by Talking Humanities | Dec 19, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications
In the spirit of Christmas, Dr Karen Attar explores Senate House Library’s collection of seasonal books and finds a 19th-century twist on the traditional fairy tale that wasn’t to everyone’s liking. Christmastime, Christmas presents, possibly Christmas books. Think...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 14, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Publications, Republished, Research & Resources
For this year’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) is putting on a free event in London in partnership with Islington’s Little Angel Theatre and puppeteer-storyteller Tinka Slavicek. Making Medusa, which takes place on 17 November at Little...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 6, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
During this year’s London Rare Books School Krystle Attard Trevisan, a PhD candidate at the Institute of English Studies, attended a course on the history of book illustration, and she was not disappointed. This subject has been a passion for years and what better way...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications
Dr Karen Attar, curator of rare books and university art at Senate House Library, explores the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American industrialist who set up more than 2,800 libraries around the world before he died on 11 August 1919. In accordance...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 15, 2019 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications
What do Rihanna, Janelle Monáe and the futurists have in common? A belief in the future and in the aesthetic and political power of technology, argues Dr Katia Pizzi, author of Italian futurism and the machine. After the end of the First World War, the Italian...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 16, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Since the death of Cecil the lion at the hands of an American hunter, the issue of the best way to conserve increasingly threatened lion populations has become ever more controversial, says Professor Keith Somerville, whose new book, ‘Humans and Lions. Conflict,...
