by Talking Humanities | May 25, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Discipline, Features, History & Classics, Interviews, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Image: © Shutterstock The Second World War has been the subject of many books, documentaries and films, creating a large popular memory of wartime campaigns such as ‘Make do and mend’ and ‘Dig for victory’. Dr Christopher Bannister, a historian at the Institute of...
by aseifert | Jun 8, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The UK’s prime minister is said to be prepared to break with the European convention on human rights, co-drafted by British lawyers in the wake of the second world war, if the Strasbourg-based court refuses to accept proposals to ‘scrap’ the Human Rights Act 1998. In...
by aseifert | Nov 11, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Ministry of Information Digital, Public Engagement, Republished
From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study publish about their research on other websites. This post republishes that work from the original article. Republished from By Henry Irving, School of Advanced Study (Institute of English Studies) At...
by aseifert | Jun 21, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Libraries & Publications
Post by Ms Andrea Meyer Ludowisy, as part of our Refugee Week series. The first post, about the Austrian-Jewish Exile Theatre in London, can be found here. The third post, about refugee protection mechanisms, can be found here. Andrea is the Research Librarian at the...
by aseifert | Jul 4, 2012 | Training and Research
Atlantic Archive: UK-US Relations in an Age of Global War 1939-1945 Britain’s relationship with the United States changed fundamentally in the first half of the twentieth century, and the period 1939 to 1945 was particularly significant in this transformation. Britain...