by Talking Humanities | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications
Dr Karen Attar, curator of rare books and university art at Senate House Library, explores the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American industrialist who set up more than 2,800 libraries around the world before he died on 11 August 1919. In accordance...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 3, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
The life of Robert Edward Hart, one of the UK’s most prolific collectors of rare books and coins, was truly, and perhaps deliberately, lost for the 70 years since his death. As part of the 2017 Being Human festival of the humanities, researchers from the School of...
