School of Oriental and African Studies

Londra / Regno Unito

La School of Oriental and African Studies - normalmente abbreviata in "SOAS", pronuncia ['səuæs] o ['səuæz] - è un College costitutivo dell'Università di Londra, specializzato in lingue, studi umanistici, economia e giurisprudenza delle aree culturali dell'Asia, dell'Africa e del Vicino e Medio Oriente. La SOAS normalmente prevede un'offerta formativa per più di 300 undergraduate e oltre 70 corsi intensivi annuali . Diplomi di Master of Philosophy e di PhD sono anche offerti in ogni Dipartimento accademico. Fondata nel 1916, la SOAS ha diplomato e laureato numerosi Capi di Stato, ministri governativi, ambasciatori, giudici di Corti Supreme, un Premio Nobel per la Pace e molti altri esponenti di rilievo nei settori economici delle superpotenze emergenti e dei Next Eleven. Situata nel centro di Londra, presso Russell Square, la SOAS definisce se stessa come "il centro leader mondiale per lo studio delle diverse realtà dell'Asia, dell'Africa e del Vicino e Medio Oriente", ed è normalmente considerata dai governi britannici tra le massime università del Paese [1][2]

St Thomas' Hospital

Londra / Regno Unito

St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England. It is one of the institutions that compose the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. Administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, together with Guy's Hospital and King's College Hospital, it provides the location of the King's College London GKT School of Medical Education. Originally located in Southwark, but based in Lambeth since 1871, the hospital has provided healthcare freely or under charitable auspices since the 12th century. It is one of London's most famous hospitals, associated with names such as Sir Astley Cooper, William Cheselden, Florence Nightingale, Linda Richards, Edmund Montgomery, Agnes Elizabeth Jones and Sir Harold Ridley. It is a prominent London landmark – largely due to its location on the opposite bank of the River Thames to the Houses of Parliament. St Thomas' Hospital is accessible from Westminster tube station , Waterloo station and Lambeth North tube station .

Garden Museum

Londra / Regno Unito

The Garden Museum in London is Britain's only museum of the art, history and design of gardens. The museum re-opened in 2017 after an 18-month redevelopment project.The building is largely the Victorian reconstruction of the Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth which was deconsecrated in 1972 and was scheduled to be demolished. It is adjacent to Lambeth Palace on the south bank of the River Thames in London, on Lambeth Road. In 1976, John and Rosemary Nicholson traced the tomb of the two 17th-century royal gardeners and plant hunters John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger to the churchyard, and were inspired to create the Museum of Garden History. It was the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of gardening.The Museum's main gallery is on the first floor, in the body of the church. The collection includes tools, art, and ephemera of gardening, including a gallery about garden design and the evolution of gardening, as well as a recreation of Tradescant's 17th-century Ark. The collections give an insight into the social history of gardening as well as the practical aspects of the subject. There are three temporary exhibition spaces which look at various aspects of plants and gardens and change every six months The redevelopment of the Museum, completed in 2017, included two new garden designs. The Sackler Garden, designed by Dan Pearson sits at the centre of the courtyard, replacing the knot garden, and the Museum's front garden is designed by Christopher Bradley-Hole. In 2006, Christopher Woodward, formerly director of the Holburne Museum in Bath, Somerset, was appointed as the director of the Garden Museum.

Museum of the Home

Londra / Regno Unito

The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is a museum in the Geffrye Almshouses on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, London. It explores home and home life from 1600 to the present day with a series of period room displays.The museum is housed in 18th-century Grade I-listed almshouses, formerly belonging to the Ironmongers' Company. These were built in 1714 thanks to a bequest by Sir Robert Geffrye, a merchant and slave trader who had served as Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Ironmongers' Company.In 1911 the Ironmongers' Company sold the buildings to London County Council in 1911, who opened the museum in 1914. The museum became a charitable trust in 1991.Several structures connected with the Museum are listed on the National Heritage List for England. The main museum building is Grade I listed and the niche in the northwest corner of the forecourt of the Museum is listed Grade II*. The forecourt wall, gates and railings to the Museum are Grade II* listed, and the two K6 telephone boxes on the Kingsland Road outside the Museum are listed Grade II.In January 2018, the museum closed for a two-year £18m development project, and is due to reopen in 2020. Until this closure, the main permanent displays were a series of room settings furnished and decorated to show the main living spaces and elements of domestic life through the centuries, reflecting changes in society, behaviour, style and taste. The museum's change of name was announced in 2019.The building that houses the museum has above its entrance a statue of merchant and slave trader Robert Geffrye, a replica of the original which was removed in 1912 when the building was sold to London County council. In July 2020 the museum held a consultation on the potential removal of the statue, with public opinion being in favour of removing it. The museum's board elected to instead "reinterpret and contextualise" the statue in its current location, partly on the advice of Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.

The Guardian

Londra / Regno Unito

The Guardian, conosciuto precedentemente come The Manchester Guardian, è un quotidiano britannico nato a Manchester nel 1821 con sede a Londra. Viene stampato sia a Manchester che nella capitale. Esce in edicola sei giorni alla settimana, dal lunedì al sabato. La domenica i lettori del Guardian comprano The Observer, giornale domenicale di proprietà dello stesso editore. Nel gennaio 2009 la tiratura è stata di 358.844 copie. Si autodefinisce «l'unico quotidiano britannico a diffusione nazionale privo di un proprietario e indipendente rispetto ai partiti politici» e «principale voce liberal del mondo».

UCL Institute of Education

Londra / Regno Unito

The UCL Institute of Education is the education school of University College London . It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to merging with UCL in 2014, it was a constituent college of the University of London. The IOE is ranked first in the world for education in the QS World University Rankings, and has been so every year since 2014.The IOE is the largest education research body in the United Kingdom, with over 700 research students in the doctoral school. It also has the largest portfolio of postgraduate programmes in education in the UK, with approximately 4,000 students taking Master's programmes, and a further 1,200 students on PGCE teacher-training courses. At any one time the IOE hosts over 100 research projects funded by Research Councils, government departments and other agencies.

Queen Mary, University of London

Londra / Regno Unito

La Queen Mary University of London è un'università pubblica britannica, situata a Londra, nel Mile End dell'East End della metropoli, ed un college costituente dell'Università di Londra.

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Londra / Regno Unito

La Royal Academy of Dramatic Art è una scuola di teatro, tra le più antiche della Gran Bretagna. Ha sede nel quartiere Bloomsbury di Londra.

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

Londra / Regno Unito

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. Today the conservatoire has 1,195 undergraduate and postgraduate students based at three campuses in Greenwich , Deptford and New Cross .