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18. A Trip to Hong Kong’s Oldest Department Store
by Yolanda Lam With Christmas just around the corner, people are flocking into department stores to do some last-minute gift-shopping (myself included). As one traverses Central, one of the busiest urban districts in Hong Kong, one will find the first and oldest department store chains in the city – The Sincere Co. Ltd. Celebrating its…
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21. ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the Red Scare
by Lauren Walker Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life, is an established Christmas favourite. However, upon release, it received mixed reviews and came $525,000 short of breaking even at the box office. It was only after entering public domain in 1974 that it became the immensely popular and acclaimed classic it is today.…
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Auschwitz and a Rose Garden: The Zone of Interest is a Brave, but Flawed Film
by Beatrice Leeming There exists an established filmic tradition that has dealt with the ethics of representation and subscribed to the pedagogical power of cinema. The Holocaust has been documented and dramatized with progressive intensity since its occurrence. The perpetrators have been satirised, the victims heroized, and the narrative memorialised in both powerful and problematic…
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Curating Memory 80 Years On: The Changing Ways the Siege of Leningrad Has Been Memorialised
by Daniel Gilman (@DanielGilmanHQ) The 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi’s Siege of Leningrad came and went only a couple of weeks ago, on 27th of January, with little attention in much of the world. The protracted horror of this siege is one of the most intense tragic events in world history. The…
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Historian Highlight: Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)
by Chris Campbell @Chris__Campbell Although the idea of the ‘public historian’ is a relatively recent concept – spurred on by the growth in consumption of documentaries, podcasts, blogs and social media – there have always been academic historians who have found a broader readership and commanded a certain influence amongst the general public. This new…
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