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An earlier Ireland revealed

An earlier Ireland revealed

by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources

Ireland has been in the press a lot in connection with Brexit, trade and borders. The July feature of the month from Senate House Library is ‘L’Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse’, a former bestselling monograph about an earlier Ireland which...
An atheist’s gift for the Lenten library: Isaac Watts’s ‘Psalms of David’, 19 years in the writing

An atheist’s gift for the Lenten library: Isaac Watts’s ‘Psalms of David’, 19 years in the writing

by Talking Humanities | Mar 11, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Rare books curator, Dr Karen Attar, turns her attention to a Senate House Library tome which concentrates on singing – Isaac Watts’s ‘The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament’. Around this time in previous years, I have sometimes discussed...
Race, faith and radicalism: Martin Luther King at St Paul’s Cathedral

Race, faith and radicalism: Martin Luther King at St Paul’s Cathedral

by Talking Humanities | May 21, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Black British history lecturer Dr Hannah Elias, remembers Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1964 visit to London where he commanded a 4,000-strong congregation at St Paul’s Cathedral, that bulwark of national and imperial memory which was also a site of radical...
#PoTW: Heresy and borders

#PoTW: Heresy and borders

by Talking Humanities | Jun 11, 2018 | Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Philosophy, Politics & Law, PotW, Training and Research

Following two successful New York City conferences in 2014 and 2016, the International Society for Heresy Studies is holding its third biennial conference at Senate House, hosted by the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of...
Contemporary neglect of conscience is a mistake

Contemporary neglect of conscience is a mistake

by Talking Humanities | Apr 24, 2018 | Uncategorized

Dr Dafydd Daniel, a Christian ethics lecturer at the University of Oxford and one of ten academics selected by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as a New Generation Thinker, talks about his interest in the much-maligned ethical theory of...
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