Displaying items from UCL Special Collections, this exhibition examines the actions and reactions attending the women's suffrage movement from the 1860s up to the Representation of the People Act 1918. Satirical commentaries including Laurence Housman's Anti-Suffrage Alphabet are set alongside campaign literature and petitions for and against legislative change.
Charles Dickens: Man of Science aims to reveal Dickens not only as a scientific enthusiast, but as the key communicator of science in the Victorian age. Displaying his writings alongside artefacts, instruments, and texts of the developing sciences, we share the story of Dickens’s friendships and scientific passions
The Foundling Museum presents Balls, a new film by Foundling Fellow Lily Cole exploring connections between the Foundling Hospital story and Emily Brontë’s much-loved novel Wuthering Heights.
This September England and Wales’ oldest royal medical college, the Royal College of Physicians, marks its 500th anniversary with a major new exhibition that confounds prevailing notions of female participation in the medical professions and wider society. ‘
The Foundling Museum present a landmark exhibition highlighting the hidden stories of women in the Foundling Hospital's history.
The Autumn season at Conway Hall runs weekly until December, with a programme filled with musical highlights. Knowledge Quarter Partners can get 50% of the listed ticket price for the season.
A room full of expectation, suggestion and infectious rhythm. What is fake and what is real? Is the movement the medicine? Placebo is an invigorating celebration of the power we have to make ourselves feel better, even when things are falling apart.
Timeline is a series of events that focus on the artistry of both music and sound in film, from the early twentieth century to the present day. This event, no.05, will present the history and impact of UK scores from The 39 Steps (1935) to Ex Machina (2014), presented by Academy Award-nominated composer Gary Yershon, followed by a Q&A.
Explore this fascinating area, which is far from grey! From explosions and epidemics to gardens and graves you will be amazed at the variety of things that have happened along just one London street
Charles Dickens: Man of Science aims to reveal Dickens not only as a scientific enthusiast, but as the key communicator of science in the Victorian age.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, discover the stories of six of the Kinder (child refugees) in their own words.
Planning to scale your business across Europe? Come to EIT Digital's event and learn from the real-life experiences of experts and successful female entrepreneurs, who have made the transition. They will share their insight on opportunities, challenges and will provide advice on available support including: access to markets, access to finance and soft-landing services.
The Women in Physics Group and the Medical Physics Group invite you to this meeting celebrating and reviewing progress towards gender equality in Medical Physics, identifying that it is one of the few areas of physics where gender parity is being approached.
Should gender matter in the medical profession? Join the Royal College of Physicians museum for a special evening focused on the struggle for female medical equality in the 20th century.
Following Senate House Library's recent Queer Between the Covers exhibition, the Friends of Senate House Library are thrilled to invite you to Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray, a conversation with Simon Callow.
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Join the Institute of Physics for a very special night of storytelling hosted by Global Generation in the Skip Garden exploring different ideas about creation and the fate of the universe from ancient myths to contemporary science.
Explore the role colour can play in making us feel better, see a pioneering mobile clinic designed to provide adaptable healthcare in emergency situations and examine the history and continuing reality of how we design for health.
KQ partners will have the opportunity of an exclusive curator tour of 'Raids, Rations and Rifles - Islington during the First World War', looking at the stories behind some of the nearly 10,000 Islington natives who lost their lives on the battlefields of the First World War.
The third in a series of ten public events interrogating how architecture, planning and contemporary creativity enhance and affect both quality of life and sustainability in a range of Muslim contexts, held in the iconic Aga Khan Centre.
The Wiener Library is delighted to announce details of a special memorial concert to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. The programme will include compositions by Maurice Ravel, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Bruch and Ernest Bloch alongside select readings and takes place on the 22 November at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
Come and join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment musicians for the final Night Shift of the year, a festive special.
London faces a substantial skills shortage in a range of STEM industries, including computing, life sciences and engineering. This conference will enable business and education leaders to discuss the opportunities that already exist and find new ways of collaborating.
Materials Protecting People is the third seminar in the hugely popular series of events from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, looking at how materials can protect people in society. High quality presentations from leading experts will address the important role of materials in developing solutions to some of the many challenges facing society in the fields of Healthcare, Air Quality and Protection & Security.
The St Pancras and Somers Town Living Centre cordially invite you an event to tackle rough sleeping in the borough. Taking place at the Somers Town Living Centre the event will feature the launch of a series of initiatives as well as an exhibition of art.