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From daily sermons to satire, the rediscovered musings of a long-lost German polymath

From daily sermons to satire, the rediscovered musings of a long-lost German polymath

by Talking Humanities | Feb 14, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources

Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, opens the library’s Vye Collection to view the work of Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz, a ’pietistic Protestant polymath who wrote under several pseudonyms’.  The German writer...
Back to the future

Back to the future

by Talking Humanities | Sep 3, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications

Dr Nick Barratt, previously head of medieval, early modern, legal, maps and photographs at The National Archives, is now responsible for developing Senate House Library’s collection and public engagement strategy.    It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to take...

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