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Towards a Google of Archives – Archives Portal Europe
By Dr Marta Musso (@martamusso) For Historical Archives, investing in digitisation is an extremely expensive, time consuming, and complex endeavour. It is well worth the effort, but it is fundamental to implement all the opportunities that digital technologies offer to archives. Since the beginning of the millennium, archives and cultural heritage institutions have started to…
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The Hanging Baskets of a Medieval German Prague: English Travel Literature from 1815 to 1848
By Jana Hunter @janakhunter At the heart of Europe lies Prague: a city centred around the River Moldau, embodying antiquity, mysticism and the sublime. Its imposing and grandiose scenes received little attention from travel writers up until the Napoleonic Wars. Through travel literature, Prague emerged as a fantastical city providing escapism, both physically and mentally,…
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‘Even if we Go Without Bread…’: The Bunker-isation of Communist Albania
Socialist Albania was made by modernisation, and a political pursuit of its aesthetic and sociological derivatives. Enver Hoxha sought to transform Albania into a self-conscious nation-state via the transformation of the physical landscape. This was done according to contemporary discourses connecting modernity and architecture and informed by the acute sense of vulnerability that defined Hoxha’s…
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