by Talking Humanities | Mar 16, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Politics & Law, Republished
Mari Takayanagi has worked in the Parliamentary Archives in London in various roles including public services, outreach, preservation and access, since 2000. She has a particular interest in the history of women and parliament, and is currently involved in projects to...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 14, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Universities across the world have been witnessing an increase in student-led resistance to rightwing politics. However, this is not a new phenomenon says PhD student, Rahul Ranjan. In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s shock election win, students across the US...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 9, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
In the first of a series of articles focusing on the growing hostility to journalistic independence across the Commonwealth, journalist and Africa analyst Martin Plaut, calls on the 52-nation group to take a more robust view on these new threats. Do they challenge...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2017 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: © Matt Crossick To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, we asked five of the School of Advanced Study’s female academics – Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Professor Jane Winters, Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Dr Sarah Singer and Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex – what...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 2, 2017 | Comms Team, Events, History & Classics, Public Engagement
The government’s announcement toward the end of 2016 that it was going to drop the art history A-level as part of a cull of ‘soft’ subjects, shocked the art world. One reprieve later, Hannah Marynissen and Lisa Marie Deml from the Courtauld Institute of Art, says...