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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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10. Cooking with Chestnuts in Winter
by Weiao Xing (@WeiaoX) ‘Fresh raw chestnuts are in season in the winter months. Choose heavy nuts with tight-fitting shells’; this is how the celebrated trio of cookery writers Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and Julia Child introduce this ingredient in their influential work Mastering the Art of French Cooking.[i] With an emphasis on ‘fresh produce and ingredients’,…
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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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14. Turkeys and Devils: Jesuits in Parisian Streets
By Tiéphaine Thomason, @teaphaine It should come as no surprise that, in a society of highly variable literacy, satire was often oral. Such was the world of the Parisian street in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This satire was often set to popular tunes to be sung, as well as recited, and stuck up on…
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15. Painting Velvet
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