by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Dr David Pearson, retired librarian and creator of the electronic database, Book Owners Online, talks about the rewards of teaching and how his summer school students helped to hone his thinking and knowledge. Teaching on the London Rare Books School (LRBS) run the...
by Talking Humanities | May 2, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Research & Resources
Christina Kamposiori, programme officer at Research Libraries UK (RLUK), examines the results of RLUK’s recent report on the role that special collections and archives play in enabling libraries to meet their impact goals. The special collections and archives held by...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 26, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features
Michael Pidd, director of the University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute, explains how, while trying to understand the evolution of early modern thought by modelling the semantic and conceptual changes which occurred in English printed discourse between...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 13, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications
In this excerpt from ‘Radical Collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions’, a new book re-examining the roots of collections, Alycia Sellie, an associate librarian at City University of New York’s Graduate Center Library,...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 15, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Discipline, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Dr Joseph Harley, EHS Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, bemoans the fact that although the poor made up well over half of the British population during the early modern period, archives contain very little information on them. For a historian...
