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.
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.
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.
Every summer artists occupy The Place’s studios to create and develop new work as part of Choreodrome - The Place’s research and development programme for UK-based dance makers.
Scandale. Pierre Rigal's shamanic piece investigating the birth of choreography: is music or movement the mother of dance? This is hip hop dance theatre at its most curious.
What does it mean to lose a child in wartime? This powerful experience of maternal bereavement has largely been unexplored in the context of World War One. A major collaborative conference held at the Institute of Historical Research and Senate House on 5 and 6 September offers a timely corrective.
Emmy Award-winning composer Michael Price gives the world premiere of Tender Symmetry, written in response to and recorded within six differing but equally awe-inspiring National Trust sites across the length and breadth of England
Organised by the Institute of Physics: Silicon Quantum Information Processing (SiQIP) is highly appealing due to long electron and nuclear spin lifetimes and the expertise of the integrated circuit industry in device scaling.
2018 marks the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote in parliamentary elections for the first time. This walk from Goodge Street to Marchmont Street will introduce you to a few of the pioneering women and men who played their parts in advancing this and other causes and who lent their voices to great debates.
Camden, Islington & Haringey Public Health are offering a free breakfast event to raise awareness about staff health and wellbeing on the 11th September from 8:30-11:00.
A three-day conference at the newly opened Aga Khan Centre will explore the diverse and pluralistic nature of Muslim cultures in the Indian Ocean.
Quiz leading academics and get hands-on with some of UCL's most exciting research at It's All Academic - a free festival for all ages and interests
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 AccessHE Annual Conference 2018 with BT will explore the future challenges and opportunities for social mobility through higher education in London, aiming to bring together colleagues to work together to enable students to get in and get on in higher education.
The annual tutorial day of the Physical Acoustic Group will be held on 21st September 2018 at the Institute of Physics. Following their standard format they will have three tutorials, each aimed at bringing a topic to a non-specialist audience.
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 concert of song in languages from across the globe. With the New London Children’s Choir conducted by Ronald Corp and the N10 Choir conducted by Lazina Gheyselinck. Including songs in songs in Finnish, Zulu, Japanese, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, and more...
Join an expert panel of publishers, journalists, researchers and tech professionals in a lively discussion about these issues at this SSP Regional Event, hosted at Springer Nature’s London campus.