by Talking Humanities | Aug 13, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
On 15 August 1769, a child was born who would change the face of Europe. He was, of course, Napoleon Bonaparte. Two hundred and fifty years later Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, looks back at him through print....
by Talking Humanities | Aug 8, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
About 50,000 years ago, Britain had great forests and populations of megafauna that most people would find it hard to believe inhabited this country, says Professor Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. They included the...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 6, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
‘Flash Histories’, a recent symposium at the University of Bristol, brought together historians, creative writers and heritage professionals to explore short-form history. Topics included history as poetry, museum labelling, and the value of brief lives in an age of...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 23, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Dr Maria Castrillo and Rebecca Simpson introduce Senate House Library’s new exhibition, ‘Writing in Times of Conflict’. It highlights the power of words to achieve peace and reconciliation in response to conflicts – a very topical theme and quite extensively covered...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 16, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Since the death of Cecil the lion at the hands of an American hunter, the issue of the best way to conserve increasingly threatened lion populations has become ever more controversial, says Professor Keith Somerville, whose new book, ‘Humans and Lions. Conflict,...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 2, 2019 | History & Classics, Interviews
Ten academics from across the country were selected for the 2019 New Generation Thinkers scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Among them is Dr Jade Halbert, a historian at the University of Huddersfield. Below, she explains how her love...
