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The Museum Association reported: 'MA slams proposal to scrap DCMS and national museum funding | Museums Association : The Museums Association has strongly criticised a proposal put forward yesterday by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) calling on the government to scrap the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and funding for national museums. The free-market thinktank claimed that taxpayers would save £1.6bn if all spending on DCMS ceased. This saving could be used to slash the rate of corporation tax, cut fuel duty by 3p or partly abolish inheritance tax, the report suggested.. http://www.museumsassociation.org/news/20042012-ma-slams-thinktank-report?utm_source=ma&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=25042012

American Postcards documents the experiences and impressions of three European photographers in post 9/11 USA (2004 to 2005). It features photography and writing by London College of Communication graduates (BA Photography) Norman Wilcox (UK), Amanda Johansson (Sweden) and Ronan Haughton (Ireland). It also features the work of Art Kaligos (USA), a photography graduate from Parsons School of Design New York. American Postcards also features exclusive writing by Peter D. Osborne, author of 'Travelling Light, travel and visual culture'. "Then the police stop us. They’re friendly, they pose for Polaroids .... Art confesses that he would have preferred to have been handcuffed .... so his European pals could have had an Easy Rider experience." - Peter D. Osborne American Postcards | By Ronan Haughton | Category: Arts & Photography | Blurb

What dirt can tell us about medieval people's habits What can dirt on pages tell us about medieval manuscripts and their readers?

Mitra is a web site that pulls together videos on similar topics This is the narrative environments section which contains some from our Creative Practice for Narrative Environments course at CSM: Narrative Environment Videos - Mitra Videos :: Video Resources On The Net

The Telegraph have named the Museum as the 21st best thing to do in London during the Olympics. London 2012: 100 of the best things to do in London - Telegraph

New members of the human family tree SALON - the Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter Salon 275: 16 April 2012 The following is from Salon 275 'So many stories have been published in the media in recent months concerning our ancestors that it is difficult to keep up. The latest position seems to be that it is all a lot more complex than current diagrams of the human family tree might suggest. The outcome has not changed — we are still the only human species left on the planet (at least, until the illusive bigfoot and yeti are tracked down), but that there were probably more hominids than we know about, some of which only became extinct in very recent times, and some of which may live on in modern genes thanks to inter-breeding.'

The fashion for removing pews has been challenged and now the advice is to install stackable pews so that the traditional view of a church fits with the new understanding of a Nave as a flexible space. New Work in Historic Places of Worship | English Heritage

Excellent book about the East End of London and the Blitz built up from oral history records. The War on our Doorstep: London's East End and how the Blitz Changed it Forever: Amazon.co.uk: Harriet Salisbury, The Museum of London Group: Books

This provides some interesting blog enteries on episodes in fiction that take place in London Jane Austen and London « Austenonly

Succinct guide to Jane Austen's places. http://www.seekingjaneausten.com/page9.html

The Arts Council's attempt to understand what on earth it is supposed to be doing with Museums and Libraries. culture_knowledge_and_understanding_final010312.pdf (application/pdf Object)

This enables you to use google earth to see the excavations beneath stonehenge and Durrington Walls Seeing Beneath Stonehenge | Exploring the Stonehenge Riverside project with Google Earth