by Talking Humanities | Mar 3, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, History & Classics, Projects, Research & Resources
By Danny Millum Magna Carta has inspired some of today’s fundamental liberties, yet it began life 800 years ago as a practical solution to a political crisis. It has since evolved to become an international symbol of freedom, and with the creation of the largest...
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 bcoleman | Jan 3, 2014 | Events
Robert Darnton’s Panizzi lectures at the British Library will provide a detailed account of how censorship operated under three authoritarian regimes, Bourbon France in the eighteenth century, British India in the nineteenth century, and Communist East Germany in the...
by admin | Nov 8, 2013 | The Social Scholar
Julian Harrison is the curator of pre-1600 manuscripts and books at the British Library; he also helps to manage the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts blog. In this talk for The Social Scholar seminar Julian explains what the British Library has gained from...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | The Social Scholar
The Social Scholar is a free public lunchtime seminar series run by the School of Advanced Study. Each seminar takes one aspect of social media or focuses on a specific social media tool or platform. This is the first of a series of posts archiving online what...
