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
Commissioned by the Foundling Museum, Jodie Carey has created three new site-responsive installations in response to the Foundling Hospital story. Displayed within the exhibition gallery and amongst the historic Collection, these monumental pieces are imbued with a sense of remembrance and emotional trace.
On 1 June, in a parking space in East London, North London, Richard Woods create Upgrade – a month-long site-specific installation that engages with issues of housing and urban regeneration.
The Wiener Library’s exhibition tells the story of the Third Reich’s campaign against ‘degenerate’ art and this response in London in 1938. The exhibition features a number of the original artworks from the New Burlington Galleries’ exhibition, including works by Emil Nolde and Max Slevogt, presented with the stories of their lenders in 1938. The show will also include items from The Wiener Library’s unique archival collections.
Holloway Prison has been an important landmark in Islington for over 150 years. Thousands of women passed through its doors until it closed in 2016. This exhibition explores their stories.
Each year Tête à Tête now takes over Riverside Studios for three weeks in August with a mix of musicians, singers, performers and dancers who are given free rein to present their work, some of which is still in progress. The categories include dance, mime and media technologies
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.
EXCLUSIVE OFFER: £58 seats for £20* The seductive new musical, Carmen La Cubana, explodes onto the Sadler’s Wells stage this summer in a cocktail of Cuban flavour.
On this tour of Camden Town you'll see the venues these rockin' ladies performed at and the pubs they hung out in. These ladies have rocked our world...Etta James, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, The Slits, Lady Gaga, Elastica, The X-Ray Spex, Amy Winehouse, Kelis and many many more...
Enjoy a three-course meal using produce shipped around the world on a sail-powered boat. Global Generation have partnered with the Sail Cargo Alliance, a group of passionate sailors who ship produce from around the world on restored sail cargo ships.