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 9, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Roger Kain, professor of humanities at the School of Advanced Study and editor of the History of Cartography’s fifth volume, discusses how this global collaborative project helps us understand maps as cultural documents. I am composing this post on 26 March 2020, the...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 7, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
During Oscars season back in February, Dr Sam Manning argued that cinema’s doom-mongers should look to the past to consider how theatres have dealt with threats, such as the emergence of television. Little did the cinema historian, who is based at Queen’s University...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 2, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Remember London’s factories? OK, it’s a loaded question because the city still has them, but so many have been lost, including some iconic ones like West London’s Firestone Tyre Factory. Not many had the option of reinventing themselves like The Hoover Building which...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 25, 2020 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Dr Alex Marraccini, a researcher with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project exploring Aby Warburg’s legacy, is hosting a series of weekly online art history seminars on live-streaming service Twitch – this week, she explores two iconic paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 24, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Rare books curator Dr Karen Attar gets her teeth into one of Senate House Library’s recent acquisitions. As an undergraduate, I read Old Icelandic. In one of the mediaeval family sagas a character renounces meat for Lent, and people travel from all over Iceland to...
