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.
In celebration of the Royal College of Physicians’ 500th anniversary, the college’s museum is opening late on the first Thursday of the month during 2018. Discover truly remarkable – but surprisingly little known – collections, featuring everything from artworks by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Johann Zoffany, to scarce anatomical preparations and extraordinary medical instruments, all housed in a grade 1 listed ‘modernist masterpiece’ by Sir Denys Lasdun.
We would like to invite you to a Knowledge Quarter workshop to hear your views on how to improve upon the current support available locally for innovation related to Data Science and machine learning. This event, aimed exclusively at organisations with a footprint in Camden or Islington, is being held as part of a Knowledge Quarter Government-sponsored Science and Innovation Audit.
We would like to invite you to a Knowledge Quarter workshop to hear your views on how to improve upon the current support available locally for innovation in the Life Sciences. This event, aimed exclusively at firms with a footprint in Camden or Islington, is being held as part of a Government-sponsored Science and Innovation Audit.
A summer school for those aged 21 or over exploring stories from Africa, Asia & the Middle East both old and new and creating our own stories whether fact or fiction. The programme will take place every Wednesday evening from April 18 to May 16. The course will lead to a Family and Friends Day on Saturday 19th of May.
Are Degree Apprenticeships the key to “smashing the Level 3 glass ceiling” of apprenticeships? Can they offer debt-free progression to higher level jobs for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds? This event will explore these questions and more by sharing emerging best practice in this area, bringing together employers, universities and other organisations to explore some of the key challenges and opportunities for promoting social mobility through Degree Apprenticeships in London.
Join the Royal College of Physicians for a special free lecture, part of the season marking its 500th anniversary, reflecting on the history and future of medicine, society and health.
In this event, Dr Nneka Nwokolo focuses on the advances made in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of HIV over recent years, and how these major changes have not yet entered the public’s consciousness.
How are women remembered, commemorated and celebrated in public? How is this different from historical commemorations of men? What forms do these commemorations take? Why do public commemorations of women provoke such debate, and what are the legacies of these public memorials?
Part of The Wiener Library's Fate Unknown exhibition series, this event will include a talk by Professor Dan Stone, co-curator of the exhibition, and a dramatic reading of excerpts of the Burgess radio play.
In 1950, Alan Burgess's BBC radio play, The Greatest Detective Story in History, gave unprecedented and moving insight into the work of the International Tracing Service (ITS), particularly with regard to its efforts to find missing children after the Second World War. The play also captures the ways in which the Nazi period was understood in Britain in the post-war years.
Real to Reel, the UK’s first film festival devoted to making, returns to Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly, London, this spring and promises to be one of the highlights of London Craft Week. The event, produced by Crafts magazine and the Crafts Council, runs over three evenings from 8-10 May.