cultural-heritage

Applications Open for Two Prestigious British Library Research Fellowships The British Library has officially launched applications for the highly anticipated Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme 2026–2027, offering two funded fellowship opportunities for postdoctoral early-career researchers who are passionate about cultural heritage, archives, artificial intelligence, digital discovery, a…

Rob Jetten acknowledges grief and pain of Moluccan families as crowdfunded monument unveiled in Rotterdam The Dutch prime minister, Rob Jetten, has formally apologised for the “heartless” mistreatment of thousands of Moluccan soldiers who fought for the Dutch colonial army during Indonesia’s struggle for independence. About 12,500 men from a group of Indonesian islands who served in the Royal Dut…

For European and American slave traders, iron shackles were considered tools that helped run the slave trade. Shackles were made for wrists, ankles, waist and the neck.

‘We have come too far to turn around now,’ the monument on Alabama’s Montgomery Square reads At the recently opened Montgomery Square in Alabama , bronze hands rise from the pavement, holding a placard against the sky. It reads 7053, the booking number displayed in Rosa Parks’s 1956 mugshot after she and other leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott were arrested. Often with booking numbers and mug…

From Arkansas to Washington DC, museums across the US are grappling with what it means to celebrate the country As the United States of America reaches its semiquincentennial this 4 July, museums across the country are grappling with what being American and celebrating the US means. Cultural institutions are digging deeper, highlighting American artists, imagery and artifacts to explore the natio…

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I went to check out the César Chávez murals on the Eastside avenue that bears his name.

From one hostile environment to another, the documentaries and dramas ranging from Nigeria and Syria to British immigration give vivid life to an experience that can feel very remote As World Refugee Day approaches on Saturday, this year’s Refugee Week offers a multitude of events taking place across the UK, including a film festival that takes audiences from Ain el-Helweh – Lebanon’s largest ref…

A decade in the making, the museum will reopen in November in two restored market halls that will house 7m objects and host late-night DJ sets The new London Museum will be “a social space for the city”, its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, monthly dinner clubs and late-night DJ sets where visitors can mingle among the artefacts while dancing. Sharon Ament said that when it reopen…

This introduction situates the Allied occupation of Italy as a distinctive yet comparatively underexplored case within the broader history of mid-twentieth-century military occupations. It traces the origins, peculiarities, and contradictions of Allied rule, foregrounding the tension between liberation and occupation that shaped both contemporary experiences and subsequent historiography. After o…

Abstract This book offers an interdisciplinary reexamination of Homer's Iliad, using a multilevel conceptual schema that bridges literature, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and natural science (pp. 5, 10). Moving past traditional historical, philological, or purely social interpretations, the author treats the text as a poetic exploration of the male soul and a manifestation of universal, diachroni…

Why did Appolonia trade so few enslaved people? Short answer: unique economy and sacred beliefs.

The 70-year-old has been prosecuted for his artworks under a law that did not exist when they were created. He should be freed Sixty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution – a decade of fanaticism that consumed China. Perhaps 2 million people, from top leaders to impoverished farmers, were killed or driven to suicide for political “crimes” or their family background. Tens of milli…

Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham Your article on the digitisation and transcription of German love letters is a wonderful reminder of both the goodwill of the crowd and the pleasures of archival research ( Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sif…

President Trump's name has been removed from the Kennedy Center's website and is supposed to come off the building, too. But serious damage has been done.

Ioannina is a beautiful Greek city located on the shores of Lake Pamvotis. The history of Ioannina begins in pre-historic times and continues to this day. Inside the lake is an island, the largest lake island in Greece and one of the few inhabited in Europe. The island has no-name, simply called the Island (=Nissaki in Greek). From the 13 th to the 15 th century, prominent Byzantine families foun…

Before the sale of the landmark hotel closed, Kelly Roberts removed two beloved paintings that had been a part of the property for more than a century.

BackgroundMenarche is a key developmental milestone for adolescent girls, yet in many Muslim-majority rural settings it occurs within strong norms of modesty and silence. Although prior research has identified gaps in menstrual knowledge and hygiene, limited evidence explains how Islamic modesty norms and mother–daughter communication jointly influence menstrual readiness during the early transit…

At first, they laughed. Then they scoffed. Finally, they accused him of witchcraft. The Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah had spent years scratching strange marks on paper. In 1821, his fellow tribespeople, disturbed by his obsession, put him on trial for practicing black magic. Sequoyah insisted his invention would allow Cherokee speakers to write out Iroquoian language for the first time. To …

Suryansh Bisht, Law College Dehradun Ms. Purnima Tyagi, Law College Dehradun ABSTRACT Language is an essential component of cultural identity and constitutional pluralism in India. The Himalayan regional languages of Garhwali, Kumaoni, and Jaunsari represent rich linguistic traditions of Uttarakhand, yet they face gradual decline due to migration, urbanization, dominance of Hindi and English, and…

In an age of spiritual isolation, witches are forming covens that defy the oppressive natures of man and church On the floor of a sun-drenched room in a 200-year-old Irish estate, a group of 15 witches gather to commune with the spirits. Everyone has someone they want to talk to – dead ancestors, forest fairies, the witches who came before them – and the room has the same expectant charge as the …