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  Two days in Madrid with Crafting Medieval Spain

  Anna McSweeney (Trinity College Dublin), “The Torrijos ceiling at the Château de Villandry, Loire (France…
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  Pandemic Objects: Photograph

  French doctors from the newly founded Pasteur Institute experimented on colonial subjects with plague…
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  Your submissions so far to Shaping Space – Architectural Models in Context

  architecture to generate a critical mass of awareness of urban water issues, highlighting the critical role of fresh-water…
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  Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

  a long romantic relationship.This quote from Thesinger’s memoir recounts a holiday with William in France…
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  Ceramics from Islamic Lands conference

  across the week – we tried to find times that would enable as many different time zones as possible to join…
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  Pandemic Objects: Clothing Shop

  John Lewis, founded in 1864, is permanently closing one third of its stores and may convert its London…
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  Pandemic Objects: Radiator

  The early 20th century ‘fresh air movement’ proponents in the USA referred to unventilated rooms as the…
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  Pandemic Objects: Instant Noodles

  Ramen again entered the cultural zeitgeist with the release of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, for many of us…
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  Pandemic Objects: Hand Sanitiser

  The talisman is an age-old need, as can be seen in the V&A’s collection of pomanders (French: pomme d…
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  #LetsMakeWednesdays – Winter games

  The first Winter Olympic Games took place in 1942 and were held in France.…
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  Pandemic Objects: Windows

  balcony or garden, so in the first surreal weeks of lockdown I felt renewed gratitude for my windows, for fresh…
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  The unusual cameras of the Royal Photographic Society Collection

  Join us for a quick tour through some of the more esoteric and unusual objects to be found the collection…
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  New discoveries about the altarpiece of St George

  During this time, several important French collections were put on the market and, with substantial buying…
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  The Serials: From Harlem to Dickens to Trollope

  The Ethiopian-American curator of a Salvador Dali exhibition in Manhattan wanted me to meet John Henrick…
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  Maria Graham: trailblazer and peepshow maker

  Eleven years and five published works on India, Italy, the French and Spanish War and Nicolas Poussin…
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  Huguenot goldsmiths, silver and wine in war-time Britain

  On 17 April 1703 the London newspaper The Post Man advertised French wine from a West-end goldsmith’s…
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  Pandemic Objects: Fundraising

  Rebellion last year, WWF Australia following the bushfires earlier this year),  took to Instagram to join…
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  Hunter-Gatherer on the Loose

  1967 Saga de Xam, a masterly work reflective of the interplay between cinema and comics paramount in French…
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  Ink, Print, Repeat: A hands-on approach to early printed textiles

  relief printmaking in Rooms 88a and 90 at the V&A until September 2020, is a woodcut of Christ, Saint John…
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  Failures, and Singing in the Rain…

  However, the affable director of Deliverance, John Boorman, was enthralled by my interest.…