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…
Activism in the Bialowieza Forest: the way out of an intractable conflict?
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Bialowieza Forest in the North-East of Poland has been the stage for extraordinary clashes of interests and ideologies which…
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…
Should Big Oil Sponsor Cultural Institutions?
Earlier this year in February a performance protest was staged at the British Museum by the group BP or not BP?. It was a protest against…
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…
Painting on Italy’s Colonial Past
During the International Women’s Day March on March 8 in Milan, Italy, a feminist group known as Non Una di Meno, Not a Minor, covered…
“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…