by georgiareeves | Jun 15, 2020 | Summer Schools
Karen Attar selects a book from among the many treasures found in the Special Collections in Senate House Library, and reveals its interest for a number of London Rare Books School courses From the inception of the London Rare Books School, the examination of physical...
by eleanorh | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
As noted in previous blogs in the series, sales of Albert Camus’ pestilence classic La Peste are at an all-time high as readers try and make sense of their new, disorienting lockdown experience by turning to stories of enforced pandemic quarantine in past times. My...
by georgiareeves | Jun 11, 2020 | Summer Schools
Dr Katherine Hindley, Acting Director of the London International Palaeography Summer School, Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at NTU, Singapore Anyone who has worked with manuscripts will know the feeling of trying to puzzle out an unreadable word. ...
by georgiareeves | Jun 10, 2020 | Summer Schools
Our London International Palaeography Summer School (LIPSS) tutors offer specialized training in a wide variety of subjects, but they share a love of manuscripts. Here five of the team tell us about why they are passionate about palaeography and how they got into...
by eleanorh | Jun 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Here is this week’s pile of books. No doubt they will last longer than a week – as Susan Elderkin noted in her blog, it is not easy to read in a pandemic. When I was completing my doctoral research around full-time work, I used to have a daydream of being sent to...
