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Sir George Birkbeck, founder of Birkbeck, University of London Part of the main Birkbeck campus in Bloomsbury, showing the main entrance (on the right).. In 1823, Sir George Birkbeck, a physician and graduate of the University of Edinburgh and an early pioneer of adult education, founded the then "London Mechanics' Institute" at a meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on the Strand.
The following have served as President of Birkbeck: [1] 1823–1841: George Birkbeck FRS (founder of Birkbeck) 1841–1888: William Lloyd Birkbeck; 1888–1897: The Rt Hon The Earl of Northbrook, GCSI; 1903–1915: The Rt Hon Lord Alverstone, GCMG; 1919–1928: The Rt Hon Viscount Haldane, KT, OM, FRS
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Daniel Pick is a British historian, psychoanalyst, university teacher, writer and occasional broadcaster.Between 2014 and 2021, he was the recipient of a senior Investigator grant from the Wellcome Trust and led a research group at Birkbeck exploring the history of the human sciences and 'psy' professions during the Cold War.
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Her primary affiliation is with Birkbeck, University of London, but she is also Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, [5] London, and the Global Innovation Chair in the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. [6] She has joint British and New Zealand citizenship.
Esther Leslie FBA (b. 1964) is a Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. [1] [2] She has taught at Birkbeck since January 2000.She has written on Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School, and explored themes such as animation, chemical industries, including IG Farben and Imperial Chemical Industries, liquid crystals, fascism and culture, Weimar ...