by Talking Humanities | Mar 28, 2017 | Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Training and Research
Last Sunday (26 March), a week of 1,500 events celebrating the French language all over the world came to a close. This year’s theme, ‘The virtual world’, had a decidedly forward-looking flavour that Dr Juliette Scott believes was selected to challenge the legacy of...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 14, 2017 | Graduate Study, Human Rights, Training and Research
Photo by Sophie Giffard, taken with permission Megan Cowley, a recent graduate of the Understanding and Securing Human Rights master’s degree offered by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, was awarded the 2016 Albie Sachs Prize for best dissertation. She describes...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 17, 2016 | Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Image: Tati Nova/Shutterstock The 3 G Network conference, ‘Imagining the Guyanas: ecologies of memory and movement’, is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the history, culture and peoples of the three Guyanas – Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana. Sonya...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 6, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Image: Horace Barker as King John from a postcard of the Bury St Edmunds Historical Pageant (1907), by permission of the St Edmundsbury Heritage Service. October 2016 marks the octocentenary of the death of King John, the ruler who gave us Magna Carta. Dr Alexander...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 9, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Republished, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Blitz spirit: air raid damage in Britain during the Second World War © IWM (HU 36220A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate on the Institute of English Studies and King’s College London Ministry of Information project, A publishing and communications history of the...
by Talking Humanities | May 24, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, Training and Research
With historical Hansard fully searchable by speaker and party for the first time, thanks to the ‘Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data’ project based at the Institute of Historical Research, it is now possible easily to explore how particular issues have been...