by Talking Humanities | Nov 28, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
India’s liberation experience shows us the importance of differentiating between elites and subordinates, rather than just looking at race, says Martin Plaut, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) at the School of Advanced Study,...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 14, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Publications, Republished, Research & Resources
For this year’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) is putting on a free event in London in partnership with Islington’s Little Angel Theatre and puppeteer-storyteller Tinka Slavicek. Making Medusa, which takes place on 17 November at Little...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 7, 2019 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished
Thirty years after the Cold War barrier was removed, Dr João Florêncio, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, and Ben Miller, a writer and researcher, consider the origins of the ‘legend of Berlin’ and how the newly undivided city provided queer folk...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 24, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature
Krystle Attard Trevisan, a PhD candidate at the Institute of English Studies, explores Rome’s Academies and their role in cultural and intellectual development which she says is closely intertwined with that of print and books. The history of print is the history of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 22, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Of all the 18th-century publications about Captain Cook’s voyages at Senate House Library, the major one is undoubtedly that compiled by George William Anderson, A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World, explains Dr Karen Attar, the...
