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What Not to Wear: The Importance of Women’s Fashion in the Eighteenth Century and Today
By Matilda Embling Women and fashion are often explicitly linked. One only has to consider the media coverage of the new Duchess of Sussex to uncover how frequently a woman’s identity is equated to, or even entirely subsumed by, the clothing she wears. In a recent Guardian article , the more conservative muted wardrobe she…
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« Nos ancêtres les Gaulois »: national histories and the misuse of history
By Sam Rowe (@SamuelRowe12) ‘Dès que vous devenez français, vos ancêtres sont gaulois.’ [‘As soon as you become French, your ancestors are Gaulish.’] These were the words uttered by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy during a political meeting in 2016 while campaigning for the 2017 presidential elections. He proposed that French identity, essentially linked to…
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