A 5AY","A City brew bar pouring a different roaster most weeks, and staff who want to talk about it.","",""],["p","attendant","coffee","Attendant","Broadgate","8-9 Folgate Street, E1 6DB","The Folgate Street room, from the people who put a café in a Victorian gents.","",""],["p","attendant-foley","coffee","Attendant","Fitzrovia","27A Foley Street, W1W 6DY","A Victorian gentlemen's lavatory, converted. Better than it sounds.","",""],["p","attendant-mayfair","coffee","Attendant","Mayfair","55 Duke Street, W1K 5NR","Duke Street, and a flat white worth the Mayfair mark-up.","",""],["p","batch-baby","coffee","Batch Baby","De Beauvoir Town","N1 5SF","A small De Beauvoir counter with an Instagram following and little else written down.","",""],["p","bija","coffee","Bija","St James's","2a St James's Market, SW1Y 4AH","Indonesian single origins, and the best new coffee shop of 2025.","",""],["p","blighty","coffee","Blighty","Brownswood Park","Blackstock Road, Stoke Newington, N4 2JW","The Brownswood Park sibling of the Commonwealth breakfast café.","",""],["p","blighty-india-cafe","coffee","Blighty India Cafe","Seven Sisters","266 High Road, N15 4AJ","Commonwealth breakfasts under pictures of colonial India.","",""],["p","brickwood","coffee","Brickwood","Balham","21-23 Tooting High Street, Furzedown, SW17 0SN","Balham's brunch room, and better at coffee than brunch rooms usually are.","",""],["p","brickwood-clapham","coffee","Brickwood","Clapham","21-23 Tooting High Street, Furzedown, SW17 0SN","Two minutes from the Common, and busy from about nine.","",""],["p","brickwood-tooting-graveney","coffee","Brickwood","Tooting Graveney","21-23 Tooting High Street, Furzedown, SW17 0SN","Australian brunch on Tooting High Street, and banana bread with coffee butter.","",""],["p","cable-co-brondesbury-park","coffee","Cable co.","Brondesbury Park","Chamberlayne Road","A Chamberlayne Road counter we can tell you little about.","",""],["p","calico-coffee","coffee","Calico Coffee","Waterloo","101C Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1 7AB","A Brewers Cup finalist's own roastery counter on Lower Marsh.","",""],["p","caravan","coffee","Caravan","Fish Island","North Road, Holloway, N7 9GJ","The Fish Island roastery, out where the Lea does its industrial stretch.","",""],["p","caravan-lower-holloway","coffee","Caravan","Lower Holloway","North Road, Holloway, N7 9GJ","Caravan up in Lower Holloway, away from the restaurant crowds.","",""],["p","carnival-coffee-roasters","coffee","Carnival Coffee Roasters","Penge","9 High Street, SE20 7TN","A Penge roastery that delivers across south-east London by bicycle.","",""],["p","climpson-broadway","coffee","Climpson & Sons","Hackney","67 Broadway Market, E8 4PH","Broadway Market's anchor, best on a weekday morning.","",""],["p","climpson-sons-coffee-bar","coffee","Climpson & Sons Coffee Bar","Spitalfields","Spitalfields Market, Whitechapel, E1 6EW","Climpson's market kiosk, roasted a mile up the road in London Fields.","",""],["p","coffee-circus","coffee","Coffee Circus","Crouch End","136 Crouch Hill","Crouch End's own, and worth the hill.","",""],["p","coffee-geek-and-friends","coffee","Coffee Geek and Friends","Victoria","6 Cathedral Walk, SW1E 5JH","Cathedral Walk, and considerably better than Victoria deserves.","",""],["p","curators-coffee","coffee","Curators Coffee","Leadenhall Market","9A Cullum Street, EC3M 7JJ","A Cullum Street counter for the City lunch hour.","",""],["p","dark-arts-coffee","coffee","Dark Arts Coffee","Hackney","1-5 Rosina Street, E9 6JH","Goth-metal branding, and a roast that does not need it.","",""],["p","dark-arts-coffee-shoreditch","coffee","Dark Arts Coffee","Shoreditch","Holywell Lane","Holywell Lane, and shut by three.","",""],["p","department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs","coffee","Department of Coffee and Social Affairs","Aldgate","133 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QA","Whitechapel High Street, open late by City standards.","",""],["p","department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-soho","coffee","Department of Coffee and Social Affairs","Soho","3 Lowndes Court, W1F 7HD","A Carnaby back-alley branch of a group that is not uniform.","",""],["p","department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-st-james-s","coffee","Department Of Coffee And Social Affairs","St James's","15-16 Sherwood Street","A Sherwood Street branch of a chain that varies.","",""],["p","door-coffee-bar","coffee","Door","Brixton","244 Ferndale Road, SW9 8FR","Two Brixton roasters sharing one bar, a few minutes from the tube.","",""],["p","doppio","coffee","Doppio","Whitechapel","90 Hanbury Street, E1 5JL","Hanbury Street, and the espresso bar attached to the equipment.","",""],["p","doppio-coffee","coffee","Doppio Coffee","Muswell Hill","56 Fortis Green Road, N10 3HN","The Muswell Hill room, from a wholesaler that decided to serve the public.","",""],["p","doppio-coffee-battersea","coffee","Doppio Coffee","Battersea","336 Battersea Park Road, SW11 3BY","Half showroom, half espresso bar, and the coffee is not an afterthought.","",""],["p","dudleys","coffee","Dudleys","Goddington","Windsor Drive, Goddington, BR6 6EZ","A Goddington café with almost no published trace.","",""],["p","dudleys-clapham-park","coffee","Dudleys","Clapham Park","Windsor Drive, Goddington, BR6 6EZ","A Clapham Park corner café we can tell you very little about.","",""],["p","dudleys-east-dulwich","coffee","Dudleys","East Dulwich","Windsor Drive, Goddington, BR6 6EZ","An East Dulwich room, and another we know little about.","",""],["p","esters","coffee","Esters","Hackney","55 Kynaston Road, N16 0EB","Kynaston Road, and the reason people move to Stoke Newington.","",""],["p","esters-carterhatch","coffee","Esters","Carterhatch","Kynaston Road, Southbury, EN2 0DA","Has Bean on the machine and a menu rewritten every week.","",""],["p","fcb-coffee","coffee","FCB Coffee","Borough Market","52 Tooley Street","Tooley Street, open before most of London Bridge station is.","",""],["p","fcb-coffee-bankside","coffee","FCB Coffee","Bankside","Hopton Street, SE1 9JH","A station kiosk that takes it far more seriously than it needs to.","",""],["p","fcb-coffee-paddington","coffee","FCB Coffee","Paddington","W2 1HB","The Paddington branch, for the twenty minutes before a train.","",""],["p","federation-coffee","coffee","Federation Coffee","Brixton","77 - 78 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PS","Brixton Village's flat white, and no wifi on purpose.","",""],["p","fernandez-wells","coffee","Fernandez & Wells","St Giles","1 Denmark Street, WC2H 8LP","Sandwiches with heft, and coffee roasted to their own spec.","",""],["p","formative-coffee","coffee","Formative Coffee","Victoria","4 Butler Place, SW1H 0RH","Run by a UK Barista Champion, and it shows in the cup.","",""],["p","fortitude-bakehouse","coffee","Fortitude Bakehouse","Bloomsbury","35 Colonnade, WC1","A back-alley bakery that happens to take its coffee seriously.","",""],["p","four-boroughs","coffee","Four Boroughs","Crystal Palace","10 Church Road, SE19 2ET","A bare room in the Triangle pouring Assembly coffee, with beer and wine on the same counter.","",""],["p","fuckoffee","coffee","Fuckoffee","Bermondsey Village","163 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UF","Named to make you flinch, and it won best café design anyway.","",""],["p","guillam-bayswater","coffee","Guillam Bayswater","Bayswater","31 St Petersburgh Place, W2 4LA","A side-street room off Moscow Road.","",""],["p","guillam-gloucester-road","coffee","Guillam Gloucester Road","South Kensington","24 Gloucester Road, SW7 4RB","Speciality coffee and tea, a minute from Gloucester Road station.","",""],["p","guillam-mayfair","coffee","Guillam Mayfair","Mayfair","61 Curzon Street, W1J 8PD","Curzon Street, and coffee from seven on a weekday.","",""],["p","guillam-notting-hill","coffee","Guillam Notting Hill","Notting Hill","26 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HX","Single-origin coffee on Notting Hill Gate.","",""],["p","guillam-st-jamess","coffee","Guillam St James's","St James's","25 St James's Street, SW1A 1HA","Coffee in the Economist Plaza.","",""],["p","guillam-the-whiteley","coffee","Guillam The Whiteley","Bayswater","153 Queensway, W2 4BD","Single-origin coffee inside the rebuilt Whiteleys.","",""],["p","hagen","coffee","Hagen","Brompton","9 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3HZ","A Danish espresso bar, and a firm no to laptops.","",""],["p","hagen-east-twickenham","coffee","Hagen","East Twickenham","Hill Street, TW9 1TW","The Danish bar a long way from the Danish part of London.","",""],["p","hagen-marylebone","coffee","Hagen Marylebone","Marylebone","82 Marylebone High Street","Marylebone High Street, open seven to six, and busy throughout.","",""],["p","half-cup-kings-cross","coffee","Half Cup","King's Cross","100-102 Judd Street, WC1H 9NT","The civilised alternative to drinking station coffee before a train.","",""],["p","hermanos-colombian-coffee-roasters","coffee","Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters","Victoria","21 Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR","Terminus Place, a minute from the concourse, open six till seven.","",""],["p","hermanos-colombian-coffee-roasters-browning-estate","coffee","Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters","Browning Estate","Angel Lane, Elephant and Castle, SE17 3FE","Colombian beans, Colombian family, no intermediaries in the story.","",""],["p","hermanos-colombian-coffee-roasters-shoreditch","coffee","Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters","Shoreditch","124 Columbia Road","Colombian single origins on Columbia Road, and a crush every Sunday.","",""],["p","hermanos-portobello-road","coffee","Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters","Notting Hill","127 Portobello Road, W11 2DY","The branch that was named London's independent coffee shop of the year.","",""],["p","iris-june","coffee","Iris & June","Victoria","1 Howick Place, SW1P 1WG","A New Zealand café in Victoria, which the area badly needed.","",""],["p","kaffeine","coffee","Kaffeine","Fitzrovia","66 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7QJ","Fitzrovia's Antipodean bar, holding the same standard since 2009.","",""],["p","kaffeine-east-marylebone","coffee","Kaffeine","East Marylebone","15 Eastcastle Street, W1T 3AY","The Eastcastle Street Kaffeine, step-free with tables on the pavement.","",""],["p","kahaila","coffee","Kahaila","Hackney Wick","95a Eastway, E9 5JA","The Hackney Wick arm of a café whose profits fund its charity.","",""],["p","kahaila-spitalfields","coffee","Kahaila","Spitalfields","135 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","A Brick Lane café whose profits go to the charity that runs it.","",""],["p","kiss-the-hippo","coffee","Kiss the Hippo","East Marylebone","51 Margaret Street, W1W 8SG","Margaret Street, two minutes from Oxford Circus and a world calmer.","",""],["p","kiss-the-hippo-covent-garden","coffee","Kiss the Hippo","Covent Garden","24 New Row, WC2N 4LA","Carbon-negative coffee, three UK Barista Championships behind it.","",""],["p","kiss-the-hippo-east-marylebone","coffee","Kiss The Hippo","East Marylebone","36 Berners Street, W1T 3LY","Berners Street, and one of the most carefully sourced cups in Fitzrovia.","",""],["p","monmouth-borough","coffee","Monmouth Coffee","Borough","2 Park Street, SE1 9AB","The bar that taught London what a single origin tastes like.","",""],["p","monmouth-coffee-company","coffee","Monmouth Coffee Company","Bermondsey","3 Discovery Estate, St James Road, SE16 4RA","The Bermondsey works, where the roasting actually happens.","",""],["p","monmouth-coffee-company-seven-dials","coffee","Monmouth Coffee Company","Seven Dials","27 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9EU","Where Monmouth started in 1978, and nobody has redesigned it since.","","/img/monmouth-coffee-company-seven-dials-480.jpg?v=c14b330f"],["p","moonstruck-cafe","coffee","Moonstruck Cafe","Stockwell","153 South Lambeth Road, SW8 1XN","Eighteenth best coffee shop in Europe, on the South Lambeth Road.","",""],["p","mouse-tail-coffee-stories","coffee","Mouse Tail Coffee Stories","Albury Court","Deptford High Street, SE8 4NS","A Deptford railway arch, open at seven, seven days.","",""],["p","mouse-tail-coffee-stories-canada-water","coffee","Mouse Tail Coffee Stories","Canada Water","13 Maritime Street, SE16 7FU","Maritime Street, and one of the few reasons to stop in Canada Water.","",""],["p","nostos","coffee","Nostos","Westminster","Orchard Place, Millbank, SW1H 0BF","Greek for homecoming, and a rare good cup by St James's Park.","",""],["p","nostos-coffee","coffee","Nostos Coffee","Nine Elms","10a Battersea Park Rd, SW8 4FF","A trapezium of a room by Battersea Park, and a flat white on freeze-distilled milk.","",""],["p","notes","coffee","Notes","Somers Town","1 Pancras Square, N1C 4AG","The Pancras Square room, which turns into a wine bar after dark.","",""],["p","notes-canary-wharf","coffee","Notes","Canary Wharf","1 Crossrail Place, E14 5AR","Open until nine in Crossrail Place, which nothing else here manages.","",""],["p","notes-mayfair","coffee","Notes","Mayfair","391 Oxford Street, W1C 2JS","Coffee by day, wine by night, on the wrong end of Oxford Street.","",""],["p","old-spike","coffee","Old Spike","Temple","5 Great New Street, EC4A 3BN","Great New Street, and a late starter by City standards.","",""],["p","old-spike-canary-wharf","coffee","Old Spike","Canary Wharf","25 Cabot Square, E14 4QA","The social-mission roastery, on Cabot Square of all places.","",""],["p","old-spike-elephant-and-castle","coffee","Old Spike","Elephant and Castle","251 Southwark Bridge Road, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6FN","Coffee roasted by a company built to get people off the street.","",""],["p","old-spike-peckham","coffee","Old Spike Roastery","Peckham","54 Peckham Rye, SE15","Roasts on site, trains people who need the work, makes a serious cup.","",""],["p","old-spike-southwark","coffee","Old Spike","Southwark","Harling House, 47-51 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 0BS","The roaster that trains people out of homelessness, newly on Great Suffolk Street.","",""],["p","oma-coffee-roaster","coffee","Oma Coffee Roaster","East Marylebone","34-35 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8DW","A Hong Kong roaster's first London room, and 94th in Europe.","",""],["p","origin-euston-road","coffee","Origin Coffee","King's Cross","65 Euston Road, NW1 2DB","Cornwall's best-known roaster, on the Euston Road.","",""],["p","origin-scoresby","coffee","Origin Coffee","Southwark","84 Scoresby Street, SE1 0XN","A Network Rail arch behind Blackfriars, and the fourth Origin in London.","",""],["p","origin-shoreditch","coffee","Origin Coffee","Shoreditch","65 Charlotte Road, EC2A 3PE","Cornish roaster, London room, exacting about both.","",""],["p","ozone-coffee","coffee","Ozone Coffee","Blackfriars","56 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7AW","Ozone on Ludgate Hill, built for the nine-to-five.","",""],["p","ozone-coffee-roasters","coffee","Ozone Coffee Roasters","Bethnal Green","8 Pritchard's Road, E2 9AP","The Bethnal Green roastery, and the calmer half of Ozone.","",""],["p","ozone-leonard","coffee","Ozone Coffee Roasters","Shoreditch","11 Leonard Street, EC2A 4AQ","A New Zealand roastery on Leonard Street, and brunch worth queueing for.","",""],["p","perky-blenders","coffee","Perky Blenders","Leytonstone","Leytonstone Station ticket hall, E11 4QN","Six in the morning in Leytonstone, seven days a week.","",""],["p","perky-blenders-little-ilford","coffee","Perky Blenders","Little Ilford","Cranbrook Road","Perky Blenders on Cranbrook Road, further out than most guides go.","",""],["p","perky-blenders-x-goodvibes","coffee","Perky Blenders x Goodvibes","Silvertown","1 Dock Road, E16 1AH","An east London roaster sharing a room in Silvertown.","",""],["p","pophams","coffee","Pophams","Islington","19 Popham Road, Islington, N1 8PF","A bakery first, but the coffee is not an afterthought.","",""],["p","prufrock","coffee","Prufrock Coffee","Farringdon","23-25 Leather Lane, EC1N 7TE","The training room that became a neighbourhood fixture.","",""],["p","redemption-lambs-conduit","coffee","Redemption Roasters","Bloomsbury","84 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1","Coffee roasted by a company that trains prisoners to make it.","",""],["p","redemption-roasters","coffee","Redemption Roasters","South End Green","53 South End Road, NW3 2RR","South End Green, at the bottom of the Heath.","",""],["p","redemption-roasters-broadgate","coffee","Redemption Roasters","Broadgate","3 Broadgate, EC2M 2QS","A Broadgate counter funding a barista academy for prison leavers.","",""],["p","redemption-roasters-st-james-s","coffee","Redemption Roasters","St James's","35 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6DT","Jermyn Street, which is a pointed address for this business.","",""],["p","rosslyn","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Moorgate","118 London Wall, EC2Y 5JA","Half six on London Wall, and sweetness rather than acidity.","",""],["p","rosslyn-bank","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Bank","21 Royal Exchange, EC3V 3LP","Under the Royal Exchange colonnade, and quicker than the address suggests.","",""],["p","rosslyn-cannon-street","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Monument","116 Cannon Street, EC4N 6AS","The Cannon Street counter, for the coffee before the train rather than after.","",""],["p","rosslyn-cheapside","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Cheapside","Unit 1A, 49 Cheapside, EC2V 6AT","Cheapside, in sight of St Paul's, and open at the weekend.","",""],["p","rosslyn-city","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","St Paul's","78 Queen Victoria Street, EC4N 4SJ","Queen Victoria Street, and the one Rosslyn that opens on a Saturday morning.","",""],["p","rosslyn-fenchurch-street","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Fenchurch Street","60 Fenchurch Street, EC3M 4AD","Deep in insurance country, and better than the postcode suggests.","",""],["p","rosslyn-leadenhall-market","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Leadenhall Market","Leadenhall Market, 15-18 Lime Street, EC3M 7AN","Under the painted ironwork of Leadenhall Market.","",""],["p","rosslyn-liverpool-street","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Liverpool Street","74-75 Old Broad Street, EC2M 1QT","A minute from the Liverpool Street barriers, open before the commute.","",""],["p","rosslyn-ludgate-circus","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Ludgate Circus","2-9 Ludgate Circus, EC4A 2AF","The western edge of the City, and open on a Saturday.","",""],["p","rosslyn-tower-42","coffee","Rosslyn Coffee","Bishopsgate","Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, EC2N 1HQ","In the foot of Tower 42, which is not where you expect to find it.","",""],["p","scootercaffe","coffee","Scootercaffe","Waterloo","133A Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1 7AE","A Lower Marsh café that roasts its own, and stays open like a bar.","",""],["p","store-street-espresso","coffee","Store Street Espresso","Bloomsbury","40 Store Street, WC1","The one place in Bloomsbury where the laptops are actually welcome.","",""],["p","store-street-espresso-broadgate","coffee","Store Street Espresso","Broadgate","222 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4QD","Red Brick espresso, served at Liverpool Street pace.","",""],["p","store-street-espresso-hammersmith","coffee","Store Street Espresso","Hammersmith","245 Hammersmith Road, W6 8PW","The western outpost of a Bloomsbury institution.","",""],["p","store-street-espresso-st-pancras","coffee","Store Street Espresso","St Pancras","54 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RG","Square Mile's Red Brick, plus whichever guest roaster is up.","",""],["p","the-cafe-at-clifton-nurseries","coffee","The Café at Clifton Nurseries","Maida Vale","5A Clifton Villas, W9 2PH","Coffee in a glasshouse at the back of London's oldest garden centre, behind a pair of gates in Maida Vale.","",""],["p","the-colombian-coffee-company-borough-market","coffee","The Colombian Coffee Company","Borough Market","Green Market, Borough Market, SE1 9AL","A Borough Market stall pouring Colombian coffee the Colombian way.","",""],["p","the-colombian-coffee-company-flat-iron-square","coffee","The Colombian Coffee Company","The Borough","Arch 34, Flat Iron Square, 87 Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 0AB","The roastery itself, under a railway arch at Flat Iron Square.","",""],["p","the-colombian-coffee-company-soho","coffee","The Colombian Coffee Company","Soho","22 Greek Street, W1D 4DY","Single-origin Colombian, served the way Colombians actually drink it.","",""],["p","the-fields-beneath","coffee","The Fields Beneath","West Kentish Town","52A Prince of Wales Road, NW5 3LN","All-vegan since 2018, with a single origin always on filter.","",""],["p","the-wren-coffee","coffee","The Wren Coffee","St Paul's","114 Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4BJ","Coffee inside a Christopher Wren church, a minute from St Paul's.","",""],["p","toconoco","coffee","Toconoco","De Beauvoir Town","28 Hertford Road","Japanese home cooking by the canal, with a play room full of children.","",""],["p","trampoline","coffee","Trampoline","Angel","27 Camden Passage, N1 8EA","A Camden Passage cafe that trains and employs refugees, and then helps them leave for something better.","",""],["p","two-spoons","coffee","Two Spoons","Honor Oak","72 Honor Oak Park, SE23 1DY","Honor Oak Park, two minutes from the station, tables on the pavement.","",""],["p","ukkei-brew-bar","coffee","Ukkei Brew Bar","Peckham","Unit 30, Rye Lane Market, 48 Rye Lane, SE15 5BY","A small roastery's own brew bar, four days a week inside Rye Lane Market.","",""],["p","urban-baristas","coffee","Urban Baristas","Wapping","138 Wapping High Street, E1W 3PA","The Wapping room, with the coffee lab attached.","",""],["p","urban-baristas-aldgate","coffee","Urban Baristas","Aldgate","95 Middlesex Street, E1 7DA","Australian habits at Aldgate speed.","",""],["p","urban-baristas-whitechapel","coffee","Urban Baristas","Whitechapel","Dunbridge Street, E2 6JG","Sydney café habits on a Bethnal Green backstreet.","",""],["p","vagabond-n7","coffee","Vagabond N7","Highbury","105 Holloway Road, N7 8LT","Holloway Road, from one of north London's own roasters.","",""],["p","volcano-coffee-works","coffee","Volcano Coffee Works","Brixton","Ferndale Road, Brixton, SW9 8BA","Brixton outpost of a roaster that has been quietly good for years.","",""],["p","volcano-coffee-works-cafe","coffee","Volcano Coffee Works Café","West Dulwich","40 Martell Road, SE21 8EN","Where a three-wheeled coffee cart turned into a B Corp roastery.","",""],["p","watchhouse","coffee","WatchHouse","Butler's Wharf","37 Shad Thames, SE1 2NJ","The Shad Thames room, a few minutes from the roastery that supplies it.","",""],["p","watchhouse-bermondsey","coffee","WatchHouse","Bermondsey","199 Bermondsey Street, SE1","A nineteenth-century watchman's hut, now the neatest bar on the street.","","/img/watchhouse-bermondsey-480.jpg?v=1cd876f2"],["p","watchhouse-bishopsgate","coffee","WatchHouse","Bishopsgate","70 St Mary Axe, EC3A 8BA","City WatchHouse: precise, quick, and shut by Saturday.","",""],["p","watchhouse-hanover","coffee","WatchHouse Hanover","Mayfair","2-3 Medici Courtyard, W1S 1BR","WatchHouse in a Mayfair courtyard, doing the same thing more quietly.","",""],["p","wood-st-coffee","coffee","Wood St. Coffee","Higham Hill","Sutherland Path Road, E17 6BX","Walthamstow's own roaster, ten minutes off Blackhorse Road.","",""],["p","workshop-coffee-co","coffee","Workshop Coffee Co","Marylebone","1 Barrett Street","Workshop's Barrett Street counter, and a seasonal single origin on filter.","",""],["c","coffee","coffee","Coffee","","","The best coffee in London. We only list places that take coffee really seriously.","",""],["p","arapina","bakeries","Arapina","Deptford","8 Little Thames Walk, SE8 3FB","A vegetarian bakery on the square by Trinity Laban, and most of the counter is vegan.","",""],["p","arome-bakery","bakeries","Arome Bakery","Seven Dials","9 Mercer Street, WC2H 9QJ","French lamination, Asian flavours, and a honey butter toast worth the detour.","",""],["p","arome-bakery-marylebone","bakeries","Arome Bakery","Marylebone","27 Duke Street","The Duke Street counter for French technique and Asian flavours.","",""],["p","august-bakery","bakeries","August Bakery","Battersea","4-6a Battersea Rise, SW11 1ED","Substance over style, and croissants big enough to share.","",""],["p","aux-merveilleux-de-fred-kensington","bakeries","Aux Merveilleux de Fred Kensington","Kensington","123-125 Kensington High Street, W8 5SF","Meringue-and-cream merveilleux from Lille, in an arcade off the Tube station.","",""],["p","aux-merveilleux-de-fred-leadenhall","bakeries","Aux Merveilleux de Fred Leadenhall","Leadenhall Market","1-3 Leadenhall Market, EC3V 1LR","Cream and meringue under the painted ironwork of Leadenhall Market.","",""],["p","aux-merveilleux-de-fred-northcote-road","bakeries","Aux Merveilleux de Fred Northcote Road","Clapham Junction","55 Northcote Road, SW11 1NP","A tea room and a pavement terrace, on Battersea's best shopping street.","",""],["p","aux-merveilleux-de-fred-south-kensington","bakeries","Aux Merveilleux de Fred South Kensington","Brompton","88 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LQ","A tea room in the French quarter, five minutes from the museums.","",""],["p","aux-merveilleux-de-fred-st-pancras","bakeries","Aux Merveilleux de Fred St Pancras","King's Cross","Unit 49, St Pancras International Station, N1C 4QL","Meringue and cream built in front of you, on the St Pancras concourse.","",""],["p","beigel-bake","bakeries","Beigel Bake","Spitalfields","159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","Twenty-four hours a day on Brick Lane, and it has earned every one of them.","","/img/beigel-bake-480.jpg?v=f638d197"],["p","bread-ahead","bakeries","Bread Ahead","Borough Market","Cathedral Street, SE1 9DE","The Borough Market arch, and the doughnut that started all of this.","",""],["p","bread-ahead-hans-town","bakeries","Bread Ahead","Hans Town","249 Pavilion Road, SW1X 0BP","Pavilion Road, which is Chelsea pretending to be a village.","",""],["p","bread-ahead-soho","bakeries","Bread Ahead","Soho","21 Beak Street, W1F 9RP","Beak Street, and the doughnut that made the name.","",""],["p","bread-by-bike-bakery","bakeries","Bread By Bike Bakery","Kentish Town","30 Brecknock Road, N7 0DD","Sourdough delivered across north London by bicycle.","",""],["p","buns-from-home","bakeries","Buns From Home","Bethnal Green","25 Broadway Market, E8 4PH","Broadway Market, open from seven, and latest of the lot on a Friday.","",""],["p","buns-from-home-angel","bakeries","Buns From Home","Angel","12 Camden Passage, N1 8ED","Camden Passage, and still selling buns long after every other bakery has locked up.","",""],["p","buns-from-home-crouch-end","bakeries","Buns From Home","Crouch End","47 The Broadway, N8 8DT","Crouch End's branch, seventeen minutes uphill from anywhere.","",""],["p","cedric-grolet-at-the-berkeley","bakeries","Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley","Belgravia","Wilton Place, Belgravia, SW1X 7RL","Trompe-l'œil fruit that costs more than lunch, and is worth seeing once.","",""],["p","chatsworth-bakehouse","bakeries","Chatsworth Bakehouse","Crystal Palace","120a Anerley Road, SE19 2AN","Focaccia sandwiches that sell out online in about a minute.","",""],["p","comptoir-gourmand","bakeries","Comptoir Gourmand","Bermondsey Village","96 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UB","French pastry on Bermondsey Street, with an unusually long Saturday.","",""],["p","copains-covent-garden","bakeries","Copains Covent Garden","Seven Dials","54 Neal Street, Seven Dials, WC2H 9PA","Parisian gluten-free viennoiserie, and croissants that actually flake.","",""],["p","copains-islington","bakeries","Copains Islington","Islington","133 Upper Street, N1 1QP","Gluten-free croissants, babka and brioche on Upper Street, from a bakery that makes nothing else.","",""],["p","dont-tell-dad","bakeries","Don't Tell Dad","Queen’s Park","10-14 Lonsdale Road, NW6 6RD","A bakery by day at the front of a very good restaurant.","",""],["p","donutelier-carnaby-street","bakeries","Donutelier Carnaby Street","Soho","50 Carnaby Street, W1F 9QA","Nine or ten doughnuts at a time, each one decorated by hand, on Carnaby Street.","",""],["p","donutelier-charing-cross-road","bakeries","Donutelier Charing Cross Road","Covent Garden","48-50 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0BB","Doughnuts finished by hand behind a window, in a room lit by chandeliers shaped like piping bags.","",""],["p","donutelier-soho-place","bakeries","Donutelier Soho Place","St Giles","4 Soho Place, 1 Oxford Street, W1D 3BG","A doughnut counter run like a pastry kitchen, on the ground floor of Soho Place.","",""],["p","donutelier-strand","bakeries","Donutelier Strand","Covent Garden","442 Strand, WC2R 0QU","Croissants and hand-decorated doughnuts at the Aldwych end of the Strand.","",""],["p","e5-bakehouse","bakeries","E5 Bakehouse","Hackney","395 Mentmore Terrace, E8 3PH","Two railway arches by London Fields, and three hundred loaves a day.","",""],["p","erics-bakery","bakeries","Eric's","East Dulwich","20 Upland Road, SE22 9EF","Fridays and Saturdays only, and a queue from the moment it opens.","",""],["p","fabrique","bakeries","Fabrique","East Marylebone","53 Goodge Street, W1T 1TG","A Swedish stone-oven bakery, and the cardamom bun London measures others against.","",""],["p","fabrique-bakery","bakeries","Fabrique Bakery","North Kensington","212 Portobello Road, W11 1LA","Portobello Road, and the wood-fired oven doing the work.","",""],["p","fabrique-seven-dials","bakeries","Fabrique","Seven Dials","8 Earlham Street, WC2H 9RY","The Earlham Street branch, for the same cardamom bun in the middle of town.","",""],["p","forno","bakeries","FORNO","Leytonstone","47 Church Lane, E11 1HE","A Leytonstone bakery on a street that had nothing like it.","",""],["p","forno-bethnal-green","bakeries","Forno","Bethnal Green","322 Andrews Road, E8 4RP","A canalside bakery that treats bread as the main event.","",""],["p","fortitude-bakehouse","bakeries","Fortitude Bakehouse","Bloomsbury","35 Colonnade, WC1","A cobbled back-alley bakery most people walk past the end of.","",""],["p","fred-bakery-holborn","bakeries","Fred Bakery","Holborn","1 Northington Street, WC1N 2JE","Pistachio rolls, tiramisu rolls, and a tiramisu latte that went viral.","",""],["p","fred-bakery-oxford-circus","bakeries","Fred Bakery","East Marylebone","52-53 Margaret Street, W1W 8SQ","A split-level room two minutes from Oxford Circus, and the same pistachio roll.","",""],["p","happy-sky","bakeries","Happy Sky","White City Estate","94 Askew Road","A tiny Japanese bakery with nowhere at all to sit.","",""],["p","happy-sky-japanese-bakery","bakeries","Happy Sky Japanese Bakery","St Giles","40 Hanway Street, W1T 1UT","Japanese baking on Hanway Street, four days a week.","",""],["p","jolene-colebrooke-row","bakeries","Jolene Colebrooke Row","Islington","Colebrooke Row, N1 8AA","Stone-ground flour, own farm, and a shop that shuts at three.","",""],["p","jolene-redchurch-street","bakeries","Jolene Redchurch Street","Shoreditch","67 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ","Jolene on Redchurch Street, milling its own flour.","",""],["p","konditor-cornwall-road","bakeries","Konditor","Waterloo","22 