by Talking Humanities | Apr 16, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Senate House Library curator Karen Attar celebrates 250 years of Wordsworth with a look at a rare publication that’s as beautiful in form as in content. Among those who have never knowingly read his poems, ‘The child is father of the man’ and ‘I wandered lonely as a...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 24, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Rare books curator Dr Karen Attar gets her teeth into one of Senate House Library’s recent acquisitions. As an undergraduate, I read Old Icelandic. In one of the mediaeval family sagas a character renounces meat for Lent, and people travel from all over Iceland to...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 20, 2020 | Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, examines Pablo de Santa Maria’s Scrutinium Scripturarum ([Incunabula] 64), a source material in medieval and Renaissance studies and an example of the transition from manuscript to print....
by Talking Humanities | Jan 2, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
It’s January. The evenings remain long. How to fill them? Try some 19th-century parlour magic suggests Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s (SHL) curator of rare books and university art. Try typing ‘winter amusements’ as a title keyword into Library Hub Discover...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 19, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications
In the spirit of Christmas, Dr Karen Attar explores Senate House Library’s collection of seasonal books and finds a 19th-century twist on the traditional fairy tale that wasn’t to everyone’s liking. Christmastime, Christmas presents, possibly Christmas books. Think...