James Dean and Rock and Roll as a Youth Culture
"I'm a fan of Dean's for his mystique more than anything else. It's only 'Rebel' that I've ever enjoyed him in. I've seen him in all his movies and...
Gothic Vocab: The Grotesque
Source: The Gothic Library
Perhaps more so than the other vocabulary words we’ve discussed thus far (the sublime and the uncanny), “grotesque” is a term you’re just as likely to hear thrown...
The Mysterious Codex Argenteus: Famed Silver Bible of the Goths
Source: Ancient Origins
The Goths, one of the major Germanic tribes of ancient times, were a key player in the events that marked the downfall of the Western Roman Empire....
Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes review – rescuing women in Greek myths
Source: The Guardian, 8 Oct 2020
Helen of Troy, Aphrodite, Medea ... putting women centre stage in an enjoyable, witty look at the ways in which their stories have been...
Romanticism
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The tea-rific history of Victorian afternoon tea
Source: British Museum's blog
In celebration of Afternoon Tea week, food historian Tasha Marks explores the history of the much-loved afternoon treat.
Tasha Marks, food historian 14 August 2020
The Duchess of Bedford
It’s...
Nostalgia reimagined
Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too
Source: Aeon.co, July 20th, 2020
By Felipe De Brigard *
He was still...
On the Revisionist Histories at the Heart of Fascism and Populism
Source: Lit Hub May 21, 2020
From Perón to Trump, the Political Art of Spinning Lies Into Myth
By Federico Finchelstein
Fascism and populism both appeal to the political trinity, leader, nation, and people,...
Virtual Exhibit: Book Of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
Source: Book Of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
Online exhibit accompanying the exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, October 3rd, 2017 – March 31st, 2018
The ancient Egyptian Book of...
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir … the woman who found the New World 500 years before Columbus
Souce: The Guardian, Sat 18 Apr 2020
Great explorers you’ve probably never heard ofAdventure travel
In our new series on lesser-known adventurers, we shine a light on the Icelandic explorer who...
