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Dickens Calendar 12

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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Claire Barclay goes for Museums at Night | Culture24

The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Claire Barclay goes for Museums at Night | Culture24 Vote for the Old Operating Theatre Museum.

Open windows could help beat superbugs, says expert - Science - News - The Independent

Open windows could help beat superbugs, says expert - Science - News - The Independent

belzoni - removal man

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The following is from Salon IFA 270 13 Feb 2012 Books by Fellows: Belzoni: the giant that archaeologists love to hate Salon is very grateful to our Fellow Peter Clayton for the following review of the new book by our Fellow Ivor Noël Hume , Belzoni: the giant that archaeologists love to hate (ISBN: 9780813931401; University of Virginia Press ). It is over half a century since the last good book on Giovanni Belzoni was published (Mayes, 1959). Here, written by a noted archaeologist and former Director of Colonial Williamsburg archaeological research programme, is a splendid and up-to-date story of the, literally, giant (2m tall) and pioneer Egyptologist. Many writers of recent years have had a tendency to denigrate Belzoni and his work, but Howard Carter wrote that his work in the Valley of the Kings was the first large-scale excavations in the Valley, and ‘we must give Belzoni full credit for the manner in which they were carried out … on the whole the work was extraor

The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries – How to apply

The Long list for this year's Clore prize is here: Camden Arts Centre, Get The Message Florence Nightingale Museum, Our Generation's Re-interpretation Jersey Heritage, My History Scrapbooks and Discovery Days Leicestershire County Council Heritage and Arts Service, Held in the Hand and Touch Tables Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Treasures from the Earth The Geffrye Museum of the Home, Stories of the World: London The Quilt Museum and Gallery, Unfolding the Quilts The Whitworth Art Gallery, The Manchester Early Years Partnership Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A Schools Team Collaboration with Seymourpowell Yorkshire Museum, Celebrating Severus

IdeasTap: Connecting creative people, funding and ideas

IdeasTap: Connecting creative people, funding and ideas

Southwark historic maps on line

These are maps of southwark - listing all the listed buildings, conservation areas etc viewed imposed on historic maps dating back to 1896 Stratus Connect

Google Maps Mania: Mapping Your Photos with Google Maps

Listing of sites that geotag maps Google Maps Mania: Mapping Your Photos with Google Maps

A Triple Tragedy: How Princess Charlotte’s Death in 1817 Changed Obstetrics « Jane Austen's World

A Triple Tragedy: How Princess Charlotte’s Death in 1817 Changed Obstetrics « Jane Austen's World here is a more detailed description