by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 29, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, PotW
This premiere of a specially devised piece will bring to life some of the original theatre material from the Miller Archive, which comprises materials and recordings relating to the careers of Austrian Jewish exiles, Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller. Delving...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 22, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, PotW, Public Engagement
Activists, enthusiasts, students and scholars are invited to come and join the conversation about Mary Wollstonecraft’s legacy on 27 April, the 260th anniversary of her birth. The day’s programme reveals a great line-up of speakers (see list below) who will...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 1, 2019 | Events, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
Accountability in humanitarian action is a hot topic. The 2016 World Humanitarian Summit called for more vigorous accountability, with reference to the Core Humanitarian Standard, which was launched a year earlier. And an assumed lack of accountability was further...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 25, 2019 | Digital, Events, History & Classics, PotW, Public Engagement
AfroCROWD UK, part of an international initiative to create and improve information about the African diaspora, is holding a Wikipedia workshop at the Institute of Historical Research on 30 March, 10am–4pm. During the 6-hour event, which is run in partnership with the...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 18, 2019 | History & Classics, PotW
When: 22 March, 12–2pm Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: Outside the Prince Albert, 11 Pembridge Road, W11 3H (nearest tube – Notting Hill Gate) Organised by Layers of London, the Institute of Historical Research’s map-based history project, this...
