UCL Events
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture: Media-Made Moms: Politics, Publishing, and the Power of the Presidency in American Women's History
22 May 2013
The inaugural Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture will be delivered by Prof Susan-Mary Grant (Newcastle), who will speak on Media-Made Moms: Politics, Publishing, and the Power of the Presidency…
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park
4 June 2013
The famous ‘monsters’ in Crystal Palace have been on display since the park opened in 1854. These are the first life-sized three-dimensional sculptures of dinosaurs and other prehistoric…
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Britain and the legacies of slavery
11 June 2013
Once abolition was secured, Britons were keen to overlook slavery and emphasise the memory of emancipation. But Britain and Britons benefitted in multiple ways from slavery. By focusing…
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Plague Bones: how London’s Black Death became a tropical disease
18 June 2013
At its height the Black Death claimed the lives of 7,000 Londoners every week. The Museum of London excavated a plague cemetery in the 1980s but it was not until 2011 that technology…
Open City Docs Fest
20 - 23 June 2013
Open City Docs Fest is London’s Documentary Film Festival hosted by UCL. This is a live 4-day celebratory event devoted to exploring the world we live in through the vision of documentary…
Lunch Hour Lectures on tour at the Museum of London: Hidden no longer: community history-making in London
25 June 2013
Over the last fifty years many independent projects have attempted to tell London’s hidden histories. This talk will examine the origins and motivations behind community history-making,…
UCL Open Day
27 June 2013
An opportunity to Visit the campus and attend subject talks and general presentations. This event is primarily for Year 12 students about to make UCAS decisions.
