by Talking Humanities | Aug 11, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Research fellow Syed Badrul Ahsan explores the tragic and painful fault lines underpinning modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In these monsoon days of August in what once was the Indian subcontinent, memories of the blood-drenched division of India come alive. Or,...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 4, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
As we celebrate the Year of the Nurse and the 150th anniversary of the British Red Cross, Institute of English Studies research fellow Dr Karen Attar, takes a look at an eye-witness account of a nurse who accompanied Florence Nightingale, ‘the lady with the lamp’, to...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 2, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
Historian Christopher Phillips compares specialist involvement in the Covid-19 crisis with civilian expertise in government during the First World War. Though very different situations, both point to the importance of experts in planning for and responding to an...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, scrolls through the digital library of Augustus De Morgan to see what books the mathematician and mathematical historian annotated, when and how. If a company wanted to produce a...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 18, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Mathematician, physicist, inventor, religious controversialist, literary author: in a brief life terminated by a lingering, debilitating illness, Blaise Pascal (1623–62) was nothing if not multi-talented. As the curator of rare books at Senate House Library, I think...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Matthew Shaw, Joanna Ashe, David Gee and Dr Raphaële Mouren, reflect on the challenges faced by the School of Advanced Study’s (SAS) libraries during lockdown, and look ahead to the way things will change. Among the novel activity of the...
