Preserving digital expatriate memories
The Inconvenient Truths: Narrative Pluralism in the Telling of History
In his book ‘The Practice of History’, the staunch traditionalist Geoffrey Elton harshly criticised the historical relativism of E. H. Carr espoused in his book…
Moral Precedents for Easter Island: How a Small Victory for Rapa Nui Activists May Lead to Something Bigger
In 1947 the Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl successfully traversed the significant distance between the coast of Peru and several Polynesian islands, on a raft made…
“Where are your gibes now?” Preserving Humanity in the Museum Vrolik
The Museum Vrolik is not a particularly easy place to find. It is tucked away within the Academic Medical Centre, which is itself quite far…