“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

Knowledge Quarter Private Tour: Treasures of the Asian & African Studies Reading Room

The British Library 96 Euston Rd, Kings Cross , London , United Kingdom

The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite staff and friends from Knowledge Quarter organisations to the next in our series of private tours and views. It will be on this occasion hosted at the British Library. You are invited to an exclusive private after-hours tour of the British Library's Asian & African Studies Reading Room and see some fascinating collection items.

Free

KQ SIA Data Science Workshop

BASE KX 103c Camley Street, London, United Kingdom

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.

Free

KQ SIA Life Sciences Workshop

The Francis Crick Institute 1 Midland Road, London, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Knowledge Quarter Private View: The People in the Gallery and Made in North Korea

House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom

The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite staff from Knowledge Quarter organisations to the next in our series of private breakfast views. It will be on this occasion hosted at House of Illustration, where you will get the opportunity to view two new exhibitions: 'The People in the Gallery' and 'Made in North Korea: Everyday Graphics from the DPRK'.

Free

A Thousand and One Stories

SOAS University of London Russell Square: College Buildings, London, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Degree Apprenticeships: A social mobility opportunity?

Central London

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.

500 years of medicine. The future: The end of AIDS is up to us

Royal College of Physicians 11 St Andrew’s Place, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Knowledge Quarter: Community Champions Launch

The Living Centre 2 Ossulston St, Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom

The Knowledge Quarter would like to invite you to the launch of the Community Champions project. The launch event will bring Knowledge Quarter partners together with local charities and community groups based across Camden and Islington, to encourage partners to develop collaborative projects around the themes of youth, employability, environment, wellbeing and nexus.

Free

Public Commemoration and Women’s History

Institute of Historical Research Senate House, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

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?

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