Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts
Chelsea Physic Garden
May 12-2019 £108

Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts

Join this fascinating course to better understand how digestion works, from common digestive problems to plant actions, how to identify parsley (and/or cabbage) plant family, food & herb know-how kit, remedy making, grain/pulse dish, digestive decoction, mucilage powder mix, pesto.

Participate in a recreated post mortem on the world’s only semi-synthetic human cadaver
Brunel University
May 12-2019 £35

Participate in a recreated post mortem on the world’s only semi-synthetic human cadaver

The VIVIT Experience is a nationally award-winning academic experience offering you the chance to participate in a recreated post mortem experience conducted on VIVIT – the world’s only semi-synthetic human cadaver.

Learn about the vehicles and equipment used by the emergency services
Brooklands Museum
May 12-2019 £16 / £9

Learn about the vehicles and equipment used by the emergency services

Get up close and personal with every conceivable vehicle and piece of apparatus used by the emergency services during this family event at the Brooklands Museum.


Hear the Barts Chamber Choir perform at St Giles-in-the-Fields
St Giles-in-the-Fields
May 11-2019 £12

Hear the Barts Chamber Choir perform at St Giles-in-the-Fields

Barts Choir was started by a group of nurses at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1965 and is now London’s largest professionally rehearsed choir. Join their auditioned subgroup, Barts Chamber Choir, for a performance celebrating angels through the ages at St Giles-in-the-Fields.

Discover Southwark’s Lost Burial Grounds on a guided walking tour
Southwark Cathedral
May 11-2019 £10

Discover Southwark’s Lost Burial Grounds on a guided walking tour

Join this guided walk to learn more the story of Southwark’s lost and often long-forgotten graveyards – including the chance to visit the tomb of Thomas Guy who is laid to rest in the crypt of Guy’s Hospital Chapel (not normally open to the public).

See a different side of Soho on a medical walking tour
Walking tour around Soho
May 11-2019 £10

See a different side of Soho on a medical walking tour

Join this walking tour and explore the “village” of Soho to hear the impact and influence of the medical men who cared for the many diverse peoples who lived and worked in this fascinating and perhaps little-known part of London.

Learn how to save a life with a free CPR class
Various locations across London
May 11-2019 Free

Learn how to save a life with a free CPR class

Every year, around 30,000 people across the UK suffer a heart attack outside hospital – the equivalent of one every 15 minutes. Learn how to identify a heart attack and perform basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) which could double the chance of survival.


Learn about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden
May 11-2019 £11 / £7.50

Learn about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden

Spend Saturday learning about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Tucked away beside the Thames, Chelsea Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London and houses around 5,000 different medicinal, herbal, edible, and useful plants.

New Scientist presents ‘Instant Expert: Mysteries of the Mind’
British Library
May 11-2019 £99 - £149

New Scientist presents ‘Instant Expert: Mysteries of the Mind’

Join six experts working at the forefront of neuroscience, genetics and psychiatry at this New Scientist event and discover why this is the most exciting time in the history of brain science.


Catch Your Breath Exhibition and Tour
Royal College of Physicians
May 10-2019 Free

Catch Your Breath Exhibition and Tour

Through objects, visual, sound, interactive materials and event, this exhibition and tour will tell the story of how our relationship with and understanding of the breath has developed over time, from ancient philosophers who equated breath with life itself to the latest advances in medicine.