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Editorial: DHP’s top historical novels
Summer may be decidedly over, but reading for pleasure doesn’t have to be confined to the beach. Here are some of the DHP team’s favourite historical novels to keep you going as the evenings draw in.
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Tall Tales and Shaping the Research of the Future
By Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) When I first saw the University Library as a new Cambridge student last October it looked like something from a dystopian novel. The library tower loomed above me – a modernist monument to humanity’s pursuit of knowledge. With the addition of a few slogans on the walls, I thought, it would fit right…
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Inside the Modernist mind: Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto (2019)
By Sam Young (@Samyoung102) Shiromi Pinto, Plastic Emotions (Influx Press, 2019), £9.99 Minnette de Silva was a remarkable individual. Sri Lanka’s first female architect and the first Asian woman to join the Royal Institute of British Architects, she pioneered the development of a ‘Regional Modernism’ style of urban design throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In…
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Reconstructing and Performing Texts Digitally
By Samuel Rowe Traduttore, traditore, goes the Italian saying. [1] Modern scholarship often seeks accuracy, the original of something: historical ‘truth’. Performing a text in an ancient language to bring us closer to the past falls within this desire – but the realities of reconstucting historical texts are often more complicated. The idea of reconstructing…
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