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London's societies, institutes and universities, and the doors they open to everyone else: lecture theatres, libraries, collections and free exhibitions at institutions that have been arguing about the world since the seventeenth century. Most of it costs nothing. Events are also listed under What's On.
Talks and exhibitions this week are in What's On
Free public lectures on the Strand most weeks in term, from naval history to what artificial intelligence is doing to work.
Public talksFree to enter
The Strand Campus sits between the Aldwych and the river, and a good part of what happens in its lecture rooms is open to anyone who books. The college marks those events as public lectures on its own calendar, and they run through term most weeks: a book talk where the author is the person who did the archival work, an annual lecture where the speaker has been flown in for it, a professor giving the inaugural lecture that marks their appointment.
The subjects follow the college's own shape rather than a programmer's taste, which is why the run is so uneven and so much better for it - Russian foreign policy, the economics of shipping, moral philosophy, prize money in Nelson's navy. Most are free and most are recorded, and several are run as hybrids with the room and a video call at once.
Rooms are spread across the campus and named on each event's own page: the King's Building on the Strand, Bush House round the corner on the Aldwych, the east wing of Somerset House. The college has other campuses at Guy's, Denmark Hill, Waterloo and the Cut, and a lecture is sometimes at one of those instead, so the booking page is the thing to read before setting off.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.