📚 As part of the Library Transformation Programme, we are investing in the development of our e-resource collections to better support primary research
💡Share your opinion on potential resources in our e-resources survey - https://t.co/IgDZvA42pV
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 @SenateHouseLib collections.
Do you know the John the Baptist magic trick?
Divided by Faith Special Subject historians headed to the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature @SenateHouseLib. Thanks to seeing Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), they won't get fooled again! @RoyalHolloway
Whether you’re picking up a book for the first time in years or you’ve just had a busy week, these short reads are a great way to ease back into books 📖🤍
✨ It’s #WorldBookNight! ✨We’re joining the celebration by sharing our team’s top quick reads & hidden gems from the Senate House Library collections (see thread)
These 'quick reads' ones are from our Wellbeing Collection 💚 Perfect for winding down, taking a mindful moment, or simply easing back into reading at your own pace.
@SenateHouseLib will be closed for Easter weekend from Friday 18 April to Monday 21 April - we have reduced opening hours on Thursday 17 April and Tuesday 22 April.
We’ll respond to all enquiries as soon as possible. We hope you all have a relaxing break, Happy Easter! 🐇🐣
Yesterday we invited migration minister, @SeemaMalhotra1 to tour the ‘In the Grip of Change’ exhibition at @SenateHouseLib, led by @EsiCox. The exhibition explores the Caribbean’s path to independence and the experiences of its British diaspora. It's open until April 12th.
📚 As part of the Library Transformation Programme, we are investing in the development of our e-resource collections to better support primary research
💡Share your opinion on potential resources in our e-resources survey - https://t.co/IgDZvA42pV
🗣️ Listen to award-winning poet @JennyMitchellGo'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: https://t.co/y9rmrLbolT
🗓️ 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 @SenateHouseLib 📖
@TheLondonLib 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) https://t.co/SQ8fOL7eA4 @SenateHouseLib@LondonU
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.
https://t.co/R8CLLlCYxU
(Interview starts at 7 minutes into the programme.)
@bbcworldservice
Today on @BBCr4today 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.
https://t.co/HBNb8D6M45
Starts at 2h53m (5 minutes).
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 @SenateHouseLib collections. It was a source for Shakespeare’s Macbeth 🔮📖
#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 @SenateHouseLib 📖
Senate House Library researcher Angharad Eyre writes about the longstanding relationship between the University of London and the University of the West Indies.
https://t.co/ToWNPoKABB
⌛ #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 @SenateHouseLib