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 12, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Earlier this month, in what is termed a ‘major U-turn’, the UK’s Conservative government stopped fracking in England with immediate effect. The decision coincided with the launch of a report by a team of academics who have been studying anti-fracking demonstrations...
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 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...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 16, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Syed Badrul Ahsan, a leading Bangladeshi journalist and associate fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, remembers Jamal Khashoggi the dissident and writer whose murder a year ago in Istanbul is still causing shock waves across the Middle East. Journalists...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Keith Somerville reports on a trip to Damaraland in Namibia, where drought and rising temperatures threatens thousands of people and domestic animals but has created “opportunities for lions to thrive”. Driving through a series of communal conservancies in...
