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Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition. June 18-20, 2015 at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. Audio podcasts of talks at “Objects in Motion”. January 5, 2016. CRASSH has now posted audio podcasts. Of sixteen of the talks and keynotes at the international interdisciplinary conference. Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition. Amal Sachedina (Brown University), “More Coffee Anyone: The Coffeepot as an Object of Reform and Restoration in the Sultanate of Oman”. Katharina Nordhofen (Univer...
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July | 2015 | Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition
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Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition. June 18-20, 2015 at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. The Skeleton Trade: Life, Death, and Commerce in Early Modern Europe. July 9, 2015. July 9, 2015. Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University, discusses the fascinating research which she presented at. Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition. Vesalius, “De humani corporis fabrica”, 1543. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Who catalogued the Royal Soc...
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The Skeleton Trade: Life, Death, and Commerce in Early Modern Europe – The Rockstar Anthropologist
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Where Anthropology Comes to Chat. November 16, 2016 in Anthropology /. On Media, Memes, Mickey Mouse and Shared Experience. September 4, 2016 in Anthropology /. 8220;You Fit The Profile”. July 13, 2016 in Anthropology /. Things People Ask Me! June 29, 2016 in Anthropology /. The (Possible) Bones of ‘The Unsullied’. May 7, 2016 in Anthropology /. Things People Ask Me! May 6, 2016 in Anthropology /. The Remains of Russian Soldiers of WWII. May 6, 2016 in Anthropology /. April 6, 2016 in Anthropology /.
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hannahvelten | round the watertrough
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Musings on animal history. Whale at The Home Office? April 6, 2014. I love a good urban myth – and this one is no exception… a whale temporarily stored in Home Office grounds. It was brought to my attention by Alan Bennett (now in his nineties), a retired Home Office employee and writer and illustrator of ‘Cat’s Eye’ – broadsheet of the Home Office Sports and Social Association [HOSSA]. In 1987, Bennett wrote about a mysterious whale connected to the naturalist Frank Buckland. I’ve looked for refer...
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The Skeleton Trade: Life, Death, and Commerce in Early Modern Europe | Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition
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Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition. June 18-20, 2015 at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. The Skeleton Trade: Life, Death, and Commerce in Early Modern Europe. July 9, 2015. July 9, 2015. Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University, discusses the fascinating research which she presented at. Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition. Vesalius, “De humani corporis fabrica”, 1543. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Who catalogued the Royal Soc...
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Whale at The Home Office? | round the watertrough
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Musings on animal history. Whale at The Home Office? April 6, 2014. I love a good urban myth – and this one is no exception… a whale temporarily stored in Home Office grounds. It was brought to my attention by Alan Bennett (now in his nineties), a retired Home Office employee and writer and illustrator of ‘Cat’s Eye’ – broadsheet of the Home Office Sports and Social Association [HOSSA]. In 1987, Bennett wrote about a mysterious whale connected to the naturalist Frank Buckland. I’ve looked for refer...
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Grand National, 1839 | round the watertrough
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Musings on animal history. Grand National, 1839. April 5, 2014. 8216;The Liverpool Great National Steeple Chase, 1839’ (aquatint by F.C. Turner). The fence these horses are jumping (above) was the original ‘Becher’s Brook’; named after the man in the mustard colours clambering out of the ditch a Captain Martin Becher, who fell off his horse, Conrad, after it refused the fence. In typical Victorian style, Becher stated after the race how ‘dreadful water tastes without whiskey in it’! You are commenting us...