by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Image: Horace Barker as King John from a postcard of the Bury St Edmunds Historical Pageant (1907), by permission of the St Edmundsbury Heritage Service. October 2016 marks the octocentenary of the death of King John, the ruler who gave us Magna Carta. Dr Alexander...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 30, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1. (1797). The Great Fire of London, public domain, Yale Centre for British Art It may be tempting fate to revisit a fire in a library, but as part of this autumn’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research is...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 12, 2016 | Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement, The Social Scholar
Dr Caroline Edwards (above), who will delivered the School of Advanced Study’s July Social Scholar seminar, provides a first-person account of why academics should care about open access. She says academic careers might depend upon publishing in ‘the right journal’ –...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 23, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Of the thousands of propaganda posters produced during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), one stands out for Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri, a lecturer in the School of English, University of St Andrews. This anonymous poster, which is signed R A and was produced for the...
by Talking Humanities | May 24, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, Training and Research
With historical Hansard fully searchable by speaker and party for the first time, thanks to the ‘Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data’ project based at the Institute of Historical Research, it is now possible easily to explore how particular issues have been...
by Talking Humanities | May 19, 2016 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Image created using tagxedo.com Dr James Hadley, researcher in translation/translingual studies at the School of Advanced Study, gives a taster of a ground-breaking new project on the world of legal translation that is bringing together the expertise of the Institute...