by Talking Humanities | Sep 8, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
As oil prices tumble and we face high national debt, it seems particularly appropriate to reflect on the South Sea Bubble, a stock market crash from 300 years ago, and its contemporary documentation. Dr Karen Attar, research fellow at the Institute of English Studies,...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 4, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
As we celebrate the Year of the Nurse and the 150th anniversary of the British Red Cross, Institute of English Studies research fellow Dr Karen Attar, takes a look at an eye-witness account of a nurse who accompanied Florence Nightingale, ‘the lady with the lamp’, to...
by Talking Humanities | May 7, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
Curator at Senate House Library Dr Karen Attar teases out what makes this novel different, including marriage and morality and clinical depression. One hundred and fifty years ago the final part of Anthony Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton appeared – in accordance...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 29, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
The coronavirus presents the British monarchy with a set of unique short-term and long-term challenges. In this third and final article, written in connection with the release of The Family Firm, Dr Ed Owens reflects on the royal response to the Covid-19 crisis and...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 28, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
A new database of historic publications motivates Dr Karen Attar to rethink teaching with Senate House Library’s literary treasures. In 2019 Bloomsbury Digital Resources brought out Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, a database uniting ‘secondary content with visual primary...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 7, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
During Oscars season back in February, Dr Sam Manning argued that cinema’s doom-mongers should look to the past to consider how theatres have dealt with threats, such as the emergence of television. Little did the cinema historian, who is based at Queen’s University...
