In conversation: John Myatt and Patricia Kingori

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Professor Patricia Kingori, from Oxford Population Health’s Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford discusses the impact of fakes and forgeries with John Myatt, one of Britain’s most infamous art forgers.

The Third Man – Q&A

Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford

Join us for a special screening of The Third Man, introduced by original cast member Angela Allen and followed by a Q&A with Professor Patricia Kingori (curator of April Fakes Day), Professor Paul Newton (Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health) and Dr. Roderick Bailey (Faculty of History).

Parasite - Q&A

Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford

Film screening of Parasite, a South Korean black-comedy thriller of concealed identities. The Kims scheme to secure jobs for each family member within the Park household while concealing their true identities. Introduced by Professor Patricia Kingori in conversation with Dr. Jieun Kiaer, Professor of Korean Linguistics.

Spot the Fake

Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, London

Drop in to view a tabletop display of fascinating items from the special collections of one of the world’s oldest learned societies. Will you be able to identify which items are real - and which are fake?  

Makers and Fakers: How copies, replicas, casts and fakes ‘make’ museum collections

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Behind the Scenes Tours and Zine Making Workshop

As part of the Oxford-wide ‘April Fakes Day’ join ‘Making the Museum’ researcher Dr Beth Hodgett and Zine collective Imperfect Bound (@ImperfectBound) to explore the stories behind the hundreds of copies, casts, replicas and fakes in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection.

Join the workshop to design and make pages for a collaborative Zine which will be accessioned into the Pitt Rivers Museum Balfour Library.

 Talk: Questionable Quackery

Thackray Museum, Leeds

This April Fool’s Day, we are delving into the deceptive world of quackery.

Travel back to the origins of the quack doctor and explore the most dangerous and daft cures of the 18th and 19th centuries. Taking place in our Victorian Operating Theatre, this talk will expose some of the most notorious historical medicines of the past 300 years.

The 19th century saw an explosion of so-called nerve tonics and pills marketed as cures for everything from insomnia to melancholy. Some of these questionable cures were duds; others were downright dangerous. You will hear first-hand, the tricks and techniques of the crooks and charlatans who profited from them.

It will be followed by a 20-minute Q&A session, where you can ask questions and explore the objects up close.