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The Representation of the People Act, passed on 6 February 1918, extended the right to vote to women of a certain age and economic status. Ten months later, on 14 December 1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time.
Forty years before this, 新香港六合彩开奖结果became one of the first universities in England to admit women on equal terms with men.听听
鈥淭hese events will give us an eye-opening insight into the barriers women have faced at 新香港六合彩开奖结果and in the wider world, and how far they were able to reach despite them. It is also an important opportunity to examine where equality is still to be achieved and learn from the past. I鈥檓 delighted that 新香港六合彩开奖结果is playing such an active role in celebrating this centenary year, and I think it will provoke a lot of debate about how far we have come and how far we still need to go."
鈥斝孪愀哿喜士苯峁鸓resident & Provost Professor Michael Arthur
5219 Dorothy Coke, Female Figure Standing, 1918. Copyright holder unknown.
Artist, Jo Hurford
House of Doors project by Kristina Clackson-Bonnington. Image credit:听Kristina Clackson Bonnington
1905,听Copyright: Slade School of Fine Art
Photograph of a demonstration in support of women鈥檚 suffrage in Lowestoft, Suffolk, 1914.听Newsam Library Archives, UWT/G/2/4
Gwen John,听Portrait Group, 1897, Watercolour and pen over pencil on stout wove paper, 新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum 3451. Out of Copyright
Professor Uta Frith, one of twelve 'Female Firsts' alumni chosen to be celebrated in a new portrait commission听by artist Kristina Clackson Bonnington
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Exhibitions that will run across the year include: Prize & Prejudice, an exhibition in the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum that shines a light on the women who won the coveted Slade Prize; 听新香港六合彩开奖结果Female Firsts, a series of contemporary art works honouring female academics ranging from leading Bletchley code-breaker Mavis Batey to the UK鈥檚 first female doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; Disrupters and Innovators, an exhibition in the Octagon Gallery that celebrates the perseverance, originality and ingenuity of female students and staff at 新香港六合彩开奖结果in breaking down gender barriers; and presents satirical commentaries, campaign literature, personal notes and petitions in order to examine the actions and reactions surrounding the case for universal suffrage.
Details about the launch and other events and activities are presented below.
Exhibitions:
Winifred Margaret Knights, Portrait of a Young Woman / Portrait of Anna Fryer听(detail), 1920听漏听Sacha Llewellyn on behalf of the artist's estate
Until听Feb 2019
Free exhibition
Octagon听Gallery, UCL
Explore听the lasting contributions to research, teaching and wider society of female students and staff at 新香港六合彩开奖结果a century ago. This exhibition is dedicated to a group of remarkable women whose lives and careers were shaped by听what they learnt, taught and researched at UCL. Read more
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'Dangers and Delusions'? Perspectives on the women鈥檚 suffrage movement
Until 17 Dec 2018
Free exhibition
新香港六合彩开奖结果Main Library
Displaying items from 新香港六合彩开奖结果Special Collections, this exhibition examines the actions and reactions attending the women's suffrage movement from the 1860s to the Representation of the People Act 1918. See satirical commentaries including Laurence Housman's Anti-Suffrage Alphabet alongside campaign literature and petitions for and against legislative change.
Five Colours, Five Landscapes
Until听autumn 2018
Free exhibition
South Cloisters, UCL
See five new paintings consisting of听ochre colours created from听coal mine water treatment听sites across the UK.听 Artist Onya McCausland has听developed the new paint colours as part of her PhD research, and these colours will now be produced commercially by Windsor & Newton.
Throughout 2018
Free exhibition
South Cloisters, UCL
新香港六合彩开奖结果Female Firsts reflects on women's remarkable achievements听and progress since听1918, when the first women secured the right to vote in the UK. This exhibition is a development of Women at UCL: Presence and Absence, which explores the institutional change that has taken place since the founding of 新香港六合彩开奖结果in 1826 鈥� from the initial decision to admit women in 1878 to the re-negotiating of spaces and positions that is still taking place today. Read more
Design by Justin Badger, image by Seungwon Jung
25 Sep听- 14 Dec 2018
Free exhibition and events
新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum
Slade artists Sophie Bouvier Ausl盲nder, Katherine Forster, Seungwon Jung, Zeinab Saleh and Naomi Siderfin, redress the contemporary relevance of the once celebrated practice of drapery drawing. Join us for artist performances and workshops in October and November. Read more
Events and online content:
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The House of Doors
Oct - Dec 2018
Free public art
The House of Doors project returns to 新香港六合彩开奖结果to mark the centenary of the first women in the UK getting the right to vote. Launched in 2015 by 新香港六合彩开奖结果Artist-In-Residence Kristina Clackson-Bonnington, this public art project explores听how society has changed as a result of women getting the vote. .
The World of UCL
Date and venue TBC
Free event
Your first chance to see this听updated edition of听the book听charting the history of UCL, from 1826 to the present day. Written by Georgina Brewis, Negley Harte and John North, the book tells the stories of the extraordinary women who built the university.
