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The Friday Digest 10/07/15

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THP Friday digest

 

This week's update features memories of the 7/7 bombings, Frida Kahlo's wardrobe and children's books that make parents cry. 

 

The Eternal Flame, at the Armenian Genocide Memorial, at Tsitsernakaberd, Yerevan.

 

* The Armenian Genocide of 1915

 

20 July 1969: The first moon walk

 

* Eight weird things that have happened in July through history. 

 

A photo of a male human skeleton inside a large darkened museum box

 

* A battered soldier's body tells bloody tale of the Wars of the Roses

 

Hanging around: Captain William Kidd in the gibbets in 1701.

 

* The many deaths of Captain Kidd

 

Egypt Gebel Ramlah

 

* Unusual neolithic burials have been unearthed in Egypt

 

* Louis Pasteur: The man who led the fight against germs

 

* The family of a boy who accidentally smashed a jug at an Ipswich museum are 'thrilled' that it has been repaired. 

 

William Frederick Yeames, The meeting of Sir Thomas More with his daughter after his sentence of death, 1872.

 

* Hilary Mantel on Thomas More

 

Monet wanted to create a water garden on his property that he could paint, pictured, but local farmers feared the exotic plants being used would infect the water supply and could potentially endanger their cattle

 

* Documents that show Claude Monet's neighbours objections to his garden plans are going on display at the Royal Academy.  

 

Men in 'coffin beds'.

 

* Seeking shelter in Victorian London: The problem of homelessness in the capital city. 

 

Polly Cat Contemplates on romanticising the Victorian era

 

Paper doll heaven: Dress up Mary Wollstonecraft any way you like! 

 

And '60s clothes look wayyyy better on you than they ever do on the hanger.

 

* Thirteen things that happened when this journalist wore '60s clothes for a day.  

 

Kahlo wore long, traditional Tehuana dresses that concealed her lower body

 

* Frida Kahlo's wardrobe has been unlocked after fifty years.

 

* Twenty-eight pictures of women from London’s lost ’80s subcultures.   

 

* Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: Photography and imaging

 

* This mammoth infographic captures the most iconic wedding dresses of all time

 

Milkybar

 

 * A nostalgic look back on the Milkybar.  

 

* A survivor of the 7/7 bombings tells his story while Buzzfeed gathers collective memories of the terrorist attacks

 

Inside the big white tents in the gardens of the Honourable Artillery Company with the people who cared for the 52 victims

 

* What it was like working in the temporary mortuary during 7/7

 

Georgina Ferguson was on one of the Tube trains attacked in 7/7 and now she’s made a film about it

 

* A woman on one of the trains during the 7/7 bombings has made a film about her experience

 

BBCGuidelines

 

* The 1948 BBC style guideline 'On matters of Taste'.  

 

David Walliams and Jessica Raine in the BBC’s forthcoming Partners in Crime.

 

* The Agatha Christie brand gets TV makeover

 

Illustration by Ethan Rilly.

 

* Love You Forever, Knuffle Bunny Free and other children’s books that make parents cry

 

Music magazine NME is to go free, its publisher has announced 

* NME is to go free with a larger circulation in new shake-ups.  

 

As a teenager, Belinda McKeon was obsessed with Just Seventeen. Two decades on, flicking through old issues, she still understands why

 

*  Belinda McKeon on teen magazine Just Seventeen

 

* Summer reading: Time to visit old friends

 

* The Guardian has pre-published the first chapter of the new Harper Lee novel.  

 

* Joanna Prior, president of the Publishers Association, rejects 'out of date' industry image

 

* Twenty-one book lovers share their favourite African writers

 

* The Bookseller's five-minute manifesto for FutureBook

 

* 'Reconfiguration' of Man Booker International Prize


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