by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Features, Politics & Law
Can movies right the wrongs of miscarriages of justice inflicted by legal systems? They have the dramatic and persuasive tools that are increasingly helpful, writes Dr Mara Malagodi, assistant professor with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Law is photogenic: it...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Michael Thomson, professor of health law at the University of Technology Sydney and chair in health law with the University of Leeds, looks to interdisciplinary dialogue to understand aspects of health care. In his leading contribution to this issue of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Professor Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, introduces a cluster of essays on the future of libraries. The library is dead, long live the library. At once in vogue and under threat, libraries are under pressure as never before. Here in Britain, budget...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Senate House Library’s rare books librarian, Dr Karen Attar, considers the move of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence’s library from his home in Carlton House to its place in Senate House. How do books and the areas designed to hold them interrelate? How does the physicality...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Research & Resources
A digital library needs to be housed with as much care and attention as its physical counterpart, even if the bricks and mortar of its buildings are no more than bits and bytes, says Dr Richard Gartner, Warburg Institute’s digital librarian. A solid, carefully...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Jane Winters, the School of Advanced Study’s professor of digital humanities and director of the new Digital Humanities Research Hub, describes her work on a joint report on libraries as sites of collaboration. In 2021, Research Libraries UK, in partnership with the...
