by Talking Humanities | Aug 10, 2015 | Features, Philosophy, Research & Resources, The Human Mind Project
The Human Mind Project hosted by the School of Advanced Study (SAS), recently secured substantial funding from the Higher Education Council for England (Hefce). Dr Mattia Gallotti, the Project’s manager and a researcher in philosophy of mind and society, writes about...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 6, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Dr Karina Urbach’s comments in The Sun newspaper about the 17-second home movie showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute in the 1930s, which she says, ‘should have been in the public domain 50 years ago,’ was picked up by an unprecedented number and range of media...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 30, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and what is style over the ages and across different cultures. The history of fashion, and the role of fashion in history, is not just confined to...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 23, 2015 | Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) has just published Using Film as a Source, the first in a new series of research guides designed to equip students and new researchers with the information they need to tackle a particular field. Written by Sian Barber a...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 16, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study
The complex processes and consequences of the political economy of screen media were at the core of The Political Screen conference organised for the Screen Studies Group by University College London (UCL) and London School of Economics (LSE), with support from SAS....
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....
by Talking Humanities | Jul 2, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Human Rights, Politics & Law
As director of the Human Rights Consortium’s Extreme Energy Initiative, earlier this year Dr Damien short was asked by local resident’s groups to provide expert testimony to the Lancashire County Council Development Control Committee (DCC) on the human rights impacts...
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...
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,...
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...
