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Redacted Museum @redactedmuseum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Art history is social history and I will die on that hill. Read my latest blog on how the missing Franklin Expedition affected contemporary portrayals of the arctic in the 19th century. Also haunted polar bears. 🐻‍❄️ www.redactedmuseum.com/blog/haunted... #arthistory #arctic #polarbears #history #art

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Haunted Polar Bears: Art & the Arctic — Redacted Museum

One place you don’t expect to be at the mercy of the polar bear is in an exam hall at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Redacted Museum @redactedmuseum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Those #castles scattered across the UK? Status symbols, power plays, and paranoia told by expensive stonework. 🏰 When #Tudor era politics got messier than moats could handle, construction stopped. Read about the rise and fall of fortified houses: www.redactedmuseum.com/blog/ceasean... #history #blog

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Cease and Desist: Castles — Redacted Museum

Build a castle or get beheaded. How we pivoted away from the fortification aesthetic.

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Redacted Museum @redactedmuseum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Next time you visit an #EnglishHeritage or #NationalTrust site, take a moment to notice: is the tearoom in the old kitchens or the old stables? It's always one and once you start clocking it, you’ll never unsee it.

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Redacted Museum @redactedmuseum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The #britishmuseum recent #silkroads exhibition made me think a lot about Aurel Stein, a significant 19th c. archeologist whose questionable choices we tried to bury as adeptly as the 2nd century shoes he pulled out the desert sands.📜 Read about him in my new blog here: shorturl.at/lKqjK #archeology

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How to Negotiate in a Stealing Sort of Way — Redacted Museum

Somehow both a celebrated archeologist and a professional disgrace. Oh, Aurel Stein, what have you done?

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