Refugee Week Series: Writing that kills
Post by Ms Andrea Meyer Ludowisy, as part of our Refugee Week series. The first post, about the Austrian-Jewish Exile Theatre in London, can be found here. The third post, about refugee protection...
View ArticlePick of the Week: Launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender...
This event marks the launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change, edited by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites. While...
View ArticleLooking for a rare book?
Jean de Marlès, Histoire de Russie depuis l’origine de la monarchie jusqu’à nos jours (1857). From the M.S. Anderson Collection at Senate House Library In a major piece of research facilitation, IES...
View Article‘For the Greater Glory of God and the More Universal Good’: a conference...
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...
View ArticleWhat should be seen in a Library?
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,...
View ArticleCreole music of the French West Indies receives novel investigation
Black Caribbean musical traditions are rich in variety and the biguine, originating before emancipation, epitomises French Antillean Creole music. In this post Dr John Cowley, senior research fellow at...
View ArticleMagna Carta 1215–2015: England’s greatest export
The first printed edition of Magna Carta, 1508 The four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta will come together for the first time in history as part of a one-off event organised by the...
View ArticleEmerging research on the First World War, with History Lab
Evening talks, Thursday 26 February, 6pm in the Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Senate House Library is very happy to welcome two members of History Lab, Jennifer Doyle and Kim Brice...
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