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In Search of Classical Greece
By now, everyone and his dog knows about the British Museum’s blockbuster Ice Age Art and Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibitions, currently attracting huge crowds. But there’s another (free) exhibition equally deserving of attention, taking place now in the British Museum’s room 90. It is In search of Classical Greece: travel drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi 1805–1806, a pictorial survey […]
View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making
March 16, 2013
A lively crowd attended this afternoon’s grand opening of UCL’s new Institute of Making. The Institute’s overall-clad Director, Professor Mark Miodownik (who you might know from Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, or the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures), was on hand to mingle and answer questions. Mark has written a book on materials, Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our […]
Jared Diamond @ UCL
February 6, 2013
The engaging and erudite Professor Jared Diamond - physiologist, ornithologist, geographer, prize-winning author, New Guinea expert, and much more - spoke at UCL last night, 5 February 2013. It is rare indeed to catch Jared Diamond on an overseas lecture tour (the last time we managed it was in Sydney, about seven years ago), so it was a special […]
Delia Smith & Alastair Campbell do God
December 7, 2012
Another Westminster Faith Interview took place on Wednesday 5th December, this time featuring cookery queen Delia Smith in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell, at Bloomsbury’s British Medical Association on Tavistock Square. Delia Smith is a devout Catholic who attends daily mass and reflects on spirituality each afternoon in her garden studio. She has also written several […]
Tut-mania: Sir Christopher Frayling @ Petrie Museum
November 17, 2012
One of our favourite public intellectuals, the author and academic Sir Christopher Frayling, appeared at UCL’s Petrie Museum last night, 15th November 2012, for a screening of ‘Everywhere the glint of gold‘, episode three from his five-part 1992 TV series, The Face of Tutankhamun, and a discussion with the Petrie’s own John J. Johnston. Riffing on Egyptology’s […]
View of the week: Bentham’s great escape
November 8, 2012
After over 150 years of confinement, philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton made a brief bid for freedom from its wooden display box at University College London on Thursday 8th November 2012. The auto-icon made it only as far as UCL’s Rock Room, where it attempted to hide amongst other ancient objects and curiosities. The tactic failed, however, […]
Open House 2012: Lumen URC
October 2, 2012
Did you make it to any London Open House events in September? In case you missed it all, here is the first of several posts on Open House destinations in Bloomsbury. Open House destinations further afield will appear at London Bytes soon. The Lumen Uniting Reformed Church, located where Tavistock Place meets Regent Square, was our first stop […]
View of the week: Dickens’ writing desk
August 21, 2012
If you’ve come to Bloomsbury to visit Doughty Street’s Charles Dickens Museum, only to find it closed for refurbishment, you can still get a glimpse of the literary giant by visiting the nearby Foundling Museum. Several objects and mementos from the life of Charles Dickens are scattered about the museum, as part of the small Dickens and the […]
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
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