by Talking Humanities | Mar 3, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, History & Classics, Projects, Research & Resources
By Danny Millum Magna Carta has inspired some of today’s fundamental liberties, yet it began life 800 years ago as a practical solution to a political crisis. It has since evolved to become an international symbol of freedom, and with the creation of the largest...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Research & Resources
Welcome to PORT! [Postgraduate Online Research Training] The School of Advanced Study provides a whole assortment of training courses, workshops, and events but it’s not always easy or convenient to travel to London to reach them and therefore their scope and impact...
by aseifert | Jan 12, 2015 | Events
This year’s History libraries & research open day provides an opportunity to meet and learn about libraries and archives! Join us in the Macmillan Hall on the ground floor of Senate House on 20 January 2015, between 10am and 4:30pm. This one-day programme is...
by guestblogger | Nov 27, 2014 | Features
In this guest post Dr Lucy Noakes, a social and cultural historian at Brighton University, highlights some of the horrors of the trenches in the Great War. ‘We must look out for our bread. The rats have become much more numerous lately because the trenches are no...
by guestblogger | Nov 7, 2014 | Events
By Dina Gusejnova Familiar images from 1989 show people on the Berlin Wall, dancing, holding hands, feet dangling east and west, and laughing. Twenty-five years on, these images remain icons of a fleeting phenomenon: political happiness. It is all too easy to confuse...