News Archive

Tuesday 19 June 2012

• Historic membership records of London's Livery Companies now online

  

  Free access to Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) is now available at www.londonroll.org. This new website makes it easy for academic researchers and family historians to search the rich records of London’s ancient Livery Companies, finding information about... read more

Monday 18 June 2012

• Dr David Starkey launches royal rededication of famous Victoria County History series to HM Queen Elizabeth II

  

  Famous local history publishing project inspired by Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 Dr David Starkey will launch the rededication to Her Majesty the Queen of the Victoria History of the Counties of England (VCH) by delivering The Marc Fitch Lecture in the Chancellor’s Hall of... read more

Friday 15 June 2012

• Women and United States Foreign Policy Interview Project launches online hub

  

  The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) is proud to launch an online hub for its Women and US Foreign Policy Interview Project. The project is creating an online repository of interview data exploring the multidimensional relationship between US foreign policy and women. The hub is an... read more

Thursday 07 June 2012

• Institute of Commonwealth Studies launches online archive of the papers of anti-apartheid campaigner Ruth First

  

  The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, today launched its online archive of the papers of the anti-apartheid campaigner Ruth First. First, a prolific scholar and journalist, was assassinated in exile in Mozambique in 1982. The Institute of... read more

Thursday 31 May 2012

• Good news from Rome: success of campaign to protect Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli

  

  The site of Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli has been freed from the threat of the landfill site that was being planned to dispose of surplus Roman rubbish. Despite the recommendation of the Special Commissioner, the Italian Government has finally recognised international and archaeological... read more

Monday 28 May 2012

• Professor Philip Murphy interviewed on BBC World Service on the Queen’s visit to newly-independent Ghana in 1961

  

  The first episode of Your World: The Royal Visit (broadcast on Saturday 26 May) on the BBC World Service explores the reasons why the Queen chose to visit Ghana in 1961 just after the country had gained independence from the colonial rule of Britain. The documentary features an interview with... read more

Thursday 24 May 2012

• Refugee Law Initiative accepts invitation to partner the Refugee Research Network

  

  The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London has accepted an invitation to partner with the Refugee Research Network, run out of the Center for Refugee Studies at York University (Canada). The Refugee Research Network seeks to generate and mobilise... read more

Wednesday 23 May 2012

• Professor Steven Shapin gives his first lecture as ST Lee Visiting Fellow on ‘Changing Tastes’

  

  Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, last night gave the first in a series of public lectures as the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In his lecture, entitled ‘Changing... read more

Tuesday 22 May 2012

• Professor John North presents petition to the Italian Embassy to protect Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli

  

  The Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, Professor John North, has presented to the Italian Embassy in London a copy of an international petition, signed by over 5000 people, protesting at a decision by the Roman authorities to place a landfill garbage site next to Hadrian’s Villa... read more

Monday 14 May 2012

• Professor Sir Brian Vickers and Dr Marcus Dahl refute claims that All's Well that Ends Well was co-authored by Thomas Middleton

  

  Three weeks ago the Times Literary Supplement published an article by two Shakespearean scholars in Oxford arguing that All’s Well That Ends Well was the work of two hands, William Shakespeare and his contemporary, Thomas Middleton. Brian Vickers (Senior Research Fellow) and Marcus Dahl (... read more