by aseifert | Jun 16, 2015 | Being Human festival, Events, Public Engagement
Preparations for the second Being Human festival of the humanities got underway in earnest on Wednesday 10 June at our first ever Being Human Summer Social. More than 150 people from across the country came to the School of Advanced Study’s home at Senate House in...
by aseifert | Jun 12, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Magna Carta 800, Politics & Law
On 15 June 1215, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, King John sealed (not signed) the Magna Carta. Although this iteration of the document on legal rights lasted for a very short time before being torn up, its successors paved...
by aseifert | Jun 8, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The UK’s prime minister is said to be prepared to break with the European convention on human rights, co-drafted by British lawyers in the wake of the second world war, if the Strasbourg-based court refuses to accept proposals to ‘scrap’ the Human Rights Act 1998. In...
by aseifert | Jun 4, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital
A NeDiMAH travel bursary allowed Dr Courtney J. Campbell to attend the ‘New methods of manuscript imaging and analysis’ workshop in Aberystwyth, Wales. Here she reflects on the event and provides a snapshot of some of the highlights. It was a very strange dance. On...
by aseifert | May 28, 2015 | Training and Research
Studying a subject in-between traditional disciplines is often talked about, but it is not always successfully practised in reality. Interdisiplinarity nonetheless offers a laudable goal to freeing research from silos, and enabling new, interesting avenues of research...
