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An atheist’s gift for the Lenten library: Isaac Watts’s ‘Psalms of David’, 19 years in the writing

An atheist’s gift for the Lenten library: Isaac Watts’s ‘Psalms of David’, 19 years in the writing

by Talking Humanities | Mar 11, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Rare books curator, Dr Karen Attar, turns her attention to a Senate House Library tome which concentrates on singing – Isaac Watts’s ‘The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament’. Around this time in previous years, I have sometimes discussed...
Lent – a fast solution to a 200-year vegetarian push

Lent – a fast solution to a 200-year vegetarian push

by Talking Humanities | Mar 24, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Rare books curator Dr Karen Attar gets her teeth into one of Senate House Library’s recent acquisitions. As an undergraduate, I read Old Icelandic. In one of the mediaeval family sagas a character renounces meat for Lent, and people travel from all over Iceland to...

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