Events calendar

Lecture: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

23 May 2013, 13:15
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free
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Richard Davenport-Hines reveals how tabloid journalism launched the Swinging Sixties through the publicity surrounding Christine Keeler in 1963.

Lecture: How to Create the Perfect Wife

6 June 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Wendy Moore, author of How to Create the Perfect Wife, reveals the extraordinary true story of 18th century author and abolitionist Thomas Day.

Lecture: Queen Caroline of Ansbach: Collector and Curator

13 June 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

For many Queen Caroline of Ansbach is a shadowy figure and her role in the early Hanoverian court mysterious and undefined.

Lecture: Creative Connections: Gandhi in London

20 June 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Lord Bhikhu Parekh, President of the Gandhi Foundation, focuses on Gandhi’s time spent in London, both as a student and again in 1931, as a delegate of the Round Table conference at Kingsley Hall.

Lecture: Plots, Intrigues and Meaning

4 July 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

The 17th century was an era of political plot and counterplot, Dr Alan Marshall discusses the political, social, and cultural context of the time.

Creative Connections: Sylvia Pankhurst

11 July 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Historian Martin Pugh discusses the life of Sylvia Pankhurst, the aspiring artist and activist, nicknamed the ‘Rebellious Suffragette’.

Lecture: Creative Connections: The Bengali Community

A part of Late Shift
11 July 2013, 19:00-20:00
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Director of the Swadhinata Trust, Ansar Ahmed Ullah, celebrates the unique contribution that the Bengali community have made to the East End today.

Lecture: Laura Knight Portraits

18 July 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Curator Rosie Broadley introduces the work of Laura Knight, and her broad range of subjects and sitters.

Lecture Creative Connections: Spitalfields Life

A part of Late Shift
25 July 2013, 19:00-20:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

The Gentle Author, who has written more than a thousand pen portraits of people in the East End, introduces a selection of his favourites.

Lecture The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne

1 August 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Curator of Shandy Hall, Patrick Wildgust, takes a closer look at the life of Laurence Sterne and discusses his reputation 300 years after his birth.

Lecture: Portraits of T.S. Eliot

8 August 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Dr Nuzhat Bukhari, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, discusses the fascinating relationship between poet TS Eliot and painter Patrick Heron.

Lecture: Creative Connections: The Pioneering Garretts

15 August 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

Author Jenifer Glynn draws on the influence and lasting legacy of physician Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her family.

Lecture: Creative Connections: The Changing Face of the East End

A part of Late Shift
15 August 2013, 19:00-20:00
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Stefan Dickers, Head of Archives and Libraries at the Bishopsgate Institute, delves into the history of the East End.

Lecture: Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

22 August 2013, 13:15-14:00
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

The story of Mrs Norton, a 19th century campaigner for women’s rights whose life changed after accusations of an affair with the Prime Minister.