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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
