Senate House Library
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One of the UK's largest libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences, with over 2 million books & 1,200 archive collections London.ac.uk/privacy
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⌛ #OnThisDay in 1775, the American War of Independence was brewing... 📖 Here is Edmund Burke’s 300-year-old speech to Parliament, urging that Britain co-operate with American instead of taxing it. Find 18th-century editions of many Burke discourses at Senate House Library
#OnThisDay 200 years ago, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first comic opera, Trial by Jury, was performed 🎭 This advertisement for one of their later works, lampooning the Pre-Raphaelites, is from Victorian texts of their plays at Senate House Library 📖
Fabulous visit to Senate House Library for the Early English Vernacular Manuscripts class King's Arts & Humanities kcl_medieval Piers Plowman, Aucinleck, etc
King James I died #OnThisDay 400 years ago. From a literary viewpoint, he was our most prolific king 👑 Here’s his famous 'Daemonologie' (1603) about witches, from the Senate House Library collections. It was a source for Shakespeare’s Macbeth 🔮📖
Today on BBC Radio 4 Today Prof Sarah Churchwell discusses the contemporary relevance of the novel 'The Great Gatsby' by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald on the 100th anniversary of its publication. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Starts at 2h53m (5 minutes).
The London Library Fascinating chat with Senate House Library team, University of London. Opened 1877, it's the centre of 18 unique federated institutions, beautiful art deco reading rooms, & public exhibits (currently on people of the Caribbean) london.ac.uk/about/services… Senate House Library University of London
What happens to our digital content? BBC Radio Tech Life asks Dr Naomi Wells at the Digital Humanities Research Hub as the Hub's Born Digital conference kicks off. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3… (Interview starts at 7 minutes into the programme.) BBC World Service
🗓️ On 27 March 1625, Charles I became king 👑 A week later on 3 April, John Donne - then Dean of St Paul’s - preached his first sermon before King Charles at St James’s, and it was published soon afterwards It is one of several 17th century titles by Donne at Senate House Library 📖
🗣️ Listen to award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell's poem ‘The Caribbean Grip’. 💬 The poem was created in response to Senate House Library’s exhibition ‘In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British diaspora’ 👉 Learn more: london.ac.uk/about/services…
Yesterday we invited migration minister, Seema Malhotra MP to tour the ‘In the Grip of Change’ exhibition at Senate House Library, led by Juanita Cox now at @juanitacox.bsky.social. The exhibition explores the Caribbean’s path to independence and the experiences of its British diaspora. It's open until April 12th.
Do you know the John the Baptist magic trick? Divided by Faith Special Subject historians headed to the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature Senate House Library. Thanks to seeing Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), they won't get fooled again! Royal Holloway
Alexander Pope’s edition of Shakespeare first appeared in April 1775, with a second edition in 1728. Pope’s introductory essay was noteworthy. His editorial skill was not. See this & multiple early editions on Shakespeare in the Senate House Library collections.
