by georgiareeves | Jul 2, 2020 | Summer Schools
IES PhD student Natalia Fantetti talks to author Francesca Wade about her new book, Square Haunting. To research the work of women is to realise just how often their histories have been obscured, consigned to the footnotes, or just plainly left out. With my own...
by georgiareeves | Jun 23, 2020 | Summer Schools
Dr Karen Attar answers some questions about the use of special collections material from Senate House Library on London Rare Books School courses: No matter what course they are studying, students on the London Rare Books School benefit from opportunities to work with...
by georgiareeves | Jun 17, 2020 | History of the Book, Summer Schools
Professor Simon Eliot, founding Director of the London Rare Books School, reflects on the origins and history of the School: The first London Rare Books School ran in 2007. As its founding director, what motivated you to establish it? Looking back on the origins of...
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 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. ...
