by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, From the Archives, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
The stories of five remarkable objects in Senate House Library’s latest exhibition By Richard Espley, Head of Modern Collections, Senate House Library Since its founding, Senate House Library has amassed numerous artefacts to support teaching, to record the history of...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 25, 2016 | Events, PotW, Training and Research
This session will explore funding options for research projects. Presentations will cover where to find information about funders, how to pitch your research project, how to write a research proposal and how to prepare a proposal budget. It will also consider the...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 9, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Events, Interviews, The Social Scholar, Training and Research
This month at the Social Scholar seminar we will be joined by Dr Nick Barratt, director of collections and engagement at Senate House Library. The medieval historian, who will be talking about personal heritage and the use and limitations of digital resources, has...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2015 | Events, Languages & Literature
Dame Antonia Byatt is currently writing a novel set in psychoanalyst circles in Vienna and among the surrealists in Berlin between the two World Wars. The Man-Booker prize-winning author revealed her latest project while in conversation with Professor Emeritus Martin...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 3, 2015 | Digital, Events, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Professor Jane Winters, the School of Advanced Study’s chair in digital history at the Institute of Historical Research, talks about the forthcoming Academic Book Week, the ‘evolving technology(ies) of the book’ event she is chairing, and what else is on the agenda...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 29, 2015 | Events, History & Classics
The Committee of London Research Libraries in History was created over a decade ago by history librarians in Senate House Library (SHL) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR). Here current SHL and IHR librarians Dr Jordan Landes, Kate Wilcox and Siobhan...