These free events at LMA may be of interest to list members:
The Art of Crime: Convict Art (in association with Ikon, Birmingham)
Saturday 13 January
10.30am-12.30pm
London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
An introduction to the making of LMA’s ‘Criminal Lives’ exhibition and the representation of convicts with Dr Larissa Allwork (The University of Sheffield). Pugin, Rowlandson and Hogarth prints from LMA's collections will be on show. Art Historian Linzi
Stauvers will discuss the life of transported convict artist, Thomas Bock.
(Exhibition at Ikon, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 - 11 March 2018).
Opening Up Medical Records
Friday 19 January
9.30am-1.30pm
London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
At this professional seminar, LMA and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives will share their approaches to opening up access to medical records in their collections through two current projects funded by the Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History
scheme. Speakers include: Philippa Smith, Lara Speroni, Giorgia Genco, Kate Jarman and Rebecca D'Ambrosio.