Curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts explores Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore. A highly successful artist and Governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) is best known as a portrait painter of the Georgian middle class.
The Foundling Museum displays a series of five previously unseen sculptures by acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone, providing a resonant counterpoint to their exhibition Basic Instincts. Rachel Kneebone is a British artist whose intricate works address and question the human condition.
During the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945, many thousands of people were persecuted, including slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews. Their story has been largely omitted from a British narrative of ‘standing alone’ against Nazism and celebrations of British victory over Germany.
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite you to a breakfast launch of its new report: Unlocking Knowledge - Connections and Trust Within the Knowledge Quarter. The report, authored by a City PhD student and a student working for a start-up within the KQ, is the product of a six-month study exploring the value of networks within the Knowledge Quarter.
Shun Christmas shopping, mingle with Briffa and friends, support a local charity and build a stronger community! Are you a cunning quizzer? Don't be shy, we would love you to join us at our Foxy Quiztmas Night!
The Goodenough College Christmas Carol Service gathers all Members of our community, and our friends, to celebrate Christmas. Wonderful music and readings this year take place in Holy Cross Church in Cromer Street.
FuckUp Nights is a global movement where stories of failed business and projects are told, questioned and celebrated! In each FuckUp Night, three or four fuckupreneurs share their stories of failure discussing what they were working on, what went wrong and what they learnt.
Design for Peace is a series of international knowledge intensive events, that explore how innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, can create socially impactful solutions that succeed in addressing global humanitarian and environmental challenges.
The Universities Advertising Group are hosting a Conference in December. The Group is an inclusive organisation that offers quality workshops to support a variety of organisations. The conference is relevant, thought provoking and delivered by high impact speakers and will be exploring a number of challenging topics that will undoubtedly impact upon the University Sector.
Meet the team behind BBC TV's hit series 'Quacks' over mince pies and mulled wine to discover how they brought the gruesome realities of Victorian medicine to the screen. From dead moles to modesty dolls, ether and mesmerism, Quacks is a romp through nineteenth century London’s medical world.