by chrisa | Sep 18, 2014 | Conferences
Senate House Library often provides small displays to support conferences. The Library scans lists of forthcoming SAS conferences to offer displays, where timing fits and it has relevant holdings, and sometimes conference organisers approach the Library to request...
by chrisa | May 27, 2014 | Conferences
For several years now Senate House Library has been supporting Institute of English Studies conferences with small displays of books, to enhance the experience of conference delegates and demonstrate the relevance of library holdings — especially special...
by chrisa | May 23, 2014 | Conferences, Research Projects
In the run up to – and right after – the broadcast of the much awaited third season of BBC’s Sherlock earlier in 2014, blogs, reviews, articles, and conferences were abuzz with all things Sherlockian, analysing each and every conceivable aspect of the show: from the...
by chrisa | May 2, 2014 | Conferences
The Institute of English Studies hosts a two-day conference on the year (yes, year!) 1814, from 16-17 May 2014. Associate Research Fellow and Rare Books Librarian at Senate House Library, Dr Karen Attar, shares some of the material in the Library related to 1814....
by chrisa | Apr 28, 2014 | Conferences, Research Projects
When we proposed our AHRC project on the NW collector, R.E. Hart last year, ‘connecting descendants’ was not included as one of our research aims. This was in fact one of the very pleasing, but completely unexpected, results of our work. As our project drew to a close...
by chrisa | Mar 15, 2014 | Conferences
In preparation for the joint IES/IHR conference ‘Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years’, the IES blog will feature two short posts on the c700 Anglo-Saxon saint. Romans had already been here and left when, in 699, Guthlac arrived with Tatwin his...