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Photograph of the Month

6 February - 29 February 2012
Room 31
Free

Novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley, photographed at Llano del Rio in California, 1946.

Sandra Lousada: Work and Performance

28 November 2011 - 20 May 2012
Bookshop Gallery
Free

Early English Kings: Medieval Monuments Remade

3 April 2012 - 6 January 2013
Room 1
Free
A selection of electrotype copies of effigies from the tombs of the Plantagenet kings

William Dobson 1611-46

17 August 2011 - 18 March 2012
Room 6
Free

Queens in Waiting: Charlotte & Victoria

26 November 2011 - 9 September 2012
Room 16
Free

Scott of the Antarctic

16 August 2011 - 22 April 2012
Room 23
Free

Viceroys of India

23 April - 18 November 2012
Room 23
Free

The changing face of this quasi-royal role from the mid-nineteenth century.

Charles Dickens: Life & Legacy

25 October 2011 - 22 April 2012
Room 24 case display
Free

The Tichborne Trials

23 April - 21 October 2012
Room 24: case display
Free

Butcher or Baronet? Portraits of the key figures in this Victorian cause célèbre.

Victorian Connections

8 December 2011 - 17 June 2012
Room 26
Free
Living sitters and the Victorians who inspired them.

Changing the Female Lot: Josephine Butler and Harriet Martineau

26 April 2011 - 26 March 2012
Room 27
Free

Beautiful Souls

5 December 2011 - 12 August 2012
Room 28
Free

Cavendish Morton: A Man of Many Parts

12 December 2011 - 15 July 2012
Room 29 case display
Free

Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson

19 April - 16 September 2012
Room 31
Free

Picture Post photographer, pioneering television presenter, biographer, art critic and legendary Soho figure. Farson’s subjects include Lucian Freud, Brendan Behan, Adam Faith, Robert Graves, Richard Burton and Salvador Dali.

Cambridge Connections: Photographs by Antony Barrington Brown

19 March - 16 September 2012
Room 31
Free

Leading figures in Cambridge during the 1950s including Mark Boxer, Crick and Watson and Michael Winner.

Herbert Morrison: The Cockney Socialist

26 July 2011 - 18 March 2012
Room 31 case display
Free

Augustus John: A Life in Portraits

26 July 2011 - 18 March 2012
Room 31 case display
Free

Sir Terence Rattigan

1 September 2011 - 15 April 2012
Room 31 case display
Free

Gertie Millar, Countess of Dudley: From Stage to Society

16 April - 16 December 2012
Room 31: case display
Free

Actress and singer, Gertie Millar (1879-1952) was the reigning star of musical comedy in the Edwardian era.

Richard Hamilton: Portraits of the Artist

19 December 2011 - 14 May 2012
Room 32
Free

Private Eye: Photographs by Lewis Morley

31 October 2011 - 16 April 2012
Room 32
Free

Imagined Lives: portraits of unknown people

3 December 2011 - 1 July 2012
Room 33
Free