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.
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.
For the first time ever The Place celebrates the rich and diverse Korean dance scene ranging from contemporary dance to hip hop and the UK debut appearance of the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE KNOWLEDGE QUARTER: The Place is delighted to offer £10 tickets (usually £20/£17) to the shows featured in A Festival of Korean Dance.
On Saturday 12 May, BMJ is hosting a Design Club for 9 to 17 year-olds, who will design a helpful mobile app for a user of their choice. Mentors from Design Club will guide young people through the process of thinking about user needs, then sketching, building, and testing a mobile prototype.
The 2018 Pint of Science festival promises to be bigger and better than ever before. For the fourth year running the Crick will be brewing up three nights of talks and games based on the theme of 'Our Body', bringing research from the lab bench to the bar stool.
Crick researchers will be swapping the lab for the pub and discussing the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that takes place at the institute over a pint. Come and quench your thirst for knowledge with three evenings of fascinating talks on cancer, the nervous system and microscopy at the Star of Kings pub.
This lecture discusses how writers such as Arendt, Orwell, Simone Weil, Dorothy Thompson, and Samuel Beckett responded to the mass displacements of the last century, and anticipate many of the issues we confront today. Sceptical about the ability of human rights to legislate for refugees, yet committed to universal justice, these writers challenge us to imagine new terms for placelessness in modern times.
Dare to join us on Wednesday 23 May and explore Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an epic thriller brought to life through immersive performances, talks, workshops and activities. Listen to chilling ghost stories by candlelight as you tread carefully through Victor Frankenstein’s lab, learn about the scientific and medical innovations of the period, and play with a historical vampire slaying kit from the 19th-century.
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