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
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.
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 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.
The Institute of Physics are bringing people together to solve some problems via creative thinking in a sandpit/speed-dating style session.
This workshop, led by Rita Chowdhury, Marketing Manager and Suzanne Frost, Press and PR Manager at The Place, gives you all the basic knowledge to help you maximise your chances of selling tickets and getting your name out there.
This National Poetry Day, Poet in the City transports you around the Knowledge Quarter and invite you to explore the themes of change and transformation through an exciting programme of live poetry performances and discussion.
Come and learn more about four local change-makers - four non-profits are all supported by Camden Giving's KX Fund. Your first donation is your ticket - 100% of this will be given to non-profits pitching on the night