by Talking Humanities | Feb 27, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Dr Roy Booth, senior lecturer in the English department at Royal Holloway University of London, recalls a recent visit to Senate House Library where he and his students took part in a special session looking at early printed books on witchcraft held in the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.
by Talking Humanities | Feb 19, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement
Research librarian Tansy Barton introduces Senate House Library’s exhibition on the history of magic from the 16th to the early 20th century, which taps into the fabulous world of the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature. Focusing on conjuring and magic...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 14, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, opens the library’s Vye Collection to view the work of Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz, a ’pietistic Protestant polymath who wrote under several pseudonyms’. The German writer...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 8, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Politics & Law
As we commemorate the end of the First World War, Talking Humanities looks back to an even longer war which devastated Europe. The Thirty Years War began in May 1618 when the ardent Catholic King Ferdinand II of Bohemia, soon to become Holy Roman Emperor, attempted...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 4, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications
Rights for women: London’s pioneers in their own words is a free exhibition at Senate House Library (SHL), which runs from 16 July–15 December. It explores the famous and also lesser-known stories of more than 50 female pioneers who used London as a platform to...