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‘For the Greater Glory of God and the More Universal Good’: a conference exhibition

by guestblogger | Jun 5, 2014 | Events, Features, From the Archives, Libraries & Publications

Karen Attar (Senate House Library) For several years now Senate House Library has been supporting conferences hosted by SAS Institute’s wherever possible. Usually this is through small displays of books pertinent to the conference theme, to enhance the experience of...

From the archives: The end of the war and the return of academics to Senate House

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...
From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

From the archives: First Aid at the Ministry of Information – J. Hunter Dunn’s First Aid Book

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...
From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

From the archives: University workers conscripted by Ministry of Information

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...
From the archives: What to do with the libraries?

From the archives: What to do with the libraries?

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...

From the archives: The Ministry of Information moving into Senate House

by ministry | Sep 27, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives

This year’s Bloomsbury Festival (15-20 October 2013) takes a look back and forward with the University of London’s Senate House as its focus.  Built in the 1930s as the second tallest building in London (second only to St Paul’s Cathedral) Senate House soon became...
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