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 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...
