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From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

by aseifert | Oct 14, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun – John Betjeman, A Subaltern’s Love Song In preparation for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival we are exploring various documents in the Senate House Library...
From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

by aseifert | Oct 10, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, History & Classics, Public Engagement

It will be seen that the requirements of the Ministry over the last seven years, including six most difficult years under war conditions, have been very exacting, and far beyond those of the University in normal times In preparation for this year’s Bloomsbury Festival...
Literature at #BloomsburyFest 2013: Libraries, Museums, and Archives

Literature at #BloomsburyFest 2013: Libraries, Museums, and Archives

by aseifert | Oct 1, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Digital, Events, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement

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From the archives: The Ministry of Information moving into Senate House

From the archives: The Ministry of Information moving into Senate House

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...
From the archives: The Ministry of Uncertainty

From the archives: The Ministry of Uncertainty

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...
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