Cornwall Road, SE1 8TW","The original Konditor, still on the Waterloo side street where it started.","",""],["p","konditor-cullum-street","bakeries","Konditor","Leadenhall Market","15 Cullum Street, EC3M 7JJ","A City lunch-hour stop that has packed up before the weekend begins.","",""],["p","konditor-grays-inn-road","bakeries","Konditor","Holborn","46 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8LR","Eight to six on weekdays, and shut precisely when the offices are.","",""],["p","konditor-joiner-street","bakeries","Konditor","London Bridge","26 Joiner Street, SE1 9BZ","In the tiled passage under London Bridge, built for people with a train to catch.","",""],["p","layla-bakery","bakeries","Layla bakery","North Kensington","332 Portobello Road, W10 5RU","Portobello Road, closed Mondays, and worth planning around.","",""],["p","le-cafe-by-nicolas-rouzaud","bakeries","Le Café by Nicolas Rouzaud","Mayfair","Burlington Arcade, 51 Piccadilly, W1J 0QJ","Burlington Arcade, and the most expensive croissant you will consider buying.","",""],["p","le-cafe-robuchon","bakeries","Le Café Robuchon","Mayfair","82 Piccadilly, W1J 8JA","Robuchon on Piccadilly, and a pain au chocolat that earns the address.","",""],["p","little-bread-pedlar","bakeries","Little Bread Pedlar","Waterloo","20 Lower Marsh, SE1 7RJ","Lower Marsh, and the best thing on a street of good things.","",""],["p","little-bread-pedlar-bermondsey","bakeries","Little Bread Pedlar","Bermondsey","SE16 3FJ","Organic sourdough and a kouign amann worth the detour.","",""],["p","lucky-yu-bakery","bakeries","Lucky Yu Bakery","Walthamstow","12 Hamilton Road, E17 6EH","Cantonese baking from a kitchen window, roughly every other week.","",""],["p","margot-bakery","bakeries","Margot Bakery","Highgate","373 Archway Road, N6 4EJ","Archway Road, and a genuine reason to be in Highgate.","",""],["p","o-craquelin","bakeries","Ô Craquelin","St Clement Danes","42 Tavistock Street, WC2E 7PB","A choux specialist, and a Paris-Brest worth sitting down for.","",""],["p","old-post-office-bakery","bakeries","Old Post Office Bakery","Stockwell","76 Landor Road, SW9 7ND","London's oldest organic bakery, started in a squat with a bathtub.","",""],["p","old-post-office-bakery-chalk-farm","bakeries","Old Post Office Bakery","Chalk Farm","Bonny Street, Kentish Town, NW1 9EA","The Brixton organic bakery, transplanted to Camden Road.","",""],["p","patisserie-deux-amis","bakeries","Pâtisserie Deux Amis","Bloomsbury","63 Judd Street, WC1H 9QT","A French patisserie and café of about six tables, on the Judd Street run down to St Pancras.","",""],["p","pavilion-bakery","bakeries","Pavilion Bakery","Shoreditch","130 Columbia Road, E2 7RG","Columbia Road, which on a Sunday is a different proposition entirely.","",""],["p","poilane","bakeries","Poilâne","Belgravia","46 Elizabeth Street, SW1W 9PA","The Paris institution's London arm, still selling the same enormous loaf.","",""],["p","pophams-bakery","bakeries","Pophams Bakery","Hackney","197 Richmond Road, E8 3NJ","Richmond Road, and pastry laminated within an inch of its life.","",""],["p","pophams-victoria-park","bakeries","Pophams Victoria Park","Victoria Park Village","110a Lauriston Road, E9 7HA","Lamination taken seriously, on the village end of Lauriston Road.","",""],["p","rinkoff-bakery","bakeries","Rinkoff Bakery","Stepney","224 Jubilee Street, E1 3BS","Jubilee Street, five generations in, and inventor of the crodough.","",""],["p","rinkoffs","bakeries","Rinkoff's","Whitechapel","79 Vallance Road, E1 5BS","A Jewish bakery from 1911, and the crodough it invented.","",""],["p","sakurado-covent-garden","bakeries","Sakurado","Covent Garden","38 Southampton Street, WC2E 7HA","Japanese patisserie on Southampton Street: mille crepe, jiggly cheesecake, mochi made fresh.","",""],["p","sourdough-sophia","bakeries","Sourdough Sophia","Islington","119 Essex road, N1 2SN","Essex Road, and later on a Sunday than most of its rivals.","",""],["p","st-john-bakery","bakeries","St John Bakery","St John's Estate","72 Druid Street","The custard doughnut that started the London doughnut argument.","",""],["p","st-john-bakery-the-borough","bakeries","St John Bakery","The Borough","Borough High Street, The Borough, SE1 1LB","The Borough counter, a minute from the station.","",""],["p","suba-bakery","bakeries","Suba Bakery","Walthamstow","372 Hoe Street, E17 9AA","West African flavours through French lamination, and a croissant with a mango glaze.","",""],["p","tamini-lebanese-bakery","bakeries","Ta'mini Lebanese Bakery Marchmont Street","Bloomsbury","70 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB","Manakish baked to order - za'atar, akkawi cheese, spiced lamb - on Marchmont Street.","",""],["p","tamini-lebanese-bakery-fulham-road","bakeries","Ta'mini Lebanese Bakery Fulham Road","Fulham","801 Fulham Road, SW6 5HE","The shop the family started with, at the Parsons Green end of the Fulham Road.","",""],["p","tamini-lebanese-bakery-kensington-church-street","bakeries","Ta'mini Lebanese Bakery Kensington Church Street","Kensington","15 Kensington Church Street, W8 4LF","Manakish baked to order on the hill between Kensington High Street and Notting Hill Gate.","",""],["p","the-dusty-knuckle","bakeries","The Dusty Knuckle","Dalston","Abbot Street, E8 3DP","A youth-training bakery that happens to make the best loaf in Dalston.","",""],["p","the-free-from-bakehouse","bakeries","The Free From Bakehouse","Borough Market","Green Market, Borough Market, SE1 9AL","Award-winning free-from baking on a Borough Market stall, from a dedicated kitchen.","",""],["p","the-snapery-bakery","bakeries","The Snapery Bakery","South Bermondsey","214 Rotherhithe New Road, SE16 3EH","Thirty-six-hour sourdough, and a cardamom bun with a following.","",""],["p","the-snapery-east","bakeries","The Snapery East","Hackney","Helmsley Place, E8 3SB","Helmsley Place, seven in the morning, seven days a week.","",""],["p","toad-bakery","bakeries","Toad Bakery","Peckham","44 Peckham Road, SE5 8PX","The bigger Toad room, where the baking comes with a proper lunch.","",""],["p","toad-bakery-albury-court","bakeries","Toad Bakery","Albury Court","1-3 Market Yard, SE8 4BX","The original Toad arch, and the best-smelling corner of SE8.","",""],["p","toklas","bakeries","Toklas","St Clement Danes","9 Surrey Street, WC2R 2ND","The bakery counter of a serious Mediterranean restaurant, selling the bread the kitchen uses.","",""],["p","yeast-bakery","bakeries","Yeast Bakery","Bethnal Green","1-3 Sheep Lane, Hackney, E8 4FX","A small Bethnal Green bakery with more reputation than press.","",""],["c","bakeries","bakeries","Bakeries","","","The best baking in London. Bread, cakes, viennoiserie and patisserie worth crossing town for.","",""],["p","aux-merveilleux-de-fred","desserts","Aux Merveilleux de Fred","Brompton","88 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LQ","A Belgian meringue cake, rolled in chocolate shavings, assembled in the window.","",""],["p","badiani-angel","desserts","Badiani Angel","Angel & Islington","14 Camden Passage, N1 8ED","A Florentine gelateria among the antique shops of Camden Passage.","",""],["p","badiani-cabot-square","desserts","Badiani Cabot Square","Canary Wharf","15 Cabot Square, E14 4QS","Florentine gelato under the towers at Cabot Square.","",""],["p","badiani-canary-wharf","desserts","Badiani Canary Wharf","Canary Wharf","Canada Place, E14 5AH","Gelato under the mall at Canada Place.","",""],["p","badiani-chelsea","desserts","Badiani Chelsea","Chelsea","303 Fulham Road, SW10 9QH","The Fulham Road end of Chelsea, and a Florentine cone.","",""],["p","badiani-covent-garden","desserts","Badiani Covent Garden","Covent Garden","2 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9QP","Gelato on the quiet lane between Long Acre and Seven Dials.","",""],["p","badiani-elephant-and-castle","desserts","Badiani Elephant and Castle","Southwark & Bankside","Mercato Metropolitano, 42 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR","A Florentine gelato counter inside Mercato Metropolitano.","",""],["p","badiani-hampstead-heath","desserts","Badiani Hampstead Heath","Hampstead","55 South End Road, NW3 2QB","The cone to take onto the Heath, at South End Green.","",""],["p","badiani-mayfair","desserts","Badiani Mayfair","Mayfair","St Mark's Church, North Audley Street, W1K 6ZA","Gelato in a deconsecrated Mayfair church.","",""],["p","badiani-notting-hill","desserts","Badiani Notting Hill","Notting Hill & Holland Park","42 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HZ","Florentine gelato on Notting Hill Gate, and the Buontalenti is the one to get.","",""],["p","badiani-victoria","desserts","Badiani Victoria","Westminster","191 Victoria Street, SW1E 5NE","A cone on the Victoria Street walk to the station.","",""],["p","badiani-white-city","desserts","Badiani White City","Shepherd's Bush","Westfield London, Ariel Way, W12 7HB","Florentine gelato two levels down in Westfield.","",""],["p","badiani-wood-wharf","desserts","Badiani Wood Wharf","Canary Wharf","10 George Street, E14 9QG","The newer Canary Wharf shop, on the Wood Wharf side.","",""],["p","cafe-de-nata","desserts","Café de Nata","Soho","25 Old Compton Street, W1D 5JN","Pastéis de nata baked through the day, in front of you, and eaten within the hour.","",""],["p","charbonnel-et-walker","desserts","Charbonnel et Walker","St James's","1 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, W1S 4BT","Chocolates made in Britain since 1875, in a glass-roofed Victorian arcade off Old Bond Street.","","/img/charbonnel-et-walker-480.jpg?v=96997dd1"],["p","chin-chin","desserts","Chin Chin","Soho","54 Greek Street, W1D 3DS","Ice cream frozen to order in liquid nitrogen, in a cloud, while you watch.","",""],["p","crosstown","desserts","Crosstown","Spitalfields","157 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","Sourdough doughnuts, wedged between the two beigel shops at the top of Brick Lane.","",""],["p","crosstown-cannon-street","desserts","Crosstown Cannon Street","Bank","115 Cannon Street, EC4N 5AW","Sourdough doughnuts opposite Cannon Street station.","",""],["p","crosstown-fitzrovia","desserts","Crosstown Fitzrovia","Soho","13 Newman Street, W1T 1PB","Sourdough doughnuts in Rathbone Square, a minute off Oxford Street.","",""],["p","creme","desserts","Crème","Soho","4 D'Arblay Street, W1F 8DJ","Cookies baked to order and handed over still soft in the middle.","",""],["p","damson-chocolate","desserts","Damson Chocolate","Pentonville","2a Chapel Market, N1 9EZ","A bean-to-bar maker on Chapel Market, roasting and grinding in the shop.","",""],["p","dark-sugars-chocolates","desserts","Dark Sugars Chocolates","Spitalfields & Brick Lane","141 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","Ghanaian cocoa, and a hot chocolate with a hedge of chocolate shavings on top.","",""],["p","dark-sugars-cocoa-house","desserts","Dark Sugars Cocoa House","Greenwich","9 Nelson Road, SE10 9JB","Four storeys of chocolate by Greenwich Market, open until ten.","",""],["p","dark-sugars-ice-creams","desserts","Dark Sugars Ice Creams","Greenwich","21 Nelson Road, SE10 9JB","The ice cream made from the chocolate they grind twelve doors along.","",""],["p","darlish-bloomsbury","desserts","Darlish Bloomsbury","Bloomsbury","25 Bury Place, WC1A 2JH","Persian ice cream - saffron, rose and pistachio - two minutes from the British Museum.","",""],["p","darlish-notting-hill","desserts","Darlish Notting Hill","Notting Hill & Holland Park","305 Westbourne Park Road, W11 1EF","Persian ice cream on the Portobello Road corner, opposite the blue door.","",""],["p","darlish-spitalfields","desserts","Darlish Spitalfields","Spitalfields & Brick Lane","4 Brushfield Street, E1 6AN","Persian ice cream and baklava sandwiches, facing Old Spitalfields Market.","",""],["p","gelupo","desserts","Gelupo","Soho","7 Archer Street, W1D 7AU","Jacob Kenedy's gelateria, across the alley from his own restaurant, and the reason people cross Soho after dinner.","",""],["p","italian-bear-chocolate","desserts","Italian Bear Chocolate","East Marylebone","29 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JG","Italian drinking chocolate thick enough to stand a spoon in, on Rathbone Place.","",""],["p","italian-bear-chocolate-soho","desserts","Italian Bear Chocolate Soho","Soho","41 Broadwick Street, W1F 9QL","Thick Italian drinking chocolate on Broadwick Street.","",""],["p","knoops-chelsea","desserts","Knoops Chelsea","Chelsea","69 King's Road","Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, on the King's Road.","",""],["p","knoops-covent-garden","desserts","Knoops Covent Garden","Covent Garden","2a New Row, WC2N 4LH","Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, on the lane behind the Coliseum.","",""],["p","knoops-kensington","desserts","Knoops Kensington","Kensington","80 Kensington High Street","Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, open from half past six in the morning.","",""],["p","knoops-notting-hill","desserts","Knoops Notting Hill","Notting Hill","199 Portobello Road, W11 1LU","Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, at the top of Portobello Road.","",""],["p","konditor","desserts","Konditor","Waterloo","22 Cornwall Road, SE1 8TW","The Waterloo shop where Gerhard Jenne started in 1993, and still where the Curd Pie comes from.","",""],["p","kova-patisserie","desserts","Kova Patisserie","Soho","9-12 St Anne's Court, W1F 0BB","Japanese mille crepe cakes, layer by layer, down an alley between Wardour and Dean Street.","",""],["p","kova-patisserie-chinatown","desserts","Kova Patisserie Chinatown","Chinatown","20A Newport Court, WC2H 7JS","The Chinatown counter, open to eleven at weekends.","",""],["p","lartisan-du-chocolat","desserts","L'Artisan du Chocolat","Chelsea","89 Lower Sloane Street","Salted caramels in a shell thin enough to break on the tongue.","",""],["p","la-gelatiera","desserts","La Gelatiera","Covent Garden","27 New Row, WC2N 4LA","Gelato churned slowly enough to keep the air out, on the lane between Covent Garden and St Martin's Lane.","",""],["p","le-choux","desserts","Le Choux","North Kensington","332 Ladbroke Grove, W10 5AD","A shop given over almost entirely to choux pastry, at the top of Ladbroke Grove.","",""],["p","lily-vanilli","desserts","Lily Vanilli","Columbia Road","6 The Courtyard, Ezra Street, E2 7RH","Cakes worth queueing for, in a courtyard off the flower market, two days a week.","",""],["p","lisboa-patisserie","desserts","Lisboa Patisserie","North Kensington","57 Golborne Road","The Golborne Road counter everyone means when they say they are going for a custard tart.","",""],["p","longboys","desserts","Longboys","Borough Market","37 Dirty Lane","Eclairs made a foot long and filled while you wait, in Borough Yards.","",""],["p","longboys-liverpool-street","desserts","Longboys Liverpool Street","Bishopsgate","31 Liverpool Street","Foot-long eclairs by Liverpool Street, piped when you order.","",""],["p","mamasons-dirty-ice-cream","desserts","Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream","Kentish Town","91 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8NY","Filipino ice cream, and the purple one is ube.","",""],["p","maitre-choux","desserts","Maître Choux","Brompton","15 Harrington Road, SW7 3ES","A patisserie that makes nothing but choux pastry.","",""],["p","maitre-choux-kings-road","desserts","Maître Choux King's Road","Chelsea","57,59 King’s Road","Eclairs and Paris-Brest, and nothing that is not choux.","",""],["p","melt-chocolates","desserts","Melt Chocolates","Westbourne","59 Ledbury Road, W11 2AA","Chocolates tempered and moulded in the room behind the counter.","",""],["p","mille-patisserie-paddington","desserts","Mille Patisserie Paddington","Bayswater & Paddington","8A Spring Street, W2 3RA","The mille-crêpe cake again, two minutes from Paddington station.","",""],["p","mille-patisserie-russell-square","desserts","Mille Patisserie Russell Square","Bloomsbury","Brunswick Centre, WC1N 1AE","Mille-crêpe cakes - twenty layers of paper-thin crêpe and pastry cream - in the Brunswick Centre.","",""],["p","oddonos-gelati","desserts","Oddono's Gelati","Brompton","14 Bute Street, SW7 3EX","The gelateria that started the good ones, still making it in a laboratory behind the shop.","",""],["p","oddonos-stoke-newington","desserts","Oddono's Stoke Newington","Stoke Newington","42 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0LU","The Church Street branch of the South Kensington gelateria, on the good end for walking.","",""],["p","peggy-porschen","desserts","Peggy Porschen","Belgravia","116 Ebury Street, SW1W 9QQ","The pink corner shop on Ebury Street, and a patisserie counter that earns the queue outside it.","",""],["p","pierre-herme","desserts","Pierre Hermé","Belgravia","13 Lowndes Street","The macarons that made the pastry chef famous, in one small Belgravia room.","",""],["p","pierre-marcolini","desserts","Pierre Marcolini","Marylebone","37 Marylebone High Street","The Belgian who stopped buying his chocolate and went back to the bean.","",""],["p","rococo-chocolates","desserts","Rococo Chocolates","Marylebone","3 Moxon Street, W1U 4EW","The chocolatier that made bean-to-bar respectable in London, on the best food street in Marylebone.","",""],["p","rococo-chocolates-belgravia","desserts","Rococo Chocolates Belgravia","Belgravia","5 Motcomb Street, SW1X 8JU","The Motcomb Street shop, with a counter for hot chocolate as well as a shop floor.","",""],["p","rococo-chocolates-kings-road","desserts","Rococo Chocolates King's Road","World's End","321 King's Road","The shop Chantal Coady opened in 1983, where the whole thing started.","",""],["p","ruby-violet","desserts","Ruby Violet","King's Cross & St Pancras","3 Wharf Road, N1C 4BZ","Small-batch ice cream by Regent's Quarter, from a rotation of a hundred and sixty flavours.","",""],["p","snowflake-luxury-gelato","desserts","Snowflake Luxury Gelato","Soho","102 Wardour Street, W1F 0TP","Gelato made with organic Jersey milk, and a Soho counter that runs to one in the morning at weekends.","",""],["p","venchi-exhibition-road","desserts","Venchi Exhibition Road","Brompton","13 Exhibition Road","Turin chocolate and gelato halfway along the museum walk.","",""],["p","venchi-great-marlborough-street","desserts","Venchi Great Marlborough Street","Soho","32-33 Great Marlborough Street","Turin chocolate and gelato beside Liberty.","",""],["p","venchi-kings-road","desserts","Venchi King's Road","Chelsea","71 King's Road, SW3 4NX","Turin chocolate and gelato on the King's Road.","",""],["p","venchi-long-acre","desserts","Venchi Long Acre","Covent Garden","Long Acre, WC2E 9JT","Turin chocolate and gelato on the busiest walking route across Covent Garden.","",""],["p","venchi-richmond","desserts","Venchi Richmond","East Twickenham","25-26 George Street, TW9 1HY","Turin chocolate and gelato between Richmond station and the Green.","",""],["p","venchi-wardour-street","desserts","Venchi Wardour Street","Soho","143 Wardour Street, W1F 8WA","Turin chocolate and gelato, with a wall of chocolate moving behind the shopfront.","",""],["p","violet-cakes","desserts","Violet Cakes","Hackney","47 Wilton Way, E8 3ED","Claire Ptak's corner bakery, and the cake the Sussexes were married with.","",""],["p","wa-cafe","desserts","WA Café","Covent Garden","5 New Row, WC2N 4LH","Japanese patisserie on a Covent Garden side street, French method and Japanese flavours.","",""],["p","xo-chocolate","desserts","XO Chocolate","Fitzrovia","35 Riding House Street, W1W 7DX","Bonbons made a few streets away, in a glass box off Great Portland Street.","",""],["c","desserts","desserts","Desserts & Gelato","","","The sweet course as a destination: gelato and ice cream, cakes and patisserie, chocolate, and the dessert bars where pudding is…","",""],["p","abraco-harringay","breakfast","Abraço","Harringay","60-61 Grand Parade, N4 1AF","Green Lanes, from seven in the morning, every day of the week.","",""],["p","abraco-dalston","breakfast","Abraço Dalston","Dalston","31 Stoke Newington Road, N16 8BJ","A plain, useful room on Stoke Newington Road.","",""],["p","abraco-finsbury-park","breakfast","Abraço Finsbury Park","Finsbury Park","139 Blackstock Road, N4 2JW","Blackstock Road, among the greengrocers and the barbers.","",""],["p","bala-baya","breakfast","Bala Baya","Southwark","Arch 25, Old Union Yard Arches, 229 Union Street, SE1 0LR","Weekend brunch under the arches, cooked out of Tel Aviv.","",""],["p","bourne-hollingsworth-buildings","breakfast","Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings","Clerkenwell","42 Northampton Road, EC1R 0HU","A white-tiled greenhouse of a room, given over to weekend brunch.","",""],["p","brother-marcus-angel","breakfast","Brother Marcus","Angel","37-39 Camden Passage, N1 8EA","Eastern Mediterranean breakfast in the antiques passage.","",""],["p","brother-marcus-spitalfields","breakfast","Brother Marcus Spitalfields","Spitalfields","Spitalfields Market, 2 Crispin Place, E1 6DW","East Med cooking where the covered market meets Brushfield Street.","",""],["p","campbell-syme","breakfast","Campbell & Syme","East Finchley","9 Fortis Green, N2 9JR","A roaster's own shop, at the East Finchley end of Fortis Green.","",""],["p","caravan-exmouth-market","breakfast","Caravan","Exmouth Market","11-13 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QD","The first Caravan, with the roastery underneath it.","",""],["p","caravan-kings-cross","breakfast","Caravan King's Cross","King's Cross","1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA","A Victorian granary on the canal basin.","",""],["p","caravan-london-bridge","breakfast","Caravan London Bridge","Bankside","30 Great Guildford Street, SE1 0HS","A brick warehouse off Union Street, doing breakfast at scale.","",""],["p","coffee-circus","breakfast","Coffee Circus","Crouch End","136 Crouch Hill, Crouch End, N8 9DX","A Crouch Hill café cooking off whatever the neighbourhood suppliers have.","",""],["p","dishoom","breakfast","Dishoom","King's Cross","5 Stable Street, N1C 4AB","The bacon naan roll, and a Bombay café rebuilt in a goods yard.","",""],["p","dishoom-covent-garden","breakfast","Dishoom Covent Garden","Covent Garden","12 Upper St Martin's Lane, WC2H 9FB","The first one, on Upper St Martin's Lane.","",""],["p","dishoom-shoreditch","breakfast","Dishoom Shoreditch","Shoreditch","7 Boundary Street, E2 7JE","Bacon naan on Boundary Street, with the Permit Room below.","",""],["p","duck-waffle","breakfast","Duck & Waffle","Bishopsgate","110 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AY","Breakfast on the fortieth floor, at whatever hour you want it.","",""],["p","e-pellicci","breakfast","E. Pellicci","Bethnal Green","332 Bethnal Green Road, E2 0AG","A caff on Bethnal Green Road with a historically protected interior, same family since 1900.","",""],["p","esters","breakfast","Esters","Stoke Newington","55 Kynaston Road, N16 0EB","A short menu, rewritten around what the small farms send.","",""],["p","fischers","breakfast","Fischer's","Marylebone","50 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5HN","A Viennese café on Marylebone High Street.","",""],["p","ginger-white","breakfast","Ginger & White","Hampstead","4A-5A Perrins Court, Hampstead, NW3 1QS","A café down a Hampstead alley, doing small things exactly.","",""],["p","granger-co","breakfast","Granger & Co.","Notting Hill","175 Westbourne Grove, W11 2SB","Bill Granger's London room, and the ricotta hotcakes.","",""],["p","guillam-bayswater","breakfast","Guillam Bayswater","Bayswater","31 St Petersburgh Place, W2 4LA","A side-street room off Moscow Road.","",""],["p","guillam-gloucester-road","breakfast","Guillam Gloucester Road","South Kensington","24 Gloucester Road, SW7 4RB","Speciality coffee and tea, a minute from Gloucester Road station.","",""],["p","guillam-mayfair","breakfast","Guillam Mayfair","Mayfair","61 Curzon Street, W1J 8PD","Curzon Street, and coffee from seven on a weekday.","",""],["p","guillam-notting-hill","breakfast","Guillam Notting Hill","Notting Hill","26 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HX","Single-origin coffee on Notting Hill Gate.","",""],["p","guillam-st-jamess","breakfast","Guillam St James's","St James's","25 St James's Street, SW1A 1HA","Coffee in the Economist Plaza.","",""],["p","guillam-the-whiteley","breakfast","Guillam The Whiteley","Bayswater","153 Queensway, W2 4BD","Single-origin coffee inside the rebuilt Whiteleys.","",""],["p","jacks-at-the-junction","breakfast","Jack's at the Junction","Clapham Junction","252 Lavender Hill, SW11 1LJ","\"The Home of Fresh Food\", and bottomless filter coffee with it.","",""],["p","jolene-bridle-lane","breakfast","Jolene Bridle Lane","Soho","13 Bridle Lane, W1F 9BT","A farm-to-bakery counter on a Soho corner.","",""],["p","jolene-newington-green","breakfast","Jolene Newington Green","Newington Green","21 Newington Green, N16 9PU","Bread milled from their own grain, looking onto the green.","",""],["p","jolene-redchurch-street","breakfast","Jolene Redchurch Street","Shoreditch","67 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ","Own-milled flour, in a narrow Shoreditch shopfront.","",""],["p","kaffeine","breakfast","Kaffeine","Fitzrovia","66 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7QJ","Antipodean espresso and a breakfast menu rewritten every week.","",""],["p","lantana-fitzrovia","breakfast","Lantana","Fitzrovia","13 Charlotte Place, W1T 1SN","The room the Aussie brunch habit started in.","",""],["p","lantana-london-bridge","breakfast","Lantana London Bridge","London Bridge","44-46 Southwark Street, SE1 1UN","All-day Australian cooking on Southwark Street.","",""],["p","lantana-shoreditch","breakfast","Lantana Shoreditch","Shoreditch","2 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road, EC1Y 1HQ","Antipodean all-day cooking, in a City Road courtyard.","",""],["p","megans-old-town","breakfast","Megan's Old Town","Clapham","55-57 The Pavement, Clapham, SW4 0JQ","A corner site on The Pavement, facing Clapham Common.","",""],["p","megans-wimbledon","breakfast","Megan's in the Village","Wimbledon Village","86 High Street, Wimbledon, SW19 5EG","Dried flowers and a long brunch card, at the top of Wimbledon Hill.","",""],["p","milk-beach-soho","breakfast","Milk Beach Soho","Soho","Ilona Rose House, Manette Street, W1D 4AL","Modern Australian cooking that treats breakfast as a service, not an afterthought.","",""],["p","nue-ground","breakfast","Nue Ground","Clapham","30-32 Abbeville Road, SW4 9NG","A café at the front, a pilates studio behind it.","",""],["p","ottolenghi","breakfast","Ottolenghi","Islington","287 Upper Street, N1 2TZ","Meringues in the window, shakshuka behind them.","",""],["p","ozone-coffee","breakfast","Ozone Coffee","Blackfriars","56 Ludgate Hill, EC4M 7AW","A weekday room on Ludgate Hill, in the shadow of St Paul's.","",""],["p","ozone-leonard","breakfast","Ozone Coffee Roasters","Shoreditch","11 Leonard Street, EC2A 4AQ","A New Zealand roastery with a proper kitchen above it.","",""],["p","pophams-bakery","breakfast","Pophams","London Fields","197 Richmond Road, E8 3NJ","Lamination done in front of you, on Richmond Road.","",""],["p","pophams-victoria-park","breakfast","Pophams Victoria Park","Victoria Park","110a Lauriston Road, E9 7HA","Lamination on Lauriston Road, at the village end.","",""],["p","prufrock","breakfast","Prufrock Coffee","Farringdon","23-25 Leather Lane, EC1N 7TE","The Leather Lane room that trained a generation of baristas.","",""],["p","regency-cafe","breakfast","Regency Cafe","Westminster","17-19 Regency Street, SW1P 4BY","Black tiles, Formica, and your name shouted across the room.","","/img/regency-cafe-480.jpg?v=22849676"],["p","sams-cafe","breakfast","Sam's Cafe","Primrose Hill","40 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill","A corner caff on Chalcot Road, run with more care than the form suggests.","",""],["p","scarlett-green","breakfast","Scarlett Green","Soho","4 Noel Street, W1F 8GB","Australian brunch off Berwick Street, loud and thoroughly green.","",""],["p","tab-x-tab","breakfast","Tab x Tab","Westbourne Grove","14-16 Westbourne Grove, W2 5RH","Speciality tea taken as seriously as the coffee.","",""],["p","terrys-cafe","breakfast","Terry's Cafe","Southwark","156;156,158 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 1PE","A fry-up assembled from named Bermondsey suppliers.","",""],["p","the-breakfast-club","breakfast","The Breakfast Club","Soho","33 D'Arblay Street, W1F 8EU","The original of them, on D'Arblay Street since 2005.","",""],["p","the-cafe-at-clifton-nurseries","breakfast","The Café at Clifton Nurseries","Maida Vale","5A Clifton Villas, W9 2PH","Brunch under glass among the plants, at the garden centre London has had since 1851.","",""],["p","the-elder-press-cafe","breakfast","The Elder Press Cafe","Hammersmith","3 South Black Lion Lane, W6 9TJ","A kitchen first, on a lane between King Street and the river.","",""],["p","the-good-egg","breakfast","The Good Egg","Stoke Newington","93 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0AS","Jewish and Middle Eastern breakfast on Church Street.","",""],["p","the-good-egg-walthamstow","breakfast","The Good Egg Walthamstow","Walthamstow","28-30 Orford Road, E17 9NJ","Eastern Mediterranean breakfast on Walthamstow Village's one good street.","",""],["p","the-laundry-brixton","breakfast","The Laundry","Brixton","374 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PL","Brixton brunch that carries on into the night.","",""],["p","the-original-maids-of-honour","breakfast","The Original Maids of Honour","Kew","288 Kew Road, TW9 3DU","A Tudor curd tart, still baked to the recipe on Kew Road.","",""],["p","the-table-cafe","breakfast","The Table Cafe","Southwark","83 Southwark Street, SE1 0HX","A tall, daylit room on Southwark Street, feeding the neighbourhood since before it was one.","",""],["p","the-wolseley","breakfast","The Wolseley","Piccadilly","160 Piccadilly, W1J 9EB","The grand café breakfast, in a former car showroom.","","/img/the-wolseley-480.jpg?v=88b136c7"],["p","truth-cafe","breakfast","Truth Cafe","Hammersmith","36-38 Fulham Palace Road, W6 9PH","Half past six on a weekday, and independent with it.","",""],["p","where-the-pancakes-are","breakfast","Where The Pancakes Are","Borough","Arch 35a, 85a Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 0NQ","An all-day pancake kitchen in a railway arch.","",""],["p","e5-bakehouse","breakfast","e5 Bakehouse","London Fields","395 Mentmore Terrace, E8 3PH","Sourdough from a railway arch under London Fields station.","",""],["c","breakfast","breakfast","Breakfast & Brunch","","","Where London eats first: fry-ups, bakery counters and long brunches, from a Bethnal Green caff to the fortieth floor.","",""],["p","arcade-battersea","food-markets","Arcade Battersea","Nine Elms","Boiler House, Battersea Power Station, SW11 8DD","Thirteen cuisines inside the old turbine hall.","",""],["p","arcade-food-hall","food-markets","Arcade Food Hall","St Giles","Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1DD","JKS restaurants in a food hall, with a games room attached.","",""],["p","bang-bang-oriental","food-markets","Bang Bang Oriental Foodhall","Colindale","399 Edgware Road, NW9 0FH","The biggest Asian food hall in London, and worth the ride to Colindale.","","/img/bang-bang-oriental-480.jpg?v=f4736469"],["p","borough-market","food-markets","Borough Market","Borough Market","8 Southwark Street, SE1 1TL","A thousand years of trading, and still a maze on a Saturday.","","/img/borough-market-480.jpg?v=6fd410e6"],["p","boxpark-shoreditch","food-markets","BOXPARK Shoreditch","Shoreditch","2-10 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6GY","Fifty vendors in shipping