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21. “Holy Dolls”: The Christ Child
by Ellie Johnson (@elliejohns0n1) In 2017, the Madonnas and Miracles exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge featured a wooden doll of the Christ child. This near life-size statuette was the first object visitors encountered in the gallery.
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22. The Centenary British Commemorative Medallion Representing Britain’s Capture of Trinidad from the Spanish
By Aileen Alexis The year 1797 signalled a watershed moment in the colonial history of Trinidad. Before that year, Trinidad was under the rule of the Spanish Crown, England’s newest enemy. Trinidad became a pawn in European rivalries that brought General Abercromby to the shores of Trinidad that year. This would mark the beginning of…
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23: A Ship’s Light
By Rebecca Goldsmith Earlier this summer, a freighter from Australia pulled into Southampton in the UK. Its load included a container filled with the contents of my grandparent’s home in the seaside village of Port Fairy (its traditional owners are the Eastern Maar people) in Southern Australia. This shipment brought with it an old brass…
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24: A Banned Book from Colonial India
By Tarika Khattar In 1932, Sajjad Zaheer, a law student briefly back in India from his studies at Oxford, met Ahmed Ali, an English lecturer at Lucknow University. Zaheer, who was heavily influenced by developing radical trends in Europe, decided to publish a collection of ten Urdu short stories entitled Angarey (Embers). The stories, five…
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Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2022
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) Last year’s editor-in-chief, Alex White, ended his 2021 Year in Review with the hopeful plea that we may ‘all live in less significant times’. 2022 has failed utterly to comply. The world is still reeling from the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is causing fresh problems for China as the country…
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