by Talking Humanities | May 1, 2018 | Politics & Law, Publications
Professor Diamond Ashiagbor and Steven Whittle introduce the republished Women and the Law, the first book in the UK to examine how the law has perceived and responded to women. Women and the Law, one of the first modern books of its kind, was originally published in...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 26, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications
Dr Miranda Kaufmann, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, provides a glimpse into the lives of some of the pioneering women she came across while researching the overlooked stories of Africans in Tudor Britain. The resulting publication,...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 23, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Publications
A year ago Professor Sarah Churchwell, public engagement chair at the School of Advanced Study and professorial fellow in American literature at its Institute of English Studies, thought she knew what she would be doing – in terms of big projects at least – for 2017....
by Talking Humanities | Nov 16, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Publications
How did Zimbabwe get here? What is going on? What is likely to happen? The short answer is a combination of short-term factors, and long-term trends, economic structural pressures, political policy choices, and personal power agenda. Read this extract from Robert...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 14, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications
Jane Roberts is a senior research fellow in the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of English Studies (IES) and emeritus professor of English language and medieval literature, University of London. She has recently published Kane from Canada, the memoir of George...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 23, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Publications
Christina Kamposiori, programme officer at Research Libraries UK, introduces a new report, published in July, entitled ‘The role for research libraries in the creation, curation, archiving, and preservation of tools for Digital Humanities research’. Its findings...
