by Talking Humanities | Feb 13, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
PhD student, Rahul Ranjan, introduces Birsa Munda, the radical Indian freedom fighter, religious leader and folk hero who spearheaded a tribal religious Millenarian movement that rose out of modern-day Bihar and Jharkhand in the late 19th century. In the late 19th...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 21, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
In a major speech two weeks ago Baroness Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth Secretary General, called for a set of guidelines for the Commonwealth to develop a more prominent and active role in preserving media freedom and journalistic independence across its...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 13, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Projects, Research & Resources
Image: © IWM (D 650A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate at King’s College London, provides an overview of the ‘Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’ project being undertaken by the Institute of English Studies (IES) in...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 4, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Music, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
L-R: Poland’s Maximilian Maria, South Africa’s Manche Masemola, Uganda’s Archbishop Janani Luwum. West entrance to Westminster Abbey featuring ten Twentieth Century Martyrs © Jean-Christophe Benoist via Wikimedia Commons As part of this year’s Being...
