by Talking Humanities | Mar 17, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Rose Aitchison, an MA History of the Book student at the Institute of English Studies, explores the importance of touch in our interaction with the texts we read, from the pre-reading toddler to the expert adult. “For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tripurdaman Singh, who holds a British Academy Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has just published his new book Sixteen Stormy Days, exploring one of the pivotal events in Indian political history. As India marks the 70th anniversary of the...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 10, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Matt Shaw and Michael Townsend talk about the Institute of Historical Research’s (IHR) plans to develop its library holdings and respond to the important charge that discussion and initiatives around ‘decolonisation’ is sometimes just another form of ‘equality...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 26, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
With the threat posed by ‘fake news’ now a recurring refrain in newspaper columns and on social media DPhil student William White thinks it is a good time for historians to refocus attention on the England of the early 1640s, where parallels with recent events abound...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 25, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
As the royal commentariat pore over the minutiae of the statement released by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex concerning their transatlantic future, the bigger question now is how does the House of Windsor move on from the Harry-Meghan episode and set a new course of...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 18, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
Dr Juanita Cox, a research fellow on the ‘Windrush Generation’ history project at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’, celebrates Stockwell’s Bronze Woman, a tribute to Caribbean women which ‘demands the right to be viewed through deracialised...
