by Talking Humanities | Dec 17, 2020 | Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Actor Jack Tarlton looks back on this year’s virtual theatre workshops Playing with Prose, introducing two new festive-themed plays created by participants. As we approach Christmas in this strangest of years, it somehow feels right to present two short Christmas...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 10, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Karen Attar, research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, uncovers traces of Thomas Becket in the Senate House Library. December 2020 possibly marks two anniversaries concerning the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. He might have been born 900 years...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 6, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, traces the 175-year history of the first seasonal greeting card. In 1843 Henry Cole, director of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum), devised the world’s...
