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5. Medieval Murder Maps
By Stephanie Brown (@StephEmmaBrown) Upon finding a dead body in medieval England, you were required to raise the alarm to alert bystanders and the authorities. Once the coroner had been notified of a violent death, they summoned an investigative jury from the village or parish where the person had died and from the three neighbouring…
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6. Eighteenth-Century Neon
By Jake William Bransgrove (@Jake_Bransgrove) At times of public celebration, the nocturnal Georgian city – otherwise dark, dangerous and shrouded in shadow – would be bathed in exceptional quantities of light. The act of illumination, as it was known, saw urban spaces lit in spectacular fashion. An instance of circumstantial festival, the mass deployment of candles, lamps,…
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7. Romanian New Wave Cinema and Self-Conscious Commemoration
By Beatrice Leeming, @LeemingBeatrice Arthouse cinema is often associated with French films of the 1950s and ‘60s. At a push, critical interest extends to experimental Czech cinema of the same period. In the Anglo-American world, insufficient attention and appreciation is afforded to the Romanian New Wave (RNW), a concentration of creative and critically acclaimed cinema…
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8. Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House
Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House
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9. Dizzy Gillespie Stops a Riot
By Chris Campbell Amidst the backdrops of the Cold War and the end of the British Empire, one of the world’s foremost jazz trumpeters was perhaps an unlikely candidate to unite a city divided by both major events. Despatched by the US State Department on a tour of Southern Europe and the Middle East in…
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