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A fresh look at the ‘grand narratives’ of literary history
Having been chosen as one of 15 academics awarded the prestigious ‘I Tatti’ Fellowship each year, of which only half are open to non-US scholars, Dr Brundin is embarking on a year of study in Florence...
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Objects of devotion
An earthquake ravages a small town in central Italy. Catastrophic fissures rip through the buildings; desperate cries can be heard from those whose houses are collapsing; others try to attract...
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Cool stuff
Our appetite for ice cream is as fickle as the British weather: a hot spell sees sales peak while demand dips when the sun disappears. Street vendors of ice cream, kiosks and ice-cream vans are...
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Geophysical survey reveals first images of lost Roman town
An ancient Italian town, which disappeared after its abandonment 1,500 years ago and now lies buried underground, has been mapped by researchers, revealing the location of its theatre, marketplace and...
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Memory remains
As the generation that witnessed the twin horrors of the Holocaust and World War II slips away, some have begun to fear that the devastating lessons of our recent history may grow faint with its...
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Bella Italia: an Englishman’s adventures abroad
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a man who defied easy categorisation: he has been most commonly described as a polymath, maverick and iconoclast. He was a scholar and writer, artist and photographer,...
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7,000BC: The dawn of cinema brought to life at the Museum of Archaeology and...
• P • I • T • O • T • I • is a multimedia digital rock art exhibition in the South Lecture Room of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), on display until March 23. This is the first time it...
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Major motion pictures from our prehistoric past
We tend to think of archaeological investigation as getting down and dirty with the physical evidence of vanished people – skeletal remains, submerged foundations, the charred detritus of daily life....
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Fancy pants: skirmishes with the fashion police in 16th-century Italy
On 15 September 1595, a Genoese man-about-town called Salvagio de Aste was spotted breaking the law. The record in Genoa's state archives describes with remarkable precision what Salvagio was wearing...
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Arms and the man: how a culture of warfare shapes masculinity
Brawls tend to take a familiar pattern. Verbal insults are traded and physical violence erupts. Something like this happened in the graveyard of a church in Florence on 30 March 1561. It began when a...
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Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker comes to Cambridge
Rosi’s most recent documentary, 2016’s Fire at Sea, was an uncompromising look at the everyday life of six locals on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the first port of call for the hundreds of...
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Animating objects: what material culture can tell us about domestic devotions
It’s an enduring irony of history that the most commonplace objects from the past are those least represented in today’s museum collections. The more precious and expensive an object, the more likely...
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Cool stuff
Our appetite for ice cream is as fickle as the British weather: a hot spell sees sales peak while demand dips when the sun disappears. Street vendors of ice cream, kiosks and ice-cream vans are...
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Geophysical survey reveals first images of lost Roman town
An ancient Italian town, which disappeared after its abandonment 1,500 years ago and now lies buried underground, has been mapped by researchers, revealing the location of its theatre, marketplace and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Memory remains
As the generation that witnessed the twin horrors of the Holocaust and World War II slips away, some have begun to fear that the devastating lessons of our recent history may grow faint with its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bella Italia: an Englishman’s adventures abroad
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a man who defied easy categorisation: he has been most commonly described as a polymath, maverick and iconoclast. He was a scholar and writer, artist and photographer,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7,000BC: The dawn of cinema brought to life at the Museum of Archaeology and...
• P • I • T • O • T • I • is a multimedia digital rock art exhibition in the South Lecture Room of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), on display until March 23. This is the first time it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Major motion pictures from our prehistoric past
We tend to think of archaeological investigation as getting down and dirty with the physical evidence of vanished people – skeletal remains, submerged foundations, the charred detritus of daily life....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fancy pants: skirmishes with the fashion police in 16th-century Italy
On 15 September 1595, a Genoese man-about-town called Salvagio de Aste was spotted breaking the law. The record in Genoa's state archives describes with remarkable precision what Salvagio was wearing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arms and the man: how a culture of warfare shapes masculinity
Brawls tend to take a familiar pattern. Verbal insults are traded and physical violence erupts. Something like this happened in the graveyard of a church in Florence on 30 March 1561. It began when a...
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