by aseifert | Oct 7, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Events, PotW, Public Engagement
In the run-up to #BloomsburyFest 2013, we are sharing a series of blog posts offering a sneak peak at this year’s line-up of performances, events, talks and workshops hosted by the School of Advanced Study. In this post we introduce Alex Beeching and his team who will...
by aseifert | Sep 27, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement
This year’s Bloomsbury Festival (15-20 October 2013) takes a look back and forward with the University of London’s Senate House as its focus. Built in the 1930s as the second tallest building in London (second only to St Paul’s Cathedral) Senate House soon became...
by aseifert | Sep 26, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement
“The puzzle is that during the initial two years of war this department was roundly and widely condemned for inefficiency, for comic blunders and for irritating rather than reassuring the public. How could it be that morale was sound and yet the department...
by aseifert | Sep 25, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
In the run-up to #BloomsburyFest 2013, we are sharing a series of blog posts offering a sneak peak at this year’s line-up of performances, events, talks and workshops hosted by the School of Advanced Study. In this post we introduce Mike Falkner and Matthias Kispert...
by aseifert | Sep 24, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Events, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement
“Buried deep down below the Russell Square car park in the Deller Hall is a special event put on by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies/Human Rights Consortium in collaboration with Dfuse. Together they will be exhibiting a rather different presentation of...
