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MA in 18th Century Studies: Postgraduate

The Foundling Museum and its Collections support a new MA course offered by King's College London in partnership with the British Museum. Course leaders include scholars from eight departments in the School of Humanities and senior British Museum staff.

The core module explores constructions of the Enlightenment, then and now, through frameworks such as race, gender, class, intellectual networks and material culture, and invites students to analyse ideas, objects, texts and arts of the eighteenth century. For more information, please click here. 

Music partnership with Goldsmiths College, University of London

The Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum has formed a partnership with the music department of Goldsmiths College, University of London, to support undergraduate and postgraduate courses using the rich resources of the Coke Collection.  Seminars are presented at the Museum by staff from both institutions and students have the opportunity to pursue research projects using the collection resources to support study in eighteenth-century music and musical life in London, performance reception and source studies.

For further details contact handel@foundlingmuseum.org.uk.

Image: John Beard, ca. 1743, oil on canvas by Thomas Hudson © The Gerald Coke Handel Collection. John Beard sang in many of the first and early performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorios.