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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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4. The History of Pantomime
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) In 1728, the English dancer and writer John Weaver published The History of the Mimes and Pantomimes. Weaver has been widely credited with introducing the pantomime to England – although his pantomime of the eighteenth century is not what we would recognise today. Audiences at a modern British pantomime expect a…
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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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