North Korean Culture and Society: Papers from the British Museum/British Association for Korean Studies Study Day 2001 and BAKS Study Day 2002 (British Museum Research Publication)
Bryn's so called life (Free subscription) | yesterday
So a couple of weeks ago my Mum and my stepfather John came down to stay for the weekend. I also have my cousin Scott staying with us at the moment as he is doing an elective attachment with the HEMS team at the Royal London. Above is a pic that I quite like that I took near the festival hall.So while in town we headed along to the Sir John Soane's Museum on Lincoln's inn fields (below). I have
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 8th November 1793, as the Reign of Terror began in Revolutionary France the Palais du Louvre (Louvre Palace) first opened in its new role housing a national museum. The palace started life as a twelfth-century fortress, which successive generations of French monarchs altered and expanded. In the mid-eighteenth-century, King Louis XV accepted a proposal to use part of the palace as a gallery in which...
All Things Considered (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I first came across Arthur Probsthain, Oriental & African bookseller, in 1986. I was in London to visit the British Museum for the first time, and I was sixteen years old. It was a rainy day - somehow London always seems more Londony when it rains - and my heart gave a little flutter when I first spotted the bookshop's hanging sign. I was obsessed with Japanese prints, but no local bookstores stocked...
Electronic Cerebrectomy (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Eau De Cobra This episode opens with a mummy robbing an Ancient Egyptian tablet from the British Museum. I don't think there's any more I could add to that, really. I assume the guy inside the wrappings is Firefly, because he then shows up at an Antarctic base and orders a couple of techs to take him to something they've found called the Jackal's Bane root. One of the techs steps on a silent alarm...
Ellen Loudon (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2.4 Each Wednesday we share morning prayer at St John Chrysostom Church together at 10am. Those who are able to get there take it in turns to share a...
War Poetry (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
As Remembrance Day approaches, we are likely to encounter a familiar stanza from a poet whose works are otherwise almost entirely forgotten: Laurence Binyon . Binyon was a brilliant man: Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; scholar of William Blake and of Oriental Art; a Red Cross volunteer at the Western Front; Norton Professor at Harvard in the early 30s; friend of Ezra Pound, Walter...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) A summary of some of the main themes of the Colloquium. This year's Egyptological Colloquium, held in the British Museum's fantastic BP Lecture Theatre, was roundly applauded as a great success. No fewer than eighteen gifted minds took to the lectern, as a glut of opinions, theories, excavations and discoveries were explored to a large audience's enthralment. Some of the...
fictions (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Harker Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. Anyone reading the blog over the past 9 months or so will have surely picked up on my great love of Harker. I’ve championed it since issue 1 and every month have delivered positive review after positive review. So with this first collection I’m hardly likely to have...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Trotsky by Robert Service (Macmillan, £25)
Elginism (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Zahi Hawass’s requests for the return of the bust of Nefertiti by Germany has generated largej amounts of publicity, encouraging people to enter into discussion on why the artefacts is in Germany & whether it should be returned to Egypt. From: Christian Science Monitor Germany: Time for Egypt’s Nefertiti bust to go home? A German museum has a bust [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In an unusual turn of events, New York’s Metropolitan Museum purchased a four thousand year old relief from a collector with the sole intention of returning it to Egypt. It is unclear from this article whether there was any other motive present that led to this peculiar transaction. From: Press TV (Iran) MET agrees to return Pharoanic relic [...]
AnimeNation Anime News Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The British Museum yesterday opened its “Manga: Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure” exhibit. The exhibit primarily consists of an original “life size” (wall size) manga story by artist Hoshino Yukinobu depicting his globe-trotting folklore & history professor Munakata character visiting the British Museum. The exhibit also offers a selection of sample manga...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Following the change in Greece’s government a few weeks ago, the new Culture & Tourism Minister has announced that the intentions to vigorously pursue the campaign to reunify all the surviving Parthenon sculptures in the New Acropolis Museum. From: Athens News Agency 10/27/2009 Culture ministry priorities Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos underlined Monday that his top priority...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A representative from the British Museum is going to discuss the Cyrus Cylinder in Iran. This seems to indicate that Iran’s threats to cease cooperation if the issue was not dealt with by the institution has at least had some success. From: Press TV (Iran) UK official visits Iran over Cyrus cylinder Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:34:44 GMT A British [...]
Casey in London (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Grammy arrived on Tuesday and hung out with me at the Tyke's school while I had a meeting about the Nativity play with the reception teachers. She made friends with the cleaning staff (lovely, lovely women) who took very good care of her and brought her tea and chocolate cake. I'm afraid I have been walking her very hard as we then took my usual walk home which is probably over a mile. Possibly over...
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