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Senate House Library @SenateHouseLib

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

Joined April 2009
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🚨 BANK HOLIDAY HOURS 🚨 Senate House Libra will be open this Monday 9.45am to 5pm. Different from our usual hours, so plan accordingly!
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Senate House Library@SenateHouseLib
10 Apr 2025
📚 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 - bit.ly/4j11ztN
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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.
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Royal Holloway History Department@RHULHistory
23 Apr 2025
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
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✨ 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)
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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.
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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 📖🤍
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Windrush Defenders Legal@windrushdefence
9 Apr 2025
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.
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🗣️ 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: london.ac.uk/about/services/…
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🗓️ 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 📖
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn@LouisMMCoiffait
1 Apr 2025
Replying to @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) london.ac.uk/about/services/… @SenateHouseLib @LondonU
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Lawrence Warner@lawrencewarner
27 Mar 2025
Fabulous visit to @SenateHouseLib for the Early English Vernacular Manuscripts class @kingsartshums @kcl_medieval Piers Plowman, Aucinleck, etc
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School of Advanced Study, University of London@SASNews
2 Apr 2025
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/w3ct6z… (Interview starts at 7 minutes into the programme.) @bbcworldservice
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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. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029h… Starts at 2h53m (5 minutes).
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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 🔮📖
Open page of the book "Daemonologie" by King James I, showing ornate black text on aged paper with decorative borders and titles.

ALT Open page of the book "Daemonologie" by King James I, showing ornate black text on aged paper with decorative borders and titles.
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#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 📖
Advertisement for a play titled, with various character names listed alongside the cast, including details about the setting and music associated with the production.

ALT Advertisement for a play titled, with various character names listed alongside the cast, including details about the setting and music associated with the production.
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Senate House Library researcher Angharad Eyre writes about the longstanding relationship between the University of London and the University of the West Indies. london.ac.uk/news-events/blo…
Crowd outside the new UWI Senate House building on the Mona campus on the day of its official opening by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

ALT Crowd outside the new UWI Senate House building on the Mona campus on the day of its official opening by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
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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 @SenateHouseLib
Title page of "The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22nd, 1775," printed in London, 1775.

ALT Title page of "The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22nd, 1775," printed in London, 1775.
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The Being Human Festival is hiring a new Public Engagement Officer to join the team. The role will have primary focus on the Being Human Festival and will also support the new Centre for Public Engagement Practice in the Arts and Humanities. jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDet…
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