containers, and the upper deck is all food.","","/img/boxpark-shoreditch-480.jpg?v=f220e543"],["p","brick-lane-market","food-markets","Brick Lane Market","Brick Lane","Brick Lane, E1 6QL","East London's Sunday market, and still a sliver of the original underneath.","","/img/brick-lane-market-480.jpg?v=5593071f"],["p","brixton-village","food-markets","Brixton Village","Brixton","Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PS","A century-old arcade, and the best budget eating in south London.","","/img/brixton-village-480.jpg?v=4a3af2f3"],["p","broadway-market","food-markets","Broadway Market","London Fields","Broadway Market, E8 4QJ","A Victorian market reinvented by its neighbours, and only at weekends.","","/img/broadway-market-480.jpg?v=105b4850"],["p","camden-market","food-markets","Camden Market","Camden Town","Camden Lock Place, NW1 8AF","Hawker stalls in the West Yard, cheap and from everywhere.","","/img/own-camden-market-480.jpg?v=a63cc0c9"],["p","corner-corner","food-markets","Corner Corner","Canada Water","Maritime Street, SE16 7LL","KERB's traders in a Canada Water warehouse, with some of the salad grown in the same building.","",""],["p","eataly","food-markets","Eataly","Broadgate","135 Bishopsgate, EC2M 3YD","Two thousand wine labels, and mozzarella pulled in front of you on a Saturday.","",""],["p","flat-iron-square","food-markets","Flat Iron Square","The Borough","Union Street, SE1 1TD","Seven railway arches, four food traders, and a gig most nights.","",""],["p","fortnum-mason-food-halls","food-markets","Fortnum & Mason Food Halls","St James's","181 Piccadilly, W1A 1ER","Three centuries of provisions, and the Scotch egg it claims to have invented.","","/img/fortnum-mason-food-halls-480.jpg?v=9e0e4d11"],["p","greenwich-market","food-markets","Greenwich Market","Greenwich","5B Greenwich Market, SE10 9HZ","A covered Georgian market, and the best eating in Greenwich.","","/img/greenwich-market-480.jpg?v=2f76c843"],["p","harrods-food-hall","food-markets","Harrods Food Hall","Knightsbridge","87-135 Brompton Road, SW1X 7XL","Edwardian tiled halls, extraordinary produce, and prices to match.","","/img/harrods-food-hall-480.jpg?v=853ea803"],["p","kingly-court","food-markets","Kingly Court","Soho","Kingly Street, W1B 5PW","Three galleried tiers of restaurants in a Soho courtyard.","","/img/kingly-court-480.jpg?v=464b5112"],["p","kingston-ancient-market","food-markets","Kingston Ancient Market","Kingston upon Thames","Market Place, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1JS","Twenty-eight stalls under a gilded Queen Anne in a market place with records from the early 1200s, seven days a week.","",""],["p","leadenhall-market","food-markets","Leadenhall Market","Leadenhall Market","Gracechurch Street, EC3V 1LT","Cream and maroon Victorian ironwork, and a City lunch underneath it.","","/img/leadenhall-market-480.jpg?v=fe33070c"],["p","leather-lane-market","food-markets","Leather Lane Market","Hatton Garden","Leather Lane, EC1N 7TE","Camden's largest street market, and a weekday lunch run of street food stalls.","","/img/leather-lane-market-480.jpg?v=66101748"],["p","lower-marsh-market","food-markets","Lower Marsh Market","Waterloo","Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1 7RG","Waterloo's weekday lunch market, on the street that has had one for two centuries.","","/img/lower-marsh-market-480.jpg?v=452c1d1f"],["p","maltby-street-market","food-markets","Maltby Street Market","Bermondsey","Ropewalk, SE1 3PA","Thirty traders in a smoky corridor between Victorian railway arches.","","/img/maltby-street-market-480.jpg?v=0e01d58f"],["p","market-halls-canary-wharf","food-markets","Market Halls Cargo","Canary Wharf","26 North Colonnade, E14 5HD","The Canary Wharf hall, and open later than the offices around it.","","/img/market-halls-canary-wharf-480.jpg?v=aa61c2df"],["p","market-halls-oxford-street","food-markets","Market Halls Oxford Street","Marylebone","9 Holles Street, W1G 0BD","Somewhere decent to eat a minute off Oxford Street, which is rarer than it should be.","",""],["p","market-halls-paddington","food-markets","Market Halls Paddington","Paddington","1 Paddington Square, W2 1GG","Eight kitchens and a terrace at the foot of Paddington Square.","",""],["p","market-halls-victoria","food-markets","Market Halls Victoria","Victoria","191 Victoria Street, SW1E 5NE","Nine kitchens over three floors, and a roof terrace above Victoria station.","","/img/market-halls-victoria-480.jpg?v=60d21578"],["p","mercato-mayfair","food-markets","Mercato Mayfair","Mayfair","13 North Audley Street, W1K 6ZA","A historically protected church turned food hall, crypt bar included.","","/img/mercato-mayfair-480.jpg?v=d4c394d3"],["p","mercato-metropolitano","food-markets","Mercato Metropolitano","Elephant and Castle","42 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR","An old paper factory turned Italian market, with the waste designed out.","","/img/mercato-metropolitano-480.jpg?v=881857a2"],["p","netil-market","food-markets","Netil Market","London Fields","13-23 Westgate Street, E8 3RL","The courtyard where Bao started, and still the better London Fields market.","",""],["p","old-spitalfields-market","food-markets","Old Spitalfields Market","Spitalfields","16 Horner Square, E1 6EW","Trading here since 1682, under one grand Victorian roof.","","/img/old-spitalfields-market-480.jpg?v=4142b92a"],["p","peckham-levels","food-markets","Peckham Levels","Peckham","95a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST","Seven storeys of a car park, repurposed for food and studios.","",""],["p","petticoat-lane-market","food-markets","Petticoat Lane Market","Spitalfields","Middlesex Street and Wentworth Street, E1 7JF","London's oldest clothes market on Sunday mornings, and a weekday street-food court on Wentworth Street the rest of the week.","",""],["p","pop-brixton","food-markets","Pop Brixton","Brixton","49 Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PQ","Shipping containers, local traders, and profits that stay in Brixton.","","/img/pop-brixton-480.jpg?v=cdaaaf63"],["p","portobello-road-market","food-markets","Portobello Road Market","North Kensington","Portobello Road, W11 1LJ","London's most crowded street market, and not one market but several.","","/img/portobello-road-market-480.jpg?v=be7c117a"],["p","selfridges-food-hall","food-markets","Selfridges Food Hall","Marylebone","400 Oxford Street, W1A 1AB","A department store food hall that behaves like a market.","","/img/selfridges-food-hall-480.jpg?v=3eecce05"],["p","seven-dials-market","food-markets","Seven Dials Market","Seven Dials","35 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LD","A former banana warehouse, now the best eating in Covent Garden.","","/img/seven-dials-market-480.jpg?v=941c2ccc"],["p","southbank-centre-food-market","food-markets","Southbank Centre Food Market","South Bank","Southbank Centre Square, SE1 8XX","Weekend street food behind the Royal Festival Hall.","",""],["p","spa-terminus","food-markets","Spa Terminus","Bermondsey","Dockley Road, SE16 3SF","Saturday mornings only, and where half of London's good restaurants shop.","","/img/spa-terminus-480.jpg?v=44b1f910"],["p","tooting-market","food-markets","Tooting Market","Tooting","21-23 Tooting High Street, SW17 0SN","A covered market three minutes from the Tube, seventeen food traders deep and open late at weekends.","",""],["p","vinegar-yard","food-markets","Vinegar Yard","London Bridge","72-82 St Thomas Street, SE1 3QU","A terrace in the shadow of the Shard, with the view to match.","","/img/vinegar-yard-480.jpg?v=6db3e3e4"],["p","walthamstow-market","food-markets","Walthamstow Market","Walthamstow","High Street, Walthamstow, E17 7JX","A kilometre of stalls down the High Street since 1885, the longest street market in Europe, five days a week.","","/img/walthamstow-market-480.jpg?v=ce990803"],["p","whitecross-street-market","food-markets","Whitecross Street Market","Barbican","Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8JL","A lunchtime street market trading since 1680, and still about a fiver.","",""],["c","food-markets","food-markets","Food Markets","","","The best food markets in London. Street food, fresh produce and the food halls worth a detour.","",""],["p","beer-merchants-tap","beer","Beer Merchants Tap","Hackney Wick","99 Wallis Road, E9 5LN","Twenty taps, two cask pumps and 500 bottles behind them.","",""],["p","binch","beer","Binch","Dalston","51 Greenwood Road, E8 1NT","A small Hackney room that takes wine and beer equally seriously.","",""],["p","brixton-brewery","beer","Brixton Brewery","Brixton","Arch 548, Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PF","A railway arch taproom named for the streets outside it.","",""],["p","camden-beer-hall","beer","Camden Beer Hall","Kentish Town","55-59 Wilkin Street Mews, Kentish Town, NW5 3NN","The original railway arches where Camden Hells began.","",""],["p","cask-pub-and-kitchen","beer","CASK Pub and Kitchen","Pimlico","6 Charlwood Street, SW1V 2EE","The pub that started London's craft beer habit, still going.","",""],["p","cloudwater-taproom","beer","Cloudwater Taproom","Bermondsey","73 Enid Street, SE16 3RA","Manchester's best-known brewery, in a Bermondsey arch with nineteen taps.","",""],["p","craft-beer-junction","beer","Craft Beer Junction","Bermondsey","Arch 86, Enid Street, SE16 3RA","American craft, air-freighted, four doors from the Kernel.","",""],["p","crate-brewery","beer","CRATE Brewery","Hackney Wick","The White Building, Unit 7 Queens Yard, White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Canalside pizza and beer that made Hackney Wick a destination.","",""],["p","filly-brook","beer","Filly Brook","Leytonstone","392 Grove Green Road, Leytonstone, E11 4AP","Good beer, a kitchen and a record deck, under the Leytonstone arches.","",""],["p","five-points-taproom-courtyard","beer","Five Points Taproom & Courtyard","Hackney","61 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 4RG","Drink in sight of the tanks, with barbecue in the courtyard.","",""],["p","fullers-griffin-brewery-tour","beer","Fuller's Griffin Brewery Tour","Chiswick","Griffin Brewery, Chiswick Lane South, W4 2QB","An hour and three quarters inside London's oldest working brewery.","",""],["p","german-kraft-brewery","beer","German Kraft Brewery","Elephant & Castle","Mercato Metropolitano, 42 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR","German beer brewed on the spot and poured unfiltered, in the biggest beer garden in London.","",""],["p","german-kraft-mayfair","beer","German Kraft Mayfair","Mayfair","Mercato Mayfair, St Mark's Church, North Audley Street, W1K 6ZA","The same tank-fresh German beer, served at the altar of a historically protected church.","",""],["p","gravity-well-taproom","beer","Gravity Well Taproom","Leyton","Arch 155 Midland Road, Leyton, E10 6JT","Hazy IPAs and fruited sours in a Leyton railway arch.","",""],["p","guinness-open-gate-brewery-london","beer","Guinness Open Gate Brewery London","Covent Garden","Old Brewer's Yard, Covent Garden, WC2H 9FA","A working Guinness microbrewery in Covent Garden, and you pour your own.","",""],["p","hackney-church-brew-co","beer","Hackney Church Brew Co","Hackney","16 & 17 Bohemia Place, Hackney, E8 1DU","Brewing in the arches behind St John's, off Bohemia Place.","",""],["p","hop-burns-black","beer","Hop Burns & Black","East Dulwich","38 East Dulwich Road, SE22 9AX","Craft beer, natural wine and a wall of hot sauce.","",""],["p","house-of-hammerton","beer","House of Hammerton","Holloway","99 Holloway Road, N7 8LT","The Islington brewery's own pub, a stroll from the Emirates.","",""],["p","howling-hops-tank-bar","beer","Howling Hops Tank Bar","Hackney Wick","Queens Yard, White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Beer poured straight from the tank it was brewed in.","",""],["p","indiebeer","beer","indiebeer","Holloway","322 Holloway Road, N7 6NJ","Four hundred beers on Holloway Road, drink in or take away.","",""],["p","mikkeller-bar-london","beer","Mikkeller Bar London","Shoreditch","2-4 Hackney Road, E2 7NS","The Danish gypsy brewers' London corner pub, eighteen of their own on tap.","",""],["p","mother-kellys","beer","Mother Kelly's","Bethnal Green","251 Paradise Row, E2 9LE","Twenty-two taps and six fridges under a Bethnal Green arch.","",""],["p","orbit-beers-taproom","beer","Orbit Beers Taproom","Walworth","225 & 228 Fielding Street, Walworth, SE17 3HD","German-leaning beers, a sun terrace and an N64 in the corner.","",""],["p","park-fever","beer","Park Fever","Hither Green","21a Staplehurst Road, Hither Green, SE13 5ND","Beer, cider and chocolate on a Hither Green parade.","",""],["p","pressure-drop-taproom","beer","Pressure Drop Taproom","Tottenham","Unit 6, Lockwood Industrial Park, N17 9QP","They clear out the brewery at the weekend and let you in.","",""],["p","pretty-decent-beer-co","beer","Pretty Decent Beer Co","Forest Gate","340 Sheridan Road, Forest Gate, E7 9EF","Hazy pales and weekly one-offs, brewed on the premises.","",""],["p","rose-crown","beer","Rose & Crown","Kentish Town","71-73 Torriano Avenue, NW5 2SG","A backstreet Kentish Town pub with a sunken garden and an independents-only tap list.","",""],["p","sambrooks-brewery-tap","beer","Sambrook's Brewery Tap","Wandsworth","1 Bellwether Lane, The Ram Quarter, SW18 1UR","Beer on the Ram site, where Wandsworth has brewed since the 1500s.","",""],["p","signature-brew-blackhorse-road","beer","Signature Brew Blackhorse Road","Walthamstow","Unit 15, Uplands Business Park, Blackhorse Lane, E17 5QJ","A brewery with a stage, on the Blackhorse Beer Mile.","",""],["p","signature-brew-haggerston","beer","Signature Brew Haggerston","Haggerston","Railway Arch 340, Acton Mews, Haggerston, E8 4EA","The smaller Signature arch, a minute from Haggerston station.","",""],["p","small-beer-brew-co","beer","Small Beer Brew Co","Bermondsey","70-72 Verney Road, SE16 3DH","A brewery built entirely around beer you can drink at lunchtime.","",""],["p","southwark-brewing-company","beer","Southwark Brewing Company","Bermondsey","46 Druid Street, SE1 2EZ","A Druid Street arch brewing proper bitter on the Beer Mile.","",""],["p","the-cock-tavern","beer","The Cock Tavern","Hackney","315 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1EJ","Ten cask lines and a cellar that once brewed Howling Hops.","",""],["p","the-dodo-micropub","beer","The Dodo Micropub","Hanwell","52 Boston Road, Hanwell, W7 3TR","One room, no telly, and west London's best beer conversation.","",""],["p","the-euston-tap","beer","The Euston Tap","Euston","190 Euston Road, NW1 2EF","A stone lodge of the lost Euston Arch, full of Czech lager.","",""],["p","the-harp","beer","The Harp","Covent Garden","47 Chandos Place, WC2N 4HS","A narrow, award-winning ale house yards from Trafalgar Square.","",""],["p","the-ivy-house","beer","The Ivy House","Nunhead","40 Stuart Road, Nunhead, SE15 3BE","Britain's first co-operatively owned pub, saved by its regulars.","",""],["p","the-jolly-butchers","beer","The Jolly Butchers","Stoke Newington","204 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 7HU","Stoke Newington's beer pub, with a rotating cask and keg wall.","",""],["p","the-kernel-taproom","beer","The Kernel Taproom","Bermondsey","Spa Business Park, Spa Road, SE16 4QT","The brewery that set the London standard, at its own bar.","",""],["p","the-pembury-tavern","beer","The Pembury Tavern","Hackney","90 Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1JH","Five Points' own pub, and the best place to drink their beer.","",""],["p","the-rake","beer","The Rake","Borough","14a Winchester Walk, Borough Market, SE1 9AG","A tiny beer bar wedged into Borough Market since 2006.","",""],["p","the-rusty-bucket","beer","The Rusty Bucket","Eltham","11 Court Yard, SE9 5PR","The craft beer pub southeast London did not have, off Eltham High Street.","",""],["p","the-southampton-arms","beer","The Southampton Arms","Kentish Town","139 Highgate Road, NW5 1LE","Ale and cider only, cash and card, no bookings, no fuss.","",""],["p","the-sultan","beer","The Sultan","South Wimbledon","78 Norman Road, South Wimbledon, SW19 1BT","South West London's CAMRA pub of the year, on a Merton backstreet.","",""],["p","villages-brewery-taproom","beer","Villages Brewery Taproom","Deptford","21-22 Resolution Way, Deptford, SE8 4NT","Deptford's own brewery, open at the end of the week.","",""],["p","wenlock-arms","beer","Wenlock Arms","Hoxton","26 Wenlock Road, N1 7TA","Ten cask ales in a 19th-century ale house off the City Road.","",""],["c","beer","beer","Beer","","","Where to drink beer in London: brewery taprooms, bottle shops you can sit down in, and the pubs where the beer is the reason to…","",""],["p","69-colebrooke-row","cocktails","69 Colebrooke Row","Islington","69 Colebrooke Row","\"The bar with no name\" — a tiny room that changed London drinking.","",""],["p","a-bar-with-shapes-for-a-name","cocktails","A Bar with Shapes for a Name","Haggerston","232 Kingsland Road","Bauhaus design principles, applied to a drinks list.","",""],["p","all-my-friends","cocktails","All My Friends","Hackney Wick","Unit 1, 96 White Post Lane, E9 5EN","Canalside in Hackney Wick, from 12:00.","",""],["p","all-my-gods","cocktails","All My Gods","Bethnal Green","253 Paradise Row, E2 9LE","A Paradise Row bar from the All My Friends team.","",""],["p","american-bar","cocktails","American Bar at The Savoy","Covent Garden","The Savoy, Strand, WC2R 0EZ","London's oldest surviving cocktail bar, open since 1893.","",""],["p","artesian","cocktails","Artesian","Marylebone","The Langham, 1c Portland Place, W1B 1JA","The Langham's pink-and-gilt room, four times the world's best bar.","",""],["p","bar-americain","cocktails","Bar Américain","Soho","22 Sherwood Street, W1F 7ED","An Art Deco room off Piccadilly, at sensible prices.","",""],["p","bar-termini","cocktails","Bar Termini","Soho","7 Old Compton Street","Thirty seats, an Italian aperitivo list, and very good coffee.","",""],["p","beaufort-bar","cocktails","Beaufort Bar","Covent Garden","The Savoy, Strand, WC2R 0EZ","Black and gold, on the Savoy's old cabaret stage.","",""],["p","behind-this-wall","cocktails","Behind This Wall","Hackney","411 Mare Street","A Mare Street basement for records and long drinks.","",""],["p","below-stone-nest","cocktails","Below Stone Nest","Soho","136 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EZ","Candlelit highballs in the cellar of an 1888 Welsh chapel.","","/img/own-below-stone-nest-480.jpg?v=c6d85303"],["p","blondies","cocktails","Blondies","Clapton","205a Lower Clapton Road","A Lower Clapton bar that stays up later than its neighbours.","",""],["p","bottle-rye","cocktails","Bottle + Rye","Camberwell","406 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LD","A tiny Camberwell bar from the Salon team.","",""],["p","bussey-rooftop-bar","cocktails","Bussey Rooftop Bar","Peckham","133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST","Deckchairs and a sunset view on top of the Bussey Building.","",""],["p","cafe-kick","cocktails","Café Kick","Clerkenwell","43 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QL","Table football, continental beer and a decent drink, since 1997.","",""],["p","cahoots","cocktails","Cahoots","Soho","13 Kingly Court","A 1940s Tube carriage, played for laughs.","",""],["p","coburg-bar","cocktails","Coburg Bar","Mayfair","The Connaught, Carlos Place, W1K 2AL","The Connaught's quieter bar, and easier to get into.","",""],["p","connaught-bar","cocktails","Connaught Bar","Mayfair","The Connaught, Carlos Place, W1K 2AL","The martini trolley, and sixth-best bar in the world.","",""],["p","discount-suit-company","cocktails","Discount Suit Company","Spitalfields","1A Bell Lane, E1 7LA","A narrow basement in a former tailor's stockroom.","",""],["p","disrepute","cocktails","Disrepute","Soho","4 Kingly Court","A basement off Kingly Court, done in green velvet.","",""],["p","doodle-bar","cocktails","Doodle Bar","Battersea","33 Parkgate Road, SW11 4NP","A Battersea warehouse bar where the walls are for drawing on.","",""],["p","dukes-bar","cocktails","Dukes Bar","St James's","Dukes London, 35 St James's Place, SW1A 1NJ","The martini trolley that reputedly gave Ian Fleming his line.","",""],["p","easy-8","cocktails","Easy 8","Hackney","159a Mare Street, E8 3RH","A small Mare Street bar with a short, changing list.","",""],["p","ellies","cocktails","Ellie's","Dalston","428 Kingsland Road, E8 4AA","A Kingsland Road bar that runs properly late.","",""],["p","endeavour","cocktails","Endeavour","Deptford","39 Deptford Broadway, SE8 4PQ","A Deptford bar with a short list and no ceremony.","",""],["p","equal-parts","cocktails","Equal Parts","Hackney","245 Hackney Road, E2 8NA","A neighbourhood bar on Hackney Road with a short, sharp list.","",""],["p","experimental-cocktail-club","cocktails","Experimental Cocktail Club","Chinatown","13 Gerrard Street, W1D 5PS","Three floors behind an unmarked Chinatown door.","",""],["p","forza-wine","cocktails","Forza Wine","Peckham","133a Rye Lane, SE15 4BQ","A Peckham rooftop above the multi-storey, looking north over the city.","",""],["p","franks-cafe","cocktails","Frank's Cafe","Peckham","Rye Lane, SE15 4ST","A car-park roof in Peckham with the best free view in south London.","",""],["p","fumoir","cocktails","Fumoir","Mayfair","Claridge's, Brook Street, W1K 4HR","Twenty-odd seats behind a curtain at Claridge's.","",""],["p","gong","cocktails","GŎNG","London Bridge","Shangri-La The Shard, 31 St Thomas Street, SE1 9QU","Level 52 of the Shard, and the highest hotel bar in western Europe.","",""],["p","helgis","cocktails","Helgi's","Hackney","177 Mare Street, E8 3RH","A Viking-themed Mare Street bar with drinking horns.","",""],["p","homeboy","cocktails","Homeboy","Islington","108 Essex Road, N1 8LX","An Irish-run bar on Essex Road with a Guinness and a good martini.","",""],["p","jazu","cocktails","Jazu","Deptford","2 Deptford High Street, SE8 4AF","A Deptford High Street bar built around Japanese drinks.","",""],["p","la-camionera","cocktails","La Camionera","Hackney","243 Well Street","A Basque-leaning bar on Well Street, open from late morning.","",""],["p","little-mercies","cocktails","Little Mercies","Crouch End","20 Tottenham Lane, N8 9DE","A proper cocktail bar for Crouch End, with bottled drinks to take away.","",""],["p","lyaness","cocktails","Lyaness","South Bank","Sea Containers London, 20 Upper Ground, SE1 9PD","River views at Sea Containers, and a menu built on house-made ingredients.","",""],["p","mascara-bar","cocktails","Mascara Bar","Stamford Hill","72 Stamford Hill, N16 6XS","A Stamford Hill late bar with a stubbornly local crowd.","",""],["p","merchant-house","cocktails","Merchant House","Bank","13 Well Court, off Bow Lane, EC4M 9DN","Over a thousand bottles of gin, rum and whisky, in three cellars off Bow Lane.","",""],["p","milroys","cocktails","Milroy's","Soho","3 Greek Street, W1D 4NX","A whisky shop with a bar hidden behind the bookcase.","",""],["p","mr-foggs","cocktails","Mr Fogg's","Soho","22 Great Chapel Street, W1F 8FR","Victorian-explorer theatre, played entirely straight.","",""],["p","nancys","cocktails","Nancy's","Borough","London Bridge Walk, SE1 2SX","A small, dark room by London Bridge that stays open to 02:00.","",""],["p","netil360","cocktails","Netil360","London Fields","1-7 Westgate Street, E8 3RL","A rooftop above Netil Market with the whole skyline in view.","",""],["p","nightjar","cocktails","Nightjar","Old Street","129 City Road, EC1V 1JB","Basement jazz and theatrical drinks, fifteen years in.","",""],["p","oriole","cocktails","Oriole","Farringdon","7-9 Slingsby Place, WC2E 9AB","Smithfield basement, live music, drinks by continent.","",""],["p","queen-of-hoxton","cocktails","Queen of Hoxton","Shoreditch","1-5 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX","A rooftop that gets a new theme every season, over a Shoreditch basement.","",""],["p","rasputins","cocktails","Rasputin's","Hackney","171 Mare Street, E8 3RH","A Mare Street basement given over to vodka and disorder.","",""],["p","ridley-road-market-bar","cocktails","Ridley Road Market Bar","Dalston","49 Ridley Road, E8 2NP","A market stall by day, a very late bar by night.","",""],["p","rivoli-bar","cocktails","Rivoli Bar","Piccadilly","The Ritz, 150 Piccadilly, W1J 9BR","A jewel box in camphor wood and gold leaf, with a dress code.","",""],["p","sager-wilde","cocktails","Sager + Wilde","Hackney","193 Hackney Road, E2 8JL","A wine bar that takes its cocktails just as seriously.","",""],["p","satans-whiskers","cocktails","Satan's Whiskers","Bethnal Green","343 Cambridge Heath Road","A daily-changing menu, taxidermy, and hip-hop.","",""],["p","scarfes-bar","cocktails","Scarfes Bar","Holborn","252 High Holborn, WC1V 7EN","Gerald Scarfe caricatures, a fire, and live jazz nightly.","",""],["p","seabird","cocktails","Seabird","Southwark","The Hoxton Southwark, 40 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NY","The longest oyster list in London, fourteen floors up.","",""],["p","seed-library","cocktails","Seed Library","Shoreditch","100 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JQ","Ryan Chetiyawardana's basement, with drinks under a fiver's worth of fuss.","",""],["p","side-hustle","cocktails","Side Hustle","Covent Garden","The NoMad, 28 Bow Street, WC2E 7AW","A Latin-leaning bar in the old Bow Street magistrates' court.","",""],["p","swift","cocktails","Swift","Soho","12 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TQ","A quick one upstairs, a long one in the basement.","",""],["p","tayer-elementary","cocktails","Tayēr + Elementary","Old Street","152 Old Street, EC1V 9BW","Fifth-best bar in the world, and two rooms in one.","",""],["p","the-american-bar-at-the-stafford","cocktails","The American Bar at The Stafford","St James's","The Stafford, 16-18 St James's Place, SW1A 1NJ","A hotel bar hung with signed photographs and ceiling memorabilia.","",""],["p","the-bar-at-the-dorchester","cocktails","The Bar at The Dorchester","Mayfair","The Dorchester, 53 Park Lane, W1K 1QA","Park Lane grandeur, with live music most evenings.","",""],["p","the-coral-room","cocktails","The Coral Room","Bloomsbury","The Bloomsbury Hotel, 16-22 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3NN","A tall coral-pink salon off Great Russell Street, strong on English sparkling.","",""],["p","the-distillery","cocktails","The Distillery","Notting Hill","186 Portobello Road, W11 1LA","A working gin distillery on Portobello Road, with bars on three floors.","",""],["p","the-painters-room","cocktails","The Painter's Room","Mayfair","Claridge's, Brook Street, W1K 4HR","Claridge's onyx-and-gold jewel box, built around aperitifs.","",""],["p","the-punch-room","cocktails","The Punch Room","Fitzrovia","The London EDITION, 10 Berners Street, W1T 3NP","Oak panelling, low light, and punch served by the bowl.","",""],["p","the-roses-of-elagabalus","cocktails","The Roses of Elagabalus","Dalston","578 Kingsland Road","A Kingsland Road bar named after a Roman emperor's party trick.","",""],["p","the-social","cocktails","The Social","Fitzrovia","5 Little Portland Street, W1W 7JD","A record-label bar with a jukebox and a basement stage.","",""],["p","the-spy-bar","cocktails","The Spy Bar","Whitehall","Raffles London at The OWO, 57 Whitehall, SW1A 2BX","Cocktails 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Boundary Street bar in a former umbrella factory.","",""],["p","vagabond","cocktails","Vagabond","Fulham","18-22 Vanston Place, SW6 1AX","Self-pour wine by the taste, in Fulham.","",""],["c","cocktails","cocktails","Cocktails","","","The best cocktail bars in London, from hotel grandeur to hidden speakeasies. Filter by style, or by what's open.","",""],["p","40-maltby-street","wine","40 Maltby Street","Bermondsey","40 Maltby Street, SE1 3PA","A railway arch that is a wine importer by day and a kitchen by night.","",""],["p","antidote-wine-bar","wine","Antidote Wine Bar","Soho","12A Newburgh Street, Soho, W1F 7RR","A narrow Newburgh Street bar, low-intervention list, upstairs dining room.","",""],["p","artelium-wine-estate","wine","Artelium Wine Estate","Streat, East Sussex","Train from Victoria — About an hour to Plumpton, then a 25-minute walk.","A vineyard hung with contemporary art, under the South Downs.","",""],["p","balfour-winery","wine","Balfour Winery","Marden, Kent","Train from London Bridge — About 46 minutes to Marden, then a free weekend shuttle or a 20-minute walk.","Kent's most acclaimed winery, and its own site calls it England's best to visit.","",""],["p","berry-bros-rudd","wine","Berry Bros. & Rudd","St James's","63 Pall Mall, St James's, SW1A 1EG","Britain's oldest wine 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at the far end.","",""],["p","daves-wine-bar","wine","Dave's Wine Bar","Aldgate","2 St James's Passage, Aldgate, EC3A 5DH","A City wine bar that serves beef, lamb and venison off the owner's own farm, with a terrace and a room of glass.","",""],["p","denbies-wine-estate","wine","Denbies Wine Estate","Dorking, Surrey","Train from Waterloo — About 50 minutes to Dorking, then a 15-minute walk.","England's largest single estate, and the easiest vineyard to reach without a car.","",""],["p","diogenes-the-dog","wine","Diogenes the Dog","Elephant & Castle","96 Rodney Road, SE17 1BG","A cynic's wine bar off the Walworth Road, built to argue with your palate.","",""],["p","forest-wines","wine","Forest Wines","Walthamstow","149 Forest Road, Walthamstow, E17 6HE","Organic and natural wine on Forest Road, with a bar at the back.","",""],["p","forty-hall-vineyard","wine","Forty Hall Vineyard","Enfield, London","Train from Liverpool Street — About 30 minutes to Turkey Street, then a 10-minute walk.","London's own vineyard, run as a mental health project, inside the M25.","",""],["p","gnarly-vines","wine","Gnarly Vines","Walthamstow","464 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 9AH","Natural wine shop and bar at the top of Hoe Street.","",""],["p","gordons-wine-bar","wine","Gordon's Wine Bar","Embankment","Villiers Street, WC2N 6NE","Candlelit cellars off Villiers Street, where the room is the reason to come.","",""],["p","gusbourne-vineyard","wine","Gusbourne Vineyard","Appledore, Kent","Train from St Pancras — About an hour and a quarter to Appledore, then a five-minute taxi.","One of England's most decorated sparkling houses, on the edge of the Marsh.","",""],["p","hedonism-wines","wine","Hedonism Wines","Mayfair","3-7 Davies Street, Mayfair, W1K 3DJ","Six thousand wines in Mayfair, from £10 to the price of a car.","",""],["p","highbury-vintners","wine","Highbury Vintners","Highbury","Highbury Park, N5 1UA","A proper local wine shop, open until eight every day.","",""],["p","lant-street-wine","wine","Lant Street Wine","Borough","59-61 Lant Street, Borough, SE1 1QN","A former cork factory off Borough High Street, stocked from family estates.","",""],["p","lower","wine","Lower","Waterloo","19 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1 7QL","A Lower Marsh wine bar with a working cellar shop underneath it.","",""],["p","newcomer-wines","wine","Newcomer Wines","Dalston","5 Dalston Lane, E8 3DF","Austrian wine, importer's prices, a railway arch off Dalston Lane.","",""],["p","noble-rot","wine","Noble Rot","Bloomsbury","51 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3NB","The wine magazine's own bar, and the list reads like the magazine.","",""],["p","noble-rot-mayfair","wine","Noble Rot Mayfair","Mayfair","5 Trebeck Street, Mayfair, W1J 7LT","The Shepherd Market one, and the only Noble Rot with a terrace you can walk into.","",""],["p","noble-rot-soho","wine","Noble Rot Soho","Soho","2 Greek Street, Soho, W1D 4NB","The Soho Noble Rot, in the old Gay Hussar — and the