by Talking Humanities | Nov 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: © IWM (E(AUS) 2078) In the fourth of a series of scholarly articles marking the Armistice centenary, Dr Mandy Banton, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explores the ‘hostile environment’ many colonial ex-servicemen and unemployed...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
In the third of a series of scholarly articles ahead of the Armistice centenary, Dr Peter D Fraser, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, wonders why there is little to commemorate the British West Indians who came to the aid of the mother...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 30, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Over the past four years, in particular, London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) has mounted a series of exhibitions underlining the extraordinary contribution by the man (and woman) power from across the empire to the global British war effort in World War I. As the IMW...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 30, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and what is style over the ages and across different cultures. The history of fashion, and the role of fashion in history, is not just confined to...
by aseifert | Feb 24, 2015 | Events, First World War Centenary, Libraries & Publications
Evening talks, Thursday 26 February, 6pm in the Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Senate House Library is very happy to welcome two members of History Lab, Jennifer Doyle and Kim Brice O’Donnell, to speak about their research on topics related to...
by aseifert | Aug 4, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics
The events of July and August 1914 unfolded in a certain way, but underlying security interests and political attitudes determined the decisions Britain would make. By Professor William Philpott Already aligned with one of the alliances that would go to war in 1914,...
