by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Ireland has been in the press a lot in connection with Brexit, trade and borders. The July feature of the month from Senate House Library is ‘L’Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse’, a former bestselling monograph about an earlier Ireland which...
by Talking Humanities | May 26, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
Before there was Armistead Maupin, there was Valerie Taylor. Jennifer Dentel, researcher and curator at Chicago’s Gerber/Hart library and archive, on America’s first great author of books published in the lesbian pulp fiction genre. It was 1953 and Velma Nacella Young...
by Talking Humanities | May 11, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications
In the 17th-century, Europe is in the throes of a love affair with the colour black. A rich, dark shade that could only be achieved by farming the palo campeche tree found in the Yucatan region in modern-day Mexico. In this article, New World Objects of Knowledge...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 11, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Rare books curator, Dr Karen Attar, turns her attention to a Senate House Library tome which concentrates on singing – Isaac Watts’s ‘The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament’. Around this time in previous years, I have sometimes discussed...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 18, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
When donors bequeath collections to libraries, they sometimes also leave money to develop the collections on the lines on which they were begun. Depending on the amount left, purchases may continue indefinitely, or the capital may be spent, and trust fund closed. Dr...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 16, 2021 | Features, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Graham McKerrow, a contributor to ‘Queer Between the Covers’ (University of London Press, May 2021), looks at Operation Tiger, the British state’s attempt in the 1980s to prohibit the importation of all queer books, newspapers and magazines, including the latest...
