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Ghost Stories: a study of Spirit Photography
By Samuel Houlberg Ghosts. Perfect Autumnal Halloween fare. Who doesn’t love sitting around a fire on a cold evening telling ghost stories? There’s something in the human psyche that’s easily drawn to them, with tales of ghostly occurrences stretching from Roman chain-jangling horrors, to the Romantic competitions of the Villa Diodati, and reappearing in the…
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3. Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi: A Site of Transregional Cultural Flows
By Loong Dien Min, @dmloong Cover image: Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi, or Khoo Kongsi Clan House in Georgetown, Penang. Elwiz Low. 2013. https://www.flickr.com/photos/55317041@N02/7854424908/ In 1851, while the first documented wooden Advent calendar was being crafted in Germany [1], the island of Penang, situated 5260 nautical miles away, witnessed the inception of the Leong San…
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13. Lady Harriet Acland, the American War of Independence, and Tales of Female Heroism
By Molly Groarke This 1784 painting by Robert Pollard depicts a scene from the American War of Independence, shortly after the Battles of Saratoga in 1777. The British forces had been defeated and one of their officers, Colonel John Dyke Acland, had been wounded and captured. In the painting, his wife Lady Harriet Acland, who…
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Epistolary Empire: Letter-writing and the British Empire at Home in the Nineteenth Century
By Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke Agnes Acland was nineteen years old in 1870, when her brothers left Britain to travel overseas. Her eldest brother Charlie, heir to the family fortune and baronetcy, departed on a world tour, travelling as far as Australia and New Zealand. Gib, the brother she was closest to, had a successful military…
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A Nazarene Christmas
Be David Martin (Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) The bell tolls the hour and the murmuring crowds shuffle into the grand porticoes of St. John’s Cathedral. Twinkling string lights illumine the way, punctuated by bushy, glowing Christmas trees, all aflutter in the warm midnight air. Soon enough, the the scent of cashew nut- strewn fruitcake and milky coffee…
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