by Talking Humanities | Aug 4, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
As we celebrate the Year of the Nurse and the 150th anniversary of the British Red Cross, Institute of English Studies research fellow Dr Karen Attar, takes a look at an eye-witness account of a nurse who accompanied Florence Nightingale, ‘the lady with the lamp’, to...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 19, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Geoffrey Crossick, distinguished professor of the humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, argues that in the west we ‘now live in societies where nuance and complexity seem unwelcome, where simple answers to complex realities are the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 22, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Of all the 18th-century publications about Captain Cook’s voyages at Senate House Library, the major one is undoubtedly that compiled by George William Anderson, A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World, explains Dr Karen Attar, the...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 4, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Francis Calvert Boorman’s research on the history of arbitration for the Access to Justice project at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, reveals why we need to understand the uses of this alternative justice system to explain the workings of...
