by Talking Humanities | May 15, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), Professor Philip Murphy, writes about his new book, The Empire’s New Clothes, the Myth of the Commonwealth, which was published by Hurst in April. It was a rare example of a Baldrick-style ‘cunning plan’...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 18, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Commonwealth Heads of Government with a cricketers team in Harare during CHOGM 1991. © Commonwealth Secretariat In the tenth of a series of scholarly articles marking the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, Professor Keith Somerville,...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 16, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Nelson Mandela with Chief Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku. © Commonwealth Secretariat In the eighth of a series of scholarly articles marking the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, Dr Susan Williams, senior research fellow at the Institute...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 13, 2016 | Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Daniel Snowman, senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), introduces a further series of public seminars about the ways we use, and abuse, the past. This series at the IHR takes off from an extraordinary (and potentially dangerous) paradox....
by Talking Humanities | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Image: Illustration from Richard Foulkes, The Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864 With just over two weeks until the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death on 23 April 1616, Professor Sir Brian Vickers, one of the UK’s most distinguished Shakespearian scholars,...
