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Mandala’s Edge
By Ben Shread-Hewitt (@HewittShread) Outside the bustling city of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand is overwhelmingly rural and mountainous. Its landscape is starkly divided – barren rocky fields abut verdant cloud forests, and small village horticulture stands next to vast monocrops of maize. It is a region in the middle of a long – and now…
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Tucker Carlson in Budapest: A Flirtation with Fascism and an Affront to Memory
By Alex Sessa (@AlexSessa2) Nearly eight decades after Hungary’s systematic destruction of its Jewish population, far-right spokespersons are perpetrating their own vicious assault against Holocaust memory. In August of this year, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hosted his cable talk show from Budapest for an entire week. While there, he went so far to praise Hungary’s…
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Saving Face? Masculine Prowess and Facial Wounds in Medieval Christendom
By Fiona Knight (@fionalillian_) Sarah Covington writes that the wound of a soldier is not only an ‘embodied record of warmaking’, enshrining the conflict in memory, but also a locus of the soldier’s identity, representing ‘heroism, personal shame, or public burden’.[1] Facial wounds have a unique status in this regard, especially in relation to masculinity…
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The Book of Nunnaminster as Digital Reproduction and Material Object
by Kate R. Falardeau (@kate_falardeau) In March 2020, I was preparing to visit the British Library to examine the Book of Nunnaminster (London, British Library, MS Harley 2965) for my MPhil dissertation when the first Covid-19 lockdown began.[1] I’ll be honest— during those first few weeks of lockdown, the accessibility of research material for my…
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Striking Gold in the Archive: Goldsmiths’ Hall
By Kirsty Wright (@BeingKirst) Perhaps ironically in a year when access to archives has been restricted, my research shifted direction to examine the materiality of early modern records and record-keeping. In the summer when I was able to return to The National Archives, I spent some time sifting through different boxes for relevant material and…
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