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 23, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
As the lockdown continues, Dr Laura Cleaver, senior lecturer in manuscript studies and principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC)-funded CULTIVATE MSS project at the Institute of English Studies, discusses how her team is keeping connected via...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 16, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Senate House Library curator Karen Attar celebrates 250 years of Wordsworth with a look at a rare publication that’s as beautiful in form as in content. Among those who have never knowingly read his poems, ‘The child is father of the man’ and ‘I wandered lonely as a...
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...
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 5, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Languages & Literature
Student Mark Pickett (MA History of the Book) wonders at the splendour created in historical literary texts by the then emerging technologies. The Latin root noun textus (meaning ‘texture, tissue, structure’) indicates the sheer craftsmanship that goes into making...
