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Books and buildings, if not big data, the Durning-Lawrence Library

Books and buildings, if not big data, the Durning-Lawrence Library

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...
Metadata: giving new access to old books and images

Metadata: giving new access to old books and images

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...
Research libraries as sites of collaboration

Research libraries as sites of collaboration

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Jane Winters, the School of Advanced Study’s professor of digital humanities and director of the new Digital Humanities Research Hub, describes her work on a joint report on libraries as sites of collaboration. In 2021, Research Libraries UK, in partnership with the...
The trust and shifting sands between historians and government

The trust and shifting sands between historians and government

by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Research & Resources

Courses and learning to compress complex stories are promising aids to communication for government and historians, writes Professor Patrick Salmon. How close should academic historians get to government? ‘Very close indeed,’ their universities would probably say,...
Resisting systemic racism by decolonising modern languages

Resisting systemic racism by decolonising modern languages

by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources

As long ago as 1492 a scholar pointed out ‘Language always escorted the empire’. It’s not enough to just recognise that: it’s time for action, write Durham academics Durham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) launched its decolonisation initiatives in the...
OWRI, strategy, partnerships and the future of modern languages

OWRI, strategy, partnerships and the future of modern languages

by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources

The Open World Research initiative (OWRI) has left rich legacies to build on, writes Professor Janice Carruthers, dean of research in arts, humanities and social sciences at Queen’s University Belfast I have just completed a four-year period as priority area...
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