by Talking Humanities | Feb 10, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar is fascinated by a rare Senate House Library autobiography full of art, politics and scandal. Like any venerable institution, the University of London accrues a variety of artworks. For example, it holds various sculptures: marble busts of Victorian...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 25, 2021 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley discusses the eerier side of the capital and her recent book Into the London Fog, ahead of her upcoming online talk at the City of Westminster Libraries and Archives. Near the beginning of Hitchcock’s 1927 silent chiller The Lodger, respectable,...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 17, 2020 | Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Actor Jack Tarlton looks back on this year’s virtual theatre workshops Playing with Prose, introducing two new festive-themed plays created by participants. As we approach Christmas in this strangest of years, it somehow feels right to present two short Christmas...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 10, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Karen Attar, research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, uncovers traces of Thomas Becket in the Senate House Library. December 2020 possibly marks two anniversaries concerning the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. He might have been born 900 years...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 10, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Tucked away among the treasures of Senate House Library is this ‘foundation of human progress and empowerment’, writes Dr Karen Attar. In October 1620 Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans and Baron Verulam, introduced the system of inductive logic with the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 28, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Publications, Republished
Dr Rajiv Prabhakar wonders whether utopian or speculative fiction, such as Edward Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward: 2000–1887’, might be a useful guide when considering alternative visions for the future. The coronavirus crisis has ushered in its own...
