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Florals for spring? Why artificial flowers can be ground-breaking
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) If you followed the Met Gala this year, you will have noticed a blossoming of flowers on the red carpet. These were not your typical chintzy floral-print dresses, though: the flowers were big, bold, and often avant-garde. Whatever your position on the Met Costume Institute’s celebration of controversial designer Karl Lagerfeld,…
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Reviewing “Antisemitism: A (((Musical)))” 17-28 October 2023: What does it mean to be a ‘wandering jew’?
By Cailee Davis ‘The following post is not a pronouncement on the situation in Israel and Palestine and was scheduled prior to the start of these events. We would note that the author of the musical, Uri Agnon, has expressed solidarity with Palestinians and called for a ceasefire across various social media platforms.’ This October,…
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Intervention and Reflection – Black Atlantic at the Fitzwilliam Museum
by Tomas Brown In 1816, Richard Fitzwilliam bequeaths £100,000, his library, and art collection to the University of Cambridge, accumulated through the wealth of his slave trading grandfather. This money supports the Fitzwilliam Museum to this day.[1] Later in the nineteenth century, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is constructed around categories such as ‘social…
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Adding nuance to Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin
by Noam Bizan, @NoamBzn On 6th February, former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin in an intricately decorated room in the Kremlin.[1] Much has been written analysing this interview and Carlson’s trip to Moscow, largely focusing on the interview’s implications for current US-Russian relations and the war in Ukraine, which just marked…
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History from the edge: teaching global history in a Ugandan refugee settlement
by Elvira Tamus (evt27@cam.ac.uk) @evtamus Our world is torn apart by a number of military, political, economic, social, and cultural conflicts. Dealing with these situations is the foundation of the Global History Lab (GHL), and educational platform based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.…
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