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Crowdsourcing, scholarship and the academy

Crowdsourcing, scholarship and the academy

by aseifert | Oct 20, 2015 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar

The Social Scholar is a free lunchtime seminar series discussing all things ‘social’ within humanities research. We are privileged to have Mia Ridge for our first session of the autumn term talking about the worth of crowdsourcing as part of research projects. This...
When in Rome: the castle of the holy angel reveals its secrets

When in Rome: the castle of the holy angel reveals its secrets

by aseifert | Jul 7, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Training and Research

Three hours exploring the dark tunnels inside a tomb, inside a castle on the banks of Rome’s River Tiber has given Professor Greg Woolf , director of the Institute of Classical studies, a whole new perspective on the Castel Sant’Angelo – the castle of the holy angel....
Learning the right lessons from the Waterloo bicentenary

Learning the right lessons from the Waterloo bicentenary

by aseifert | Jun 30, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law

The noted Cambridge historian Herbert Butterfield once observed that, ‘history is all things to all men’. This axiom encapsulates perfectly the attitude of European governments towards the Waterloo bicentenary this month says Dr Jasper Heinzen. The official...
Master’s students’ SOUPed-up route to human rights dissertations

Master’s students’ SOUPed-up route to human rights dissertations

by aseifert | Jun 24, 2015 | Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Training and Research

Soup. It’s had a bad name lately. With the growth of soup kitchens and food banks, there are negative connotations. But the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, has taken an innovative Detroit idea,...
If the invader comes

If the invader comes

by aseifert | Jun 18, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Ministry of Information Digital, Research & Resources

  This blog post by Dr Henry Irving, Institute of English Studies, explains how the Second World War Ministry of Information approached one of its most difficult tasks. The British government faced a terrifying prospect in the summer of 1940. Following the rapid...
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