by Talking Humanities | Jan 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Training and Research
Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) offers aid to writers in financial distress. Its beneficiaries have included Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mervyn Peake, and Dylan Thomas. One of the Fund’s major donors was A A Milne, who left the rights to Winnie the Pooh...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 23, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Dr Maria Castrillo and Rebecca Simpson introduce Senate House Library’s new exhibition, ‘Writing in Times of Conflict’. It highlights the power of words to achieve peace and reconciliation in response to conflicts – a very topical theme and quite extensively covered...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 25, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Interviews, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement
Kaoru Akagawa, a Master of Japanese calligraphy and guardian of the Kana Shodo (Women Hand) script, discusses her work and why it is her ‘duty to preserve this old tradition’ and bring it to the world’s attention. As a guest of the Book and Print Initiative at the...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 20, 2018 | Features, Languages & Literature
Image: Ciarán Owens in Tumulus, © Michael Carlo By day he is a mild-mannered university administrator and by night, early mornings before work and on the weekends, he is a playwright. Christopher Adams explains how he manages his double life and why a university...
by aseifert | Oct 1, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Digital, Events, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement
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