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The Friday Digest 15/05/15

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This week's update features witch bottles, men and women in Ancient Greek art and the birth of the crash helmet.

 

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Flagging enthusiasm: young Londoners do their best to join in the celebrations despite the destruction of their homes in Battersea, south London



* Friday 8 May marked the seventieth anniversary of VE Day and the end of war in Europe, but how did ordinary Britons celebrate


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George St, returning prisoners of war in hospital uniform Drawing: Desmond Knox-Leet Photograph: N0tice-static


* Sketches of VE Day from seventy years ago.


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George "Johnny" Johnson VE Day: The last British Dambuster



* VE Day: the last British Dambuster


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Colour video reveals Berlin life after the fall of Hitler's Germany

 

* The colour video that reveals life in Berlin after the fall of Hitler's Germany.


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German newspaper of the time advertising the tour by the "gentlemen von Worcestershire"


* The English cricket team that toured Nazi Germany.


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Gröning was visibly moved by proceedings on Tuesday (EPA)

 

* A former Auschwitz guard charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder was reduced to tears by the testimony of survivors at the resumption of his trial in Germany.

 

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Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: nursing's bitter rivalry

 
 
* Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: nursing's bitter rivalry


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How Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics


* How Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics ...
 

 

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Fresh perspective? Making the BBC Three drama Our World War. BBC Photo Library

 

* A muddy vision of the First World War


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Witch bottle
 


* A suspected 'witch bottle' has been unearthed by archaeologists during a dig in Nottinghamshire. Researchers believe that the green bottle, which is about 15cm tall, was probably used in the 1700s to ward off evil spells cast by witches.


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New Google Cultural Institute exhibit focuses on the island where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner


* Google has a new exhibit, produced in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation as well as the Robben Island Museum, which consists of seven interactive exhibits focusing on the trial that led to Mandela's imprisonment, Mandela's life at Robben Island, quotes from various political prisoners held there, a prison tour, and more which you can see here


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Colston Arms, St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. The Colston Arms in Bristol refused to accept that black and white soldiers should not be served together

 

Bristol's little-known role in the US civil rights movement


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Greta Garbo (c) Rex


* Ten icons who redefined beauty over the past 100 years

 

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Picasso painting The Women of Algiers


* Picasso's Women of Algiers has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $160m (£102.6m) at Christie's in New York. 


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When cartography meets pop art, wonderful maps occur

 

When cartography meets pop art, wonderful maps occur.


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The use of the saber in the army of Napoleon: Part I

 

The use of the sabre in the army of Napoleon


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An embroidery of the image of a 1297 copy of Magna Carta that appears on its Wikipedia page. The work was stitched by Cathy Johnson from the Embroiderers’ Guild. Photograph: British Library


* The hand-stitched Magna Carta Wikipedia page which explores the fabric of democracy


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Pope Clement IV. After his death in 1268 it took the cardinals nearly three years to elect a new pope. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)


* Eight things you (probably) didn’t know about medieval elections


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Triumph of Faith over Idolatry by Jean-Baptiste Théodon (1646–1713)


* Politics as a religious experience


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Alfred in a 13th-century manuscript - British Library


* Alfred the Great: do we overplay the king's 'greatness'?  


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Office building


* Painless Parker: part dentist, part showman, all American ... 


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* Fantastic news from the Imperial War Museum after they announced that they wont be introducing charges for researchers.

 

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* 'Can drinking tea turn you into a whore?'  


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Marble statue of a Nereid, from the Nereid monument. Lycian, about 390–380 BC, from Xanthos, south-western Turkey. British Museum, London 1848,1020.81


* Let’s talk about sex: men and women in Greek art

 

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A naked youth reclines, one of the Parthenon marbles housed at the British Museum in London. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

 

* The Parthenon marbles are miracles of sculpture symbolic of Greek nationhood, do you agree?  


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3D print of Venus de Milo Spinning Thread, left, and computer re

 


* What were the Venus de Milo’s arms doing? 3D printing the ancient sculpture


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TE lawrence (c) Alamy


* Lawrence of Arabia and the birth of the crash helmet


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After trying to kill President Reagan, John W Hinckley Jr was taken away by authorities

 

* Life after shooting a US President


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The Sound of Music: The hills are alive in Salzburg

 

* Which film locations do you know


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The Evolution of TV Advertising


* The evolution of TV advertising.


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For Vigorous Health – Sunkist Recipes for Everyday. Undated pamphlet from the Margaret B. Wilson food pamphlet collection, The New York Academy of Medicine


* Mad Men-era ads


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Jane busy straightening up before launching into some heavy cleaning with dust mop and carpet sweeper. IMAGE: WILLIAM C. SHROUT/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES


* Inside the demanding life of an American mother in 1941

 

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Little Women

 
 
* Seven literary mothers that everybody can learn from ... 


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Maria Bronte


* A look at Maria Bronte, mother of the most famous sisters in literature


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A woodland den under glorious construction in the wild woods. Photograph: The Guardian


* Secret hideouts: the best dens in children’s books


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"Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. William Blake. c.1786" by William Blake - Tate Britain Image. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oberon,_Titania_and_Puck_with_Fairies_Dancing._William_Blake._c.1786.jpg#/media/File:Oberon,_Titania_and_Puck_with_Fairies_Dancing._William_Blake._c.1786.jpg

 

Which female Shakespeare character are you


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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the PEN World Voices Festival, 5/10/15


 

* Beautifully illustrated author quotes.  


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Amazon Kindle. Image (c) Daz Smith from http://www.flickr.com/photos/24441843@N00/4963645146/sizes/m/in/photostream/

 

* What we learned from ebooks in 2014


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