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16. The Tupinumbá Sacred Mantle
By Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliagraceh_) ‘In my opinion I have never seen anything which for beauty could more delight the human eye’ – Peter Martyr (1519) upon seeing the first feather-works to arrive in Europe.[1] Feather-work items formed an integral part of early modern Mesoamerican and Andean visual and material culture. Using carefully selected colours and…
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17. Child Labour in an American Textile Mill
By Jonah Berger Across the United States around the turn of the 20th century, millions of children worked in factories, agricultural fields, mines, and city stores. In the following years, a mass movement to end child labour gained strength, buoyed by photographer Lewis Hine’s work on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee. The photo…
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18. A Treasure Trove of Plundered Art
By Callie Belback During the Second World War, as European cities fell to the Nazis, art conservators in the United States began to advocate for a field-based conservation corps whose duty would be to identify and protect cultural treasures. This soon became the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the Allies (MFA). The MFA…
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19. A ‘Festive’ Anti-Divorce Pamphlet from 1980s Ireland
By Kate Collins The 1980s saw divorce, long prohibited in Ireland, become a topic of national debate. Article 41.3.2 of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the country’s 1937 Constitution, explicitly stated that ‘No law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage’, meaning that a national referendum was needed to provide for legalisation.[1]…
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20. A Statue of Pacific on Dacres Estate
By Zac Lewis On Dacres Estate in South-East London, you can find a statue of the ancient god Pacific sitting lounged back, draped in a greying toga on a red brick plinth above the pavement. The statue is chipped and rainswept, set in from the street beside a set of garages, and its eyes are…
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