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This Is How the British Museum Displays the Library of Nineveh

The legendary Library of King Ashurbanipal was discovered by the Englishman Austen Henry Layard in 1849. He managed to unearth one part of the vast library, which had been kept in the north-west palace on the banks of the Euphrates. And he brought the epoch-making find to England

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An English Hat of the Seventeenth Century

Victoria and Albert Museum

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A review of the Russian Symbolists in the British weekly The New Age, mid-1910s:

We are never quite sure whether Russian prose writers write about Russia as it is or as they would like to see it; in either case, Russia appears to be a very gloomy place. Everyone looks either mad or on the verge of madness; the slightest fancy turns with them

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After the first aerial bombardment of Britain, which Yarmouth suffered in January 1915 and in which German airships were used, agitational leaflets and posters bearing the slogan "God punish England!" appeared in Germany, for example, with…

The German air raids on Great Britain by Zeppelin, particularly those aimed at London, captured the imagination of the German public, yet did the English no substantial harm. Still, the airship raids, together with the later bombardments by aeroplane, forced England to divert a portion of its forces from the

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The New Monument to Elizabeth II and Prince Philip as Vivid Evidence of the Complete Decline of the Art of Sculpture

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A Priest in His Chambers

A priest in his chambers. The room is very much like mine: five hundred years have passed, yet the furnishings and the mood have survived. Lorenzo Lotto, 1491-1556. British Museum

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Remember that amusing story, worthy of a Richard Gere and Julia Roberts double act, about the Indian Maharajah who walked into a Rolls Royce showroom in London in 1920 dressed in ordinary clothes, only to be refused service and simply shown the door…

Remember that amusing story, worthy of a Richard Gere and Julia Roberts double act, about the Indian Maharajah who walked into a Rolls Royce showroom in London in 1920 dressed in ordinary clothes, only to be refused service and simply shown the door? He then changed into royal attire and

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The English astrologer William Lilly predicted the fall of the Stuart dynasty, and the prediction came true seventy years later

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Gondola cup with a figure personifying Spring, made at Fontainebleau, circa 1620-1625

Gondola cup with a figure personifying Spring, made at Fontainebleau, circa 1620-1625. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. And John Everett Millais's "Ophelia"

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SOAS University of London, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the study of Asia and Africa, has proposed to "decolonise" the philosophy curriculum in schools and universities

SOAS University of London, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the study of Asia and Africa, has proposed to "decolonise" the philosophy curriculum in schools and universities. In place of the ancient and classical philosophy of Aristotle, Socrates, Kant and Russell, whom it has

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"Do you consider the House of Lords a more perfect institution than the House of Commons?" "Naturally"

"Do you consider the House of Lords a more perfect institution than the House of Commons?" "Naturally. In the House of Lords we are never brought into contact with public opinion. That is what makes us a civilised institution." Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance,

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