one you cannot drop into for a glass.","",""],["p","passione-vino","wine","Passione Vino","Shoreditch","85 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 4QS","Italian wine only, in a Shoreditch cellar, since 2003.","",""],["p","peckham-cellars","wine","Peckham Cellars","Peckham","125 Queens Road, Peckham, SE15 2ND","Shop by day, proper kitchen by night, on Queens Road.","",""],["p","renegade-urban-winery","wine","Renegade Urban Winery","Walthamstow","Unit 7, Lockwood Way, Walthamstow, E17 5RB","A working winery on the Blackhorse Beer Mile, pouring what it has just made.","",""],["p","renegade-wine-bar","wine","Renegade Wine Bar","Bethnal Green","Arch 12, Gales Gardens, Bethnal Green, E2 0EJ","The railway-arch bar for London-made wine, under the Bethnal Green line.","",""],["p","ridgeview-vineyard","wine","Ridgeview Vineyard","Ditchling, East Sussex","Train from Victoria — About 50 minutes to Hassocks, then a five-minute taxi.","The sparkling house that has been beating Champagne in blind tastings for years.","",""],["p","sager-wilde","wine","Sager + Wilde","Hackney","Hackney Road, E2 8JL","The bar that taught east London to drink good wine by the glass.","",""],["p","soif","wine","Soif","Battersea","Battersea Rise, SW11 1HG","A French bistro on Battersea Rise with the wine list doing the talking.","",""],["p","the-10-cases","wine","The 10 Cases","Covent Garden","16-18 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9BD","A Covent Garden bistrot à vin that buys ten cases and moves on.","",""],["p","the-boot-flogger","wine","The Boot & Flogger","Borough","10-20 Redcross Way, Borough, SE1 1TA","The original Davy's, trading on a wine-only licence since 1965.","",""],["p","the-mount-vineyard","wine","The Mount Vineyard","Shoreham, Kent","Train from Blackfriars — About 45 minutes to Shoreham, then a 5-minute walk.","A hidden village vineyard in the Darent valley, with a terrace to sit out on.","",""],["p","the-sampler","wine","The Sampler","Islington","266 Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UQ","Eighty wines open at once, poured by the machine in whatever measure you like.","",""],["p","the-winery","wine","The Winery","Maida Vale","4 Clifton Road, Maida Vale, W9 1SS","A Clifton Road merchant with one of London's deepest German and Californian benches.","",""],["p","theatre-of-wine-greenwich","wine","Theatre of Wine, Greenwich","Greenwich","75 Trafalgar Road, Greenwich, SE10 9TS","A Greenwich merchant that opens until nine and runs tastings all year.","",""],["p","theatre-of-wine-tufnell-park","wine","Theatre of Wine, Tufnell Park","Tufnell Park","124 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5LB","The north London branch, same growers, same tastings.","",""],["p","uncorked","wine","Uncorked","The City","22 Copthall Avenue, EC2R 7DN","A City basement stacked with claret, hidden under Copthall Avenue.","",""],["p","urban-cellar","wine","Urban Cellar","Crystal Palace","48 Church Road, Upper Norwood, SE19 2ET","A locally owned bottle shop in the Crystal Palace Triangle, with informal tastings outside a few times a month.","",""],["p","vagabond-urban-winery","wine","Vagabond Urban Winery","Canada Water","9 Deal Porters Way, SE16 2AJ","The country's largest urban winery, with the bar in among the tanks.","",""],["p","wildwood-vineyard","wine","Wildwood Vineyard","Eridge, East Sussex","Train from London Bridge — About an hour to Eridge, then a 15-minute walk.","Off-grid, family-run, and small enough that the owner may show you round himself.","",""],["c","wine","wine","Wine","","","Wine bars, bottle shops and even vineyards. Use the filters to find a tasting.","",""],["p","balham-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Balham Farmers' Market","Balham","Henry Cavendish Primary School, Hydethorpe Road, SW12 0JA","A primary school playground on Saturday mornings, with raw milk, biodynamic vegetables and room to sit down.","",""],["p","blackheath-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Blackheath Farmers' Market","Blackheath","Blackheath Station car park, SE3 9LA","A station car park that turns into the best market in Lewisham on a Sunday morning.","",""],["p","bloomsbury-lunch-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Bloomsbury Lunch Farmers' Market","Bloomsbury","Woburn Square, behind SOAS, WC1H 0AA","A lunch market twice a week behind SOAS, where everything either comes off a farm or is cooked from one.","",""],["p","ealing-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Ealing Farmers' Market","West Ealing","The Avenue, W13 8PH","Raw milk, Dorset fish and heritage apples from Essex, in West Ealing since 2001.","",""],["p","highbury-fields-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Highbury Fields Farmers' Market","Highbury","Highbury Crescent, N5 1RR","The newest of London Farmers' Markets, opened on the edge of Highbury Fields in July 2026.","",""],["p","islington-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Islington Farmers' Market","Angel","Chapel Market, between Penton Street and Baron Street, N1 9PZ","The oldest of London's farmers' markets, on Chapel Market every Sunday.","",""],["p","kensington-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Kensington Farmers' Market","Kensington","Phillimore Walk, W8 7RX","A shaded, tree-lined street beside the old town hall, given over to stalls on Sunday mornings.","",""],["p","marylebone-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Marylebone Farmers' Market","Marylebone","St Vincent Street and Aybrook Street, W1U 4DF","The flagship: fish direct from the boats, game in season, and six farms selling vegetables.","",""],["p","notting-hill-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Notting Hill Farmers' Market","Notting Hill","Fox Primary School, Edge Street, W8 7PP","Unpasteurised milk and cream, cultivated and wild mushrooms, in a school yard off Kensington Church Street.","",""],["p","parliament-hill-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Parliament Hill Farmers' Market","Dartmouth Park","William Ellis School, off Highgate Road, NW5 1RN","On the edge of Hampstead Heath, with a dog park and a strong preference for plain good ingredients.","",""],["p","pimlico-road-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Pimlico Road Farmers' Market","Belgravia","Orange Square, corner of Pimlico Road and Ebury Street, SW1W 8UT","Under Mozart's statue on Orange Square, with day-boat fish and space to sit with it.","",""],["p","queens-park-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Queens Park Farmers' Market","Queen's Park","Salusbury Primary School, Salusbury Road, NW6 6RG","Voted the best farmers' market in the country, with more than fifty stalls in a school playground.","",""],["p","south-kensington-farmers-market","farmers-markets","South Kensington Farmers' Market","South Kensington","Bute Street, SW7 3EX","A pedestrianised street five minutes from the tube, and the fish goes first.","",""],["p","swiss-cottage-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Swiss Cottage Farmers' Market","Swiss Cottage","Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU","London Farmers' Markets' first midweek market, on a Wednesday with hot food at lunchtime.","",""],["p","twickenham-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Twickenham Farmers' Market","Twickenham","Holly Road Car Park, Twickenham, TW1 4HF","One of the longest-established, with raw goats' milk and rare-breed meat, in a car park.","",""],["p","walthamstow-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Walthamstow Farmers' Market","Walthamstow Village","Town Square, by the 17 & Central Shopping Centre, E17 7JN","The top of the high street on a Sunday, with unpasteurised milk and vegan cakes on the same row.","",""],["p","west-hampstead-farmers-market","farmers-markets","West Hampstead Farmers' Market","West Hampstead","West Hampstead Thameslink Station forecourt, Iverson Road, NW6 1PF","A station forecourt on Saturday mornings, with day-boat fish and breakfast.","",""],["p","westminster-bridge-lunch-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Westminster Bridge Lunch Farmers' Market","Waterloo","St Thomas' Hospital Gardens, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7EP","Thursday lunch in the hospital gardens, looking across the river at Parliament.","",""],["p","wimbledon-farmers-market","farmers-markets","Wimbledon Farmers' Market","Wimbledon Park","Wimbledon Park Primary School, Havana Road, SW19 8EJ","Goats' milk and cheese from Ellie's Dairy, and four farms' worth of fruit and vegetables.","",""],["c","farmers-markets","farmers-markets","Farmers' Markets","","","Where the person behind the stall grew it. London's farmers' markets, most of them one morning a week: raw milk and day-boat…","",""],["p","houses-of-parliament","see-first","Houses of Parliament & Big Ben","Westminster","Parliament Square, Westminster, SW1A 0AA","The building in every photograph of London, with the clock tower everyone calls Big Ben at one end. Free to look at from the…","","/img/houses-of-parliament-480.jpg?v=88dbd74f"],["p","british-museum","see-first","British Museum","Bloomsbury","Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG","Egyptian mummies, the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon sculptures, free and with no ticket needed. It stays open late on Friday…","","/img/british-museum-480.jpg?v=6d20fa16"],["p","westminster-abbey","see-first","Westminster Abbey","Westminster","20 Dean's Yard, SW1P 3PA","The church every English coronation has been held in since 1066, and the burial place of kings, Newton and Darwin. Ticketed…","","/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d"],["p","tower-of-london","see-first","Tower of London","Tower Hill","Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB","A real Norman castle, nine hundred years old, with the Crown Jewels kept inside it. Ticketed with a timed slot, and the jewels…","","/img/tower-of-london-480.jpg?v=f02693b3"],["p","st-pauls-cathedral","see-first","St Paul's Cathedral","St Paul's","St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD","Wren's domed cathedral, with 528 steps up inside the dome to a walkway above the rooftops. Ticketed Monday to Saturday; on Sunday…","","/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981-480.jpg?v=09bb1dd5"],["p","national-gallery","see-first","National Gallery","Trafalgar Square","Orange Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 7HS","Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Leonardo, Turner and Van Eyck, along the north side of Trafalgar Square. Free and with no ticket; only the…","","/img/own-national-gallery-480.jpg?v=cad2479f"],["p","tower-bridge","see-first","Tower Bridge","Butler's Wharf","Tower Bridge, Bermondsey, SE1 2LY","The bridge with two towers that most people mean when they say London Bridge. Free to walk across; the ticket buys the high…","","/img/own-tower-bridge-480.jpg?v=b557d989"],["p","natural-history-museum","see-first","Natural History Museum","South Kensington","Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD","Dinosaurs, a blue whale hanging over the main hall, and a building carved all over with animals. Free, though there is a security…","","/img/own-natural-history-museum-480.jpg?v=2aba25a6"],["p","tate-modern","see-first","Tate Modern","Bankside","Bankside, SE1 9TG","Modern art in a power station facing St Paul's across the river, with a turbine hall the full height of the building. Free; the…","","/img/tate-modern-480.jpg?v=f017f793"],["p","buckingham-palace","see-first","Buckingham Palace","Victoria","SW1A 1AA","The King's official home, and the balcony the royal family appears on. The gates and the guard are free all year; the rooms…","","/img/buckingham-palace-480.jpg?v=723d676a"],["p","changing-the-guard","see-first","Changing the Guard","St James's","Buckingham Palace forecourt, SW1A 1AA","Soldiers in red coats and bearskin hats handing the palace over to the next watch, with a band playing. Free, no ticket, and you…","","/img/changing-the-guard-480.jpg?v=783efd5d"],["p","victoria-and-albert-museum","see-first","Victoria and Albert Museum","South Kensington","Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL","Five thousand years of what people have made: clothes, jewellery, furniture, and halls of plaster casts of Europe's monuments.…","","/img/victoria-and-albert-museum-480.jpg?v=1c1d9203"],["p","borough-market","see-first","Borough Market","Borough Market","8 Southwark Street, SE1 1TL","A food market under the railway arches that has traded for a thousand years: cheese, oysters, bread and lunch eaten standing up.…","","/img/borough-market-480.jpg?v=6fd410e6"],["p","covent-garden-piazza","see-first","Covent Garden","Covent Garden","The Piazza, Covent Garden, WC2E 8RF","Street performers in the square, small shops under the glass roof of the old market building, and the Royal Opera House and the…","","/img/area-covent-garden-lead3-480.jpg?v=d511d3a1"],["p","royal-observatory-greenwich","see-first","Royal Observatory, Greenwich","Greenwich","Blackheath Avenue, SE10 8XJ","The line the world measures longitude from, marked across the courtyard so you can stand with a foot in either hemisphere.…","","/img/royal-observatory-greenwich-480.jpg?v=c81eab0d"],["p","science-museum","see-first","Science Museum","South Kensington","Frankland Road, Brompton, SW7 2AD","Steam engines, the Apollo 10 capsule that flew round the Moon, and floors built for children to push and pull things. Free; the…","","/img/science-museum-480.jpg?v=f0966f44"],["p","hyde-park","see-first","Hyde Park","Hyde Park","Hyde Park, W2 2UH","Three hundred and fifty acres of grass, trees and a lake in the middle of the city, with boats to hire and a place to swim. Free…","","/img/hyde-park-480.jpg?v=ce02576a"],["p","sky-garden","see-first","Sky Garden","Fenchurch Street","1 Sky Garden Walk, EC3M 8AF","A public garden under a glass dome thirty-five floors up, with the City spread out underneath. Free, but you have to book a slot…","",""],["p","churchill-war-rooms","see-first","Churchill War Rooms","Whitehall","King Charles Street, SW1A 2AQ","The underground rooms Britain was run from during the Second World War, locked in 1945 and left as they stood. Ticketed, and…","","/img/churchill-war-rooms-480.jpg?v=c73a1678"],["p","shakespeares-globe","see-first","Shakespeare's Globe","Bankside","21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT","A working copy of Shakespeare's open-air theatre, built in oak and thatch. Tours by ticket all year; in summer you can stand in…","","/img/own-shakespeares-globe-480.jpg?v=309aba21"],["p","nelsons-column","see-first","Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","The square London gathers in, with Nelson on a column above it, four bronze lions to climb on and fountains between them. Free…","","/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb"],["p","london-eye","see-first","London Eye","South Bank","Riverside Building, County Hall, SE1 7PB","A 135-metre wheel on the river, turning slowly enough to walk about inside the capsule while it goes round. Ticketed and timed…","","/img/own-london-eye-480.jpg?v=abc1adf6"],["p","camden-market","see-first","Camden Market","Camden Town","Camden Lock Place, NW1 8AF","Stalls in old horse stables and along a canal: street food from everywhere, vintage clothes, boots and records. Free, and busiest…","","/img/own-camden-market-480.jpg?v=a63cc0c9"],["p","cutty-sark-museum","see-first","Cutty Sark Museum","Greenwich","43 King William Walk, SE10 9HT","The last of the tea clippers, built for speed under sail, and raised three metres off the ground so you can walk under the hull.…","","/img/own-cutty-sark-museum-480.jpg?v=ce09ec12"],["p","royal-botanic-gardens-kew","see-first","Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew","Kew","Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE","Three hundred acres of botanic garden with Victorian glasshouses and a walkway up among the treetops. Ticketed, and the…","",""],["p","hms-belfast","see-first","HMS Belfast","Southwark","The Queen's Walk, SE1 2JH","A Second World War cruiser moored in the river and kept as she was, with nine decks to climb down through. Ticketed, and the…","","/img/own-hms-belfast-480.jpg?v=439bec86"],["p","portobello-road","see-first","Portobello Road","Notting Hill","Portobello Road, W11","A long street of antique stalls, arcades and painted houses in Notting Hill. Free; Saturday is the day the whole market runs, and…","",""],["p","tate-britain","see-first","Tate Britain","Millbank","Millbank, SW1P 4RG","Five hundred years of British art, and everything Turner left the nation. Free, with only the exhibitions ticketed.","","/img/tate-britain-480.jpg?v=420f8b87"],["p","leadenhall-market","see-first","Leadenhall Market","Leadenhall Market","Gracechurch Street, EC3V 1LT","A Victorian covered arcade in cream and maroon ironwork, hidden in the middle of the banking district. Free to walk through…","","/img/leadenhall-market-480.jpg?v=fe33070c"],["p","piccadilly-circus","see-first","Piccadilly Circus","St James's","Piccadilly Circus, W1J","Five streets meeting under a curved wall of advertising screens, with a winged archer on a fountain in the middle. Free, and at…","","/img/piccadilly-circus-480.jpg?v=69fea33d"],["c","see-first","see-first","30 Things to See First","","","Thirty places to see first, in order, for somebody who has never been to London. Each says what it is, whether it is free…","",""],["p","17-bruton-street","royal","17 Bruton Street: Birthplace of Elizabeth II","Mayfair","17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, W1J 6QB","Born here on 21 April 1926, in her grandparents' house - pulled down in 1937, so a plaque on an office block is all there is.","","/img/17-bruton-street-480.jpg?v=24ea546c"],["p","admiralty-arch","royal","Admiralty Arch","St James's","The Mall, SW1A 2WH","The gateway at the Trafalgar Square end of the processional route, built by Edward VII in memory of his mother.","","/img/admiralty-arch-480.jpg?v=5c965b9a"],["p","albert-memorial","royal","Albert Memorial","Knightsbridge","Kensington Gardens, SW7 2AP","Victoria's grief in gilt and marble, the most extravagant monument in London, facing the hall named for him.","","/img/albert-memorial-480.jpg?v=be97b322"],["p","buckingham-palace","royal","Buckingham Palace","Victoria","SW1A 1AA","The balcony, the flag, the gates: the building where the century's royal story was staged for the cameras.","","/img/buckingham-palace-480.jpg?v=723d676a"],["p","changing-the-guard","royal","Changing the Guard","St James's","Buckingham Palace forecourt, SW1A 1AA","The bearskins and the band on the palace forecourt, three mornings a week, for the price of standing at the railings.","","/img/changing-the-guard-480.jpg?v=783efd5d"],["p","clarence-house","royal","Clarence House","Pall Mall","Stable Yard Road, Victoria, SW1A 1BB","The Queen Mother's house for half a century and Charles's for twenty years, where Elizabeth and Philip lived as a young couple.","","/img/clarence-house-480.jpg?v=7886d9f2"],["p","college-of-arms","royal","College of Arms","The City","130 Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4BT","Where the Crown's heralds work, and where a coat of arms is still granted in the sovereign's name.","","/img/own-college-of-arms-2-480.jpg?v=27e797de"],["p","diana-memorial-fountain","royal","Diana Memorial Fountain","Knightsbridge","Hyde Park, W2 2UH","A ring of Cornish granite with water running round it, opened by the Queen in 2004, and the one memorial in London children are…","","/img/diana-memorial-fountain-480.jpg?v=cee71dee"],["p","diana-memorial-playground","royal","Diana Memorial Playground","Bayswater","Kensington Gardens, W2 4RU","A pirate ship on a beach in Kensington Gardens, opened on what would have been Diana's thirty-ninth birthday.","","/img/diana-memorial-playground-480.jpg?v=7aec331a"],["p","diana-statue-the-sunken-garden","royal","Diana statue, the Sunken Garden","Bayswater","Kensington Palace, W8 4PX","The statue William and Harry commissioned of their mother, unveiled together on her sixtieth birthday in the garden she loved.","","/img/diana-statue-the-sunken-garden-480.jpg?v=b109ab94"],["p","diana-princess-of-wales-memorial-walk","royal","Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk","Knightsbridge","St James's Park, Green Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens","Seven miles of plaques through four royal parks: less a pilgrimage than the best excuse in London to spend a whole day outdoors.","","/img/diana-princess-of-wales-memorial-walk-480.jpg?v=5477703f"],["p","george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-memorial","royal","George VI and Queen Elizabeth memorial","St James's","Carlton Gardens, The Mall, SW1Y 5AD","The Queen's parents together above the Mall: the King of 1955 and the Queen Mother added beside him in 2009, with reliefs of the…","","/img/george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-memorial-480.jpg?v=2063b0b1"],["p","greenwich-park","royal","Greenwich Park","Greenwich","Greenwich Park, Blackheath Gate, Charlton Way, SE10 8QY","The oldest enclosed royal park, on the hill above the palace where Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born.","","/img/own-greenwich-park-480.jpg?v=89f76025"],["p","guards-museum","royal","Guards Museum","Victoria","Petty France, Victoria, SW1H 9HF","The story of the five regiments of Foot Guards, in the barracks the palace guard marches out 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Palace","Kew","Ferry Lane, Kew, TW8 0DX","The smallest royal palace, George III's red-brick retreat inside Kew Gardens, kept as the family left it.","","/img/kew-palace-480.jpg?v=cf939d53"],["p","kings-gallery","royal","King's Gallery","Victoria","Buckingham Gate, Victoria, SW1E 6JP","The Royal Collection's exhibition rooms beside the palace: in 2026, the largest show of the late Queen's clothes ever mounted.","","/img/kings-gallery-480.jpg?v=09491763"],["p","lancaster-house","royal","Lancaster House","St James's","Stable Yard, St James's, SW1A 1BB","The Buckingham Palace of The Crown: the state rooms, the staircase and the Queen's office were filmed here, round the corner from…","","/img/lancaster-house-480.jpg?v=6814ffc3"],["p","lindo-wing-st-marys-hospital","royal","Lindo Wing, St Mary's Hospital","Paddington","South Wharf Road, Paddington, W2 1NY","The steps where Diana showed the world William and Harry, and where Catherine appeared with George, Charlotte and Louis.","",""],["p","marble-arch","royal","Marble Arch","Mayfair","Marble Arch, W1H 7EJ","Buckingham Palace's original front gate, moved to the corner of Hyde Park in 1851 when the palace grew around it.","","/img/marble-arch-480.jpg?v=a18babf8"],["p","old-royal-naval-college","royal","Old Royal Naval College","Greenwich","College Way, East Greenwich, SE10 9JF","Wren's baroque college on the site of the Tudors' Greenwich Palace, London's most-filmed set - The Crown among three hundred…","","/img/own-old-royal-naval-college-480.jpg?v=e62ca94a"],["p","queen-elizabeth-gate","royal","Queen Elizabeth Gate","Belgravia","Hyde Park Corner, W1J 7NT","The gates into Hyde Park put up for the Queen Mother's ninetieth birthday, a lion and a unicorn in painted steel and bronze.","","/img/queen-elizabeth-gate-480.jpg?v=91ba76e8"],["p","queen-victoria-statue-kensington-palace","royal","Queen Victoria statue, Kensington Palace","Bayswater","Kensington Gardens, W8 4PX","Victoria at eighteen, the year she became Queen, carved by her daughter and set in front of the palace where she was born.","","/img/queen-victoria-statue-kensington-palace-480.jpg?v=790fc47f"],["p","remembrance-sunday-at-the-cenotaph","royal","Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph","Whitehall","The Cenotaph, Whitehall, SW1A 2AX","Two minutes' silence on Whitehall at eleven, the King's wreath, and the veterans' march past.","","/img/remembrance-sunday-at-the-cenotaph-480.jpg?v=4217b83b"],["p","richmond-park","royal","Richmond Park","Richmond","Richmond Park, TW10 5HS","The biggest royal park, still with its deer, and White Lodge, where the Queen's parents honeymooned and Edward VIII was born.","","/img/richmond-park-480.jpg?v=d8a21d72"],["p","royal-mews","royal","Royal Mews","Victoria","Victoria Square, SW1W 0RB","The Gold State Coach of two coronations, the Glass Coach that took Diana to St Paul's, and the horses that pull them.","","/img/royal-mews-480.jpg?v=7f438ebf"],["p","spencer-house","royal","Spencer House","St 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Queen's…","","/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d"],["p","windsor-by-train-from-waterloo","royal","Windsor, by train from Waterloo","Waterloo","South Western Railway from London Waterloo to Windsor & Eton Riverside, SE1 8SW","The castle the Queen called home, and St George's Chapel, where she is buried with Philip, her parents and her sister, and where…","","/img/windsor-by-train-from-waterloo-480.jpg?v=5603abb6"],["c","royal","royal","Royal London","","","The palaces and the parades, and the places where the last hundred years of the story happened: where Elizabeth II was born…","",""],["p","altab-ali-park","politics","Altab Ali Park","Whitechapel","Whitechapel Road, E1 1BJ","A churchyard renamed for a young man murdered walking home, and the movement that came after.","","/img/altab-ali-park-480.jpg?v=379af335"],["p","bank-of-england-museum","politics","Bank of England Museum","City of London","Threadneedle Street, Leadenhall Market, EC2R 8AH","The bank invented in 1694 so 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marchers.","",""],["p","charles-i-at-charing-cross","politics","Charles I at Charing Cross","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DS","The king Parliament executed, put back on his horse and pointed at the place where it happened.","","/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1"],["p","churchill-war-rooms","politics","Churchill War Rooms","Whitehall","King Charles Street, SW1A 2AQ","The basement a world war was run from, left as its staff walked out of it.","","/img/churchill-war-rooms-480.jpg?v=c73a1678"],["p","college-of-arms","politics","College of Arms","The City","130 Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4BT","The office that decides who ranks where, run by a hereditary Great Officer of State.","","/img/own-college-of-arms-2-480.jpg?v=27e797de"],["p","conway-hall","politics","Conway Hall","Holborn","25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL","The hall of the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world, and a century of the arguments of the left.","","/img/conway-hall-480.jpg?v=63c375f8"],["p","foreign-office-the-former-india-office","politics","Foreign Office & the former India Office","Westminster","King Charles Street, SW1A 2AH","One government building held British diplomacy and the administration of India, side by side.","",""],["p","goldsmiths-hall","politics","Goldsmiths' Hall","City of London","Foster Lane, EC2V 6BN","A medieval guild that lost its monopoly, kept its hall, and still helps choose the Lord Mayor.","","/img/goldsmiths-hall-480.jpg?v=d5f8cddc"],["p","grays-inn","politics","Gray's Inn","Holborn","8 South Square, Gray's Inn, WC1R 5ET","Bacon's garden, Shakespeare's first Comedy of Errors, and a hall rebuilt after one night of the Blitz.","","/img/grays-inn-480.jpg?v=71e59de7"],["p","guildhall","politics","Guildhall","City of London","Gresham Street, EC2V 7HH","The hall of a city government that bargained with kings, standing on a Roman 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hold.","","/img/london-museum-docklands-480.jpg?v=a47b65ec"],["p","mansion-house","politics","Mansion House","City of London","Walbrook, EC4N 8BH","The house the City built when it decided its Lord Mayor deserved a palace.","",""],["p","marlborough-house","politics","Marlborough House","St James's","Pall Mall, SW1Y 5HX","A duchess's mansion handed to the Commonwealth as the empire was ending.","","/img/marlborough-house-480.jpg?v=8487b453"],["p","marx-memorial-library","politics","Marx Memorial Library","Clerkenwell Green","37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU","The Clerkenwell building where Lenin edited a newspaper, kept as a working library of the left.","","/img/marx-memorial-library-480.jpg?v=d7b144fb"],["p","middle-temple-hall","politics","Middle Temple","Temple","Middle Temple Lane, EC4Y 9AT","One of the four medieval societies that still decide who may call themselves a 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besieged.","","/img/pankhurst-memorial-480.jpg?v=35eeb831"],["p","parliament-square-statues","politics","Parliament Square statues","Westminster","Parliament Square, SW1P 3JX","Legislature, court, government and abbey on four sides, and a running argument on the grass.","","/img/parliament-square-statues-480.jpg?v=0c09db7f"],["p","reformers-tree","politics","Reformers' Tree","Hyde Park","Hyde Park, W2 2UH","A mosaic in the grass marks the burnt stump that made Speakers' Corner possible.","","/img/reformers-tree-480.jpg?v=612386e4"],["p","robert-clive-statue","politics","Robert Clive Statue","Westminster","King Charles Street, SW1A 2AH","Placed outside the India Office in 1912 to give the empire an origin story.","",""],["p","royal-courts-of-justice","politics","Royal Courts of Justice","Temple","Strand, WC2A 2LL","The civil courts of England, given a Gothic palace on the Strand.","","/img/royal-courts-of-justice-480.jpg?v=a9a42b57"],["p","sir-william-wallace-memorial","politics","Sir 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Cenotaph","Westminster","Whitehall, SW1A 2AX","An empty tomb built for one parade, and kept because the country would not give it up.","","/img/the-cenotaph-480.jpg?v=f5644dec"],["p","the-owo-and-the-spy-bar","politics","The OWO and the Spy Bar","Westminster","57 Whitehall, SW1A 2BX","A thousand rooms of imperial military bureaucracy, now a hotel anyone can walk into.","","/img/own-the-owo-480.jpg?v=469ce189"],["p","tower-of-london","politics","Tower of London","Tower Hill","Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB","A fortress of occupation, holding regalia that Parliament once melted down.","","/img/tower-of-london-480.jpg?v=f02693b3"],["p","toynbee-hall","politics","Toynbee Hall","Spitalfields","28 Commercial Street, E1 6LS","The East End settlement where the welfare state was partly worked out.","",""],["p","nelsons-column","politics","Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","Built to celebrate a naval victory; used ever since by crowds arguing with the government behind it.","","/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb"],["p","westminster-abbey","politics","Westminster Abbey","Westminster","20 Dean's Yard, SW1P 3PA","The coronation church, the battered oak chair built to sit on a conquest, and a transept full of prime ministers.","","/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d"],["p","westminster-hall","politics","Westminster Hall","Westminster","Palace of Westminster, SW1A 0AA","The 900-year-old hall the British state grew up around.","","/img/westminster-hall-480.jpg?v=4b2ff4ff"],["p","whitehall-downing-street","politics","Whitehall & Downing Street","Whitehall","Whitehall, from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square","The most famous front door in Britain belongs to a Restoration speculator's cheap terrace.","","/img/downing-street-number-10-480.jpg?v=3a2fa311"],["c","politics","politics","Power & Politics","","","A political history of Britain in the places where it happened: parliament and palace, courts and counting houses, and the…","",""],["p","all-hallows-by-the-tower-crypt-museum","sacred","All