Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Postcard from Westerplatte, 2019

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            This week, the world remembers 75 years since VE day, the end of the Second World War in Europe (May 8 th , 1945). That sobe...
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Thursday, 30 April 2020

Gesture - from Botticelli to Microsoft Teams

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             Primavera , Sandro Botticelli (1470s/80s)                     As Trinity term starts in Oxford, it is not only teachi...
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Friday, 26 July 2019

The First ‘Love Island’ (1838)

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                                             George Sand, painted by August Charpentier (1838) Fryderyk Chopin, c. 1849, by Bisson ...
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019

History on the March...

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Pilgrimage of Grace banner, 1536                    Last weekend, along with a million other people, I attended the Peoples’ Vote Mar...
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Thursday, 14 March 2019

Three Days in Budapest

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Isabella (1519-1559), Queen of Hungary, attributed to workshop of Lucas Cranach         This month, I attended a conference in Buda...
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Friday, 9 November 2018

Between Two Novembers

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This weekend, the world will face the bracing 100 th anniversary of 11 th November 1918 – a date with very a different meaning in...
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Monday, 21 May 2018

Royal Wedding as Microcosm...

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= Two years ago, serendipitously, the Bodleian Library offered the Jagiellonians Project (which I lead) a spring 2018 slot for an exhi...
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