To coincide with the Ruth First Papers project symposium, taking place on the 7th of June the Library has put up a small (two cases) display of material from the Ruth First and related collections.
This exhibition concentrates on the period 1946-1964 when Ruth First was active in South Africa as both journalist and activist and includes material relating to the Bethal farm labour scandal, the Freedom Charter, the Treason Trial, the banning of the Guardian and the subsequent Freedom of the Press Conference of November 1951, Ruth First's journalism, her banning and arrest and detention under the 90-day law.
The exhibition is on the fourth floor of Senate House, in the Membership Hall of the Senate House Library and admission is free (just say at the membership desk you wish to see the exhibition).
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Thursday, 31 May 2012
Friday, 21 October 2011
Commonwealth Studies archives material in Kipling Exhibition
Two items from our archive collections have been included within a small exhibition mounted on the 1st floor of Senate House, in association with the "Rudyard Kipling: An International Writer" Conference taking place from 21 - 22 October 2011.
Kipling, hailed as 'an interpreter of Empire' (Times, 18 Jan 1936), was regarded as a national institution when he died in 1936, and his funeral in Westminster Abbey was attended by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. His current reputation is many-sided: sometimes condemned as a racist who embodied the imperial mind-set or dismissed as a writer 'whom nobody read', he is increasingly both valued and criticised for his complex response to the 'otherness' and diversity of races and classes in his writing.
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world
Senate House Library Special Collections staff have mounted this exhibition to highlight material relevant to the conference held in our collections. These include two items from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library collection - a letter from Kipling to Richard Jebb, thanking Jebb for a copy of an article from the 'Empire Review' and stating that he fears that he could not undertake to hold himself responsible for any deduction that may be made from anything that he may have written on the future of the Empire, and typescript notes by Sir Stephen Tallents, of a conversation with Kipling, held soon after Tallents took on his role within the Empire Marketing Board, to discuss ideas for the promotion of Empire good and EMpire trade.
Event Type: Conference / Symposium
Speakers
Keynote Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri and Charles Allen
Description
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world.
Kipling, hailed as 'an interpreter of Empire' (Times, 18 Jan 1936), was regarded as a national institution when he died in 1936, and his funeral in Westminster Abbey was attended by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. His current reputation is many-sided: sometimes condemned as a racist who embodied the imperial mind-set or dismissed as a writer 'whom nobody read', he is increasingly both valued and criticised for his complex response to the 'otherness' and diversity of races and classes in his writing.
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world
Senate House Library Special Collections staff have mounted this exhibition to highlight material relevant to the conference held in our collections. These include two items from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library collection - a letter from Kipling to Richard Jebb, thanking Jebb for a copy of an article from the 'Empire Review' and stating that he fears that he could not undertake to hold himself responsible for any deduction that may be made from anything that he may have written on the future of the Empire, and typescript notes by Sir Stephen Tallents, of a conversation with Kipling, held soon after Tallents took on his role within the Empire Marketing Board, to discuss ideas for the promotion of Empire good and EMpire trade.
Event Type: Conference / Symposium
Speakers
Keynote Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri and Charles Allen
Description
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world.
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Exhibition: Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams and the Making of Trinidad & Tobago
A small exhibition to co-incide with the Institute for the Study of the America's conference, "Independence and After: Dr Eric Williams and the Making of Trinidad & Tobago" taking place today, is situated on the 1st floor, Senate House, University of London.
The exhibition shows material from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies book and archive collections, including material from the Political Pamphlets Collection (from the People's National Movement, Democratic Labour Party, and Indian Association of Trinidad and Tobago) and the West India Committee and CLR James collections.
The exhibition will remain up for the rest of this week. It is intended that a digital version of the exhibition will be mounted on the Senate House Library website at a later date.
The exhibition shows material from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies book and archive collections, including material from the Political Pamphlets Collection (from the People's National Movement, Democratic Labour Party, and Indian Association of Trinidad and Tobago) and the West India Committee and CLR James collections.
The exhibition will remain up for the rest of this week. It is intended that a digital version of the exhibition will be mounted on the Senate House Library website at a later date.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
British Museum - Australian Season
The first of three posts with an Australian flavour... The British Museum has launched a series of exhibitions and events focusing on Australia, running through to October 2011. The season has started with the planting of an Australian landscape in the forecourt of the Museum (in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). two exhibitions follow, opening on the 26th of May - one entitled "Baskets and belonging: Indigenous Australian histories", exploring fibrework from the British Museums colelctions; and the other "Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sudney Nolan to Rover Thomas" featuring over 120 works on paper by 60 artists, from the 1940s modernists to contemporary artists and Indigenous Australian printmakers.
The season also includes performances of music, film, readings, gallery talks, lectures and debates and workshops.
For further details and to follow the landscape blog online go to britishmuseum.org/australianseason
The season also includes performances of music, film, readings, gallery talks, lectures and debates and workshops.
For further details and to follow the landscape blog online go to britishmuseum.org/australianseason
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Kings College London Library exhibition: The Paradise of the world: conflict and society in the Caribbean
Kings College London Special Collections exhibition ‘The Paradise of the world'
Kings College London is pleased to announce the opening of the Spring 2011 Special Collections exhibition ‘The Paradise of the world: conflict and society in the Caribbean’.
The contrast between the lush natural beauty of the Caribbean region and the story of human conflict and misery that has formed so much of its history is one that cannot fail to strike observers. Edmund Hickeringill, in his 1705 work Jamaica Viewed, echoes Sir Walter Raleigh in speaking of the Caribbean islands as ‘the paradise of the world’. Yet when his book was published Jamaica was Britain’s largest slave-owning colony.
In this exhibition, drawing largely on the holdings of the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King’s in 2007, is explored the history of the Caribbean region from the sixteenth century to 1900. The exhibition looks at the dark days of slavery, the long struggle for emancipation and the development of Caribbean society in the nineteenth century.
The exhibition takes place in the Weston Room, Maughan Library and ISC in Chancery Lane and runs from Monday 31 January to Saturday 14 May 2011 (Monday to Saturday 09.30-17.00).
More information is available on the ISS Special Collections webpages.
If you are coming from outside King's you are advised to contact Special Collections staff on 020 7848 1843 or visit our web pages for the latest exhibition news before you travel.
Kings College London is pleased to announce the opening of the Spring 2011 Special Collections exhibition ‘The Paradise of the world: conflict and society in the Caribbean’.
The contrast between the lush natural beauty of the Caribbean region and the story of human conflict and misery that has formed so much of its history is one that cannot fail to strike observers. Edmund Hickeringill, in his 1705 work Jamaica Viewed, echoes Sir Walter Raleigh in speaking of the Caribbean islands as ‘the paradise of the world’. Yet when his book was published Jamaica was Britain’s largest slave-owning colony.
In this exhibition, drawing largely on the holdings of the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King’s in 2007, is explored the history of the Caribbean region from the sixteenth century to 1900. The exhibition looks at the dark days of slavery, the long struggle for emancipation and the development of Caribbean society in the nineteenth century.
The exhibition takes place in the Weston Room, Maughan Library and ISC in Chancery Lane and runs from Monday 31 January to Saturday 14 May 2011 (Monday to Saturday 09.30-17.00).
More information is available on the ISS Special Collections webpages.
If you are coming from outside King's you are advised to contact Special Collections staff on 020 7848 1843 or visit our web pages for the latest exhibition news before you travel.
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