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Guide, writer and contributor to national travel pages. Lives and works in the capital. Likes long walks.
It's April in London!
All the world's a... hurrah! Shakespeare's Globe reopens for the summer season, with Romeo & Juliet and Much Ado first up.
London Hat Week celebrates its 10th anniversary with a London Hat Walk on April 7, leaving St James's Piccadilly at 1 pm (hats compulsory).
The Future of Money - from gold bars to crypto - has opened at the Bank of England Museum and will run until September.
The London Games Festival sees the electronic arts celebrated in venues across the capital (April 9 to 25)
Zimingzhong - a new, free exhibition of the beautiful clockwork automata collected by China's emperors - runs at the Science Museum until June 2
It's a buzz: the London Coffee Festival wakes up the capital for the weekend of April 11-14 with a Brick Lane bean fest.
The hugely popular 'Legion - Life in the Roman Army' is at the British Museum until June 23
Hot! The V&A's exhibition on post-colonial West African and Indian architecture, Tropical Modernism, runs throughout the London summer (until September)
Celebrate St George's Day in Trafalgar Square on April 21, with dragons, family adventures, Pearly Kings and Queens and an English food market.
Last chance for the Royal Academy's excellent 'Entangled Pasts - Art, Colonialism and Change' exhibition (ends April 28)
Quick: Tate Britain's 'Women in Revolt: Art and Activism 1970-1990', the first major survey of feminist art in the UK, ends April 7.
'The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks' is at The Lightbox, the spectacular backlit cube of images at King's Cross (until April 21)
Several events are already sold out for the British Library's HistFest24, which runs on April 11, 13 and 14.
The Yoko Ono show at Tate Modern sheds light on the amazing career of a woman often overshadowed by her famous husband (until September 1)
Spit and polish: Salon Prive, the uber-luxury car event sees historic cars, supercars, Porche 911 Turbos and McLaren cars gracing the lawns of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (April 18-20)
The hugely popular architectural access week, Open City, takes place across London from April 24 to 30 - free but book early for popular sites
Kensington Palace turns the spotlight on itself and its staff over the past 300 years in a show called 'Untold Lives' (until October 27)
Somerset House hosts the annual Sony World Photography Awards exhibition (April 19 to May 6)
There's just time to visit the free 'Spies, Lies and Deception' show at South London's Imperial War Museum on post-Great War espionage (to April 14)
New Contemporaries, the launch pad for young and emerging artists since 1949, is back at the Camden Art Centre for the first time in 20 years, with the work of 55 artists on show (to April 14)
What the hell is cuteness anyway? Find out amidst fluffy bundles and lovable robots at Cute, running at Somerset House (April 14)
Tate Modern's blockbuster show 'Expressionists' opens April 25 with work by Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and The Blue Rider circle
Sands without End - dogs and people welcome at Neverland's Fulham Beach Club - general entry free, or book yourself a pergola sofa or a beach hut!
Don't miss
See the new Blavatnik Art, Film & Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, free. Image @iwmart3062
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