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Blue Shield warns of potential ‘war crimes’ against Iran’s cultural sites - Museums Association International museum and heritage bodies urge protection of cultural heritage across Gulf region

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𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 | Oceano Azul Foundation | 25 comments 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. 🌊 The ocean does not respond to fragmented action or lowest-common-denomina...

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Ashmolean returns 16th-century bronze taken from Hindu temple - Museums Association Icon repatriated to India after scholar raised provenance concerns

News | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford returns 16th-century bronze taken from Hindu temple

Icon repatriated to India after scholar raised provenance concerns

This Way Up A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025 'Educational, smart and funny’ Richard Osman ‘This book is superb’ Charlie Brooker ‘Brilliant. Fascinating. H...

Well, it's #WorldBookDay and I think everyone should take a look at 'This Way Up' by Map Men Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones.

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Positively Spring vibes at Kew today...

Search for lost colonial-era paintings potentially hidden in homes Experts believe "countless" artworks by a famed colonial artist could be sitting in Tasmanian homes, with the owners unaware of their true value.

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50 years ago the English version of Adventures of the Black Hand Gang, by Hans Jürgen Press was released. Like Where's Wally?, Richard Scarry, Mitsumasa Anno, Ali Mitgutsch & even
Hieronymus Bosch, it was an example of children's 'Wimmlebild'—deliberately crowded art to draw in & stimulate minds.

Ah, the good ol' days of 90s internet search. Less results, a LOT less dross and misinformation.

Web Rewind An interactive journey through 30 years of the web

Okay, this is a bit of fun.

And come to think about it, it probably is about 30 years since I first sat down in front of yahoo, Alta Vista and Geocities in the pre-Google early internet days. What a hopeful, exciting thing the 'net' promised to be back then.

Time to reboot?

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Sack that used to hold affidavits.

Label on an affidavits sack

I still get a thrill when I open up an archive box and find the original sack that used to hold the records. This is an 18th Century sack used for holding King's Bench affidavits [TNA KB 1/3]

There have been 59 royal arrests in UK history – Charles I was not the last before Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Often it was family members calling for arrest over fears of succession.

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The 10 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World The ultimate bookstore bucket list for bibliophiles.

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That time when, two months into World War 1, the FT asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes: great @ftweekend.com piece by @theboysmithy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/79a4...

The remarkable story of the Norman Cross POW site in Cambridgeshire from the Napoleonic Wars.

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The Firm - Star Trekkin' YouTube video by roopert

Star Trekkin' across the universe,
Always going forwards coz we can't find reverse!
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The cover art for ASK A HISTORIAN is in blue and gold. The book has 1358 reviews and an average score of 4.3 stars

Just a cheeky reminder that my bestselling book ASK A HISTORIAN is only 99p on ebook right now — it’s a fun, easy read and the reader reviews are very positive, so maybe give it a try? www.amazon.co.uk/Ask-Historia...

Well, given how they don't seem to cope with AFL punters, perhaps they should let an Aussie Rules team have a crack at it.

Proposals for a high-speed rail loop that would link nine urban centres across the UK and Ireland have been put forward by RIBA President Chris Williamson.

The ‘Northern Loop’ would create a ‘dispersed but connected’ global city of around ten million people 👉 www.theb1m.com/article/high...

Brunswick Street is being hand-drawn in its entirety by one dedicated Melbourne artist For seven years, Helen Wilding has been meticulously sketching every single building on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

In an age where we are being regularly bombarded by AI generated dross imagery (and poor quality text), this is a refreshing and beautiful bit of human, hand-drawn art with old fashioned ink and paper. And quite lovely to look at.
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I have this great Spanish history book about female prisoners of the Franco regime who managed to communicate with each other and anti fascist cells by encoding messages in knitting patterns they shared. The male guards never checked them because it was "just" women's knitting patterns

Crafty Wartime Spies Put Codes Right Into Their Knitting Knitting socks and hats for 'our troops' was a time-honored tradition during wartime. But spies found a way to use that innocent pastime to transmit vital information.

See also World Wars:

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Yes I know, I post this one too often, but it could be worse, I'm managing to keep myself from posting it every day.

Our A321 takes off in a stunning new painting: the Super Star heritage livery. ✈️ YouTube video by Lufthansa

Oooh @lufthansagroup.bsky.social with the retro livery stylin'. I likey.

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The unexpected reason there are so many empty and abandoned malls Hint: it isn't because of Amazon.

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The birth of the travel guide In the 19th century travel evolved from an aristocratic privilege to middle-class reality. Explore how rail guides made this possible.

Let me take you on a journey about how Murray's Guides, Baedeker & Bradshaw transformed travel and tourism.
Two of these guides will also feature in our February Stories Unboxed display. But it all began with a woman named Mariana Starke...

All aboard!!!
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Swindon is known for its transport history. 🛤️ The North Wessex Way, the ancient route running from Oxford to Bristol, has its origins in the Iron Age or even earlier. It passes through the north… | ... Swindon is known for its transport history. 🛤️ The North Wessex Way, the ancient route running from Oxford to Bristol, has its origins in the Iron Age or even earlier. It passes through the north of ...

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The Lost Treasure of the San José Galleon In "Neptune's Fortune," Julian Sancton follows one archaeologist's quest to find the most valuable shipwreck in history.

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Archaeologists Once Opened A Cave Sealed For 40,000 Years, Revealing The Lives Of The World's Last Neanderthals This cave may have been home to some of the last Neanderthals on Earth.

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Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring’s alleged fifth man Intimate correspondence between John Cairncross and Gloria Barraclough features in National Archives exhibition

This extraordinary tale of John Cairncross' love letters to Gloria Barraclough is just one feature of the National Archives new Love Letters exhibition, which opens this weekend.

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