by guestblogger | Dec 4, 2014 | Features
By Duncan Boak This isn’t a question that gets asked very often. It is, however, one that the organisation I have established, Fifth Sense, the charity for smell and taste disorder sufferers, is starting to ask more and more. The sense of smell is something...
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 Talking Humanities | Nov 11, 2014 | Being Human festival, Features, Ministry of Information Digital, Republished
From time to time members of the School of Advanced Study publish about their research on other websites. This post republishes that work from the original article. Republished from By Henry Irving, School of Advanced Study (Institute of English Studies) At...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 29, 2014 | Features, Fellowships & Networks, Research & Resources
The economics of scholarly publishing are incredibly tangled. Even Harvard University cannot afford all the material that its researchers need to conduct their work. In this piece, Dr Martin Eve picks apart the histories and economics that have led to the open access...
by admin | Oct 22, 2014 | Features
By Professor William Philpott In October 1914 the British army found itself fighting near a Belgian town that was to become synonymous with British military experience in the First World War, Ypres. While traditional images of individual and collective heroism worthy...
