by Talking Humanities | Sep 22, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
As Plymouth marks 400 years since the colonists set sail for what is now the US, Dr Fiona McCall, senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Portsmouth, explores anti-puritan satire and how it was used to counteract their growing influence. England...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 11, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Research fellow Syed Badrul Ahsan explores the tragic and painful fault lines underpinning modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In these monsoon days of August in what once was the Indian subcontinent, memories of the blood-drenched division of India come alive. Or,...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 22, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Of all the 18th-century publications about Captain Cook’s voyages at Senate House Library, the major one is undoubtedly that compiled by George William Anderson, A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World, explains Dr Karen Attar, the...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 3, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, PotW
‘It soon come’, runs the refrain in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s 1974 poem ‘Time Come’. ‘It soon come / look out! look out! look out!’. In the Institute of Historical Research’s 2019 Wiley Lecture, Dr Rob Waters will draw on the research for his new book, Thinking Black:...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 25, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. And over those years it has grown and flourished to develop the link between policy and practice, writes Dr Sue Onslow, the institute’s deputy director. The Institute of...
