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Get your adrenaline rush this weekend: Parkour training at the #Bloomsbury Festival

Get your adrenaline rush this weekend: Parkour training at the #Bloomsbury Festival

by aseifert | Oct 17, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Events, Public Engagement

Looking for something a bit unusual for the weekend? Why not learn some Parkour at the Bloomsbury Festival!  Parkour is an athletic discipline based around free and efficient movement through urban space.  Here’s your chance to learn the basics and see Parkour...
From the archives: The end of the war and the return of academics to Senate House

From the archives: The end of the war and the return of academics to Senate House

by aseifert | Oct 16, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

The continuous day-and-night occupation with no break at week-ends or holiday times, made routine maintenance difficult. This year’s Bloomsbury Festival takes as a theme the idea of subverting the Ministry of Information as a Ministry of Communication.  We talked in...
From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

by aseifert | Oct 14, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun – John Betjeman, A Subaltern’s Love Song In preparation for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival we are exploring various documents in the Senate House Library...
From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

by aseifert | Oct 10, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

It will be seen that the requirements of the Ministry over the last seven years, including six most difficult years under war conditions, have been very exacting, and far beyond those of the University in normal times In preparation for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival...
The Senses at #BloomsburyFest 2013

The Senses at #BloomsburyFest 2013

by aseifert | Oct 9, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, CenSes, Events, Public Engagement

Our senses make the world that we experience come alive.  Artists realised this long ago, so have those who wish to convey a message whether it be personal, political, or religious.  At this year’s Bloomsbury Festival there are various events that attempt to challenge...
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