by aseifert | Apr 2, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Republished
By Dr Sue Onslow, senior research fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. On 27 March 2015, Australians gathered to pay their respects to former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in a state funeral following the politician’s death late last week. As Singaporeans...
by aseifert | Apr 1, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Ministry of Information Digital, Projects
In anticipation of the 2015 London Rare Book School, this blog post by Dr Henry Irving examines the idea behind the Ministry of Information’s Official War Books series. What gives a book popular appeal? This question was raised repeatedly in the Ministry of...
by aseifert | Mar 31, 2015 | Being Human festival, Interviews, Projects, Public Engagement
To mark the launch of our call for applications for the first SAS/Senate House Library Public Engagement Innovators Scheme, we asked some staff from across the School about their experiences of public engagement and how it has influenced their research and...
by aseifert | Mar 26, 2015 | Digital, Training and Research
By Fran Alvarez InScribe was conceived and developed at the heart of the SAS as a tool for researchers of different fields and members of the general public with an interest in medieval manuscripts. Its aim is to allow them to acquire basic palaeographic skills...
by aseifert | Mar 24, 2015 | Being Human festival, CenSes, Fellowships & Networks, Interviews, Philosophy, Projects, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
To mark the launch of our call for applications for the first SAS/Senate House Library ‘Public Engagement Innovators Scheme’, we asked some staff from across the School about their experiences of public engagement and how it has influenced their research and...
by aseifert | Mar 19, 2015 | Digital, Events
This free event is being organised by Professor Lorna Hughes, SAS’s chair in digital humanities, and Professor Andrew Prescott, AHRC digital transformations theme fellow at the University of Glasgow. It will acknowledge the long tradition of the use of scientific aids...
by aseifert | Mar 17, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Public Engagement
To mark the launch of our call for applications for the first SAS/Senate House Library ‘Public Engagement Innovators’ scheme we asked some staff from across the School about their experiences of public engagement and how it has influenced their research and...
by aseifert | Mar 13, 2015 | History & Classics, Training and Research
By Jonathan Blaney Historians have always dealt with large amounts of text and have had to develop ways of dealing with the volume of it, such as the index card or the Renaissance book wheel. Now that much textual information comes in electronic form, that data is now...
by aseifert | Mar 12, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
As the 2015 election approaches the Coalition and the Labour party differences on fiscal policy appear to be ones of emphasis – how quickly and what to cut, says John Weeks, Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London. In the debates preceding the election of...
by aseifert | Mar 10, 2015 | Events, The Social Scholar
This month at the Social Scholar seminar we are going to look at social media campaigns for national festivals as an example of what can work well and what can be learnt from such campaigns. This should prove to be a useful session for those using or planning...
