by Talking Humanities | May 21, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Black British history lecturer Dr Hannah Elias, remembers Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1964 visit to London where he commanded a 4,000-strong congregation at St Paul’s Cathedral, that bulwark of national and imperial memory which was also a site of radical...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 9, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Roger Kain, professor of humanities at the School of Advanced Study and editor of the History of Cartography’s fifth volume, discusses how this global collaborative project helps us understand maps as cultural documents. I am composing this post on 26 March 2020, the...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 7, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources
During Oscars season back in February, Dr Sam Manning argued that cinema’s doom-mongers should look to the past to consider how theatres have dealt with threats, such as the emergence of television. Little did the cinema historian, who is based at Queen’s University...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 2, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Remember London’s factories? OK, it’s a loaded question because the city still has them, but so many have been lost, including some iconic ones like West London’s Firestone Tyre Factory. Not many had the option of reinventing themselves like The Hoover Building which...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tripurdaman Singh, who holds a British Academy Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has just published his new book Sixteen Stormy Days, exploring one of the pivotal events in Indian political history. As India marks the 70th anniversary of the...