If you happen to be in the local area over the next few months, with half an hour to spare, pop in to University College London‘s Art Museum, where a small exhibition is showcasing the life of French philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). This event marks the 300th anniversary of his birth, and features books and… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
Bloomsbury has a reputation as the home of historic and contemporary literary types, but University College London’s current exhibition on past inhabitants’ links to slavery aims to unsettle that genteel notion. But it wasn’t all bad news back then. For every George Hibbert (1757 – 1837), there was a Zachary Macaulay (1768 – 1838). Father of historian and politician… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
When I read about UCL’s anechoic chamber, I had to get in there and see it for myself. A room where sound from the outside world is completely shut off…what would it look like? What would it sound like? The answer is, very strange, and very, very quiet. In fact, it’s one of the quietest… [Read more…]
October 4, 2011
Dr Joe Cain is a senior lecturer and historian of science at University College London. He is also a movie buff, and regularly dips into his dusty cinematic treasure vault to retrieve old sci-fi gems for his after-hours Film Night series in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL. Previous screenings include The Lost World (1960), The Wolf Man… [Read more…]
September 16, 2011
This being the 100th anniversary of the death of Francis Galton (1822 – 1911), and having discovered that UCL‘s Galton Collection is not currently open to the public (due to staffing & relocation issues), I’ve delved into my photo album to bring you some pictures from my own visit to the archive a few years ago. Francis… [Read more…]
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