Humanities in public
29 July, 2014Read more >by Helen Malarky | Forever Young explores eight decades of Manchester’s youth culture through the eyes of those who were there…
Open Access and Being Human
15 July, 2014Read more >by Dr Martin Paul Eve | The academic disciplines that constitute the humanities study human cultures, their art-forms, philosophies, expressions and histories…
Being Human at Glastonbury: the view from the field
8 July, 2014Read more >by Dr Michael Eades | Vivienne Westwood doesn’t like festivals. I know this because she opened her appearance at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival with just this assertion…
A human festival
20 June, 2014Read more >by Professor Rick Rylance | The humanities are all around us – in the books and newspapers we read, the programmes, the plays and the films we watch, the concerts we listen to, the exhibitions we visit…
Celebrating the humanities and Being Human
10 June, 2014Read more >by Professor Nicholas Stern | We live in a time when the world faces problems of trust in institutions and a weakening of confidence in existing ideas.
Festival launch – Why the humanities matter
6 June, 2014Read more >Read our Storify narrative about the launch of the Being Human festival at Senate House, London, on 14 May.