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.
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
Central Saint Martins is delighted to invite staff and friends from Knowledge Quarter organisations to a private tour of our 2018 Degree Show One. The tour will be led by Dean of Academic Programmes, Paul Haywood,
Commissioned by the Foundling Museum, Jodie Carey has created three new site-responsive installations in response to the Foundling Hospital story. Displayed within the exhibition gallery and amongst the historic Collection, these monumental pieces are imbued with a sense of remembrance and emotional trace.
The Knowledge Quarter is delighted to invite partner organisations to attend a Diversity Roundtable, facilitated by Gamiel Yafai, Managing Director of Diversity Marketplace.
The event will act as a space for skills sharing and networking between Knowledge Quarter partner organisations to try and see what the challenges facing practitioners in this area are, examples of innovative projects from partners and opportunities for collaborations.
On 1 June, in a parking space in East London, North London, Richard Woods create Upgrade – a month-long site-specific installation that engages with issues of housing and urban regeneration.
Universal Music, the UK’s leading music company have partnered with the National Portrait Gallery for an exclusive insight into the music business with Rebecca Allen, President of Decca Records and singer-songwriter Imelda May, one of biggest-selling UK female artists of the year. The discussion is aimed at anyone wanting to break into the music industry – on and off stage - and will include the opportunity to meet both Rebecca and Imelda.
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 the British Library. KQ staff and partner organisations will have the opportunity to have an exclusive look at James Cook: The Voyages the British Library's new blockbuster exhibition.