Tag: culture
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The Venice Charter 1964: Its Place in Modern-Day Heritage Preservation
Emma Donaldson explores how the challenges of post-war Europe prompted the evolution of heritage preservation through the Venice Charter.
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Female Agency and the Gendering of Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Visual Representations
Harry Fry examines the portrayal of women by female and male artists, pointing to the persistent limitations of their agency.
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In Bad Taste: On the Politics of Aesthetics
Georgia Smith discusses the politics of aesthetics within the contexts of class, gender, and consumerism today.
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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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From Oral to Written Folklore: The Evolution and Reception of the Icelandic Saga
The Icelandic Sagas are more than stories about a heroic age of kings, of trolls and witches, and magical phenomenon unseen by our modern eyes. They offer a complex resource of what early settlers of the island deemed important to their heritage. Since the thirteenth century, scholars have attempted to understand the departure from the…
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Saudi Arabia and the Destruction of Islamic Cultural Heritage
Whilst the West despairs over the destruction of the Arch of Palmyra, the walls of Nineveh, and the lamassus of Nimrud by Islamic State, a second wave of cultural heritage destruction is sweeping across the Middle East almost unnoticed. The international media has devoted extensive coverage to the obliteration of museums and archaeological sites in…
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A History of British Immigration Policy: Constructing the ‘Enemy Within’
‘I tried to get into a lifeboat, but, when it was launched, it was nearly empty, and soon the stream and waves pushed it far. The other lifeboats were already far away. Many people had jumped into the sea and a good deal of them had already died. When I realised… that there was not…
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Holland: The Glorious Days of ‘Tulip Mania’
Earlier this year, on a warm April morning, I boarded a bus heading out of Amsterdam to the small town of Lisse, south east of the city. Like thousands of tourists and locals alike, I had been drawn in by the promise of a true spectaclem – the annual flowering of the Tulip bulbs in…
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