Category: Features
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Comuna 13: Exploring the history of Medellín’s most famous district
Medellín is a city famous for its links to the Colombian drug trade. Meenaskshi Normalan discusses the history of Comuna 13, one of Medellín’s most notorious districts.
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‘Poor is Cool’: What Pulp’s ‘Common People’ has to do with Hermitages and the Great British Garden
Megan Crutchley discusses the trope of working-class tourism, highlighting its origins in 18th century British practice of “Hermitages” for the elite to experience simplified, nature-bound lives. The tradition masked and glamorized the realities of working-class struggles.
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Lilith: The First Woman
Lilith, often depicted as a demonic figure in folklore and literature, is being re-evaluated in light of feminist discourse for her assertion of equality with Adam, Maddie Everett-Heath explores her transforming image, from feared demoness to a symbol of sexual power and confidence.
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Auschwitz: A Place Out of Time
Auschwitz is a place that forces us to confront the horrors of the past. Oscar Virdee describes his experience visiting.
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Egyptian Glam Rockers! – Glitter’s historically entrancing power of expression
From birthday parties to disco nights, glitter is a ubiquitous visual art used in a wide variety of ways. Tilly Bankes provides a brighter lens on history of these flashy sparkles.
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Bluetooth: how an everyday technology is named for a Danish King (and blueberries)
Bluetooth is a near ubiquitous technology, but where did it get its name from? Darcy Gresham explores the viking inspired origins of the wireless technology.
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Threads; The Story of a Harrowing Nuclear Drama
During the Cold War, nuclear annihilation was perhaps the most harrowing extinction-level event people worried about. Jess Clark explores how the 1984 BBC television-drama terrified British citizens by showing them what may have been if the bombs dropped.
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The Abandoned Hotels of Kupari: The Prosperity and Decline of a Hotel Complex in the Jewel of the Adriatic
Elizabeth Price explores the remnants of the Croatian War for Independence—the Abandoned Hotels of Kupari.
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