Humanities

Editor: Natasha Lanczares

Dec 234 min read

Preserving Culture: The Role of Humanities in Heritage Conservation | Natasha Lanczares

Cultural heritage embodies the legacy of human civilisation and includes monuments, artifacts and traditions, all of which connect us to...

Steel House, 11 Tothill Street | Kaveh Kordestani

Oct 94 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Steel House, 11 Tothill Street | Kaveh Kordestani

Foreword It’s hard not to look at Steel House and imagine “sixties office block”. But that Portland stone façade was laid all the way...

War and Peace: The Driving Force Behind Historical Events | Sophia Verai

Sep 214 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

War and Peace: The Driving Force Behind Historical Events | Sophia Verai

Thoughts on the Ideas Discussed in the Second Epilogue of War & Peace, Regarding the Driving Force Behind Historical Events Tolstoy's War...

Staying Put: The Legacy of Grenfell | Kaveh Kordestani

Sep 193 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Staying Put: The Legacy of Grenfell | Kaveh Kordestani

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry published its final report this month. Behind the rightly deserved castigation that the construction companies...

The Roads That Divide | Kaveh Kordestani

Sep 43 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Roads That Divide | Kaveh Kordestani

London’s motorways, the nadir of post-war civil design: poorly planned, poorly executed and still a bane for Transport for London to...

Babylon: The Accursed City of God | Santiago Acevedo-Henao

Jul 136 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Babylon: The Accursed City of God | Santiago Acevedo-Henao

That city’s sins are piled up as high as heaven. God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done. (Revelations 18.5.) Babylon: a city...

In Search of an Ideal: What Gives Idols Power? | Sophia Verai

Jun 146 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

In Search of an Ideal: What Gives Idols Power? | Sophia Verai

At the heart of every great social, cultural or political movement, uprooting and revolution, lies an ideology. At the heart of most...

May 315 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Sixth Forms' Red Ink | Kaveh Kordestani

How Harris Westminster runs behind the scenes is not something most students think about. But whilst you are sitting through your...

May 225 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Untold Stories | Isabelle Perry-Wade

It is a known fact that the study of history is largely the study of men. Notable exceptions aside – Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Boudicca to...

Apr 273 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

The 100 Year Flood | Kaveh Kordestani

Flooding and London are not usually two words that go together. With the exception of some brief, occasional flash floods, the capital...

The 13th Amendment: Rebranding Slavery | Safiye Misirlioglu

Mar 193 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

The 13th Amendment: Rebranding Slavery | Safiye Misirlioglu

The Rule of Law is the most powerful tool in shaping people’s actions, regardless of whether these laws factor in the people that they...

London is becoming more anti-car: That’s a Good Thing | Kaveh Kordestani

Jan 225 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

London is becoming more anti-car: That’s a Good Thing | Kaveh Kordestani

In the past few months, a four-letter acronym has swung local elections, changed national policy, and re-ignited a topic of contentious...

'Changing places, Making spaces' Lecture thoughts | Esha Amin

Mar 18, 20233 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

'Changing places, Making spaces' Lecture thoughts | Esha Amin

Like the majority of lectures Harris Westminster offers, “Changing Places, Making Spaces” was a highly interesting and unexpected one...

Does skateboarding belong in the mainstream? | Ezra Petty

Dec 7, 20223 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Does skateboarding belong in the mainstream? | Ezra Petty

Since its invention in 1950’s California, skateboarding has been subject to varying public opinion. Started as a way for surfers to catch...

Opinion Piece: What can tax avoidance tell us about considered political discourse? | Leo Waterhouse

Dec 7, 20225 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Opinion Piece: What can tax avoidance tell us about considered political discourse? | Leo Waterhouse

Colloquialisms like ‘every pound that avoids tax is another taken from the workers pocket’ echo their sanctimonious tone across the walls...

Nov 17, 20225 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

From Lascars to leaders | Esha Amin

From Lascars to leaders: a brief historic and geographic insight on how Britain’s largest minority came to be A person of colour and a...

Do Legal Positivism and Tyranny Go Hand in Hand? | Leo Waterhouse

Nov 15, 20227 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Do Legal Positivism and Tyranny Go Hand in Hand? | Leo Waterhouse

John Austin’s blueprint of legal positivism, contains what is perhaps the most influential premise in legal philosophy. ‘The existence of...

The Case of Sarah Everard: Can the 888 Phone Line Really Make US more ‘Streetwise’? | Angelika Santaniello

Jan 19, 20223 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Case of Sarah Everard: Can the 888 Phone Line Really Make US more ‘Streetwise’? | Angelika Santaniello

The case of Sarah Everard taught us women one thing: our safety is now only in our hands. Otherwise, more brutally and in the words of...

‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller

Nov 17, 20212 min read

Arts and Literature

‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller

On Tuesday 16th November, Polly Creed gave a lecture on Art and Activism- Making Politically Engaged Theatre & Film. During the talk she...

Comradery in the wake of Covid-19 | Elizabeth Abayomi

Oct 8, 20213 min read

Advice and Lifestyle

Comradery in the wake of Covid-19 | Elizabeth Abayomi

Comradery is an important life skill that can be defined as the bond that ties two or more parties together alongside self-sacrifice and...

“There’s no Planet B” and the meaning of the climate change movement | Vanesa Dimitrova

Mar 4, 20193 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

“There’s no Planet B” and the meaning of the climate change movement | Vanesa Dimitrova

“I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic” says Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg “You are not mature enough to...

Human Rights: Universal or a Western Construct? | Alessia Ciocanea

Oct 2, 20187 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Human Rights: Universal or a Western Construct? | Alessia Ciocanea

In this essay, human rights will be defined as the ideals belonging to all mankind, inherent to personhood, by which cultures attempt to...

Mar 22, 20183 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Witnesses to the Dissenters | Anna Fleischer

It’s not often you find yourself passionately defending Christ’s divinity in the thick snow outside Westminster station, shivering and...

Feb 24, 20185 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Colourism in Asia | Sadia Ahmed

Throughout history, human beings have always been fairly tribal creatures, focusing on physical, linguistic, and geographical differences...

The Strange Case of Jack the Ripper | Fatema Hakim

Jan 31, 201811 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Strange Case of Jack the Ripper | Fatema Hakim

The year is 1888. The stage, the shadowy and bog-filled streets of the East End of London. More specifically, the Whitechapel District,...

Jan 28, 20183 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

Fashionable Cruelty | Rita Carvalho

It has recently been brought up in social media that H&M and Zara are some of the fashion companies that allow child labour in the...

Jan 23, 20184 min read

Humanities and Social Sciences

The Good War | Gabriel Ivens

On August the 21st 2013, the Assad regime used rockets filled with Sarin gas to kill (at the smallest estimate) 500 civilians in Ghouta,...

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