by Talking Humanities | Jan 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) offers aid to writers in financial distress. Its beneficiaries have included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mervyn Peake, and Dylan Thomas. One of the Fund’s major donors was A A Milne, who left the rights to Winnie the Pooh...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 26, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Karen Attar celebrates the life of the great Victorian novelist with a recap of the library’s 1863 edition of Romola, perhaps the least-known and least-read of George Eliot’s novels. Why feature Romola in a celebration of the 200th anniversary of George...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 22, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
While researching the rare book collections of two of Lancashire’s historic libraries Dr Cynthia Johnston, a lecturer in the history of the book at the Institute of English Studies, discovered an intriguing album of correspondence from members of Charles Dickens’...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 23, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Dr Maria Castrillo and Rebecca Simpson introduce Senate House Library’s new exhibition, ‘Writing in Times of Conflict’. It highlights the power of words to achieve peace and reconciliation in response to conflicts – a very topical theme and quite extensively covered...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 25, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Kaoru Akagawa, a Master of Japanese calligraphy and guardian of the Kana Shodo (Women Hand) script, discusses her work and why it is her ‘duty to preserve this old tradition’ and bring it to the world’s attention. As a guest of the Book and Print Initiative at the...
