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Digging up coals, Down Under
By Matthew DJ Ryan Growing up I would often take the eight-hour train ride from my home town in the ‘bush’ (country) down to Sydney, Australia. For at least half of that trip the train would zip past coal mine after coal mine, sharing the tracks with cargo trains carrying their fossilized loads, often hundreds…
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The Archive in Decline: The Emergency of Archival Collections in Italy
By Marina Iní (@MarinaIni_) Originally published 12 November, 2019. During part of the last academic year, I travelled to several archives and libraries collection in the Italian peninsula for my PhD fieldwork. It has been an extremely rewarding experience on the research side, but it was also thought-provoking. I saw with my own eyes the…
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