by Talking Humanities | Feb 13, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Publications
History is not repeating itself. Harry and Meghan are not Edward and Wallis. Prince Andrew’s transgressions are unlike those committed by other members of the royal family in the recent past. The slimmed down monarchy of 2020 looks different to the monarchy of 2010,...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 11, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
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, explores what Charles Dyson Perrins’ collection of medieval and renaissance...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 6, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Public Engagement
Ahead of the 2020 Oscars, there is talk of the threat that streaming poses to traditional forms of cinema-going. This, however, is nothing new. The cinema industry has long been subject to fluctuations in audience figures, as Dr Sam Manning discovered in research for...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) offers aid to writers in financial distress. Its beneficiaries have included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mervyn Peake, and Dylan Thomas. One of the Fund’s major donors was A A Milne, who left the rights to Winnie the Pooh...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 23, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, reports on a conference urging the governments of Commonwealth member states to take concrete action and put the issue of press freedom high on their list of priorities. How serious is the...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 16, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, remembers Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, a leading political voice among South Africa’s ‘coloured’ community whose passionate advocacy changed the course of the country’s legislation and...
