by guestblogger | Dec 2, 2014 | Being Human festival, Republished
Republished from By Professor Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge) My idea of bliss is a Sunday walk that takes in first some English countryside, and second a pleasant medieval church, with some glass or woodwork or monuments. I once even wrote a piece,...
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 20, 2014 | Events, Features, Libraries & Publications
Senate House recently hosted a multi-disciplinary conference exploring the role libraries have played in restricting access to published works and archival materials deemed ‘erotic’. In this post, research librarian Richard Espley reflects on the...
by guestblogger | Nov 18, 2014 | Events, Research & Resources
By Dr Miranda Kaufmann There was a buzz at the Senate House headquarters of the School of Advanced Study (SAS) on 30 October, as at least one hundred people gathered in Chancellor’s Hall to spend the day...
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...
