The Peaceful Crystallographer - and Other Songs
Electric Voice Theatre & Conway Hall Ethical Society
Times
Thursday, 15 October 2026
18:30 – 20:15
Ticket Price
£20/£14/£9
Tickets coming soonJoin Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall, with UCL scientists and singers, for a performance and conversation celebrating crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale
Join Electric Voice Theatre at Conway Hall for a singing celebration of Kathleen Lonsdale - the first female professor at UCL and one of the first female Royal Society Fellows. Defying all odds, her pioneering science led to breakthroughs in organic chemistry and medical treatments. Beyond science, Lonsdale was a prison reformer, women’s rights activist and pacifist, warning of the dangers of nuclear physics and wealth inequality in her book Is Peace Possible?
The music, performed by Electric Voice Theatre, UC8 and the Clerkenwell Community Choir, reflects Lonsdale's eclectic life. Ranging from Celtic airs to music-hall ditties and Italian cantos, the performance features new work and songs by her contemporaries like Elizabeth Maconchy, Imogen Holst, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Marie Dare and Conway Hall’s radical thinkers, Eliza Flower and Josephine Troup.
Following the performance, we will examine her history with historian Dr Patricia Fara and meet some of today’s women in science at UCL in the year of its 200th anniversary. More information on Kathleen Lonsdale at the UCL 200 exhibition
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