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Witchcraft Curses of the Twentieth Century 8 August

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The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic is in the beautiful Cornish village of Boscastle, UK. It was opened in this location in 1960 and is still there today. The founder of the museum, Cecil H Williamson, acquired an array of artifacts, some donated, some bought and some that he may have made. These artifacts include a collection that were made to harm, or worse, to kill. They do not all come from practitioners, some were made in domestic settings as revenge.  This lecture showcases some of the best collection in existence!

A Virtual Walk through the World’s Collective Memory 12 August

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The one thing most of us reading this have in common is the English language, and our tongue’s cathedral is the British Library in London. Join Blue Badge Tourist Guide and Lonely Planet guidebook writer Steve Fallon on a virtual tour of this enormous building – the largest built in the UK in the 20th century – which also boasts some rather unusual architecture and an inordinate amount of artwork. What London’s National Gallery is to fine art, the British Library is to the written word.

Venice in Blue 2 & 3 September

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At the turn of the sixteenth century, blue paper emerged as a chosen support for drawing and printing in Venice. Artists including Vittore Carpaccio (ca. 1460–ca. 1526), Lorenzo Lotto (ca. 1480–1556), Titian (ca. 1488–1576), Sebastiano del Piombo (ca. 1485–1547), and Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19–1594) utilised this support for drawings to explore the tonal effects of light and shade on colour. This conference explores the use of blue paper (carta azzurra; carta turchina; carta cerulea) for the purposes of drawing and printing in Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century.

Baking from Scratch 3 September

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Formerly known as Puff Pastry 101, we’ve shifted to include fun baking projects of all kinds! Bring a friend and join us on Instagram Live!

 

The Global Heritage of British Natural History 23 September

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From the seventeenth century, Europeans engaged with a complex world of nature in the colonies in Asia, Africa and America in their pursuit of plants, minerals and human labour. That particular history of nature is often lost in the conventional narratives of natural history, which focuses on the emergence of the empirical vision of nature based on experimental, observational, and empirical methods. Drawing from British imperial history in South Asia and the Caribbean, this talk explores the alternative makings of natural history.

The Parthenon: from antiquity to controversy 23 September

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Join an archaeologist for an hour long, live webinar on the iconic Parthenon, followed by a 30 minute discussion. The Parthenon has stood tall on the top of the Acropolis in Athens for nearly 2500 years. In this webinar, we will trace its rich history from construction, through the Roman and Ottoman periods, all the way to the early 19th century, when some of its sculptures end up in London.

A Feminists Guide To Botany 29 July

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This class is dedicated to the life and work of one of the most visionary female artists you’ve never heard of – Hilma Af Klint was a swedish victorian woman, who, obsessed with the natural world around her, envisioned a kind of art no one had ever dreamed of before. Now lauded with ‘inventing’ abstraction at least five years before Kandinsky (the man previously accredited with this concept), Hilma AF Klint is FINALLY starting to be recognised for the unique and incredible talent she was, over 70 years after her death.