Baroness Helena Kennedy QC to deliver centenary lecture.

Monday June 8th is the date of the next event to celebrate the centenary of Fircroft College. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham will be the venue for a special centenary lecture to be delivered by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. The lecture, entitled ‘Unfinished business in widening participation: the end of the beginning’, is free of charge and open to members of the public.

Helena Kennedy is a Labour peer, one of the country’s leading barristers and a champion of civil liberties, social justice and human rights. As an acclaimed and passionate public speaker, she is a frequent guest on current affairs and discussion programmes on both radio and television, including Any Questions, Newsnight, Question Time and The Today Programme. She has presented Heart of the Matter, Raw Deal and the award-winning Time Gentlemen Please, all for the BBC.