新香港六合彩开奖结果Vote 100: Wikipedia edit-athon
Date and venue TBC
Free event
Take part in this special event, to听improve Wikipedia and increase the visibility of pioneering 新香港六合彩开奖结果women online. As part of the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Global Citizenship Programme, teams of 新香港六合彩开奖结果staff and students will come together in sessions led by Wikipedia to build, edit and connect articles online.
Online:
This moving documentary brings to life the story of this groundbreaking legislation and highlights this historic turning point for women's rights. People share their vivid memories of the time, including women who survived illegal abortion, the nurses who picked up the pieces when things went wrong, campaigning doctors and abortion rights advocates. The film is free to watch online. It was also screened at the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Institute for Women's Health on 6 March 2018 as part of 2018's Vote 100 programme.
In Her Time
Online:
A听UCL-based journal and podcast devoted to the exploration of gender history, created with 新香港六合彩开奖结果ChangeMakers / MA History. This online platform hosts articles and reviews created by students for students. The website also hosts a podcast featuring academics, writers, activists, artists, filmmakers and more, discussing the the importance of gender to their work. It was launched on Thursday 1 March 2018 as part of听2018's Vote 100 programme.
Parliament and Me
Podcast: ucl.ac.uk
Listen to our new podcast celebrating Parliament Week 2018, featuring听新香港六合彩开奖结果thinkers - experts in their field - and the women who have inspired them along their way.听
Past听programme:
The Spirit of Slade Ladies Past
Thu 1 Feb 2018
Performance
新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum
A chance to commune with the Spirit of Slade Ladies Past. This immersive evening event was developed with artist Tai Shani听and 新香港六合彩开奖结果researchers. Amongst the Slade鈥檚 class of 1918, many had a keen interest in spiritualism and the occult. WWI seems to have prompted听people to听turn to such practices as a means for those who lost loved ones to grieve sudden death and the end of relationships.
新香港六合彩开奖结果Lunch Hour Lecture
Fri 9 Mar 2018
Free lecture
G13, 1-19 Torrington Place, Bloomsbury
Tick, tock of the biological clock. Women are increasingly delaying the birth of their first child, as they lead very different lives to their mothers. But a woman鈥檚 fertility declines with age, significantly so by the mid-30s. Professor Joyce Harper, Professor in Genetics and Human Embryology Globally, is working on an arts project to increase fertility awareness and studying social egg freezing, which may help some women delay fertility.
Representation of the people in science: Women in civic and citizen science
Mon 12 Mar 2018
South Cloisters and Haldane Room, Wilkins Building
An opportunity to explore the role of women who听promote听science, chaired by Dr Charlene Jennett, who opened the event with a note about researching citizen science. The panel included science writer Dr Alice Bell, talking about women involved听in civic science in the 1970s; artist Jo Hurford听sharind her experience of approaching 新香港六合彩开奖结果about air quality and other environmental impacts of the development in the area; Dr Louise Seaward听discussing women's participation in a highly technical and challenging digital humanities project at UCL; and Prof. Sarah Bell听on the role of women听in engineering.
Women in Egypt
Thu 22 Mar 2018
Free talk
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Drawing on the collection including the papyrus texts, this talk put life for women in ancient Egypt under the spotlight.
Women in Queen Square: Celebrating the centenary of Votes for Women in the UK
Until 30 Apr 2018
Free exhibition
新香港六合彩开奖结果Queen Square Library, 23 Queen Square
Explore听photographs, objects, and documents from Queen Square Archives. The library received a wide range of nominations for women past and present to appear in the exhibition, which features Anita Harding, Patricia Limousin and Jenny Vaughan.
(detail from) Dorothy Coke, Female Figure Standing, 1918, 新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum 5219
9 Jan -听8听Jun 2018
Free exhibition
新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum
An exhibition and programmes dedicated to the struggles and successes of prize-winning artists, mostly women, emerging from the Slade School of Fine Art during its foundation years. Read more
Confessions to the Mirror, Image copyright Sarah Pucill
Tue 22 May, 6:30-8:00pm
Film screening, 拢5
新香港六合彩开奖结果Art Museum
Join us for Slade artist Sarah Pucill鈥檚 film Confessions To The Mirror (2016) and a discussion of gender, politics and space.听The film includes French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun's life and work, including her political activity and imprisonment in Jersey with her partner Suzanne Malherbe during the Nazi occupation of the island. After the screening, Sarah Pucill will be in conversation with art historian Maria Walsh. Book tickets now
Marion Wallace-Dunlop, The Magic Fruit Garden听(detail), 1889. Design:听Angela Scott, 新香港六合彩开奖结果Digital Media
Summer听2018
Free exhibition
Octagon听Gallery, UCL
A听prologue to UCL's Disrupters and Innovators. 听This preview exhibition focuses on an illustrated book by Marion Wallace-Dunlop (1864-1942), who was an听artist, writer and lifelong campaigner for women鈥檚 rights,听and studied at UCL. Read more
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If you are If you planning an event at 新香港六合彩开奖结果that could be part of these celebrations we would love to hear from you. Please email the project team at culture.centenary@ucl.ac.uk.
