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A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa. In South Africa, he won the trust of the ...
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The map that sold Cyprus
This isn’t just a map of Cyprus. It’s THE map! The map that, for over 100 years, defined how our island was seen, measured ...
Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...
Dating from 1909, just before the extent and scale of the British empire reached its peak ... As in 2023, the British Pavilion was awarded a Special Mention by the jury of the 19th International ...
The Vice President is flattering British conservatives by appealing ... or not Britain is a “world power” again. The 19th century when our little old island ruled over such vast swathes of the world ...
After a two-year closure, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened ... that used to end with the 19th century. She hopes to “open up questions about empire, gender, the role of women.” ...
“Translations” follows a group of Ballybeg folk whose rural lives are interrupted by the 1833 arrival of the English military, determined to create an accurate map of Ireland (part of the ...