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“Do Not Touch”: Academics in the Museum
By Carys Brown @HistoryCarys Museums are wonderful yet bizarre places. A treasure trove of pieces of the past. Hundreds of objects, rare, fragile, ordinary, extraordinary, arranged in glass cases, beautifully isolated from their original surroundings. This perhaps slightly sterile environment allows us to appreciate the beauty and ingenuity of objects. But is this really how…
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6. The 1667 Peace of Breda Medal
By Marlo Avidon (@MarloAvidon) Housed among the Fitzwilliam Museum’s many treasures is this 1667 medal by Jan Rottiers, commissioned to celebrate the Peace of Breda and the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The front of the medal features Britannia, the personification of Britain, holding a spear and gazing at the departing ships of the British…
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