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Heat, History and Hummus: On the Crusader Trail in the Holy Land
When travelling to the Holy Land on business, the lecturer found themself on a parallel pilgrimage in pursuit of the crusades. They saw more battlefields than balance sheets and swapped franking
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Medieval Brittany
<p>Brittany: the land of the Bretons, invaded by the Romans, and then the Vikings, it became the Duchy of Brittany. Many famous castles and abbeys, cathedrals and beautiful medieval old towns are
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An Evening with Brahms
<p>From his beginnings as a tavern piano player to his final appearance receiving ovations after every piece, Brahms was a man of contrasts. Never marrying but loving Clara Schumann all his life,
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Night Photography Landscapes
<p>The city landscape at night is alive with colour and movement, a perfect creative opportunity for any photographer. Explore the creative potential in colour, composition and camera manipulation
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M.C. Escher - Master of the Visual Illusion
<p>Maurits Cornelis Escher, known as M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist whose work was often inspired by mathematics. His fish became birds, water flowed up not down and hands drew each other. His
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Melbourne's Magnificent Architecture
<p>Melbourne in the 1880s was the wonder of the age: “Marvelous Melbourne” - The 1880 international exhibition was the highpoint, before the severe depression from 1891 brought the boom to an end.
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<p>Melbourne in the 1880s was the wonder of the age: “Marvelous Melbourne” - The 1880 international exhibition was the highpoint, before the severe depression from 1891 brought the boom to an end.
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Fabulous Florentines
<p>The city state of Florence and its fabulous Florentine artists, writers, sculptors, architects and scientists transformed western civilization in the late mediaeval and early Renaissance periods.
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Peru at a Glance
<p>Peru has been blessed with cultural and natural gifts: home to the earliest civilisation in South America, famous for epic landmarks like Machu Picchu, and for its variety of landscapes - from
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The Colourful Victorians - Art, Design and Jewellery
<p>Our image of the Victorian era is Queen Victoria in black. But the Victorians loved colour – electric purples, green and yellows. A 2024 exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford explored this
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This is Who We Are - Australian Novels 1940-1959
<p>Not surprisingly the novels written from the time of the Second World War were increasingly willing to grapple with the harsher realities of Australian life, and the writers themselves were more
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