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...
by ministry | Oct 7, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival
In the run-up to #BloomsburyFest 2013, we are sharing a series of blog posts offering a sneak peak at this year’s line-up of performances, events, talks and workshops hosted by the School of Advanced Study. In this post we introduce Alex Beeching and his team who will...
by admin | Oct 3, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival
“they discuss Bloomsbury’s history as a meeting place and point of intersection for poets, radicals, and visionaries of all kinds”...
by ministry | Oct 1, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, Uncategorized
“to evoke a wind that blows through Senate House library, opening books and prompting unexpected stories”...
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...
by ministry | Sep 26, 2013 | Bloomsbury Festival, From the Archives
“The puzzle is that during the initial two years of war this department was roundly and widely condemned for inefficiency, for comic blunders and for irritating rather than reassuring the public. How could it be that morale was sound and yet the department...