Hallows-by-the-Tower Crypt Museum","Tower","Byward Street, Leadenhall Market, EC3R 5BJ","The oldest church in the City, with a Saxon arch of Roman brick and a second-century Roman floor in the crypt beneath, free.","","/img/all-hallows-by-the-tower-crypt-museum-480.jpg?v=04a9da0e"],["p","baps-shri-swaminarayan-mandir","sacred","BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir","Neasden","Pramukh Swami Road, NW10 8HW","A Hindu temple in Neasden carved from Italian marble and Bulgarian limestone, with no steel in it.","","/img/baps-shri-swaminarayan-mandir-480.jpg?v=92b74b8d"],["p","bevis-marks-synagogue","sacred","Bevis Marks Synagogue","Aldgate","4 Heneage Lane, EC3A 5DQ","Britain's oldest synagogue, in use since 1701 and still lit by candle for services.","","/img/bevis-marks-synagogue-480.jpg?v=fbaaabbc"],["p","brick-lane-jamme-masjid","sacred","Brick Lane Jamme Masjid","Spitalfields","59 Brick Lane, E1 6QL","One building that has been a Huguenot chapel, a Methodist chapel, a synagogue and a mosque.","","/img/brick-lane-jamme-masjid-480.jpg?v=1f35f783"],["p","brompton-oratory","sacred","Brompton Oratory","South Kensington","Brompton Road, SW7 2RP","Italian Baroque in South Kensington, with marble apostles that stood in Siena Cathedral for two centuries.","","/img/brompton-oratory-480.jpg?v=d9c6f753"],["p","buddhapadipa-temple","sacred","Buddhapadipa Temple","Wimbledon","14 Calonne Road, Wimbledon, SW19 5HJ","The first Thai temple in Britain, and an ordination hall painted inside by thirty artists over eight years.","","/img/buddhapadipa-temple-480.jpg?v=683e8d5c"],["p","christ-church-spitalfields","sacred","Christ Church Spitalfields","Spitalfields","Commercial Street, E1 6LY","Hawksmoor's masterpiece, its spire closing the view down Brushfield Street since 1729.","","/img/christ-church-spitalfields-480.jpg?v=f5ea2aca"],["p","city-of-london-churches","sacred","City of London churches","The City","Across the City of London, EC2 to EC4","Forty-odd churches in one square mile, most of them Wren's, most of them with almost nobody left to live in the parish.","",""],["p","croydon-minster","sacred","Croydon Minster","Croydon","Church Street, Croydon, CR0 1RN","Six Archbishops of Canterbury lie in Croydon's parish church, rebuilt by Gilbert Scott after the fire of 1867 around its medieval…","","/img/croydon-minster-480.jpg?v=c768af1f"],["p","fitzrovia-chapel","sacred","Fitzrovia Chapel","Fitzrovia","Fitzroy Place, 2 Pearson Square, W1T 3BF","The Middlesex Hospital is gone; the gold chapel it was built around is still standing.","","/img/fitzrovia-chapel-480.jpg?v=a2a6d369"],["p","gurdwara-sri-guru-singh-sabha-southall","sacred","Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall","Southall","Havelock Road, UB2 4NP","The largest Sikh temple outside India, on Havelock Road in Southall, open to anyone from three in the morning, with a free meal…","","/img/gurdwara-sri-guru-singh-sabha-southall-480.jpg?v=6aab49f4"],["p","london-central-mosque","sacred","London Central Mosque","Regent's Park","146 Park Road, NW8 7RG","The gold-domed mosque on the edge of Regent's Park, on land Britain gave in wartime.","","/img/london-central-mosque-480.jpg?v=02c8b5a3"],["p","london-mithraeum","sacred","London Mithraeum","City of London","12 Walbrook, EC4N 8AA","A temple to Mithras, sunk into the ground because his worship belonged in a cave.","","/img/london-mithraeum-480.jpg?v=6648991e"],["p","sandys-row-synagogue","sacred","Sandys Row Synagogue","Spitalfields","4a Sandys Row, E1 7HW","The oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London still in use, inside a Huguenot chapel of 1766.","","/img/sandys-row-synagogue-480.jpg?v=c0c07ad0"],["p","shri-sanatan-hindu-mandir","sacred","Shri Sanatan Hindu Mandir","Alperton","Ealing Road, Wembley, HA0 4TA","A temple of hand-carved Indian limestone on Ealing Road, fourteen years in the building, without a bar of steel in it, opened in…","",""],["p","southwark-cathedral","sacred","Southwark Cathedral","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","Shakespeare's parish church while he lived on Bankside, with his brother buried in it.","","/img/southwark-cathedral-480.jpg?v=2ffb11bd"],["p","st-alfege-church","sacred","St Alfege Church","Greenwich","Greenwich Church Street, SE10 9BJ","Hawksmoor's first church, on the spot where the Danes killed an archbishop in 1012, with Thomas Tallis and General Wolfe in its…","","/img/st-alfege-church-480.jpg?v=1ba837a1"],["p","st-bartholomew-the-great","sacred","St Bartholomew the Great","Smithfield","Cloth Fair, EC1A 7JQ","London's oldest parish church: Norman, dim, and the one film crews use when they need the Middle Ages.","","/img/own-st-bartholomew-the-great-480.jpg?v=510ddfdd"],["p","st-brides-fleet-street","sacred","St Bride's Fleet Street","Fleet Street","Fleet Street, EC4Y 8AU","The printers' and journalists' church, under the tiered spire that invented the wedding cake.","","/img/st-brides-fleet-street-480.jpg?v=5ae620bd"],["p","st-etheldredas","sacred","St Etheldreda's","Holborn","14 Ely Place, EC1N 6RY","The chapel of the medieval Bishops of Ely, built in the 1280s, and the oldest Catholic church in England still in use.","","/img/st-etheldredas-480.jpg?v=dddc4b77"],["p","st-georges-bloomsbury","sacred","St George's Bloomsbury","Bloomsbury","Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2SA","Hawksmoor's church with a stepped pyramid for a steeple and George I standing on the top of it.","","/img/st-georges-bloomsbury-480.jpg?v=d63ca501"],["p","st-giles-without-cripplegate","sacred","St Giles-without-Cripplegate","Barbican","Fore Street, EC2Y 8DA","Milton's burial place, a medieval church left standing in the middle of the Barbican.","","/img/st-giles-without-cripplegate-480.jpg?v=62af44b9"],["p","st-jamess-piccadilly","sacred","St James's Piccadilly","St James's","197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL","The only church Wren built on a new site of his own choosing, and the one he thought worked best.","","/img/own-st-jamess-piccadilly-480.jpg?v=723f7264"],["p","st-lawrence-little-stanmore","sacred","St Lawrence, Little Stanmore","Canons Park","Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, HA8 6QS","Handel's church: the Duke of Chandos rebuilt it in 1715 as a baroque painted box beside his palace, and the organ at the east end…","","/img/st-lawrence-little-stanmore-480.jpg?v=4d42f6d3"],["p","st-martin-in-the-fields","sacred","St Martin-in-the-Fields","Trafalgar Square","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ","The church on Trafalgar Square, with concerts by candlelight upstairs and a café in the crypt.","","/img/st-martin-in-the-fields-480.jpg?v=f9f394b5"],["p","st-mary-woolnoth","sacred","St Mary Woolnoth","City of London","Lombard Street, EC3V 9AN","Hawksmoor's only City church, squat and strange on Lombard Street, with Bank station dug out beneath it and a slave captain's…","","/img/st-mary-woolnoth-480.jpg?v=3a82dfd6"],["p","st-mary-le-bow","sacred","St Mary-le-Bow","Cheapside","Cheapside, EC2V 6AU","The church of the Bow Bells, within whose sound a true Cockney is born.","","/img/own-st-mary-le-bow-480.jpg?v=f03f767c"],["p","st-olave-hart-street","sacred","St Olave Hart Street","Tower Hill","8 Hart Street, EC3R 7NB","Pepys's own church, where he and his wife are buried and where he watched the plague fill the churchyard.","","/img/st-olave-hart-street-480.jpg?v=ea265bf4"],["p","st-pancras-old-church","sacred","St Pancras Old Church","Somers Town","Pancras Road, NW1 1UL","Mary Wollstonecraft's grave, where her daughter met Shelley, in the churchyard of the Hardy Tree.","","/img/st-pancras-old-church-480.jpg?v=60bffd46"],["p","st-pauls-cathedral","sacred","St Paul's Cathedral","St Paul's","St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD","Wren's dome, and the whole of the City arranged around it for three hundred years.","","/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981-480.jpg?v=09bb1dd5"],["p","st-pauls-covent-garden","sacred","St Paul's Covent Garden","Covent Garden","Bedford Street, WC2E 9ED","Inigo Jones's barn of a church, and the actors' church since the theatres arrived.","","/img/own-st-pauls-covent-garden-480.jpg?v=102db891"],["p","st-stephen-walbrook","sacred","St Stephen Walbrook","Bank","39 Walbrook, EC4N 8BN","Wren's rehearsal for the dome of St Paul's, with a Henry Moore altar under the middle of it.","","/img/st-stephen-walbrook-480.jpg?v=833c863b"],["p","temple-church","sacred","Temple Church","Temple","Temple, EC4Y 7BB","The Knights Templar's round church of 1185, with stone knights lying on the floor of it.","","/img/temple-church-480.jpg?v=f15f7b51"],["p","wesleys-chapel-museum-of-methodism-and-john-wesleys-house","sacred","Wesley's Chapel, Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House","Finsbury","49 City Road, EC1Y 1AU","Where John Wesley lived, preached and died, with the museum of the movement he began in the crypt.","","/img/own-wesleys-chapel-480.jpg?v=ef7d0189"],["p","westminster-abbey","sacred","Westminster Abbey","Westminster","20 Dean's Yard, SW1P 3PA","Where every English coronation since 1066 has happened, and where much of the country is buried.","","/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d"],["p","westminster-cathedral","sacred","Westminster Cathedral","Victoria","42 Francis Street, SW1P 1QW","England's Catholic cathedral, in striped brick and Byzantine domes, with a lift up the campanile.","","/img/westminster-cathedral-480.jpg?v=0cfc1413"],["c","sacred","sacred","Sacred London","","","Places of religious significance. Worth a visit for the architecture, the art or the history.","",""],["p","bermondsey-street","beautiful-streets","Bermondsey Street","Bermondsey","Bermondsey Street, SE1","Georgian and Victorian fronts the whole way down, with a castellated church halfway along.","","/img/street-bermondsey-street-480.jpg?v=e59dfa32"],["p","bonnington-square","beautiful-streets","Bonnington Square","Vauxhall","Bonnington Square, Vauxhall, SW8","A condemned terrace that squatters saved, now buried under vines, palms and tree ferns.","","/img/bonnington-square-480.jpg?v=e0efe9da"],["p","borough-yards","beautiful-streets","Borough Yards","Borough","Borough Yards, SE1","Victorian railway arches opened up into a run of lanes between Borough Market and the river.","","/img/street-borough-yards-480.jpg?v=ad82e729"],["p","bow-lane","beautiful-streets","Bow Lane","City of London","Bow Lane, EC4M","A medieval alley in the City with a Wren church at each end and two old pubs off it.","","/img/bow-lane-480.jpg?v=a61dde14"],["p","brewers-lane","beautiful-streets","Brewers Lane","Richmond","Brewers Lane, Richmond, TW9","A pedestrian slot of small shopfronts running from Richmond's high street through to the green.","","/img/brewers-lane-480.jpg?v=754a188d"],["p","brick-lane","beautiful-streets","Brick Lane","Spitalfields","Brick Lane, E1","Not a tidy street. Curry houses, bagels at four in the morning, and every wave of arrivals still written on it.","","/img/street-brick-lane-480.jpg?v=84dfefe6"],["p","burlington-arcade","beautiful-streets","Burlington Arcade","Mayfair","Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, W1J","The Regency shopping arcade off Piccadilly, still patrolled by beadles in top hats.","","/img/street-burlington-arcade-480.jpg?v=5489ffe9"],["p","camden-passage","beautiful-streets","Camden Passage","Islington","Camden Passage, Islington, N1 8EA","A narrow pedestrian lane off Upper Street, lined with antique dealers and Georgian shopfronts.","","/img/street-camden-passage-480.jpg?v=f679d086"],["p","canonbury-square","beautiful-streets","Canonbury Square","Islington","Canonbury Square, Islington, N1","Islington's first square, and still its quietest: brown brick and plane trees round a garden.","","/img/street-canonbury-square-480.jpg?v=3fe3d784"],["p","carnaby-street","beautiful-streets","Carnaby Street","Soho","Carnaby Street, Soho, W1F","The street the sixties happened on, pedestrian since 1973 and still selling clothes.","","/img/carnaby-street-480.jpg?v=04ff387c"],["p","cecil-court","beautiful-streets","Cecil Court","Covent Garden","Cecil Court, WC2N 4HE","A Victorian shopping street of antiquarian booksellers, unchanged shopfronts end to end.","","/img/street-cecil-court-480.jpg?v=19347ed8"],["p","central-square-hampstead-garden-suburb","beautiful-streets","Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb","Hampstead Garden Suburb","Central Square, NW11 7AH","Lutyens's formal heart for Henrietta Barnett's model suburb: two churches and an institute around a square of grass on the…","","/img/central-square-hampstead-garden-suburb-480.jpg?v=75525866"],["p","charlotte-place","beautiful-streets","Charlotte Place","Fitzrovia","Charlotte Place, Fitzrovia, W1T","A one-block lane behind Goodge Street where the tables come out and the lamp comes on.","","/img/street-charlotte-place-480.jpg?v=71a086b2"],["p","chiltern-street","beautiful-streets","Chiltern Street","Marylebone","Chiltern Street, Marylebone, W1U","Victorian red brick, a Gothic fire station turned hotel, and shops that each sell one thing.","","/img/chiltern-street-480.jpg?v=23c8d8fa"],["p","chiswick-mall","beautiful-streets","Chiswick Mall","Chiswick","Chiswick Mall, Chiswick, W4","Georgian and Victorian houses whose front gardens are on the other side of the road, against the Thames.","",""],["p","church-street-hampton","beautiful-streets","Church Street, Hampton","Hampton","Church Street, Hampton, TW12","The older of Hampton's two village streets, with the oldest building in the place on its corner.","",""],["p","church-street-twickenham","beautiful-streets","Church Street, Twickenham","Twickenham","Church Street, Twickenham, TW1","A narrow street of small shops running down to the church where the nave fell in and Pope is buried.","",""],["p","clerkenwell-green","beautiful-streets","Clerkenwell Green","Clerkenwell","Clerkenwell Green, EC1R","No grass for three hundred years, but a spire at one end and a Georgian pub at the other.","","/img/street-clerkenwell-green-480.jpg?v=049742e6"],["p","columbia-road","beautiful-streets","Columbia Road","Bethnal Green","Columbia Road, E2","Two facing Victorian terraces that fill with flowers every Sunday morning.","","/img/street-columbia-road-480.jpg?v=d4abd7bf"],["p","de-beauvoir-square","beautiful-streets","De Beauvoir Square","De Beauvoir Town","De Beauvoir Square, N1 4LD","Four terraces of Jacobean-style villas round a garden: the only square of a plan that was never finished.","","/img/de-beauvoir-square-480.jpg?v=e9e1513c"],["p","drury-lane","beautiful-streets","Drury Lane","Covent Garden","Drury Lane, WC2B","One of the oldest streets in London, with the oldest working theatre in the country on it.","","/img/drury-lane-480.jpg?v=e73f06ce"],["p","dulwich-village","beautiful-streets","Dulwich Village","Dulwich","Dulwich Village, SE21 7BT","A Georgian village street of white fingerposts and white-painted houses that the Dulwich Estate has kept a village since Edward…","","/img/dulwich-village-480.jpg?v=bf9739f5"],["p","duncan-terrace","beautiful-streets","Duncan Terrace","Islington","Duncan Terrace, Islington, N1","A Georgian terrace facing a long ribbon of garden, with a church spire closing the view.","","/img/street-duncan-terrace-480.jpg?v=db99b200"],["p","elizabeth-street","beautiful-streets","Elizabeth Street","Belgravia","Elizabeth Street, Belgravia, SW1W","Three blocks of awnings and window boxes, and a cake shop painted pink to the door frame.","","/img/street-ebury-street-480.jpg?v=33d95dfb"],["p","exmouth-market","beautiful-streets","Exmouth Market","Clerkenwell","Exmouth Market, EC1R","A pedestrian street of restaurants under festoon lights, with a street food market at lunchtime.","","/img/street-exmouth-market-480.jpg?v=4e1132df"],["p","fitzroy-square","beautiful-streets","Fitzroy Square","Fitzrovia","Fitzroy Square, W1T 5HQ","A Georgian square in Fitzrovia, paved rather than grassed, and lit like a stage set after dark.","","/img/street-fitzroy-square-480.jpg?v=69e5e085"],["p","floral-street","beautiful-streets","Floral Street","Covent Garden","Floral Street, Covent Garden, WC2E","A narrow cobbled run behind the Royal Opera House, hung with bunting and lined with shops.","","/img/street-floral-street-480.jpg?v=9565776b"],["p","friars-lane","beautiful-streets","Friars Lane","Richmond","Friars Lane, Richmond, TW9","The lane that divided the royal palace from the friary Henry VII founded beside it.","",""],["p","ganton-street","beautiful-streets","Ganton Street","Soho","Ganton Street, Soho, W1F","A cobbled cut-through behind Carnaby Street with the lights strung overhead.","","/img/street-ganton-street-480.jpg?v=854c2fb5"],["p","gerrard-street","beautiful-streets","Gerrard Street","Chinatown","Gerrard Street, Chinatown, W1D","The spine of Chinatown, under several thousand red lanterns.","","/img/street-gerrard-street-480.jpg?v=8dfe8cf0"],["p","gough-square","beautiful-streets","Gough Square","Fleet Street","Gough Square, EC4A","A cobbled courtyard off Fleet Street with Dr Johnson's house on the far side of it.","","/img/street-gough-square-480.jpg?v=f32c1c0f"],["p","ham-street","beautiful-streets","Ham Street","Ham","Ham Street, Ham, TW10","The lane from Ham Common down to the river, with one of Europe's most intact Stuart houses at the end of it.","",""],["p","inigo-place","beautiful-streets","Inigo Place","Covent Garden","Inigo Place, Covent Garden, WC2E","A short passage off Bedford Street that opens into the rose garden behind the Actors' Church.","","/img/street-inigo-place-480.jpg?v=4f2c1d98"],["p","king-street","beautiful-streets","King Street","Covent Garden","King Street, Covent Garden, WC2E","The handsomest street on the Covent Garden estate, paved in granite setts from end to end.","","/img/street-king-street-480.jpg?v=da622e70"],["p","kynance-mews","beautiful-streets","Kynance Mews","South Kensington","Kynance Mews, South Kensington, SW7","Cobbles, gas-style lamps and wisteria, through two brick archways in South Kensington.","","/img/street-kynance-mews-480.jpg?v=e9ce6049"],["p","lakeside-terrace","beautiful-streets","Lakeside Terrace","Barbican","Lakeside Terrace, Barbican, EC2Y","The Barbican's water terrace: concrete, fountains and a lake with the towers standing over it.","","/img/street-lakeside-terrace-480.jpg?v=cb212226"],["p","lambs-conduit-street","beautiful-streets","Lamb's Conduit Street","Bloomsbury","Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N","A Bloomsbury high street of independent shops that has kept every one of them.","","/img/street-lambs-conduit-street-480.jpg?v=7b3a7727"],["p","leake-street-arches","beautiful-streets","Leake Street Arches","Waterloo","Leake Street, SE1 7NN","A railway tunnel under Waterloo where painting the walls is not only allowed but expected.","","/img/street-leake-street-arches-480.jpg?v=e241b73f"],["p","lincolns-inn","beautiful-streets","Lincoln's Inn","Holborn","Lincoln's Inn, WC2A 3TL","Gatehouse, chapel and hall round two courts and a lawn, in the middle of legal London.","","/img/street-lincolns-inn-480.jpg?v=4689c62e"],["p","lloyd-square","beautiful-streets","Lloyd Square","Clerkenwell","Lloyd Square, WC1X","Paired villas with pediments round a garden — a London square that looks nothing like the others.","","/img/street-lloyd-square-480.jpg?v=f80c3929"],["p","lower-marsh","beautiful-streets","Lower Marsh","Waterloo","Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1","Waterloo's own street, with a weekday market and not a chain in sight.","","/img/street-lower-marsh-480.jpg?v=af94455a"],["p","maiden-lane","beautiful-streets","Maiden Lane","Covent Garden","Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, WC2E","A narrow lane behind the Strand with the oldest restaurant in London on it, and Turner born over a barber's shop.","","/img/maiden-lane-480.jpg?v=10e05469"],["p","marylebone-lane","beautiful-streets","Marylebone Lane","Marylebone","Marylebone Lane, W1U","A street that bends because it follows a buried river, past small shops the whole way.","","/img/street-marylebone-lane-480.jpg?v=ee76e5a7"],["p","mount-street","beautiful-streets","Mount Street","Mayfair","Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K","A street of pink terracotta in Mayfair, rebuilt in the 1880s to one idea and kept that way.","","/img/mount-street-480.jpg?v=f6db908d"],["p","neals-yard","beautiful-streets","Neal's Yard","Covent Garden","Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, WC2H","A courtyard off Seven Dials painted in every colour, reached through an alley you would walk past.","","/img/street-neals-yard-480.jpg?v=36effb6a"],["p","new-bond-street","beautiful-streets","New Bond Street","Mayfair","New Bond Street, Mayfair, W1S","The luxury spine of Mayfair, and the Christmas lights people come across London to stand under.","","/img/street-new-bond-street-main-480.jpg?v=cb0156cd"],["p","newburgh-street","beautiful-streets","Newburgh Street","Soho","Newburgh Street, Soho, W1F","The quiet cobbled street behind Carnaby, independent shops on both sides.","","/img/street-newburgh-street-480.jpg?v=df6098d0"],["p","old-compton-street","beautiful-streets","Old Compton Street","Soho","Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D","Soho's main street, and the one it has been most itself on for a century.","","/img/street-old-compton-street-480.jpg?v=16d9761a"],["p","old-palace-lane","beautiful-streets","Old Palace Lane","Richmond","Old Palace Lane, Richmond, TW9","A row of cottages and a pub on the lane that ran out of Richmond Palace to the Thames.","",""],["p","old-palace-yard","beautiful-streets","Old Palace Yard","Richmond","Old Palace Yard, Richmond, TW9","The Great Court of Richmond Palace, now a curve of houses that almost nobody finds.","","/img/old-palace-yard-480.jpg?v=9ff382af"],["p","park-street","beautiful-streets","Park Street","Borough Market","Park Street, Bankside, SE1","Georgian brick and warehouse fronts running into Borough Market, with the cathedral tower at the end.","","/img/street-park-street-480.jpg?v=9e48b9a7"],["p","paternoster-square","beautiful-streets","Paternoster Square","St Paul's","Paternoster Square, EC4M","A modern square beside St Paul's, entered through Wren's Temple Bar.","","/img/street-paternoster-square-480.jpg?v=332216e2"],["p","pavilion-road","beautiful-streets","Pavilion Road","Chelsea","Pavilion Road, Chelsea, SW1X","A back lane of stables turned into a street of food shops, one trade to a door.","","/img/street-pavilion-road-480.jpg?v=5fa2380f"],["p","petersham-road","beautiful-streets","Petersham Road","Petersham","Petersham Road, Petersham, TW10","A village that stayed a village because the meadows in front of it cannot legally be built on.","",""],["p","queen-annes-gate","beautiful-streets","Queen Anne's Gate","Westminster","Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, SW1H","Two closes of 1704, all brick and carved doorcases, with Queen Anne standing where the wall between them was.","","/img/own-queen-annes-gate-480.jpg?v=0b8d8a2b"],["p","regent-street","beautiful-streets","Regent Street","Soho","Regent Street, W1B","One long curve of Portland stone, put up as a boundary and rebuilt as a single building.","","/img/street-regent-street-480.jpg?v=d9d658fb"],["p","richmond-green","beautiful-streets","Richmond Green","Richmond","Richmond Green, Richmond, TW9","The lawn the Tudor court jousted on, with the palace gatehouse of 1501 still standing at one corner.","",""],["p","richmond-hill","beautiful-streets","Richmond Hill","Richmond","Richmond Hill, Richmond, TW10","Georgian houses along the one view in England that an Act of Parliament forbids anyone to build on.","","/img/richmond-hill-480.jpg?v=cac8b328"],["p","roupell-street","beautiful-streets","Roupell Street","Waterloo","Roupell Street, Waterloo, SE1","Two unbroken rows of 1820s workers' cottages, five minutes from Waterloo and a century away.","","/img/street-roupell-street-480.jpg?v=6aafb75b"],["p","seven-dials-monmouth-street","beautiful-streets","Seven Dials & Monmouth Street","Covent Garden","Monmouth Street, WC2H","Seven streets meeting at a sundial pillar, with small shops down every spoke.","","/img/seven-dials-monmouth-street-480.jpg?v=b2e2cf28"],["p","shad-thames","beautiful-streets","Shad Thames","Shad Thames","Shad Thames, SE1","A canyon of warehouses crossed overhead by the iron gangways that carried the goods across.","","/img/street-shad-thames-480.jpg?v=eeba3c9b"],["p","st-christophers-place","beautiful-streets","St Christopher's Place","Marylebone","St Christopher's Place, Marylebone, W1U","A flagstone lane of restaurants and small shops, entered through a gap in Oxford Street you would miss.","","/img/street-st-christophers-place-480.jpg?v=5b468ca2"],["p","strand-on-the-green","beautiful-streets","Strand-on-the-Green","Chiswick","Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, W4 3PQ","A row of Georgian houses and three pubs along a towpath that the spring tides still flood, under Kew railway bridge.","","/img/strand-on-the-green-480.jpg?v=c0b4e54a"],["p","the-paragon-blackheath","beautiful-streets","The Paragon, Blackheath","Blackheath","The Paragon, Blackheath, SE3 0NY","Michael Searles's crescent of 1794 to 1806: seven pairs of houses joined by colonnades, curving round the south-east corner of…","","/img/the-paragon-blackheath-480.jpg?v=316be8da"],["p","the-terrace","beautiful-streets","The Terrace","Barnes","The Terrace, Barnes, SW13","Riverside mansions begun in 1720, on the outside of the bend the Boat Race comes round.","",""],["p","victoria-road","beautiful-streets","Victoria Road","Kensington","Victoria Road, Kensington, W8","White stucco villas and blossom, a few minutes from Kensington High Street and completely silent.","","/img/street-victoria-road-480.jpg?v=e6bbe5aa"],["p","wilton-row","beautiful-streets","Wilton Row","Belgravia","Wilton Row, Belgravia, SW1X","A cobbled Belgravia backwater with one of London's best-hidden pubs at the end of it.","","/img/street-wilton-row-480.jpg?v=0cd2396e"],["p","wyndham-place","beautiful-streets","Wyndham Place","Marylebone","Wyndham Place, Marylebone, W1H","A short Georgian street closed at the end by a church with a round portico.","","/img/street-wyndham-place-480.jpg?v=2f87a2de"],["c","beautiful-streets","beautiful-streets","Beautiful Streets","","","Streets, squares, mews and lanes. The most charming streetscapes in London. Some well known, some hidden gems.","",""],["p","2-willow-road","architecture","2 Willow Road","Hampstead","2 Willow Road, NW3 1TH","Goldfinger built himself a modern terrace in Hampstead and the neighbours never forgave him.","","/img/2-willow-road-480.jpg?v=8eddee65"],["p","23-and-24-leinster-gardens","architecture","23 and 24 Leinster Gardens","Bayswater","23-24 Leinster Gardens, W2 3BH","Two houses in a Bayswater terrace with nothing behind them: painted windows, no rooms, no floors.","","/img/23-and-24-leinster-gardens-480.jpg?v=8b72ff59"],["p","30-st-mary-axe","architecture","30 St Mary Axe","City of London","30 St Mary Axe, EC3A 8EP","The Gherkin: forty-one floors of curved glass, and only one pane of it is actually curved.","","/img/30-st-mary-axe-480.jpg?v=0b1ab0e7"],["p","55-broadway","architecture","55 Broadway","Westminster","55 Broadway, SW1H 0BD","London Underground's headquarters of 1929, with sculpture that got its carvers denounced.","","/img/55-broadway-480.jpg?v=670625aa"],["p","abbey-mills-pumping-station","architecture","Abbey Mills Pumping Station","Mill Meads","Abbey Lane, Stratford, E15 2RN","The cathedral of sewage: Bazalgette's pumping station in cruciform plan with Byzantine ironwork.","","/img/abbey-mills-pumping-station-480.jpg?v=db931796"],["p","alexandra-palace-the-bbcs-first-studios","architecture","Alexandra Palace: the BBC's first studios","Muswell Hill","Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY","The People's Palace of 1873, burned down sixteen days after it opened and rebuilt in two years, still seven acres of glass and…","","/img/alexandra-palace-the-bbcs-first-studios-480.jpg?v=fd993883"],["p","alexandra-road-estate","architecture","Alexandra Road Estate","South Hampstead","Rowley Way, NW8 0SN","Two curving concrete terraces stepped like a street, and the first post-war council estate to be protected.","","/img/alexandra-road-estate-480.jpg?v=e7e74d45"],["p","arnos-grove-station","architecture","Arnos Grove station","Arnos Grove","Bowes Road, N11 1AN","A brick drum on a flat slab: the station that showed what the Underground could look like.","","/img/arnos-grove-station-480.jpg?v=7fc6d900"],["p","balfron-tower","architecture","Balfron Tower","Poplar","St Leonard's Road, E14 0UY","Goldfinger's first tower, and the one he moved into for two months to see what he had done.","","/img/balfron-tower-480.jpg?v=d2fea573"],["p","barbican-centre","architecture","Barbican Centre","Barbican Estate","Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Thirty-five acres of concrete, water and planting, built on ground the Blitz had cleared.","","/img/own-barbican-centre-3-480.jpg?v=8d3a2e35"],["p","battersea-power-station","architecture","Battersea Power Station","Nine Elms","Circus Road West, SW11 8AT","Four white chimneys on one of the largest brick buildings in the world, dark for forty years.","","/img/battersea-power-station-480.jpg?v=85c0b179"],["p","carreras-cigarette-factory","architecture","Carreras Cigarette Factory","Camden","Hampstead Road, Mornington Crescent, NW1 7QY","Five hundred and fifty feet of Egyptian temple on Hampstead Road, with two black cats at the door.","","/img/carreras-cigarette-factory-480.jpg?v=d3a7bcb1"],["p","centre-point","architecture","Centre Point","St Giles","101-103 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1DB","A precast concrete lattice of 1966 that stood completely empty for nine years.","","/img/centre-point-480.jpg?v=7bbba464"],["p","charlton-house","architecture","Charlton House","Charlton","Charlton Road, SE7 8RE","London's one complete Jacobean mansion, built in 1607 for the tutor of James I's heir, with the most exuberant plasterwork in the…","","/img/charlton-house-480.jpg?v=466f1a52"],["p","crystal-palace-subway","architecture","Crystal Palace Subway","Crystal Palace","Crystal Palace Parade, SE19 1LG","A fan-vaulted brick undercroft built for first-class passengers walking to a palace that burned down.","","/img/crystal-palace-subway-480.jpg?v=8645832f"],["p","daily-express-building","architecture","Daily Express Building","Fleet Street","120 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BE","Black glass and chrome on Fleet Street, with a lobby that has to be seen to be believed.","","/img/daily-express-building-480.jpg?v=668f187f"],["p","debenham-house","architecture","Debenham House","Holland Park","8 Addison Road, W14 8DL","A house in Holland Park glazed all over in peacock blue and green, like a bathroom turned outward.","","/img/debenham-house-480.jpg?v=1357a94d"],["p","eltham-palace","architecture","Eltham Palace","Eltham","Court Yard, SE9 5QE","A 1930s Art Deco house grafted onto the great hall of a medieval royal palace.","","/img/eltham-palace-480.jpg?v=06d2c142"],["p","freemasons-hall","architecture","Freemasons' Hall","Holborn","60 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5AZ","A vast Art Deco temple behind a Covent Garden street door, built as a war memorial.","","/img/freemasons-hall-480.jpg?v=1ed4f086"],["p","golden-lane-estate","architecture","Golden Lane Estate","City of London","Golden Lane, EC1Y 0RN","The council estate that won Chamberlin, Powell and Bon the Barbican: 1950s flats around courts, a yellow tower with a curled…","","/img/golden-lane-estate-480.jpg?v=4de31a36"],["p","highpoint","architecture","Highpoint","Highgate","North