The London Society organises 30-40 events each year for its members. These include walks, talks, tours of buildings and developments (often places not open to the general public), debates and lectures, as well as social events such as the Summer Party.
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Members get priority booking for events and discounted rates. You can join the Society and get these benefits by clicking here. To get our twice-monthly newsletter that lists forthcoming events, sign up here.
2015
SOCIAL | Christmas Party
LECTURE | The 2015 Banister Fletcher Lecture – Sir Peter Hendy, chairman of Network Rail and formerly the Commissioner of Transport for London.
TALK | Anthony Coleman Town Hall Series: A London Typology
TALK | Whatever happened to the romance of Railways?
TOUR | Visit to Eltham Palace
TALK | Driverless Vehicles – Revolution or Evolution?
SOCIAL | 2015 Sketch Club Supper
WALK | Cycling tour of Thamesmead
DEBATE | Greenbelt Series – Alternatives?
WALK | Tour of Brompton Cemetery
TALK | The Lost Railways of London
SOCIAL | Summer Party 2015: Middle Temple Gardens
TALK | Beyond the Compact City
TOUR | New and Old – Brewing Continuity on the Wandle
DEBATE | London Mayoral Hustings
TOUR | Freedom of the City: Discovering Southbank Skate Spot
TALK | Sustaining Conservation of London’s Heritage
TOUR | Tour of Crossrail
TALK | Nearness or Sheerness: How Conservation and Affordability can survive in London
WALK | Planning the City of London
TOUR | Supurbia Bus Tour
TALK | Talk by Rowan Moore – What London’s skyline could be
TALK | ‘Site Specific’ – Peter Murray in conversation with artist Jeanette Barnes
DEBATE | #CantPayWontStay?
WALK | Paddington Basin to Primrose Hill
TOUR | Tour of Turner’s House in Twickenham
TOUR | Creating a 21st Century Space in a 19th Century Building
TALK | State of the City
TALK | Drawing by hand in a digital age
WALK | Fleet Street Pub Crawl
TALK | Design Workshop 101
TALK | Green Belt and Growth
SOCIAL | Drawing London at The Royal Festival Hall
WALK | Hogarth’s London
Christophe Egret, Baerbel Schuett, James Dunnett on the roof of Balfron Tower 2
2014
TOUR | Gin Glorious Gin
DEBATE | London’s Future Green Belt
TALK | David Gentleman on Drawing London
LECTURE | The Banister Fletcher Lecture: Professor Tony Travers
TOUR | Supurbia Bus Tour
WALK | ˜Soul of the City”
SOCIAL | The London Sketch Club
WALK | Albertopolis
TOUR | Erno Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower tour