In the summer of 2018, I went on a three-day holiday to the city of Bruges in Belgium with one of my best friends. To…
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…
Third Culture Kids – Claiming & Sharing Heritage
When I sat down to think about what heritage means to me and what motivated me to study it at university, my first instinct was…
Our heritage: wandering through city and mind
Regardless of their location, layout, aesthetics or scale, urban landscapes have always fascinated me. Cities are like people – they are eclectic ensembles of different…
Portugal’s silencing of slavery: why do I care?
This is the third and final part of a three-fold series which has been delving into slavery as a narrative of the past, from the…
Not found: ‘Women’
About the underrepresentation of female authors in the Dutch week of Books On the 23th March, the week of books started in the Netherlands. The theme…
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…
A call for recognition: Portugal’s long-due slavery monument
This is the second of a three-part series which will delve into slavery as a narrative of the past, however with (frequently overlooked) legacies in…
Broken Heroes: The Crumbling Legacy of Michael Jackson
With the imminent release of HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson’s legacy appears on the cusp of a dramatic and humiliating fall from grace. The…
An Old Man’s Secret: Artefacts and Remains
The Midwestern state of Indiana has been in the national news in the past few days for something rather unexpected. In 2014, the FBI entered…