by Talking Humanities | Oct 17, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Hollie Price introduces her 2017 Being Human event – a recreation of a wartime film show originally created by the Ministry of Information (MoI) which was responsible for government publicity and propaganda during the Second World War. It will be held at Senate House,...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 12, 2017 | Being Human festival, Digital, Features, Public Engagement
Image: © Genna Naccache Genna Naccache discusses the motivations behind the ‘Lost rights, found justice? Refugee and migrant rights’ photography competition and exhibition, one of the events in the School of Advanced Study’s 2017 Being Human festival of the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 3, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
The life of Robert Edward Hart, one of the UK’s most prolific collectors of rare books and coins, was truly, and perhaps deliberately, lost for the 70 years since his death. As part of the 2017 Being Human festival of the humanities, researchers from the School of...
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 Talking Humanities | Aug 3, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, From the Archives, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Republished
American geographer, author and travel writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro takes Adom Philogene Heron on a journey through the Caribbean while discussing his new book, Island People, and the late CLR James whose personal papers are housed in Senate House Library. How did...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 13, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Features, From the Archives, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
During F Scott Fitzgerald’s lifetime, Hollywood released six films based on his works. Below, Martina Mastandrea, whose PhD thesis focuses on the complex relationship between Fitzgerald and these silent film adaptations produced between 1920 and 1926, explains how she...
