Best Of Londonist: 19-25 August 2024

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Last Updated 23 August 2024

Best Of Londonist: 19-25 August 2024

Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features.

Book Now: Open House London 2024

The full programme has been announced.

Exterior of Senate House

The Top Exhibitions To See In London: September 2024

Vincent Van Gogh, Yayoi Kusama and the Turner Prize.

Van Gogh's painting of a bedroom
© The Art Institute of Chicago

London Transport In The 1980s: New Book Shows Previously Unseen Photos Of A Changing City

Photos capture forgotten transport details.

Hillingdon station in the 1980s with a boxy red car and policeman outside
Image: Tim Brown

The Best London Theatre Week Offers For 2024

A limited run of some great offers.

A promo poster for the Punchdrunk show, featuring a house illuminated by the moonlight

You Me Bum Bum Train: Legendarily Surreal Show Returns To London

And getting tickets might prove tricky....

A man and woman, the latter wearing a comic rubber nose and smoking a cigarette
Image: Kirk Newmann

Brompton Cemetery Springs Into Life On This Annual Open Day

Do a deep dive of one of the Magnificent Seven.

Some headstones in Brompton Cemetery

Conway Hall's Autumn Events Programme Has Been Unveiled - Including A History Festival With A Twist...

Talks, concerts, workshops and more. (sponsor)

Exterior of Conway Hall

Moco Museum London: A Few Thoughts On London's New Contemporary Art Gallery

It's dazzling... with caveats.

A mirror room with lights

Croydon's Iconic 50p Building Could Become Residential Apartments

Would you live here? We would.

The One Croydon building

New Map Shows Angry Dan's Cultural London

850 cultural landmarks on one map.

Part of the map showing landmarks on South Bank, including Shakespeare's Globe and Tate

16 Incredible Edwardian Photos Of The Regent's Canal

Through London on a Monkey Boat.

A man in a cap steering a boat
© London Canal Museum

Dickens: The Ultimate Map

EVERY London location from EVERY novel, on one chart.

A photo of Charles Dickens standing in front of a map of book locations

In Search Of London Pride

Flower, song, beer, festival, oil tanker...

A Pride London Pride pump

Ooh La La! A New Emily In Paris Afternoon Tea Just Launched In London

Crack open the Champere!

Afternoon tea

Black On The Square Is Back In Trafalgar Square This September

Latest annual celebration on cultural calendar.

People of African heritage wearing headdresses and playing traditional instruments
© Greater London Authority

How to Explore London

10 steps to learn the city, and its history.

A paper tube map with most of the stations coloured in

Track Down London's Anti-War Memorial

What Sylvia Pankhurst did next.

The anti-air-bombing memorial in Woodford Green

And now, looking ahead... Things To Do This Week In London: 26 August-1 September

Get planning!

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