by Talking Humanities | Apr 25, 2017 | History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Emma Butcher (above) teaches in the English department at Manchester Metropolitan University. She argues that children provide some of the most thoughtful perspectives on war and their writing should be promoted as a useful historical resource. Tell us about...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 2, 2017 | Comms Team, Events, History & Classics, Public Engagement
The government’s announcement toward the end of 2016 that it was going to drop the art history A-level as part of a cull of ‘soft’ subjects, shocked the art world. One reprieve later, Hannah Marynissen and Lisa Marie Deml from the Courtauld Institute of Art, says...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 19, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
This week sees the launch of the Humanities Digital Library, a new open access publishing platform for scholarly books. The Library is an initiative of the School of Advanced Study (SAS), led by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the Institute of Advanced...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 17, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Are the humanities in crisis? Professor Rick Rylance, director of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, discusses the intricacies of the current climate around the humanities, laying out the hopes and fears of...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 10, 2016 | Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Cinematic portrayals of the university, I am not the first to observe, can be a good gauge of the public valuation of the humanities at any given point in time, says Helen Small, professor of English at the University of Oxford. A striking pairing of American movies...