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.
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.
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.
Echoes from the Birdcage is the world premiere of a new composition to emerge from Dame Evelyn Glennie’s time as the PRS Foundation and King’s Cross Musician in Residence, written by Jill Jarman in collaboration with Dame Evelyn Glennie. An amazing sound world is created by percussionist Evelyn Glennie with an ensemble of musicians, to bring to life the sounds and emotions of the transformation of King’s Cross.
New technologies are poised to revolutionise computer memory, unlocking huge potential benefits for global society. This special interdisciplinary event explores our relationship with memory, with reflections from experimental physicist Stuart Parkin; and a performance of newly commissioned poetry and music by Frances Leviston and Martin Suckling.
Networking is an essential skill in the 21st century workforce yet many of us find it daunting and stressful. As the world becomes ever more connected, so should any organisation seeking to be innovative, and to work with diverse partners in new and creative ways.
The caste system has been a source of much debate in South Asia. But what happens when British Indians say caste discrimination has followed them overseas? Caste Aside is a documentary about the British government's controversial decision to introduce legislation against caste discrimination in the UK.
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.