Road, N6 4BA","Two white slabs on the hill at Highgate, and the building Le Corbusier came to look at.","","/img/highpoint-480.jpg?v=7d280a2b"],["p","hoover-building","architecture","Hoover Building","Perivale","Western Avenue, Perivale, UB6 8DW","The great Art Deco factory of the A40: white faience, coloured tile and a sunburst over the door.","","/img/hoover-building-480.jpg?v=292a3c8d"],["p","horniman-museum-and-gardens","architecture","Horniman Museum and Gardens","Forest Hill","Animal Walk, Forest Hill, SE23 3BX","A tea trader's museum of 1901, with a clock tower like nothing else 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swimming bath.","","/img/michelin-house-480.jpg?v=4fd8b21c"],["p","national-theatre","architecture","National Theatre","South Bank","South Bank, SE1 9PX","Lasdun's stacked concrete terraces, hated on sight and now hard to imagine the river without.","","/img/national-theatre-480.jpg?v=7edb969c"],["p","natural-history-museum","architecture","Natural History Museum","South Kensington","Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD","Waterhouse's terracotta cathedral, with the animals modelled into the walls and columns.","","/img/own-natural-history-museum-480.jpg?v=2aba25a6"],["p","peckham-library","architecture","Peckham Library","Peckham","122 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JR","An upside-down L on stilts in bright green copper, and the Stirling Prize winner of 2000.","","/img/peckham-library-480.jpg?v=675805c2"],["p","penguin-pool-london-zoo","architecture","Penguin Pool, London Zoo","Regent's Park","London Zoo, Regent's Park, NW1 4RY","Two concrete ramps crossing in mid-air over an empty pool: the most famous modern building in Britain with nothing to do.","","/img/penguin-pool-london-zoo-480.jpg?v=1dcdf3d4"],["p","roundhouse","architecture","Roundhouse","Chalk Farm","Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH","A railway engine shed of 1847 built round a turntable, obsolete in ten years and useful ever since.","","/img/roundhouse-480.jpg?v=44ade82a"],["p","royal-exchange","architecture","Royal Exchange","City of London","Royal Exchange, Cornhill, EC3V 3LR","The third exchange on the site, with a golden grasshopper on the roof and a courtyard you can walk into.","","/img/own-royal-exchange-480.jpg?v=cd0b3b73"],["p","severndroog-castle","architecture","Severndroog Castle","Shooters Hill","Castle Wood, Shooters Hill, SE18 3RT","A triangular gothic tower on Shooter's Hill, put up by a widow for a naval victory in India.","","/img/severndroog-castle-480.jpg?v=a7d4228a"],["p","sir-john-soanes-museum","architecture","Sir John Soane's Museum","Holborn","13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3BP","An architect's own house, left exactly as he arranged it, with mirrors and light shafts everywhere.","","/img/sir-john-soanes-museum-480.jpg?v=157bf66f"],["p","southgate-station","architecture","Southgate station","Southgate","Station Parade, Southgate, N14 5BH","Holden's flying saucer of 1933: a circular ticket hall whose flat roof seems to rest on nothing but a ring of windows, with a…","","/img/southgate-station-480.jpg?v=8b3f190c"],["p","st-pancras","architecture","St Pancras Station","St Pancras","Euston Road, NW1 2AR","George Gilbert Scott's Gothic palace across the front of a railway station, saved ten days before the bulldozers.","","/img/st-pancras-480.jpg?v=7f1fdb82"],["p","strawberry-hill","architecture","Strawberry Hill House","Twickenham","268 Waldegrave Road, TW1 4ST","Horace Walpole's white gothic villa, the house that started the whole gothic revival.","","/img/strawberry-hill-480.jpg?v=0aa83197"],["p","sudbury-town-station","architecture","Sudbury Town station","Sudbury","Station Approach, Wembley, HA0 2LA","A brick box with a concrete lid: Holden's rebuilding of 1931 that set the pattern for every Underground station of the thirties.","","/img/sudbury-town-station-480.jpg?v=69aaf05d"],["p","tate-modern","architecture","Tate Modern","Bankside","Bankside, SE1 9TG","Giles Gilbert Scott's power station, hollowed out and left as raw as they dared.","","/img/tate-modern-480.jpg?v=f017f793"],["p","the-blackfriar","architecture","The Blackfriar","Blackfriars","174 Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4EG","A wedge-shaped pub of 1875 fitted out in marble and bronze with jolly monks doing the moralising.","","/img/the-blackfriar-480.jpg?v=3c5160b4"],["p","trellick-tower","architecture","Trellick Tower","Kensal Town","Golborne Road, W10 5PD","Goldfinger's thirty-one storeys, with the lifts in a separate tower joined every third floor.","","/img/trellick-tower-480.jpg?v=d583ab72"],["c","architecture","architecture","Architecture","","","Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at…","",""],["p","achilles-statue","monuments","Achilles statue","Belgravia","Hyde Park, near Hyde Park Corner, W1K 1BE","London's first public nude, cast from captured French cannon and paid for by the women of England.","","/img/achilles-statue-480.jpg?v=1cc7eb67"],["p","admiralty-arch","monuments","Admiralty Arch","St James's","The Mall, SW1A 2WH","The gate from Trafalgar Square to the Mall, built as a memorial to Queen Victoria, with a nose on the inside.","","/img/admiralty-arch-480.jpg?v=5c965b9a"],["p","albert-memorial","monuments","Albert Memorial","Knightsbridge","Kensington Gardens, SW7 2AP","The most extravagant thing the Victorians built, and worth walking round twice.","","/img/albert-memorial-480.jpg?v=be97b322"],["p","aldgate-pump","monuments","Aldgate Pump","Aldgate","Aldgate High Street at Fenchurch Street, EC3N 1AB","The pump of death, at the point where the City ends and the East End begins.","","/img/aldgate-pump-480.jpg?v=f2ccecdc"],["p","all-hallows-staining","monuments","All Hallows Staining","Leadenhall Market","Mark Lane, EC3R","A tower of about 1320, and the only part of its church that did not fall down.","","/img/all-hallows-staining-480.jpg?v=80b44a50"],["p","animals-in-war-memorial","monuments","Animals in War Memorial","Mayfair","Brook Gate, Park Lane, W1K 7QF","Two bronze mules carrying a gun through a gap in a wall, and a horse and a dog already on the other side.","","/img/animals-in-war-memorial-480.jpg?v=c151f30f"],["p","barbican-bastions","monuments","Barbican bastions","Barbican","St Giles' Terrace, Barbican, EC2Y 8DA","Medieval bastions on the Roman line, standing in the Barbican's ornamental lake.","","/img/barbican-bastions-480.jpg?v=a966e70a"],["p","barking-abbey-and-the-curfew-tower","monuments","Barking Abbey and the Curfew Tower","Roding Riverside","Broadway, Barking, IG11 8AS","The footprint of one of the great nunneries of England, and its one standing gate.","","/img/barking-abbey-and-the-curfew-tower-480.jpg?v=6bc56986"],["p","battersea-park-peace-pagoda","monuments","Battersea Park Peace Pagoda","Chelsea","Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ","A Japanese Buddhist pagoda on the Thames, built by monks in a year and tended by one of them ever since.","","/img/battersea-park-peace-pagoda-480.jpg?v=7aeeb2e1"],["p","billingsgate-roman-house-and-baths","monuments","Billingsgate Roman House and Baths","Monument","101 Lower Thames Street, EC3R 6DL","A Roman townhouse and its bathhouse, complete with underfloor heating, in an office basement.","","/img/billingsgate-roman-house-and-baths-480.jpg?v=c44fe8d8"],["p","boadicea-and-her-daughters","monuments","Boadicea and Her Daughters","Westminster","Westminster Bridge, Victoria Embankment, SW1A 2JH","Thornycroft's bronze of the queen who burned Roman London, charging at Parliament from the end of Westminster Bridge.","","/img/boadicea-and-her-daughters-480.jpg?v=029bbb80"],["p","broad-street-pump-and-john-snow-memorial","monuments","Broad Street Pump and John Snow Memorial","Soho","Broadwick Street at Lexington Street, Soho, W1F 9QJ","A pump with no handle, on the spot where the science of epidemiology began.","","/img/broad-street-pump-and-john-snow-memorial-480.jpg?v=c7b2d901"],["p","buxton-memorial-fountain","monuments","Buxton Memorial Fountain","Millbank","Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, SW1P 3JA","A polychrome Gothic fountain to the men who ended slavery in the British Empire.","","/img/buxton-memorial-fountain-480.jpg?v=a4074328"],["p","charles-i-at-charing-cross","monuments","Charles I at Charing Cross","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DS","The oldest bronze equestrian statue in England, and the point from which every distance to London is measured.","","/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1"],["p","christ-church-greyfriars","monuments","Christ Church 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ribbons.","","/img/cross-bones-graveyard-480.jpg?v=be511945"],["p","crystal-palace-dinosaurs","monuments","Crystal Palace Dinosaurs","Crystal Palace","Crystal Palace Park, Thicket Road, SE20 8DT","The first dinosaurs ever built, life-size, wrong in every detail and protected at the highest historic grade.","","/img/crystal-palace-dinosaurs-480.jpg?v=ae166476"],["p","crystal-palace-terraces","monuments","Crystal Palace Terraces","Crystal Palace","Crystal Palace Parade, SE19 1UA","The terraces and sphinxes of a palace that burnt in a night, with nothing on top of them.","","/img/crystal-palace-terraces-480.jpg?v=185ac922"],["p","duke-of-york-column","monuments","Duke of York Column","St James's","Waterloo Place, SW1Y 5AG","The Grand Old Duke of York, on a column paid for by docking every soldier a day's wages.","","/img/duke-of-york-column.jpg?v=a1476dc5"],["p","edith-cavell-memorial","monuments","Edith Cavell Memorial","Covent Garden","St Martin's Place, WC2N 4JJ","Frampton's white memorial to the nurse the Germans shot in 1915, outside the National Portrait Gallery, with her last words cut…","","/img/edith-cavell-memorial-480.jpg?v=0e516382"],["p","eleanor-cross","monuments","Eleanor Cross","Covent Garden","Charing Cross station forecourt, Strand, WC2N 5HF","A Victorian Gothic cross in front of the station, standing in for the medieval one that gave the place its name.","","/img/eleanor-cross-480.jpg?v=ca6a2773"],["p","golden-boy-of-pye-corner","monuments","Golden Boy of Pye Corner","West Smithfield","Giltspur Street at Cock Lane, EC1A 9DD","A small gilded boy high on a corner, marking where the Great Fire stopped and blaming it on gluttony.","","/img/golden-boy-of-pye-corner-480.jpg?v=a039d355"],["p","guildhall-roman-amphitheatre","monuments","Guildhall Roman Amphitheatre","Moorgate","Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE","Londinium's amphitheatre, found by accident in 1988, with its full oval traced in the paving of the yard above it.","","/img/guildhall-roman-amphitheatre-480.jpg?v=11c257c4"],["p","harmondsworth-great-barn","monuments","Harmondsworth Great Barn","Harmondsworth","Manor Court, High Street, Harmondsworth, UB7 0AQ","England's largest timber-framed building, a barn of 1426 by the airport fence at Heathrow: sixty metres of oak under thirteen…","","/img/harmondsworth-great-barn-480.jpg?v=f7a2534e"],["p","houses-of-parliament","monuments","Houses of Parliament & Big Ben","Westminster","Parliament Square, Westminster, SW1A 0AA","Barry and Pugin's Gothic palace, the Great Clock and the cracked bell everyone calls Big Ben, with Westminster Hall of 1097 at…","","/img/houses-of-parliament-480.jpg?v=88dbd74f"],["p","jewel-tower","monuments","Jewel Tower","Westminster","Abingdon Street, SW1P 3JX","Edward III's strongroom, one of two pieces of the medieval Palace of Westminster left standing.","","/img/jewel-tower-480.jpg?v=136b988f"],["p","john-keats-statue","monuments","John Keats statue","Borough Market","Guy's Hospital courtyard, St Thomas Street, SE1 9RT","Keats, who trained as a surgeon at Guy's, sitting in a stone alcove that once stood on old London Bridge.","","/img/john-keats-statue-480.jpg?v=a66a1dc0"],["p","king-edward-iiis-manor-house","monuments","King Edward III's manor house","Bermondsey","Bermondsey Wall East, Rotherhithe, SE16","The moated house Edward III built at the river's edge, dug back out from under a warehouse.","","/img/king-edward-iiis-manor-house-480.jpg?v=ea40fe4b"],["p","lesnes-abbey","monuments","Lesnes Abbey","West Heath","Abbey Road, Abbey Wood, SE2 0QX","An abbey founded as penance for Becket's murder, its whole plan laid out in the grass.","","/img/lesnes-abbey-480.jpg?v=bfb1c3d5"],["p","london-mithraeum","monuments","London Mithraeum","Bank","12 Walbrook, EC4N 8AA","The Roman temple of Mithras, found in 1954 and put back where it stood seven metres under Bloomberg's building, staged in sound…","","/img/london-mithraeum-480.jpg?v=6648991e"],["p","london-stone","monuments","London Stone","Bank","111 Cannon Street, EC4N 5AR","A lump of limestone in a wall on Cannon Street, older than any record of it.","","/img/london-stone-480.jpg?v=31f10cb2"],["p","london-wall-at-coopers-row","monuments","London Wall at Cooper's Row","Tower Hill","8-10 Cooper's Row, EC3N 2BQ","Roman below, medieval above, arrow loops and all, in a hotel courtyard.","","/img/london-wall-at-coopers-row-480.jpg?v=30f4a4eb"],["p","london-wall-at-st-alphage","monuments","London Wall at St Alphage","Barbican","St Alphage Garden, London Wall, EC2Y 5DE","The wall with its fifteenth-century brick battlements, seen from a raised walkway.","","/img/london-wall-at-st-alphage-480.jpg?v=e3b3245b"],["p","london-wall-at-tower-hill","monuments","London Wall at Tower Hill","Tower Hill","Tower Hill Gardens, Trinity Place, EC3N 4DJ","The tallest piece of Roman London still standing, with a Roman emperor looking at it.","","/img/own-london-wall-480.jpg?v=73371918"],["p","london-wall-in-the-car-park","monuments","London Wall in the car park","City of London","London Wall Car Park, London Wall, EC2Y 9DT","Eleven metres of Roman wall standing in an underground car park, between the bays and the bins.","",""],["p","london-wall-walk","monuments","London Wall Walk","City of London","Tower Hill to Aldersgate, along the line of the Roman wall","The Roman city's edge, walked in an hour: two miles of it survive in pieces, and the pieces are all free.","",""],["p","marble-arch","monuments","Marble Arch","Mayfair","Marble Arch, W1H 7EJ","Nash's gateway to Buckingham Palace, moved to a traffic island where nobody may drive through it.","","/img/marble-arch-480.jpg?v=a18babf8"],["p","memorial-to-heroic-self-sacrifice","monuments","Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice","West Smithfield","Postman's Park, King Edward Street, EC1A 7BT","G.F. Watts's wall of ceramic tablets to ordinary Londoners who died saving others, under a loggia in Postman's Park.","","/img/memorial-to-heroic-self-sacrifice-480.jpg?v=b0c8d84d"],["p","merton-priory-chapter-house","monuments","Merton Priory Chapter House","Merton","Chapter Way, Merton, SW19 2RX","The chapter house of a great priory, kept under a dual carriageway.","","/img/merton-priory-chapter-house-480.jpg?v=5d6a4e25"],["p","millicent-fawcett-statue","monuments","Millicent Fawcett statue","Westminster","Parliament Square, SW1P 3BD","Gillian Wearing's bronze of the suffragist leader, the first woman in Parliament Square and the first statue there by a woman…","","/img/millicent-fawcett-statue-480.jpg?v=936ff34e"],["p","parliament-square-statues","monuments","Parliament Square statues","Westminster","Parliament Square, SW1P 3JX","Twelve statesmen on one square: Churchill, Mandela, Gandhi, Lincoln, and Millicent Fawcett, the first woman.","","/img/parliament-square-statues-480.jpg?v=0c09db7f"],["p","peter-pan-statue","monuments","Peter Pan statue","Paddington","Kensington Gardens, W2 2UH","The boy who wouldn't grow up, put up overnight so that the children would think he had arrived by magic.","","/img/peter-pan-statue-480.jpg?v=4db7cdcf"],["p","roman-bath-strand-lane","monuments","Roman Bath, Strand Lane","St Clement Danes","5 Strand Lane, WC2R 2NA","Not Roman at all, and a better story for it: a Jacobean cistern that spent two centuries as a plunge bath.","",""],["p","roman-fort-at-noble-street","monuments","Roman fort at Noble Street","St Paul's","Noble Street, EC2V 7EE","The corner of a Roman fort that is older than the wall, laid open by the Blitz.","","/img/roman-fort-at-noble-street-480.jpg?v=ace22e36"],["p","royal-artillery-memorial","monuments","Royal Artillery Memorial","Belgravia","Hyde Park Corner, SW1X 7TA","A stone howitzer and four bronze gunners, one of them dead under his greatcoat: the most honest war memorial in London.","","/img/royal-artillery-memorial-480.jpg?v=660ad31d"],["p","scadbury-moated-manor","monuments","Scadbury Moated Manor","Scadbury","Scadbury Park Local Nature Reserve, Chislehurst, BR7","The moated island the Walsinghams held for two centuries, and where Marlowe was staying days before he was killed.","","/img/scadbury-moated-manor-480.jpg?v=6c9ed699"],["p","sekhmet-at-sothebys","monuments","Sekhmet at Sotheby's","Mayfair","34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA","A lion-headed Egyptian goddess over an auction house door, and the oldest outdoor statue in London.","",""],["p","seven-dials-sundial-pillar","monuments","Seven Dials Sundial Pillar","Seven Dials","Seven Dials, WC2H 9DP","A Doric column with six sundials at the meeting of seven streets. The seventh dial is the column.","","/img/seven-dials-sundial-pillar-480.jpg?v=67f24509"],["p","severndroog-castle","monuments","Severndroog Castle","Shooters Hill","Castle Wood, Shooters Hill, SE18 3RT","A Gothic folly in a wood on one of London's highest hills, with a view into seven counties.","","/img/severndroog-castle-480.jpg?v=a7d4228a"],["p","shaftesbury-memorial-fountain","monuments","Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain","St James's","Piccadilly Circus, W1J 9HT","Eros, who is not Eros, on the fountain at Piccadilly Circus.","","/img/shaftesbury-memorial-fountain-480.jpg?v=ed5db40b"],["p","south-bank-lion","monuments","South Bank Lion","Westminster","Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7PB","A thirteen-ton lion in artificial stone, which nobody can make any more, saved by a king.","","/img/south-bank-lion-480.jpg?v=dd27fea2"],["p","st-albans-tower-wood-street","monuments","St Alban's Tower, Wood Street","Barbican","Wood Street, EC2V","Wren in Gothic, marooned on an island in the middle of the carriageway with its church gone.","","/img/st-albans-tower-wood-street-480.jpg?v=c7a16798"],["p","st-augustines-tower","monuments","St Augustine's Tower","Hackney","Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1HR","Hackney's oldest building, a medieval church tower with a working sixteenth-century clock.","",""],["p","st-bartholomews-gatehouse","monuments","St Bartholomew's Gatehouse","West Smithfield","West Smithfield, EC1A 9DS","A thirteenth-century church door with a Tudor house on top, found under the plaster by a Zeppelin.","","/img/own-st-bartholomews-gatehouse-480.jpg?v=469d19e1"],["p","st-dunstan-in-the-east","monuments","St Dunstan-in-the-East","Monument","St Dunstan's Hill, EC3R 5DD","A bombed church left as a garden, with trees growing through the Gothic windows.","","/img/st-dunstan-in-the-east-480.jpg?v=30c24069"],["p","st-mary-aldermanbury-garden","monuments","St Mary Aldermanbury Garden","Moorgate","Love Lane, EC2V 7HH","The footings of a church that was shipped to Missouri, and a monument to the two men who saved Shakespeare.","","/img/st-mary-aldermanbury-garden-480.jpg?v=039b34a3"],["p","temple-bar","monuments","Temple Bar","St Paul's","Paternoster Square, EC4M 7DX","The only surviving gateway into the City, back after a century in a field in Hertfordshire.","","/img/temple-bar-480.jpg?v=d9be6b78"],["p","the-burghers-of-calais","monuments","The Burghers of Calais","Westminster","Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, SW1P 3JA","Rodin's six men walking to their deaths, in a garden beside the House of Lords.","","/img/the-burghers-of-calais-480.jpg?v=0f383827"],["p","the-cenotaph","monuments","The Cenotaph","Westminster","Whitehall, SW1A 2AX","Lutyens's empty tomb, plain Portland stone and no religion, the memorial every other memorial answers to.","","/img/the-cenotaph-480.jpg?v=f5644dec"],["p","the-coronation-stone","monuments","The Coronation Stone","Hampton Wick","High Street, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1EU","A block of sarsen outside Kingston's Guildhall on which, the town holds, seven Saxon kings were made king, Æthelstan among them.","","/img/the-coronation-stone-480.jpg?v=82d42e65"],["p","the-monument","monuments","The Monument","Monument","Fish Street Hill, EC3R 8AH","Wren's column to the Great Fire, 311 steps up, and secretly a scientific instrument.","","/img/the-monument-480.jpg?v=821ecb89"],["p","the-obelisk-at-st-georges-circus","monuments","The Obelisk at St George's Circus","Elephant and Castle","St George's Circus, SE1","London's first purpose-built road junction still has its 1771 signpost, carved with the distances to Fleet Street, London Bridge…","","/img/the-obelisk-at-st-georges-circus-480.jpg?v=20b46a2d"],["p","tower-hill-memorial","monuments","Tower Hill Memorial","Tower Hill","Trinity Square Gardens, EC3N 4DH","Thirty-six thousand names of merchant seamen with no grave but the sea, beside the spot where the Tower's prisoners were beheaded.","","/img/own-tower-hill-memorial-480.jpg?v=6432fcd3"],["p","tower-of-st-mary-somerset","monuments","Tower of St Mary Somerset","St Paul's","Upper Thames Street, EC4V","A Wren tower left standing on Upper Thames Street after the church was taken down around it.","","/img/tower-of-st-mary-somerset-480.jpg?v=4287bc6b"],["p","nelsons-column","monuments","Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","Covent Garden","Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN","The symbolic heart of London: Barry's square with Nelson fifty-two metres above it, and Landseer's lions to climb on.","","/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb"],["p","victoria-memorial","monuments","Victoria Memorial","Victoria","Queen's Gardens, The Mall, SW1A 1AA","Twenty-three hundred tons of white marble in front of the Palace, with a gilded Victory on top.","","/img/victoria-memorial-480.jpg?v=6ff38e58"],["p","watts-memorial-to-heroic-self-sacrifice","monuments","Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice","West Smithfield","Postman's Park, King Edward Street, EC1A 7BT","Fifty-four ceramic tiles to ordinary people who died saving others, under a wooden shelter in a small park.","","/img/watts-memorial-to-heroic-self-sacrifice-480.jpg?v=b0c8d84d"],["p","wellington-arch","monuments","Wellington Arch","Belgravia","Apsley Way, Belgravia, W1J 7NT","Decimus Burton's arch at Hyde Park Corner, with the largest bronze sculpture in Europe on top and balconies inside to climb to.","","/img/wellington-arch-480.jpg?v=3fc925e4"],["p","whitefriars-crypt","monuments","Whitefriars Crypt","Temple","Magpie Alley, off Bouverie Street, EC4Y 8DP","A fourteenth-century crypt behind glass at the bottom of an alley off Fleet Street.","",""],["p","whitehall-downing-street","monuments","Whitehall & Downing Street","Whitehall","Whitehall, from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square","The government's own street: mounted sentries at Horse Guards, the Cenotaph in the middle of the road, and the gates of Downing…","","/img/downing-street-number-10-480.jpg?v=3a2fa311"],["p","winchester-palace","monuments","Winchester Palace","Borough Market","Clink Street, SE1 9DG","The rose window of a bishop's great hall, standing alone among the Bankside warehouses.","","/img/winchester-palace-480.jpg?v=4388934a"],["c","monuments","monuments","Monuments & Ruins","","","Not every statue in London. The ones worth crossing the road for: Roman wall, medieval ruins, and the monuments that earn a…","",""],["p","alfies-antique-market","classic-british-shops","Alfies Antique Market","Marylebone","13-25 Church Street, NW8 8DT","A rambling Marylebone market of dealers in twentieth-century design, vintage fashion and decorative arts.","","/img/alfies-antique-market-480.jpg?v=6f080d5f"],["p","algerian-coffee-stores","classic-british-shops","Algerian Coffee Stores","Soho","52 Old Compton Street, W1D 4PB","A Soho coffee shop of 1887 that never modernised, selling beans by weight from tins behind the counter.","","/img/algerian-coffee-stores-480.jpg?v=e2a09d68"],["p","anderson-sheppard","classic-british-shops","Anderson & Sheppard","Mayfair","32 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AS","The soft, unpadded house style that made the Row's reputation for comfort rather than armour.","",""],["p","asprey","classic-british-shops","Asprey","Mayfair","34-36 Bruton Street, W1J 6QX","Silver, jewellery and leather from a house that has been making for royalty since 1781.","",""],["p","bentley-skinner","classic-british-shops","Bentley & Skinner","Mayfair","55 Piccadilly, W1J 0DX","Antique and period jewellery at the level museums buy at, in a shop window people stop dead in front of.","","/img/bentley-skinner-480.jpg?v=3729bb98"],["p","berry-bros-rudd","classic-british-shops","Berry Bros. & Rudd","St James's","3 St James's Street, SW1A 1EG","Wine merchants on the same site since 1698, in a shop whose floor slopes and whose scales weighed Byron.","","/img/berry-bros-rudd-480.jpg?v=2d82b24e"],["p","blackhorse-lane-ateliers","classic-british-shops","Blackhorse Lane Ateliers","King's Cross","Unit 32, Lower Stable Street, Coal Drops Yard, N1C 4DQ","Jeans cut and sewn in London, sold with a promise to repair them for as long as you keep them.","",""],["p","burlington-arcade","classic-british-shops","Burlington Arcade","Mayfair","Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, W1J","The first shopping arcade in Britain, still patrolled by beadles in top hats who will stop you whistling.","","/img/street-burlington-arcade-480.jpg?v=5489ffe9"],["p","cecil-court","classic-british-shops","Cecil Court","Covent Garden","Cecil Court, WC2N 4HE","A Victorian passage of antiquarian booksellers and print dealers, unchanged shopfront by shopfront.","","/img/cecil-court-480.jpg?v=de6d1805"],["p","charbonnel-et-walker","classic-british-shops","Charbonnel et Walker","Mayfair","1 Royal Arcade, W1S 4BT","Bond Street chocolatier since 1875, in the Royal Arcade, still hand-filling its rose and violet creams.","","/img/charbonnel-et-walker-480.jpg?v=96997dd1"],["p","choosing-keeping","classic-british-shops","Choosing Keeping","Covent Garden","21 Tower Street, WC2H 9NS","A stationery shop of unusual seriousness: specialist papers, inks, and pens sourced from small makers worldwide.","",""],["p","crockett-jones","classic-british-shops","Crockett & Jones","St James's","69 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JB","The most-bought serious English shoe, made in Northampton since 1879 and still family-owned.","","/img/crockett-jones-480.jpg?v=a0b30e2c"],["p","d-r-harris","classic-british-shops","D. R. Harris","St James's","29 St James's Street, SW1A 1HD","A chemist trading on St James's Street since 1790, and the source of the pick-me-up that Victorian London swore by.","","/img/d-r-harris-480.jpg?v=c463f8d6"],["p","daunt-books-marylebone","classic-british-shops","Daunt Books Marylebone","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","An Edwardian bookshop with oak galleries and a stained-glass window, arranged by country rather than by subject.","","/img/own-daunt-books-marylebone-480.jpg?v=6559ec88"],["p","david-mellor","classic-british-shops","David Mellor","Chelsea","190 Pavilion Road, SW3 2BF","The shop of the cutler who designed Britain's traffic lights, selling kitchen equipment chosen with the same eye.","","/img/david-mellor-480.jpg?v=90ddfc74"],["p","davies-son","classic-british-shops","Davies & Son","Mayfair","38 Savile Row, W1S 3QE","The oldest independent tailor on the Row, trading since 1803 and absorbing several older houses along the way.","",""],["p","dege-skinner","classic-british-shops","Dege & Skinner","Mayfair","10 Savile Row, W1S 3PF","One of the last family-owned houses on the Row, and the one to go to for a bespoke shirt as well as a suit.","","/img/dege-skinner-480.jpg?v=2a1d4354"],["p","drakes","classic-british-shops","Drake's","Mayfair","9 Savile Row, W1S 3PF","The modern end of the Row: handmade ties, soft tailoring and shirts, made with the old methods and worn with none of the…","",""],["p","e-b-meyrowitz","classic-british-shops","E.B. Meyrowitz","Mayfair","6 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, W1S 4SF","Bespoke spectacles made the slow way, in a Royal Arcade shop that has been fitting frames since the nineteenth century.","",""],["p","edward-green","classic-british-shops","Edward Green","St James's","75 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6NP","Northampton welted shoes at the top of the ready-to-wear range, with a finish most bespoke work does not match.","","/img/edward-green-480.jpg?v=38c39488"],["p","floris-london","classic-british-shops","Floris London","St James's","89 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JH","A perfumer on the same Jermyn Street site since 1730, still run by the founder's family nine generations on.","","/img/floris-london-480.jpg?v=f30aac58"],["p","fortnum-mason","classic-british-shops","Fortnum & Mason","St James's","181-184 Piccadilly, W1A 1ER","The Piccadilly grocer since 1707, and still the most reliable place in London to buy something British to take home.","","/img/fortnum-mason-480.jpg?v=9e0e4d11"],["p","fortnum-mason-royal-exchange","classic-british-shops","Fortnum & Mason Royal Exchange","City of London","4-7 The Royal Exchange, EC3V 3LR","Fortnum's in the City, under the arcades of the Royal Exchange, with the bar in the courtyard.","",""],["p","gaziano-girling","classic-british-shops","Gaziano & Girling","Mayfair","39 Savile Row, W1S 3QF","The modern English shoemaker, founded by two men who left the old firms to cut a sharper last.","",""],["p","geo-f-trumper","classic-british-shops","Geo. F. Trumper","St James's","1 Duke of York Street, SW1Y 6JP","A Victorian gentleman's barber with the mahogany cubicles still in place, and its own colognes made to nineteenth-century…","","/img/geo-f-trumper-480.jpg?v=7bdbbed6"],["p","gieves-hawkes","classic-british-shops","Gieves & Hawkes","Mayfair","1 Savile Row, W1S 3JR","Number One Savile Row, and the tailor that dressed the Royal Navy for two centuries.","","/img/gieves-hawkes-480.jpg?v=55f2f517"],["p","grays-antiques","classic-british-shops","Grays Antiques","Mayfair","58 Davies Street, W1K 5LP","Two hundred dealers under one roof, with a lost London river running through the basement.","","/img/grays-antiques-480.jpg?v=fc8748f5"],["p","hatchards","classic-british-shops","Hatchards","St James's","187 Piccadilly, W1J 9LE","London's oldest bookshop, opened in 1797 and still selling books over five floors of Piccadilly.","","/img/hatchards-480.jpg?v=7c738126"],["p","hatton-garden","classic-british-shops","Hatton Garden","Farringdon","Hatton Garden, EC1N 8JT","London's jewellery quarter for four hundred years, with the workshops still upstairs above the shops.","",""],["p","henry-poole-co","classic-british-shops","Henry Poole & Co","Mayfair","15 Savile Row, W1S 3PJ","The founding house of Savile Row, and the tailor generally credited with cutting the first dinner jacket.","","/img/henry-poole-co-480.jpg?v=a3ddf0f6"],["p","huntsman","classic-british-shops","Huntsman","Mayfair","11 Savile Row, W1S 3PS","The one-button coat, a structured shoulder, and a shop front that has been used as a film set more than once.","","/img/huntsman-480.jpg?v=92236b56"],["p","james-j-fox","classic-british-shops","James J. Fox","St James's","19 St James's Street, SW1A 1ES","The cigar merchant Churchill bought from, with his chair and his account ledger still