Retrospect Journal

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Investigating Female Liberation Inside the Eighteenth-Century British Masquerade

Written by Boryana Ivanova. The masquerade ball carries a long and varied history, but how did the eighteenth century masquerade become imagined places of pleasure, excess and female liberation?

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The Elusive Basalt Bowls of Bab edh-Dhra’ Cemetery

Written by Etta Coleman. The cemetery at Bab edh-Dhra’, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak, can provide an insight into the Early Bronze Age people who inhabited the site. Etta Coleman examines one find in particular, a collection of basalt vessels, which deepens our understanding of their society and culture further.

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MK-Ultra: Mind-Control, LSD and the US Government

Written by Eva Campbell. MK-Ultra, sanctioned during the Cold War, was programme of convert experiments conducted by the US government to develop mind-control drugs. Eva Campbell explores the horrifying human cost of the operation, a period of history which remains shrouded in mystery.

by Retrospect Journal 17/10/2021 0

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Augustan Propaganda: Virgil and Idealism in the Aeneid

Written by Kavisha Kamalananthan. Written under the patronage of the first emperor of Rome, Virgil’s ‘Aenied’ can be understood as political propaganda. But how, and in what ways, was Virgil able to achieve this?