by Talking Humanities | Oct 18, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law
Dr Edward Owens, author of ‘The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and British Public, 1932-53’, reflects on the current relationship between the British royal family and the press. Prince Harry has done something extraordinary. He has loudly and...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 10, 2019 | Events, History & Classics
Dr Philip Mansel, research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and author of ‘King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV’, previews his forthcoming lecture ‘The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire’, which takes place on 22 October at the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 3, 2019 | History & Classics, Republished
Miriam Leonard, professor of Greek literature and its reception at University College London (UCL), reports on a new exhibition at the Freud Museum supported by a public engagement grant from the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS). For a number of years I have been...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
From revolutionary to deposed leader, Dr Sue Onslow analyses the life and legacy of Robert Mugabe, one of Africa’s longest serving leaders. The tragedy of Robert Gabriel Mugabe was he stayed too long in office. Consequently, the real achievements in terms of...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 27, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Most large research grants are won at the price of months of application writing. The first idea has to be transformed into work packages, each scheduled and costed separately, with pages and pages added on pathways to impact, on deliverables, on ethical approval,...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 15, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications
What do Rihanna, Janelle Monáe and the futurists have in common? A belief in the future and in the aesthetic and political power of technology, argues Dr Katia Pizzi, author of Italian futurism and the machine. After the end of the First World War, the Italian...