in the basement museum.","","/img/james-j-fox-480.jpg?v=bc00cfe7"],["p","james-purdey-sons","classic-british-shops","James Purdey & Sons","Mayfair","57-58 South Audley Street, W1K 2ED","A gunmaker's showroom of 1882 that is worth entering for the engraving and the room, whatever you think of guns.","","/img/james-purdey-sons-480.jpg?v=3962d00a"],["p","james-smith-sons","classic-british-shops","James Smith & Sons","Bloomsbury","Hazelwood House, 53 New Oxford Street, WC1A 1BL","An umbrella shop of 1857 with its Victorian shopfront entirely intact, still making sticks and umbrellas on the premises.","","/img/james-smith-sons-480.jpg?v=d5062aba"],["p","jermyn-street","classic-british-shops","Jermyn Street","St James's","Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JF","Two hundred yards holding more shirtmakers, perfumers, cheesemongers and shoemakers than the rest of Britain put together.","","/img/jermyn-street-480.jpg?v=cf6b7a88"],["p","john-lobb","classic-british-shops","John Lobb","St James's","9 St James's Street, SW1A 1EF","Bespoke shoemaking at its most complete: a wooden last carved for your foot and kept for life.","","/img/john-lobb-480.jpg?v=485bff6e"],["p","l-cornelissen-son","classic-british-shops","L. Cornelissen & Son","Bloomsbury","105 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3RY","A Victorian artists' colourman opposite the British Museum, selling raw pigment by the jar from the original fittings.","","/img/l-cornelissen-son-480.jpg?v=99c6dd09"],["p","labour-and-wait","classic-british-shops","Labour and Wait","Shoreditch","85 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ","Household tools chosen for how long they will last, in a tiled former pub off Brick Lane.","","/img/labour-and-wait-480.jpg?v=0a222695"],["p","liberty-london","classic-british-shops","Liberty London","Soho","Regent Street, W1B 5AH","A mock-Tudor department store built from two warships, and the printed fabrics that carry its name worldwide.","","/img/liberty-london-480.jpg?v=8466f8dd"],["p","lock-co-hatters","classic-british-shops","Lock & Co. Hatters","St James's","6 St James's Street, SW1A 1EF","The oldest hat shop in the world, trading from the same premises since 1676, where the bowler was invented.","","/img/lock-co-hatters-480.jpg?v=d13911b7"],["p","m-manze","classic-british-shops","M. Manze","Bermondsey","87 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 4TW","The oldest pie and mash shop in London, with the marble counters, the tiles and the eels still in place.","","/img/m-manze-480.jpg?v=e3de6bca"],["p","maggs-bros","classic-british-shops","Maggs Bros.","Bloomsbury","48 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DR","One of the oldest antiquarian booksellers in the world, dealing from a Georgian house on Bedford Square.","",""],["p","neals-yard-dairy","classic-british-shops","Neal's Yard Dairy","Covent Garden","17 Shorts Gardens, WC2H 9AT","The shop that saved British farmhouse cheese, maturing it in its own cellars and selling it at the peak.","","/img/neals-yard-dairy-480.jpg?v=c36adb7a"],["p","paxton-whitfield","classic-british-shops","Paxton & Whitfield","St James's","93 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JE","Cheesemonger to Jermyn Street since 1797, with a counter of British farmhouse cheese cut to order.","","/img/paxton-whitfield-480.jpg?v=f69078a0"],["p","penhaligons","classic-british-shops","Penhaligon's","Mayfair","16-17 Burlington Arcade, W1J 0PL","The Victorian perfumer that started in a barber's shop opposite a Turkish bath and built its scents around it.","","/img/penhaligons-480.jpg?v=d488ba92"],["p","peter-harrington","classic-british-shops","Peter Harrington","Mayfair","43 Dover Street, W1S 4FF","London's leading rare book dealer, where first editions are laid out to be handled rather than locked away.","","/img/peter-harrington-480.jpg?v=e73740a0"],["p","portobello-road-market","classic-british-shops","Portobello Road Market","North Kensington","Portobello Road, W11 1LJ","Behind the tourist stalls, the arcades hold serious dealers in silver, maps, ceramics and jewellery.","","/img/portobello-road-market-480.jpg?v=be7c117a"],["p","present-correct","classic-british-shops","Present & Correct","Bloomsbury","12 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL","Stationery treated as graphic design, with a strong line in old stock nobody else kept.","",""],["p","prestat","classic-british-shops","Prestat","St James's","14 Princes Arcade, SW1Y 6DS","The chocolate shop that invented the chocolate truffle in Britain, in a pink-and-gold arcade shop.","",""],["p","royal-exchange","classic-british-shops","Royal Exchange","City of London","Royal Exchange, Cornhill, EC3V 3LR","Three centuries of City trading, now a luxury arcade under a colonnade, and free to walk into.","","/img/own-royal-exchange-480.jpg?v=cd0b3b73"],["p","savile-row","classic-british-shops","Savile Row","Mayfair","Savile Row, W1S 2YT","The street bespoke tailoring is named after, where a suit still takes three fittings and about fifty hours of hand work.","",""],["p","sotherans","classic-british-shops","Sotheran's","Covent Garden","8 Cecil Court, WC2N 4HE","Antiquarian booksellers since 1761, now in Cecil Court with the rare material round the corner.","","/img/sotherans-480.jpg?v=5fc4b690"],["p","stanfords","classic-british-shops","Stanfords","Covent Garden","7 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9FA","The map shop explorers used, selling charts, guides and globes since 1853.","","/img/stanfords-480.jpg?v=9d390681"],["p","stephen-jones-millinery","classic-british-shops","Stephen Jones Millinery","Covent Garden","36 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5AA","The studio of the milliner who has made hats for Dior, Vivienne Westwood and most of British pop since 1980.","",""],["p","summerill-bishop","classic-british-shops","Summerill & Bishop","Notting Hill","100 Portland Road, W11 4LQ","A Notting Hill kitchen shop that treats a linen tablecloth as seriously as a Savile Row tailor treats a suit.","","/img/summerill-bishop-480.jpg?v=fd64ae71"],["p","swaine","classic-british-shops","Swaine","St James's","7 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH","Whips, umbrellas and bridle-leather cases from a firm that has held a royal warrant continuously since 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Sopwith Camel to a Vulcan, free.","","/img/royal-air-force-museum-london-480.jpg?v=aad45403"],["p","royal-botanic-gardens-kew","science","Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew","Kew","Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE","Three hundred acres of botanic garden, and a walkway through the canopy.","",""],["p","royal-college-of-physicians-museum","science","Royal College of Physicians Museum","Regent's Park","11 St Andrew's Place, Fitzrovia, NW1 4LB","Five centuries of the physicians' college - portraits, silver, instruments and the strange world of early medicine - in Lasdun's…","",""],["p","royal-observatory-greenwich","science","Royal Observatory, Greenwich","Greenwich","Blackheath Avenue, SE10 8XJ","The hill where the world's clocks were set, and where the longitude problem was finally solved.","","/img/royal-observatory-greenwich-480.jpg?v=c81eab0d"],["p","royal-society","science","Royal Society","St James's","6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG","The oldest scientific academy in the world, in 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the Overground runs through it from Wapping to Rotherhithe, and the original brick…","","/img/wapping-ride-through-the-thames-tunnel-480.jpg?v=12dcb919"],["p","wellcome-collection","science","Wellcome Collection","St Pancras","183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE","Medicine, art and the human body, free, and consistently the most interesting free show in London.","","/img/wellcome-collection-480.jpg?v=49c3f5a3"],["c","science","science","Science & Engineering","","","The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the…","",""],["p","geological-society-of-london","societies","Geological Society of London","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BG","The oldest geological society in the world, founded 1807, with a lecture programme and a library in Burlington House.","",""],["p","gresham-college","societies","Gresham College","Holborn","Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH","Free public lectures since 1597, roughly one every weekday in term, given by professors appointed to do nothing else.","",""],["p","kings-college-london","societies","King's College London","Strand","Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS","Free public lectures on the Strand most weeks in term, from naval history to what artificial intelligence is doing to work.","",""],["p","linnean-society","societies","Linnean Society","St James's","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BF","Linnaeus's own specimens and library, in Burlington House, with free evening lectures through the year.","",""],["p","london-school-of-economics","societies","London School of Economics","Holborn","Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE","Seventy public lectures a term from economists, historians and politicians, free and open to anyone who registers.","",""],["p","royal-astronomical-society","societies","Royal Astronomical Society","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BQ","Public lectures on astronomy and geophysics, and a library you can arrange to use, in the Burlington House courtyard.","",""],["p","royal-geographical-society","societies","Royal Geographical Society","South Kensington","1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR","Talks most nights of the week and free exhibitions in a Norman Shaw building behind the Albert Hall, with two centuries of maps…","",""],["p","royal-society","societies","Royal Society","St James's","6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG","The oldest scientific academy in the world, with free public lectures and exhibitions in its Carlton House Terrace rooms.","",""],["p","royal-society-of-arts","societies","Royal Society of Arts","Strand","8 John Adam Street, WC2N 6EZ","An Adam house off the Strand with a lecture room painted end to end, free exhibitions and a talks programme open to anyone.","",""],["p","society-of-antiquaries-of-london","societies","Society of Antiquaries of London","Piccadilly","Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BE","The oldest society for the study of the past in Britain, giving lunchtime lectures anyone may attend in its rooms at Burlington…","",""],["p","university-college-london","societies","University College London","Bloomsbury","Gower Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 6BT","London's first university, founded to admit the people Oxford and Cambridge would not, with a public lecture series running since…","",""],["c","societies","societies","Societies & Academia","","","London's societies, institutes and universities, and the doors they open to everyone else: lecture theatres, libraries…","",""],["p","54-broadway","secrets","54 Broadway","Westminster","54 Broadway, SW1H 0BL","The Secret Intelligence Service's headquarters for forty years, behind a brass plate for the Minimax Fire Extinguisher Company…","",""],["p","64-baker-street-soe-headquarters","secrets","64 Baker Street: SOE headquarters","Marylebone","64 Baker Street, W1U 7DJ","The Baker Street Irregulars: headquarters of the Special Operations Executive, which ran resistance and sabotage across 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The…","",""],["p","arts-richmond-literature-festival","literary","Arts Richmond Literature Festival","Twickenham","The Exchange, 75 London Road, Twickenham, TW1 1BE","Four Wednesday evenings of author conversations in November at the Exchange in Twickenham.","",""],["p","barnes-bookfest","literary","Barnes BookFest","Barnes","St Mary's Church, Church Road, SW13 9HL","A weekend of author talks in St Mary's church and the halls around Barnes Green.","",""],["p","bishopsgate-institute","literary","Bishopsgate Institute","Broadgate","230 Bishopsgate, EC2M 4QH","A free library of London's radicals, protests and everyday lives, in Townsend's 1895 building by Liverpool Street.","","/img/bishopsgate-institute-480.jpg?v=5652b381"],["p","black-british-book-festival","literary","Black British Book Festival","Barbican","Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS","Europe's largest celebration of Black literature: one Sunday at the Barbican with more than eighty 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kept almost as they left it, from the soundproof attic down.","",""],["p","cecil-court","literary","Cecil Court","Seven Dials","Cecil Court, WC2N 4HE","Booksellers' Row: a Victorian pedestrian alley of antiquarian and specialist bookshops off Charing Cross Road.","","/img/cecil-court-480.jpg?v=de6d1805"],["p","charles-dickens-museum","literary","Charles Dickens Museum","Holborn","48-49 Doughty Street, WC1N 2LX","The only London house of Dickens's still standing, where Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby were written.","","/img/charles-dickens-museum-480.jpg?v=2bd721e6"],["p","cheyne-walk","literary","Cheyne Walk","Chelsea","Cheyne Walk, SW3","Chelsea's riverside terrace of writers: George Eliot died at No. 4, Rossetti kept a wombat at No. 16, Henry James and T. 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Eliot…","",""],["p","chiswick-book-festival","literary","Chiswick Book Festival","Chiswick","St Michael & All Angels, Bath Road, W4 1TX","Six days of authors in the church and parish hall of Bedford Park, run by the church for its charities.","","/img/chiswick-book-festival-480.jpg?v=90d7cdd3"],["p","clapham-book-festival","literary","Clapham Book Festival","Clapham","Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0QW","A one-day festival of author talks in the Omnibus Theatre on Clapham Common, run by a charity of local writers.","",""],["p","courtauld-gallery","literary","Courtauld Gallery","Strand","Strand, WC2R 1LA","Roger Fry's own collection, and Bloomsbury's painters hung together as they were meant to be seen.","","/img/courtauld-gallery-480.jpg?v=6f391cf0"],["p","daunt-books-marylebone","literary","Daunt Books Marylebone","Marylebone","83-84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW","An Edwardian bookshop of oak galleries and a stained-glass window, with the world arranged by country.","","/img/own-daunt-books-marylebone-480.jpg?v=6559ec88"],["p","deptford-literature-festival","literary","Deptford Literature Festival","Deptford","Deptford Lounge, 9 Giffin Street, SE8 4RJ","A week of readings, workshops and talks around Deptford Lounge, run by London Writers Centre.","",""],["p","discover-childrens-story-centre","literary","Discover Children's Story Centre","Stratford","383-387 High Street, Stratford, E15 4QZ","A story centre for the under-elevens on Stratford High Street: two floors of worlds to climb into and a garden to invent in.","","/img/discover-childrens-story-centre-480.jpg?v=39aeb7b0"],["p","dr-johnsons-house","literary","Dr Johnson's House","City of London","17 Gough Square, EC4A 3DE","Where the Dictionary was made, with the garret the six clerks worked in under the roof.","","/img/dr-johnsons-house-480.jpg?v=4803f944"],["p","emery-walkers-house","literary","Emery Walker's House","Hammersmith","7 Hammersmith Terrace, W6 9TS","The printer who taught William Morris typography, in the most complete Arts and Crafts interior left in London.","","/img/emery-walkers-house-480.jpg?v=d2201a7f"],["p","faber-faber-24-russell-square","literary","Faber & Faber, 24 Russell Square","Bloomsbury","24 Russell Square, WC1B","T. 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Eliot's office for forty years, where the author of The Waste Land read other people's poems for a living.","","/img/faber-faber-24-russell-square-480.jpg?v=21363eaf"],["p","fitzroy-square","literary","Fitzroy Square","Fitzrovia","Fitzroy Square, W1T 5HQ","Virginia Stephen's house at No. 29, and No. 33, where Roger Fry's Omega Workshops sold Bloomsbury's painted furniture and fabrics…","","/img/fitzroy-square-480.jpg?v=057681b7"],["p","garricks-temple-to-shakespeare","literary","Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare","Hampton","Hampton Court Road, TW12 2EN","David Garrick's riverside temple at Hampton, built in 1756 to house his statue of Shakespeare.","",""],["p","gays-the-word","literary","Gay's the Word","St Pancras","66 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB","Britain's first lesbian and gay bookshop, on Marchmont Street since 1979.","","/img/gays-the-word-480.jpg?v=df50db6e"],["p","george-orwell-statue-broadcasting-house","literary","George Orwell statue, Broadcasting House","East 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1966 by John La Rose and Sarah White and still on Stroud Green Road.","",""],["p","paddington-bear-statue","literary","Paddington Bear statue","Paddington","Paddington station, Praed Street, W2 1HQ","Paddington under the clock at the station where the Browns found him, suitcase and label and all.","","/img/paddington-bear-statue-480.jpg?v=48f9a1f8"],["p","peter-pan-statue","literary","Peter Pan statue","Paddington","Kensington Gardens, W2 2UH","Barrie's Peter Pan, put up in Kensington Gardens overnight in 1912 so that it would seem to have appeared by magic.","","/img/peter-pan-statue-480.jpg?v=4db7cdcf"],["p","poets-corner-westminster-abbey","literary","Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey","Westminster","20 Dean's Yard, SW1P 3PA","The south transept of the Abbey, where English literature has buried and remembered itself since Chaucer.","","/img/poets-corner-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=2e711d40"],["p","popes-grotto","literary","Pope's Grotto","Strawberry Hill","Radnor House, Cross Deep, Twickenham TW1 4QG","The shell-and-crystal tunnel Alexander Pope dug under the Twickenham road, the last piece of his villa.","",""],["p","primrose-hill","literary","Primrose Hill","Primrose Hill","Primrose Hill, Primrose Hill Road, NW3 3NA","Blake's line on the summit, the Martians' last stand in The War of the Worlds, and the start of the Twilight Bark.","","/img/primrose-hill-480.jpg?v=d870a03a"],["p","quentin-blake-centre-for-illustration","literary","Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration","Kings Cross","1 Myddelton Passage, EC1R 1AG","The country's home for illustration, opened in 2026 in the old waterworks at New River Head, Clerkenwell.","",""],["p","rimbaud-and-verlaine-royal-college-street","literary","Rimbaud and Verlaine, Royal College Street","Somers Town","8 Royal College Street, NW1","The Camden terrace where Rimbaud and Verlaine lived in 1873, before the shot in Brussels.","","/img/rimbaud-and-verlaine-royal-college-street-480.jpg?v=567620c8"],["p","rose-theatre-exhibition","literary","Rose Theatre Exhibition","Bankside","Park Street, SE1 9HA","The playhouse where Marlowe's plays were first staged, its footprint uncovered in 1989 and kept.","",""],["p","royal-botanic-gardens-kew","literary","Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew","Kew","Victoria Gate, Kew Road, Kew, TW9 3AE","The flower bed of Woolf's story Kew Gardens, printed by the Hogarth Press in 1919 with woodcuts by her sister.","",""],["p","senate-house","literary","Senate House","Bloomsbury","Malet Street, WC1E 7HU","The Ministry of Truth: Orwell's model for Minitrue in Nineteen Eighty-Four.","","/img/senate-house-480.jpg?v=6343f6ae"],["p","shakespeare-statue-leicester-square","literary","Shakespeare statue, Leicester Square","Seven Dials","Leicester Square, WC2H 7NA","The marble Shakespeare at the centre of Leicester Square, leaning on a stack of books.","","/img/shakespeare-statue-leicester-square-480.jpg?v=15e005dd"],["p","shakespeares-globe","literary","Shakespeare's Globe","Bankside","21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT","A working copy of Shakespeare's playhouse, in oak and thatch, a few hundred yards from where the first one stood.","","/img/own-shakespeares-globe-480.jpg?v=309aba21"],["p","sherlock-holmes-museum","literary","Sherlock Holmes Museum","Regent's Park","221B Baker Street, NW1 6XE","221b Baker Street, furnished as Conan Doyle described it, with a Victorian policeman on the door.","","/img/sherlock-holmes-museum-480.jpg?v=f0a57018"],["p","sherlock-holmes-statue","literary","Sherlock Holmes statue","Marylebone","Marylebone Road, NW1 5LD","Holmes in deerstalker and cape outside Baker Street station, three metres of bronze.","","/img/sherlock-holmes-statue-480.jpg?v=cb75097e"],["p","site-of-the-original-globe","literary","Site of the original Globe","Borough Market","Park Street, SE1","Where the first Globe stood, traced in dark stones across the pavement of Park Street.","",""],["p","site-of-the-tabard-inn","literary","Site of the Tabard Inn","Borough Market","Talbot Yard, SE1 1YP","Where Chaucer's pilgrims gathered: the site of the Tabard, in a yard off Borough High Street.","",""],["p","south-bank-book-market","literary","South Bank Book Market","South Bank","Riverside Walk, under Waterloo Bridge, SE1 8XT","Second-hand books on trestle tables under Waterloo Bridge, every day, in any weather.","","/img/own-south-bank-book-market-480.jpg?v=de8accc1"],["p","southwark-cathedral","literary","Southwark Cathedral","Borough Market","London Bridge, SE1 9DA","Shakespeare's parish church while he lived on Bankside, with his brother buried in it.","","/img/southwark-cathedral-480.jpg?v=2ffb11bd"],["p","st-bride-foundation","literary","St Bride Foundation","Blackfriars","14 Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ","Fleet Street's own institute, founded in 1891 for the print trade, with the finest library of printing and typography in Britain.","",""],["p","st-giles-without-cripplegate","literary","St Giles-without-Cripplegate","Barbican","Fore Street, EC2Y 8DA","Milton's burial place, a medieval church left standing in the middle of the Barbican.","","/img/st-giles-without-cripplegate-480.jpg?v=62af44b9"],["p","st-mary-aldermanbury-garden","literary","St Mary Aldermanbury Garden","Moorgate","Love Lane, EC2V 7HH","The memorial to the two actors who published the First Folio, with a bronze Shakespeare on top.","","/img/st-mary-aldermanbury-garden-480.jpg?v=039b34a3"],["p","st-olave-hart-street","literary","St Olave Hart Street","Tower Hill","8 Hart Street, EC3R 7NB","Pepys's own church, where he and his wife are buried and where he watched the plague fill the churchyard.","","/img/st-olave-hart-street-480.jpg?v=ea265bf4"],["p","st-pancras-old-church","literary","St Pancras Old Church","Somers Town","Pancras Road, NW1 1UL","Mary Wollstonecraft's grave, where her daughter met Shelley, in the churchyard of the Hardy Tree.","","/img/st-pancras-old-church-480.jpg?v=60bffd46"],["p","stanfords","literary","Stanfords","Seven Dials","7 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9FA","The map and travel bookshop of 1853, where Holmes sent for his map of Dartmoor.","","/img/stanfords-480.jpg?v=9d390681"],["p","stationers-hall","literary","Stationers' Hall","St Paul's","Ave Maria Lane, EC4M 7DD","The livery hall of the company that licensed every book printed in England for a century and a half: copyright began in its…","",""],["p","stratford-upon-avon-by-train-from-marylebone","literary","Stratford-upon-Avon, by train from Marylebone","Marylebone","Chiltern Railways from London Marylebone, NW1 6JJ","The Shakespeare town itself, reachable in a day from Marylebone: the house he was born in, the church he is buried in, and his…","",""],["p","strawberry-hill","literary","Strawberry Hill House","Twickenham","268 Waldegrave Road, TW1 4ST","Horace Walpole's Gothic castle in miniature, where The Castle of Otranto came to him in a dream and the Gothic novel began.","","/img/strawberry-hill-480.jpg?v=0aa83197"],["p","swedenborg-house","literary","Swedenborg House","St Giles","20-21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH","Bloomsbury's hidden house of the mystic who shaped Blake, Baudelaire and Borges: a library, a bookshop and a lecture hall.","","/img/swedenborg-house-480.jpg?v=6082132b"],["p","tate-britain","literary","Tate Britain","Millbank","Millbank, SW1P 4RG","The national collection of British art, where Bell, Grant and Fry hang, and where Charleston's studio comes to London for the…","","/img/tate-britain-480.jpg?v=420f8b87"],["p","tavistock-square","literary","Tavistock Square","St Pancras","Tavistock Square, WC1H 9EZ","Bloomsbury's square: Virginia Woolf's bust, Gandhi in the middle, and the site of the Hogarth Press at No. 52.","","/img/tavistock-square-480.jpg?v=b2700388"],["p","the-charterhouse","literary","The Charterhouse","Clerkenwell","Charterhouse Square, Clerkenwell, EC1M 6AX","Thackeray's school, and the Grey Friars where Colonel Newcome dies in The Newcomes.","","/img/own-the-charterhouse-480.jpg?v=e853e870"],["p","the-curtain","literary","The Curtain","Shoreditch","Curtain Road, EC2A","Shoreditch's second Elizabethan playhouse, where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first seen.","",""],["p","the-feminist-library","literary","The Feminist Library","Peckham","Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL","The Women's Liberation Movement's own library, kept going by volunteers since 1975 and now in Peckham.","",""],["p","the-fitzroy-tavern","literary","The Fitzroy Tavern","East Marylebone","16 Charlotte Street, W1T 2LY","The pub of bohemian London between the wars, which gave Fitzrovia its name and Dylan Thomas his local.","","/img/the-fitzroy-tavern-480.jpg?v=60a9a9c7"],["p","the-george-inn","literary","The George Inn","Borough Market","75-77 Borough High Street, SE1 1NH","London's last galleried coaching inn, which Dickens knew and put into Little Dorrit.","","/img/the-george-inn-480.jpg?v=b5731010"],["p","the-london-library","literary","The London Library","St James's","14 St James's Square, SW1Y 4LG","Carlyle's lending library of 1841, a million books on open shelves that members may take home.","","/img/the-london-library-480.jpg?v=a6e366e5"],["p","the-old-curiosity-shop","literary","The Old Curiosity Shop","St Clement Danes","13–14 Portsmouth Street, WC2A 2ES","A crooked sixteenth-century shop that borrowed Dickens's title and has kept it ever since.","","/img/the-old-curiosity-shop-480.jpg?v=052f6996"],["p","the-regents-park","literary","The Regent's Park","Regent's Park","The Regent's Park, NW1 4NR","Where Mrs Dalloway's other story happens: Septimus and Rezia on a bench, Peter Walsh walking through, the aeroplane writing in…","","/img/the-regents-park-480.jpg?v=b61cc1ad"],["p","the-theatre-shoreditch","literary","The Theatre, Shoreditch","Shoreditch","New Inn Yard, EC2A","The site of James Burbage's Theatre of 1576, London's first purpose-built playhouse.","","/img/the-theatre-shoreditch-480.jpg?v=98dc3c96"],["p","the-wheatsheaf","literary","The Wheatsheaf","Fitzrovia","25 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JB","Dylan Thomas met his wife in this bar in 1936, and proposed with his head in her lap.","",""],["p","virginia-woolf-statue-richmond-riverside","literary","Virginia Woolf statue, Richmond riverside","East Twickenham","Richmond Riverside, near Heron Square, TW9 1TP","The first full-size statue of Woolf anywhere, sitting on a bench by the Thames in the town where she recovered and started the…","","/img/virginia-woolf-statue-richmond-riverside-480.jpg?v=8e16ea95"],["p","waterstones-piccadilly","literary","Waterstones Piccadilly","St James's","203-206 Piccadilly, W1J 9HD","The largest bookshop in Europe, eight miles of shelves in the modernist Simpson's building on Piccadilly.","","/img/waterstones-piccadilly-480.jpg?v=d07eaeed"],["p","westminster-bridge","literary","Westminster Bridge","Westminster","Westminster Bridge, SW1A 2JH","The bridge Wordsworth crossed at dawn in 1802, when Earth had not anything to show more fair.","","/img/westminster-bridge-480.jpg?v=2e18aeb2"],["p","wimbledon-bookfest","literary","Wimbledon BookFest","Wimbledon","Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, 35 Wimbledon Hill Road, SW19 7NB","Ten days of authors each October in the library and the high school in the centre of Wimbledon.","",""],["p","word-on-the-water","literary","Word on the Water","Somers Town","Regent's Canal towpath, Granary Square, N1C 4LW","A bookshop in a 1920s Dutch barge on the Regent's Canal, with a wood stove below and a stage on the roof.","","/img/word-on-the-water-480.jpg?v=ad9dcd84"],["p","ye-olde-cheshire-cheese","literary","Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese","Temple","145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BU","The Fleet Street chophouse of 1667 that Johnson, Dickens, Twain and Conan Doyle all drank in.","","/img/ye-olde-cheshire-cheese-480.jpg?v=d12337dc"],["c","literary","literary","Literary London","","","Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.","",""],["p","b-r-ambedkar","world","Ambedkar's lodging, King Henry's Road","Primrose Hill","10 King Henry's Road, NW3 3RP","The Primrose Hill lodging of the Dalit student who wrote India's constitution.","","/img/b-r-ambedkar-480.jpg?v=66aa63bb"],["p","sri-aurobindo","world","Aurobindo's house, St Stephen's Avenue","Shepherd's Bush","49 St Stephen's Avenue, W12 8JD","The Shepherd's Bush house where a future Indian nationalist and yogi grew up as an English schoolboy.","","/img/sri-aurobindo-480.jpg?v=621ecc52"],["p","bela-bartok","world","Bartók's house, Sydney Place","Brompton","7 Sydney Place, SW7 3NL","The South Kensington house where Bartók stayed whenever he came to play, a guest of friends for fifteen years.","","/img/bela-bartok-480.jpg?v=f12b9982"],["p","david-ben-gurion","world","Ben-Gurion's house, Warrington Crescent","Maida Vale","75 Warrington Crescent, W9 1EH","The Maida Vale house where the future founder of Israel lived while running a Zionist office in London.","","/img/david-ben-gurion-480.jpg?v=10016e3c"],["p","benjamin-franklin-house","world","Benjamin Franklin House","Covent Garden","36 Craven Street, WC2N 5NF","The only Franklin home left anywhere in the world, where he spent sixteen years trying to keep America British.","","/img/benjamin-franklin-house-480.jpg?v=acfd733e"],["p","hector-berlioz","world","Berlioz's lodging, Queen Anne Street","Marylebone","58 Queen Anne Street, W1G 8HW","The lodging of a composer who came to judge musical instruments and stayed to conquer London.","","/img/hector-berlioz-480.jpg?v=657554c4"],["p","bob-marley","world","Bob Marley's house, Oakley Street","Chelsea","42 Oakley Street, SW3 5HA","The Chelsea house where Marley finished Exodus, a few months after someone tried to kill him.","","/img/bob-marley-480.jpg?v=25c415d2"],["p","simon-bolivar","world","Bolívar's lodging, Duke Street","Marylebone","4 Duke Street, W1U 3EL","The Liberator's London lodging: a Marylebone house where a 27-year-old came for guns and left with a mentor.","","/img/simon-bolivar-480.jpg?v=b32db490"],["p","c-l-r-james","world","C. L. R. James's room, Railton Road","Herne Hill","165 Railton Road, SE24 0LU","The room above a Brixton bookshop where the author of The Black Jacobins spent his last years.","","/img/c-l-r-james-480.jpg?v=264d488b"],["p","canaletto-in-beak-street","world","Canaletto's lodging, Beak Street","Soho","41 Beak Street, W1F 9SB","The Soho lodging where Canaletto had to prove he was Canaletto.","","/img/own-canaletto-house-480.jpg?v=a04bcbb3"],["p","elias-canetti","world","Canetti's house, Thurlow Road","South End Green","8 Thurlow Road, NW3 5PP","The Hampstead house of a Nobel laureate who wrote in German about crowds, in the calmest street