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 | Dec 29, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights
‘Hands off Africa’, The first All-African Peoples’ Conference, held in Ghana in December 1958, had a tremendous impact on the African independence movement. Dr Mandy Banton, David Wardrop and Dr Susan Williams report on ‘Hands off Africa!!’ The 1958 All African...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications
The abolition of slavery was the catalyst for the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations. The first wave arrived in Mauritius in 1834, followed by Guyana (1838) and...
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 aseifert | May 22, 2013 | Events, Languages & Literature, PotW
Everyone is welcome to join the first meeting of the Leonard Woolf Society! A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf (25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) is perhaps best known as the ‘husband’ of Virginia Woolf. Yet he was...
