by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Research & Resources
Professor Jane Winters, director of the School of Advanced Study’s Digital Humanities Research Hub, introduces a selection of articles that consider access to digital resources and technologies through the lens of digital humanities. It is more than a decade since a...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Professor David Sugarman traces the bonds between law and the humanities and calls for greater dialogue and cross-fertilisation Law has long been a principal way of studying the human world. Before the rise of modern social science, speculation about society,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Michael Thomson, professor of health law at the University of Technology Sydney and chair in health law with the University of Leeds, looks to interdisciplinary dialogue to understand aspects of health care. In his leading contribution to this issue of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Professor Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, introduces a cluster of essays on the future of libraries. The library is dead, long live the library. At once in vogue and under threat, libraries are under pressure as never before. Here in Britain, budget...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Senate House Library’s rare books librarian, Dr Karen Attar, considers the move of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence’s library from his home in Carlton House to its place in Senate House. How do books and the areas designed to hold them interrelate? How does the physicality...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Research & Resources
A digital library needs to be housed with as much care and attention as its physical counterpart, even if the bricks and mortar of its buildings are no more than bits and bytes, says Dr Richard Gartner, Warburg Institute’s digital librarian. A solid, carefully...
