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The Friday Digest 19/12/14

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THP Friday digest

This week's update features a digital atlas of the Roman empire, the First World War nurses who put on a pantomime and the intoxicating history of festive spices. 


This advertisement for Grey’s cigarettes, published in 1917, captured the 'excitement' of a 'stirrup charge...at St Quentin 1914'. - See more at: http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/commercial-advertising-as-propaganda#sthash.5Q4ApWub.dpuf


 * Commercial advertising as propaganda in the First World War


Women’s War Work in maintaining the industries & export trade of the United Kingdom


* Changing lives: gender expectations and roles during and after the First World War


Xmas-panto


Oh, yes they did!’ How First World War nurses put on a pantomime in the midst of the horrors of war ... 


Newspaper cutting


* The Hartlepool bombardment and how it unfolded on 16 December 1914


Arthur Shelby

 

* We need to talk about Arthur Shelby ...  


Sgt Kitching made the brooch, pictured, for his girlfriend Lizzie Hunter, who he married after the conflict


* The First World War soldier who made a brooch for his sweetheart out of his thigh bone - that's one gift we hope we won't be getting under the tree this Christmas!  

 

Visitors looking at Pablo Picasso's Guernica in Reina Sofia National Art Museum (Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia). © Getty Images. Photographer: Bruce Yuanyue Bi
 
 

* Eighty moments that shaped the world


Field markings near Wattisham


A metal detectorist has discovered a possible Bronze Age burial site while browsing on Google Maps.


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the Citi Money Gallery.


* What colour were Dorothy’s shoes? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as monetary allegory


 “The Sleeping Beauty”, 1873-94 by Edward Burne-Jones. Photograph: AKG-images

 

* How fairy tales grew up


Rilke’s Bayon, Cambodia, 2007.

 

* Beautiful dark twisted fantasies: the world's most ancient trees in pictures


Medieval Tube map

 

 * This medieval Tube map reveals a fascinating side to London



* A digital atlas of the Roman Empire.


Yes, you're a quidnunc. Q-U-I-D-N-U-N-C.


* Eleven classy insults with classical Greek and Latin roots.


The twin Memnon colossi show Amenhotep III seated. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP

 

* Archaeologists have unveiled a restored statue of Amenhotep III that was toppled in an earthquake more than 3,000 years ago at Egypt’s temple city of Luxor.


Image from http://historytoday.com/thomas-penn/portraits-power


Why is the study of kings and queens still relevant in our less than deferential age?


Birmingham in 1732

 


* Made in Birmingham: the self-deprecating nature of Brummies.


Christmas display at Buckingam Palace (c) David Telford

 

* The surprisingly recent Buckingham Palace tradition: the Christmas tree which appears beneath the famous royal balcony in the forecourt of the palace.   


Spices and other aromatics have been a driving force in human history. Wikimedia Commons


* Out of your noggin? Festive spices and their intoxicating history


Men ... You’ll stumble on something witty occasionally. Photograph: Allstar/BBC


* Jane Austen in quotes: thirty tips for a successful life


Man floating in Dead Sea while reading, under an umbrella

 

Umbrellas have been around for more than 3,000 years but can they be improved? 


supporting a career in heritage


* Supporting a career in heritage

 

The interior of the new, redesigned Liverpool public library Photo: Tony Smith/Alamy

 
* Haven’t finished reading that bestseller? You’re not alone ... 


* Thirsty? Go to a library, not a coffee shop


Suggested by klavdijak22 Creative Commons / Flickr: rayseinefotos

 

* Fifty-one of the most beautiful sentences in literature


Top row, from left: Rivka Galchen, Mohsin Hamid, Zoë Heller, Anna Holmes and Leslie Jamison. Middle row: Adam Kirsch, Thomas Mallon, Ayana Mathis, Daniel Mendelsohn and Pankaj Mishra. Bottom row: Benjamin Moser, James Parker, Francine Prose, Dana Stevens and Cheryl Strayed. Credit Illustrations by R. Kikuo Johnson

 

* The Bookseller  and The New York Times have recommended their books of the year, but which ones would you add to the list? 


* Do you agree with Jeff Bezos that 'books are too expensive'?


* Google are 'experimenting with a buy button' that would allow browsers to shop directly through the search engine, without having to visit a retailer's own website


2015


* Will 2015 be the year of being brave in publishing? 

 

  Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?


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