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.
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.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, discover the stories of six of the Kinder (child refugees) in their own words.
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.
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.
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.