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Looking into the Past to Build a Better Future

Film & Article

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A Rhino in the Thames: The Material Culture of Gentrification, Modernisation and Colonial Activity

Hanna Steyne This article explores the social and economic impacts of the Chelsea Embankment construction in the 1870s through a small...

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The Function of the Unanswered Telephone in Contemporary British Ecogeographical Short Fiction

Paul Anthony Knowles This paper will reflect on the diabolic symbol of the unanswered telephone in contemporary British short stories....

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Self-Reflection with Things: Zine-Making as a Conference Closing Activity

Katy Jackson This article is a report from a facilitator’s perspective discussing the practicalities and impact of using zine-making as a...

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'The Brain. In Art & Science': Curating an Interdisciplinary Exhibition

Henriette Pleiger Currently on view at the Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn, Germany) until 26 June 2022. https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/en/gehirn...

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Diarias globales by Lorena Wolffer: Reconnecting during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic sent most of the world population to their homes. In many countries in Latin America, it seemed to stop the...

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Manchester Camerata: Performing Through the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic left orchestras unable to carry out what is arguably their primary role: performing and making live music with...

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Unlocking Digital Heritage

By Isaac Hart, Karina Sorrels & Victoria Lane The MA students who chose Digital Heritage as a module in 2021 were faced with an...

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ROADS TO ROME: COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVAL RESEARCH FROM AFAR

Nia Davies Can we research Rome and art history without setting foot in the city or touching the contents of the archive? Dr Nia Davies...

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RECONNECTING WITH THE EVOLVING JOURNEY OF READING

40 years of scholarship on written culture have provided an understanding of what people read in the past until today, and established the a

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AS WE COME OUT OF LOCKDOWN, LET’S NOT GO BACK TO LOCKING OUT THE WORLD: CREATING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

During the pandemic, literary events have migrated online. Over the past year, whether you were based in the centre or the periphery, in Lon

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YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS: WHAT NOW FOR USER-CENTRED ENGAGEMENT TOOLS IN THESE POST-PANDEMIC TIMES?

Following their cross-disciplinary project investigating how digital tools could increase engagement between MOSTYN, a public contemporary a