imaginable.","","/img/elias-canetti-480.jpg?v=ffe88755"],["p","cetshwayo","world","Cetshwayo's house, Melbury Road","Kensington","18 Melbury Road, W14 8LS","The Holland Park house where the King of the Zulus stayed while petitioning the Queen for his kingdom back.","","/img/cetshwayo-480.jpg?v=a7d4f083"],["p","charles-x","world","Charles X's house, South Audley Street","Mayfair","72 South Audley Street, W1K 1JB","A king of France in exile before he was king, on a Mayfair street for nine years.","","/img/charles-x-480.jpg?v=5b64c29c"],["p","chiang-yee","world","Chiang Yee's house, Parkhill Road","Maitland Park","50 Parkhill Road, NW3 2YT","The home of the Silent Traveller, who drew London in Chinese brush and ink and taught the English to see it.","",""],["p","frederic-chopin","world","Chopin's house, St James's Place","St James's","4 St James's Place, SW1A 1NP","The house Chopin left for his last public performance, a benefit for Polish refugees at Guildhall.","","/img/frederic-chopin-480.jpg?v=32f88bb9"],["p","claudia-jones","world","Claudia Jones at Tavistock Road","North Kensington","Tavistock Road at Portobello Road, W11 1AN","The founder of Britain's Caribbean carnival, on the corner of the streets it now fills.","","/img/claudia-jones-480.jpg?v=35113a02"],["p","joseph-conrad","world","Conrad's lodging, Gillingham Street","Victoria","17 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house, Regent's Park Road","Primrose Hill","122 Regent's Park Road, NW1 8XL","The house where Engels kept open house on Sundays and finished Marx's book after his death.","","/img/friedrich-engels-480.jpg?v=04c19467"],["p","olaudah-equiano","world","Equiano's house, Riding House Street","East Marylebone","73 Riding House Street, W1W 7EJ","Where a former slave published the book that made him the voice of abolition.","","/img/olaudah-equiano-480.jpg?v=4829e5cf"],["p","ezra-pound","world","Ezra Pound's room, Kensington Church Walk","Kensington","10 Kensington Church Walk, W8 4NB","One room in a Kensington lane where Pound ran modern poetry for five years.","","/img/ezra-pound-480.jpg?v=691bea39"],["p","ruth-first-and-joe-slovo","world","First and Slovo's house, Lyme Street","Chalk Farm","13 Lyme Street, NW1 0EH","The Camden home of two South African communists in exile, one of whom was murdered by a parcel bomb.","","/img/ruth-first-and-joe-slovo-480.jpg?v=55c7b055"],["p","frederick-douglass","world","Frederick Douglass's lodging, Whitehead's Grove","Chelsea","Nell Gwynn House, Whitehead's Grove, SW3 3AX","Where an escaped slave lodged as a free man's guest, and left Britain owning himself.","","/img/frederick-douglass-480.jpg?v=f2ae2a78"],["p","gandhi-the-student","world","Gandhi's lodging, Baron's Court Road","West Kensington","20 Baron's Court Road, W14 9DT","The house where a shy law student from Gujarat learned to dance, and to be a vegetarian in public.","","/img/gandhi-the-student-480.jpg?v=2933f0fc"],["p","gandhi-at-kingsley-hall","world","Gandhi's room at Kingsley Hall","Bromley-by-Bow","Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, E3 3HJ","The East End settlement where Gandhi chose to stay in 1931, sleeping in a cell on the roof.","","/img/gandhi-at-kingsley-hall-480.jpg?v=6b982f35"],["p","giuseppe-garibaldi","world","Garibaldi's stay at Lancaster House","St James's","Lancaster House, Stable Yard, SW1A 1BB","The palace where the hero of Italian unification stayed on the visit that brought half a million into the streets.","","/img/giuseppe-garibaldi-480.jpg?v=529daf54"],["p","george-padmore","world","George Padmore's flat, Cranleigh Street","Somers Town","22 Cranleigh Street, NW1 1BU","The flat where the leaders of independent Africa met before any of them was a leader.","","/img/george-padmore-480.jpg?v=c377ccab"],["p","percy-grainger","world","Grainger's flat, King's Road","Chelsea","31 King's Road, SW3 4RP","The Chelsea flat of the Australian pianist who went out with a phonograph and saved English folk song.","","/img/percy-grainger-480.jpg?v=3748caad"],["p","francois-guizot","world","Guizot's house, Pelham Crescent","Brompton","21 Pelham Crescent, SW7 2NL","The minister whose advice was 'get rich', who lost his job in a week and spent a year here reading.","","/img/francois-guizot-480.jpg?v=a5c0ce2c"],["p","handel-hendrix-house","world","Handel's house, Brook Street","Mayfair","25 Brook Street","The house Handel chose as a young immigrant and never left, where Messiah was written in three weeks.","","/img/handel-hendrix-house-480.jpg?v=0a0f1673"],["p","harold-moody","world","Harold Moody's surgery, Queen's Road","Cossall Estate","164 Queen's Road, SE15 2HP","The doctor's surgery that was also the office of Britain's first civil rights organisation.","","/img/harold-moody-480.jpg?v=9b5eed47"],["p","joseph-haydn","world","Haydn's lodging, Great Pulteney Street","Soho","18 Great Pulteney Street, W1F 9NE","Haydn's Soho lodging on his first visit, the one that made him rich and gave the world the London symphonies.","","/img/joseph-haydn-480.jpg?v=05eb867e"],["p","heinrich-heine","world","Heine's lodging, Craven Street","Covent Garden","32 Craven Street, WC2N 5NP","Four months in 1827 that produced the English Fragments, and a warning never to send a poet to London.","","/img/heinrich-heine-480.jpg?v=9901a734"],["p","jimi-hendrix","world","Hendrix's flat, Brook Street","Mayfair","23 Brook Street, W1K 4HA","The flat where Hendrix lived as a star, next door to the house where Handel lived as one.","","/img/jimi-hendrix-480.jpg?v=e788b2e5"],["p","henry-james","world","Henry James's flat, De Vere Gardens","South Kensington","34 De Vere Gardens, W8 5AQ","The flat where Henry James wrote his middle novels, opposite the house where Browning lived.","","/img/henry-james-480.jpg?v=65326af0"],["p","alexander-herzen","world","Herzen's house, Orsett Terrace","Westbourne Green","1 Orsett Terrace, W2 6AH","The Bayswater house of the exile whose newspaper the Tsar read before breakfast.","","/img/alexander-herzen-480.jpg?v=aa7802c2"],["p","ho-chi-minh","world","Ho Chi Minh's kitchen, Haymarket","St James's","New Zealand House, 80 Haymarket, SW1Y 4TE","The site of the hotel kitchen where the future president of Vietnam trained under Escoffier.","","/img/ho-chi-minh-480.jpg?v=a00afb24"],["p","india-house-highgate","world","India House, Highgate","Highgate","65 Cromwell Avenue, N6 5HS","The student hostel that became the headquarters of Indian revolution, until it went too far.","","/img/india-house-highgate.jpg?v=7fc9842f"],["p","ira-aldridge","world","Ira Aldridge's house, Hamlet Road","Crystal Palace","5 Hamlet Road, SE19 2AP","The first Black actor to play Othello in London, who had to leave America to be allowed on a stage.","","/img/ira-aldridge-480.jpg?v=d9d70e09"],["p","jenny-lind","world","Jenny Lind's house, Old Brompton Road","Brompton","189 Old Brompton Road, SW5 0AR","The last London home of the Swedish Nightingale, who gave up opera at 29 and sang for charity ever after.","","/img/jenny-lind-480.jpg?v=ab4d5b98"],["p","muhammad-ali-jinnah","world","Jinnah's house, Russell Road","Brook Green","35 Russell Road, W14 8HT","The Kensington house where the founder of Pakistan stayed as the youngest barrister in India's history.","","/img/muhammad-ali-jinnah-480.jpg?v=43014c6c"],["p","john-adams","world","John Adams's house, Grosvenor Square","Mayfair","9 Grosvenor Square, W1K 5AE","The house of America's first minister to Britain, who was also the second President.","","/img/john-adams-480.jpg?v=ebbf2797"],["p","tamara-karsavina","world","Karsavina's house, Frognal","Vale of Health","108 Frognal, NW3 6XU","The Hampstead home of the ballerina who danced the first Firebird and taught the English to dance.","","/img/tamara-karsavina-480.jpg?v=9865f46a"],["p","katherine-mansfield","world","Katherine Mansfield's house, East Heath Road","Vale of Health","17 East Heath Road, NW3 1AL","The Hampstead house where the New Zealand writer wrote her best stories, already ill.","","/img/katherine-mansfield-480.jpg?v=c2d5de0d"],["p","jomo-kenyatta","world","Kenyatta's house, Cambridge Street","Pimlico","95 Cambridge Street, SW1V 4PY","The Pimlico house where Kenya's first president lived as a student and wrote the book that explained his people.","","/img/jomo-kenyatta-480.jpg?v=c30fb38a"],["p","oskar-kokoschka","world","Kokoschka's flat, Eyre Court","St John's Wood","Eyre Court, Finchley Road, NW8 9TT","The London base of the painter Hitler called degenerate, who painted here into his nineties.","","/img/oskar-kokoschka-480.jpg?v=11b08f4f"],["p","alexander-korda","world","Korda's office, Grosvenor Street","Mayfair","21–22 Grosvenor Street, W1K 4QJ","The office where a Hungarian émigré built the British film industry, and won it its first Oscar.","","/img/alexander-korda-480.jpg?v=96a62907"],["p","lajos-kossuth","world","Kossuth's house, Chepstow Villas","Notting Hill","39 Chepstow Villas, W11 3DP","Where Hungary's revolutionary leader stayed on a visit that brought out the crowds and rattled the Foreign Office.","","/img/lajos-kossuth-480.jpg?v=7c65a98e"],["p","v-k-krishna-menon","world","Krishna Menon's house, Langdon Park Road","Shepherd's Hill","30 Langdon Park Road, N6 5QG","The Highgate home of the man who ran the campaign for Indian independence from a London borough council.","","/img/v-k-krishna-menon-480.jpg?v=97cfa346"],["p","peter-kropotkin","world","Kropotkin's villa, Bromley","Plaistow","6 Crescent Road, Bromley, BR1 3PW","An anarchist prince wrote Mutual Aid here, and the neighbours found him a kindly old man.","","/img/peter-kropotkin-480.jpg?v=70442d37"],["p","lao-she","world","Lao She's lodging, St James's Gardens","Lancaster West Estate","31 St James's Gardens, W11 4RE","The Notting Hill lodging of the Chinese novelist who wrote his first books here, one of them about London.","","/img/lao-she-480.jpg?v=ca4a1f46"],["p","learie-constantine","world","Learie Constantine's house, Lexham Gardens","Earl's Court","101 Lexham Gardens, W8 6JN","The cricketer who took a London hotel to court for turning him away, and won.","","/img/learie-constantine-480.jpg?v=c4d2e2fd"],["p","lenin-in-percy-circus","world","Lenin's lodging, Percy Circus","Pentonville","16 Percy Circus, WC1X 9EE","Where Lenin lodged during the 1905 congress, on a circus of houses in Clerkenwell.","","/img/lenin-in-percy-circus-480.jpg?v=c92f3c14"],["p","marx-memorial-library","world","Lenin's office at the Marx Memorial Library","Clerkenwell Green","37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU","The room where Lenin edited Iskra, in a Georgian charity school that became the Marx Memorial Library.","","/img/marx-memorial-library-480.jpg?v=d7b144fb"],["p","guglielmo-marconi","world","Marconi's lodging, Hereford Road","Westbourne","71 Hereford Road, W2 5BB","The Bayswater lodging where a 21-year-old from Bologna filed the first patent for wireless.","","/img/guglielmo-marconi-480.jpg?v=686a2e2d"],["p","marcus-garvey","world","Marcus Garvey's house, Talgarth Road","West Kensington","53 Talgarth Road, W14 9DD","The last home of the man who told Black people everywhere to look to Africa.","","/img/marcus-garvey-480.jpg?v=0c32a9fb"],["p","mark-twain","world","Mark Twain's house, Tedworth Square","Chelsea","23 Tedworth Square, SW3 4DR","The house Twain rented cheaply after his bankruptcy, where a reporter asked if he was dead.","","/img/mark-twain-480.jpg?v=1c580ba1"],["p","karl-marx","world","Marx's rooms, Dean Street","Soho","28 Dean Street, W1D 3RY","Two rooms over a Soho restaurant where Marx lived in poverty, buried three children and began Capital.","","/img/karl-marx-480.jpg?v=d4d861f8"],["p","mary-seacole","world","Mary Seacole's house, Soho Square","St Giles","14 Soho Square, W1D 3QG","Where the nurse of the Crimea wrote her memoir, bankrupt and famous, in the year after the war.","","/img/mary-seacole-480.jpg?v=dcdae6a3"],["p","tomas-masaryk","world","Masaryk's house, Platt's Lane","Childs Hill","21 Platt's Lane, NW3 7NP","The Hampstead house where Czechoslovakia was argued into existence during the First World War.","","/img/tomas-masaryk-480.jpg?v=338a6378"],["p","giuseppe-mazzini","world","Mazzini's plaque, Laystall Street","Hatton Garden","10 Laystall Street, EC1R 4PA","The plaque London's Italians put up to the prophet of their united country, in the old Italian quarter.","","/img/giuseppe-mazzini-480.jpg?v=9e5001d9"],["p","melanie-klein","world","Melanie Klein's house, Clifton Hill","South Hampstead","42 Clifton Hill, NW8 0QG","The home of the analyst who took psychoanalysis into the nursery.","","/img/melanie-klein-480.jpg?v=0de75125"],["p","felix-mendelssohn","world","Mendelssohn's lodging, Hobart Place","Belgravia","4 Hobart Place, SW1W 0HU","The lodging of a composer who visited ten times and called London the grandest monster on earth.","","/img/felix-mendelssohn-480.jpg?v=7a4d3f1c"],["p","prince-metternich","world","Metternich's house, Eaton Square","Belgravia","44 Eaton Square, SW1W 9BD","The Belgravia refuge of the man who had run Europe for thirty years, until Europe had had enough.","","/img/prince-metternich-480.jpg?v=705da282"],["p","francisco-de-miranda","world","Miranda and Bello's house, Grafton Way","Fitzrovia","58 Grafton Way, W1T 5DL","The headquarters of Spanish-American independence, run for eight years from a terrace in Fitzrovia.","","/img/francisco-de-miranda-480.jpg?v=d4b1dfa2"],["p","piet-mondrian","world","Mondrian's studio, Parkhill Road","Maitland Park","60 Parkhill Road, NW3 2YT","The Hampstead studio where Mondrian spent two years between Paris and New York.","","/img/piet-mondrian-480.jpg?v=20961a0f"],["p","claude-monet","world","Monet's window at the Savoy","Covent Garden","The Savoy, Strand, WC2R 0EZ","The hotel window from which Monet painted the Thames in fog, nearly a hundred times.","","/img/claude-monet-480.jpg?v=7ce9cf1a"],["p","wolfgang-amadeus-mozart","world","Mozart's house, Ebury Street","Belgravia","180 Ebury Street, SW1W 8UP","The house where an eight-year-old wrote his first symphony while his father was ill upstairs.","","/img/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-480.jpg?v=397d2da5"],["p","napoleon-iii","world","Napoleon III's house, King Street","St James's","1C King Street, SW1Y 6QG","The oldest plaque in London, on the house where a future emperor waited for his moment.","","/img/napoleon-iii-480.jpg?v=21149efb"],["p","jawaharlal-nehru","world","Nehru's house, Elgin Crescent","Notting Hill","60 Elgin Crescent, W11 2JJ","The Notting Hill house where the future first prime minister of India lived as a law student.","","/img/jawaharlal-nehru-480.jpg?v=e78f3612"],["p","nellie-melba","world","Nellie Melba's Coombe House","Coombe","Coombe House, Devey Close, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 7DS","The Kingston house where Australia's great soprano lived during her Covent Garden seasons.","","/img/nellie-melba-480.jpg?v=d8f3327d"],["p","kwame-nkrumah","world","Nkrumah's house, Burghley Road","Dartmouth Park","60 Burghley Road, NW5 1UN","The Kentish Town house from which Nkrumah organised the end of the British Empire in Africa.","","/img/kwame-nkrumah-480.jpg?v=71032e13"],["p","rudolf-nureyev","world","Nureyev's house, Victoria Road","South Kensington","27 Victoria Road, W8 5RF","The Kensington house of the dancer who jumped the barrier at Le Bourget and made London his home.","","/img/rudolf-nureyev-480.jpg?v=033424cd"],["p","bernardo-ohiggins","world","O'Higgins's Richmond house","East Twickenham","Clarence House, 2 The Vineyard, Richmond, TW10 6AQ","Chile's liberator as a lonely teenager, studying in a Richmond house and learning revolution from Miranda.","","/img/bernardo-ohiggins-480.jpg?v=4a87aa74"],["p","oliver-tambo","world","Oliver Tambo's house, Alexandra Park Road","Colney Hatch","51 Alexandra Park Road, N10 2DG","The Muswell Hill family home of the man who kept the ANC alive for thirty years of exile.","","/img/oliver-tambo-480.jpg?v=9392c321"],["p","paul-robeson","world","Paul Robeson's house, Branch Hill","Vale of Health","The Chestnuts, Branch Hill, NW3 7NA","The singer and actor whose London years turned him into a campaigner, in a house on the edge of the Heath.","","/img/paul-robeson-480.jpg?v=81922f0c"],["p","anna-pavlova","world","Pavlova's Ivy House","North End","Ivy House, North End Road, NW11 7SX","The house on the edge of the Heath where Pavlova lived for twenty years and kept swans on the lake.","","/img/anna-pavlova-480.jpg?v=ee545f9a"],["p","peter-the-great","world","Peter the Great's statue, Deptford","Albury Court","Glaisher Street, Deptford, SE8 3JW","The Tsar who came to learn shipbuilding, and wrecked the house he was lent while doing it.","","/img/peter-the-great-480.jpg?v=e4059c9c"],["p","nikolaus-pevsner","world","Pevsner's house, Wildwood Terrace","North End","2 Wildwood Terrace, NW3 7HT","The home for nearly fifty years of the German refugee who described every building in England.","","/img/nikolaus-pevsner-480.jpg?v=d6f8a1ec"],["p","camille-pissarro","world","Pissarro's house, Westow Hill","Crystal Palace","77A Westow Hill, SE19 1TX","Where the Impressionists' patriarch sat out the Franco-Prussian War, painting Norwood in the snow.","","/img/camille-pissarro-480.jpg?v=70727b00"],["p","ram-mohan-roy","world","Ram Mohan Roy's lodging, Bedford Square","Bloomsbury","49 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DP","The Bloomsbury lodging of the reformer who came as the Mughal emperor's envoy and never went home.","","/img/ram-mohan-roy-480.jpg?v=254924f6"],["p","rimbaud-and-verlaine","world","Rimbaud and Verlaine's house, Royal College Street","Somers Town","8 Royal College Street, NW1 0TH","The Camden house where two French poets lived together for two months, before the shooting.","","/img/rimbaud-and-verlaine-480.jpg?v=e013b548"],["p","jose-rizal","world","Rizal's house, Chalcot Crescent","Primrose Hill","37 Chalcot Crescent, NW1 8YG","The Primrose Hill house where the Philippines' national hero rewrote its history from the British Museum.","","/img/jose-rizal-480.jpg?v=e55dcdb2"],["p","jose-de-san-martin","world","San Martín's lodging, Park Road","Marylebone","23 Park Road, NW1 6XN","The soldier who freed Argentina, Chile and Peru, stopping in Marylebone on his way into a long retirement.","","/img/jose-de-san-martin-480.jpg?v=6bd10f09"],["p","john-singer-sargent","world","Sargent's studio, Tite Street","Chelsea","31 Tite Street, SW3 4JP","The studio house where Sargent painted Edwardian London's rich, and worked until the morning he died.","","/img/john-singer-sargent-480.jpg?v=1454d53f"],["p","sol-plaatje","world","Sol Plaatje's lodging, Carnarvon Road","Whipps Cross","25 Carnarvon Road, E10 6DW","The Leyton lodging of the ANC's first secretary, who wrote Native Life in South Africa here.","","/img/sol-plaatje-480.jpg?v=045874d6"],["p","stefan-zweig","world","Stefan Zweig's flat, Hallam Street","East Marylebone","49 Hallam Street, W1W 6JJ","The Marylebone flat of the most translated writer in the world, who had just lost his country.","","/img/stefan-zweig-480.jpg?v=c11bba96"],["p","sun-yat-sen","world","Sun Yat-sen's lodging, Gray's Inn Place","Holborn","4 Gray's Inn Place, WC1R 5JT","Where the father of the Chinese republic lodged in exile, before his own legation kidnapped him.","","/img/sun-yat-sen-480.jpg?v=75d92dc3"],["p","syed-ahmad-khan","world","Syed Ahmad Khan's lodging, Mecklenburgh Square","King's Cross","21 Mecklenburgh Square, WC1N 2AD","Where the founder of Aligarh came to study English universities so he could build one for Indian Muslims.","","/img/syed-ahmad-khan-480.jpg?v=ebedbe70"],["p","sylvia-plath","world","Sylvia Plath's flat, Chalcot Square","Primrose Hill","3 Chalcot Square, NW1 8YB","The Primrose Hill flat where Plath published her first book and began her only novel.","","/img/sylvia-plath-480.jpg?v=e1856c73"],["p","natsume-soseki","world","Sōseki's lodging, The Chase","Clapham","81 The Chase, SW4 0NR","The Clapham lodging where Japan's greatest modern novelist spent the unhappiest years of his life.","","/img/natsume-soseki-480.jpg?v=2f924a36"],["p","t-s-eliot","world","T. S. Eliot's flat, Kensington Court Gardens","South Kensington","3 Kensington Court Gardens, W8 5QE","The last home of the American who became the century's English poet.","","/img/t-s-eliot-480.jpg?v=27f7cf7f"],["p","rabindranath-tagore","world","Tagore's cottage, Vale of Health","Vale of Health","3 Villas on the Heath, Vale of Health, NW3 1AW","The Hampstead cottage where Tagore's poems were read aloud to Yeats, a year before the Nobel Prize.","","/img/rabindranath-tagore-480.jpg?v=d6d33250"],["p","talleyrand","world","Talleyrand's embassy, Hanover Square","Mayfair","21 Hanover Square, W1S 1JW","The embassy of the man who had served every French regime for forty years and outlived them all.","","/img/talleyrand-480.jpg?v=438b8b17"],["p","isokon-building","world","The Bauhaus at the Isokon Building","Belsize Park","Lawn Road, NW3 2XD","The concrete ship of a building where the Bauhaus washed up in London.","","/img/isokon-building-480.jpg?v=15419628"],["p","choshu-five","world","The Chōshū Five at University College","St Pancras","Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT","The college where five young samurai, smuggled out of Japan on pain of death, learned how a modern country worked.","","/img/choshu-five-480.jpg?v=7ff4c51c"],["p","freud-museum","world","The Freud Museum","Hampstead","20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3 5SX","Where Freud spent his last year and Anna Freud her next forty, the couch still in the study.","","/img/freud-museum-480.jpg?v=b456a61a"],["p","ugo-foscolo","world","Ugo Foscolo's house, Edwardes Square","Kensington","19 Edwardes Square, W8 6HE","The exile of Italy's great romantic poet, who refused the Austrians and died forgotten in Turnham Green.","","/img/ugo-foscolo-480.jpg?v=262a4175"],["p","una-marson","world","Una Marson's flat, Mill Lane","West Hampstead","The Mansions, 33 Mill Lane, NW6 1NY","The BBC's first Black woman producer, who put the Caribbean's writers on the air from a flat in West Hampstead.","","/img/una-marson-480.jpg?v=fe002ecd"],["p","vincent-van-gogh","world","Van Gogh's lodging, Hackford Road","Stockwell Park","87 Hackford Road, SW9 0RE","The Stockwell lodging house where a twenty-year-old art dealer fell in love and began to be Van Gogh.","","/img/vincent-van-gogh-480.jpg?v=b0bb5975"],["p","swami-vivekananda","world","Vivekananda's house, St George's Drive","Pimlico","63 St George's Drive, SW1V 4DD","The Pimlico house where the monk who took Hinduism to the West held his London classes.","","/img/swami-vivekananda-480.jpg?v=b8a00794"],["p","voltaire","world","Voltaire's lodging, Maiden Lane","Covent Garden","10 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA","Where Voltaire lodged above a wigmaker's, and learned what a free country looked like.","","/img/voltaire-480.jpg?v=714f4aee"],["p","w-h-hudson","world","W. H. Hudson's house, St Luke's Road","Westbourne","40 St Luke's Road, W11 1DP","The naturalist from the pampas who taught the English to look at their own birds, in a house he called Tower House.","","/img/w-h-hudson-480.jpg?v=32289750"],["p","richard-wagner","world","Wagner's lodging, Orme Square","Bayswater","12 Orme Square, W2 4RS","Where Wagner stayed for five weeks in 1877, conducting at the Albert Hall to pay for Bayreuth.","","/img/richard-wagner-480.jpg?v=7ad11c71"],["p","carl-maria-von-weber","world","Weber's house, Great Portland Street","East Marylebone","91 Great Portland Street, W1W 7NX","The house where the composer of Der Freischütz died, having come to London to conduct his last opera.","","/img/carl-maria-von-weber-480.jpg?v=11fc2e62"],["p","chaim-weizmann","world","Weizmann's house, Addison Road","Kensington","67 Addison Road, W14 8JL","The house of the chemist whose acetone process helped win a war and whose lobbying won a declaration.","","/img/chaim-weizmann-480.jpg?v=b308b685"],["p","james-mcneill-whistler-house","world","Whistler's house, Cheyne Walk","World's End","96 Cheyne Walk, SW10 0DQ","Where an American painted the Thames at night and invented the nocturne.","","/img/james-mcneill-whistler-house-480.jpg?v=f1a4fc29"],["p","emile-zola","world","Zola's refuge at the Queen's Hotel","Upper Norwood","Queen's Hotel, 122 Church Road, SE19 2UG","The suburban hotel where Zola hid for a year after J'accuse.","","/img/emile-zola-480.jpg?v=9042fe82"],["c","world","world","The World in London","","","The homes, hideouts and workplaces of the people who came to London and went on to change other countries, and sometimes the…","",""],["p","austrian-cultural-forum","international-culture","Austrian Cultural Forum","Knightsbridge","28 Rutland Gate, SW7 1PQ","About a hundred and fifty events a year, every one of them free, from a Knightsbridge townhouse.","",""],["p","bolivar-hall","international-culture","Bolivar Hall","Fitzrovia","54 Grafton Way, W1T 5DL","A Venezuelan concert hall in Fitzrovia, four doors from the house where Bolívar was received in 1810.","",""],["p","goethe-institut-london","international-culture","Goethe-Institut London","South Kensington","50-51 Exhibition Road, SW7 2PH","Germany's cultural institute on Exhibition Road, with a library anyone can borrow from and a programme that runs to film and…","",""],["p","institut-francais-du-royaume-uni","international-culture","Institut français du Royaume-Uni","South Kensington","17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT","France's London house since 1910: two cinema screens, a lending library, a children's library and a film most nights.","",""],["p","irish-cultural-centre","international-culture","Irish Cultural Centre","Hammersmith","Blacks Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT","Traditional music, new Irish theatre, film and language classes, in a purpose-built Hammersmith venue.","",""],["p","italian-cultural-institute","international-culture","Italian Cultural Institute","Westminster","4-5 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6JP","A new Buckingham Gate address given over to Italian books, films and conversation, most evenings, mostly free.","",""],["p","japan-house-london","international-culture","Japan House London","Kensington","101-111 Kensington High Street, W8 5SA","Free exhibitions of Japanese craft and design on Kensington High Street, open until eight most nights.","",""],["p","latino-life-in-the-park","international-culture","Latino Life in the Park","Ealing","Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W5 5EQ","The biggest Latin music festival in Britain, one Sunday every July in an Ealing park.","",""],["p","lekker-in-london","international-culture","Lekker in London","Sutton","Cheam Park, Sutton, SM3 8BP","South Africa for a day in a Sutton park: braais, Castle lager, rugby on the screen and a bill of South African bands.","",""],["p","liszt-institute","international-culture","Liszt Institute","Covent Garden","10 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA","Hungary's cultural centre in Covent Garden, in the house where Voltaire lodged above a wigmaker's.","",""],["p","polish-social-and-cultural-association","international-culture","Polish Social and Cultural Association","Hammersmith","238-246 King Street, W6 0RF","The largest Polish centre outside Poland: a theatre, a gallery, a jazz club and a library begun in 1942.","",""],["p","the-africa-centre","international-culture","The Africa Centre","Southwark","Arch 28, Old Union Yard Arches, SE1 0BL","Sixty years of African cultural life in London, now in a Southwark railway arch and fighting for its future.","",""],["p","the-hellenic-centre","international-culture","The Hellenic Centre","Marylebone","16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS","Greece and Cyprus in a Marylebone townhouse: exhibitions free, talks most Wednesdays, and a library of twelve thousand books.","",""],["p","the-nehru-centre","international-culture","The Nehru Centre","Mayfair","8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF","The cultural wing of the Indian High Commission, with something on most evenings at half past six.","",""],["p","ukrainian-institute-london","international-culture","Ukrainian Institute London","Holland Park","79 Holland Park, W11 3RW","Courses in Ukrainian history, a film festival and a literary review, from a house on Holland Park.","",""],["c","international-culture","international-culture","International Culture","","","The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries…","",""],["p","ashridge-by-train-from-euston","harry-potter","Ashridge, by train from Euston","Somers Town","Trains from London Euston to Tring; Ashridge Estate, Berkhamsted, HP4 1LX","The beech woods where the Weasleys arrive by Portkey for the Quidditch World Cup in Goblet of Fire, on the National Trust's…","",""],["p","australia-house","harry-potter","Australia House","St Clement Danes","Strand, WC2B 4LA","Gringotts: the marble banking hall of Australia House on the Strand.","","/img/australia-house-480.jpg?v=dbaa77ce"],["p","charing-cross-road","harry-potter","Charing Cross Road","Seven Dials","Charing Cross Road, WC2H","The Leaky Cauldron of the books is on Charing Cross Road, between a bookshop and a record shop.","","/img/charing-cross-road-480.jpg?v=07695816"],["p","claremont-square","harry-potter","Claremont Square","Pentonville","Claremont Square, N1 9LX","Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place: the terrace on Claremont Square is the Black family house.","","/img/claremont-square-480.jpg?v=b12022bf"],["p","enigma-quests","harry-potter","Enigma Quests","Holborn","86 Fetter Lane, EC4A 1EN","An hour-long escape room built as a school of witchcraft and wizardry, several rooms deep, on Fetter Lane.","",""],["p","georgian-house-hotel-the-wizard-chambers","harry-potter","Georgian House Hotel: the Wizard Chambers","Pimlico","35-39 St George's Drive, Pimlico, SW1V 4DG","A Pimlico hotel with wizard rooms behind a bookcase, and a wizard afternoon tea and potion-making that anyone can book.","",""],["p","harrow-school","harry-potter","Harrow School","Harrow on the Hill","Church Hill, Harrow on the Hill, HA1 3HP","The Fourth Form Room of 1615, where Byron carved his name, is Professor Flitwick's classroom: 'Wingardium Leviosa' was taught…","","/img/harrow-school-480.jpg?v=ee9758b0"],["p","harry-potter-by-the-river-a-walk","harry-potter","Harry Potter by the river: a walk","Bankside","Borough Market to Leadenhall Market","The two Leaky Cauldrons and the bridge between them: Borough Market to Leadenhall Market across the Millennium Bridge.","",""],["p","harry-potter-in-the-west-end-a-walk","harry-potter","Harry Potter in the West End: a walk","Seven Dials","Australia House to Horse Guards Avenue","Gringotts to the Ministry of Magic on foot, by way of the Leaky Cauldron's road, the statue and the Cursed Child's theatre.","","/img/harry-potter-in-the-west-end-a-walk-480.jpg?v=7b46624c"],["p","harry-potter-statue-leicester-square","harry-potter","Harry Potter statue, Leicester Square","Seven Dials","Leicester Square, WC2H 7LU","Harry on his Nimbus 2000 in bronze, in the square where Philosopher's Stone had its world premiere in 2001.","","/img/harry-potter-statue-leicester-square-480.jpg?v=6ca82c85"],["p","highgate-cemetery","harry-potter","Highgate Cemetery","Highgate","Swain's Lane, N6 6PJ","Père Lachaise in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - the Egyptian Avenue, the Circle of Lebanon and the catacombs stood…","","/img/highgate-cemetery-480.jpg?v=fd03635e"],["p","house-of-minalima","harry-potter","House of MinaLima","Soho","157 Wardour Street, W1F 8WQ","The graphic designers of the films' Daily Prophets, Marauder's Maps and sweet wrappers, with their work over four 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