by ministry | Oct 16, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives
The continuous day-and-night occupation with no break at week-ends or holiday times, made routine maintenance difficult. This year’s Bloomsbury Festival takes as a theme the idea of subverting the Ministry of Information as a Ministry of Communication. We talked in...
by ministry | Oct 14, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives
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...
by ministry | Oct 10, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives
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...
by ministry | Oct 9, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival
A #BloomsburyFest exclusive: Win a pass to see Will Self in conversation As part of the Bloomsbury Festival hosted by SAS, acclaimed author Will Self explores the link between modern urban life and mental health, and reads from his Booker prize shortlisted novel...
by ministry | Oct 8, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives, Uncategorized
In our previous post about the Ministry of Information (see here) we noted that the ‘exigencies of war’ alongside the occupation of Senate House by the Ministry caused various problems for the University of London. One of these was a question over what to do with the...
