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Agents of change: Senate House women on the lasting effects of ‘everyday activism’

Agents of change: Senate House women on the lasting effects of ‘everyday activism’

by Talking Humanities | Mar 8, 2019 | Bloomsbury Festival, Digital, Features, Human Rights, Public Engagement, Republished

To celebrate International Women’s Day, researcher and artist Dr Elizabeth Dearnley explores the ideas behind the Bloomsbury Festival’s ‘Senate Women’ audio installation. It tells the stories of ten women working in Senate House. In a series of interviews recorded...
Why all artists should do community engagement work

Why all artists should do community engagement work

by Talking Humanities | Sep 12, 2017 | Bloomsbury Festival, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Features, Music, Public Engagement

Vivien Conacher is a professional opera singer (mezzo-soprano), who trained at the Royal College of Music. In 2016  she founded Songhaven, a dementia-friendly concert series based in Bloomsbury. In this blog she reflects on how her involvement in the School of...
Get your adrenaline rush this weekend: Parkour training at the #Bloomsbury Festival

Get your adrenaline rush this weekend: Parkour training at the #Bloomsbury Festival

by aseifert | Oct 17, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Events, Public Engagement

Looking for something a bit unusual for the weekend? Why not learn some Parkour at the Bloomsbury Festival!  Parkour is an athletic discipline based around free and efficient movement through urban space.  Here’s your chance to learn the basics and see Parkour...
From the archives: The end of the war and the return of academics to Senate House

From the archives: The end of the war and the return of academics to Senate House

by aseifert | Oct 16, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

The continuous day-and-night occupation with no break at week-ends or holiday times, made routine maintenance difficult. This year’s Bloomsbury Festival takes as a theme the idea of subverting the Ministry of Information as a Ministry of Communication.  We talked in...
From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

by aseifert | Oct 14, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun – John Betjeman, A Subaltern’s Love Song In preparation for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival we are exploring various documents in the Senate House Library...
From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

by aseifert | Oct 10, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

It will be seen that the requirements of the Ministry over the last seven years, including six most difficult years under war conditions, have been very exacting, and far beyond those of the University in normal times In preparation for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival...
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