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...
by Talking Humanities | May 28, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics
Victoria Iglikowski-Broad, The National Archives’ principal records specialist, explores some of the ways that people can engage with the Archives’ wealth of resources at a distance. One of the most powerful aspects of an archive is its physicality. At The National...
by Talking Humanities | May 14, 2020 | Digital, Features, Human Rights, Research & Resources
Dr Sasha Garwood, teaching associate at the School of English, University of Nottingham, on how her new podcast with CN Lester tackles media assumptions about gender and sexuality. It’s no secret that lockdown has resulted in people consuming a lot more media than...
by Talking Humanities | May 5, 2020 | Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, acting director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), discusses the institute’s new online resources and the importance of keeping connected in a time of uncertainty. As Being Human’s director Professor Sarah Churchwell...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 28, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
A new database of historic publications motivates Dr Karen Attar to rethink teaching with Senate House Library’s literary treasures. In 2019 Bloomsbury Digital Resources brought out Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, a database uniting ‘secondary content with visual primary...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 23, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
As the lockdown continues, Dr Laura Cleaver, senior lecturer in manuscript studies and principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC)-funded CULTIVATE MSS project at the Institute of English Studies, discusses how her team is keeping connected via...