by Talking Humanities | Apr 1, 2020 | Being Human festival, Digital, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement
As the world goes on lockdown Rose de Lara, projects and communications officer for the School of Advanced Study’s Being Human Festival, explores various ways to enjoy the humanities at home. Over the past few weeks we’ve witnessed the extent to which people...
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 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 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 20, 2020 | Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, examines Pablo de Santa Maria’s Scrutinium Scripturarum ([Incunabula] 64), a source material in medieval and Renaissance studies and an example of the transition from manuscript to print....
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...
