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“Dangers and Delusions”? Perspectives on the women’s suffrage movement.

UCL main library 23-25 Gower St, Kings Cross, London

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.

Free
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Charles Dickens: Man of Science

Charles Dickens Museum 48 Doughty Street, London

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

Free

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