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Advocate for history, arts, museums and humanities. Digital Historian researching networks of gods and animals across the ancient Mediterranean. Communications […]

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In Belfast, so went to see the statue of Big Jim Larkin, leader of the Dublin lock-out. His words are more pertinent than ever: “The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise."
A statue of a man, whose arms are raised in exhortation and mouth is open as in speech. The statue is placed before a mural showing various union banners.
May 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Went for a walk round East London today starting at the Georgian Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lord in Stoke Newington. A symbolically rich exterior with prominent symbols of the gospels and topped with a spear.
It was designed for the Agapemonite […]

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A gothic tower and spire with oversized sculptures
July 28, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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“Since it was Egypt very probably that gave to culture the conception of immortality, there seems to be peculiar poetic justice in the fact of her having immortalized herself as no other early civilization. The cult of the dead, her most dominant and persistent […]

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The Munich Egyptian museum with three antiques in front of a neon sign saying ‘all art has been contemporary’
July 27, 2024 at 7:06 PM