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Kathleen Lonsdale

The Kathleen Lonsdale Room is a versatile medium-sized meeting space, accommodating up to 16 delegates in a hollow boardroom layout. Ideal for training sessions, workshops, short courses and planning meetings, the room is designed to encourage interaction, discussion and collaboration. Its size and shape make it particularly well suited to small and mid-sized teams seeking a focused, self-contained environment.

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Room Layouts & Capacities

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A simple, gray square frame with a thick border made of smaller gray rectangles surrounds a central white square, reminiscent of London’s urban Event layouts. Each rectangle is evenly spaced around the edge, providing a balanced and cohesive design.

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A gray, abstract design features a horseshoe-shaped figure at its center, evoking the sophisticated aesthetics of sustainable events. It is framed by evenly spaced small rectangles along the top, right, and bottom edges.

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A geometric arrangement of gray rectangles and squares on a white background forms a pattern resembling a pixelated face. This innovative design could inspire sustainable event layouts, with three large rectangles as eyes and mouth, and smaller squares adding extra features.

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mEETING Room dIMENSIONS

Height: 2.8m
Length: 5.6m
Width: 5.1m
Area: 28.3m²
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A modern conference room with a long table set for meetings, inspired by Kathleen Lonsdale’s collaborative spirit. Black chairs surround the table, and a presentation screen and flip chart are visible at the front of the room.
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The Perfect Space For

George Fox suite The auditorium at Friends House, known for hosting large event spaces in London, boasts wooden paneling and a sea of attentive faces. The diverse audience listens intently to the unseen speaker as rows of seats rise toward the back, reminiscent of venues near Kings Cross and London Euston.

Conferences & Seminars

Benjamin Lay Suite A group of people seated in blue chairs in a modern conference room near London Euston & Kings Cross, face a presenter standing by a screen. Displaying the WorldHost logo and text about customer service excellence, the event emphasizes sustainable practices in meeting layouts.

Team Building & Away Days

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Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971)

Born in Ireland, Kathleen Lonsdale studied at Bedford College for Women and earned an MSc in physics from University College London in 1924. She discovered the structure of the benzene ring and contributed to diamond synthesis, with Lonsdaleite named in her honour.

A leading theorist in X-ray crystallography, she was one of the first female Fellows of the Royal Society in 1945. Lonsdale and her husband became Quakers in 1935, and she was a committed pacifist, anti-nuclear campaigner, and prison reformer. She served as President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and was imprisoned during World War II for refusing civil defence duties.

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