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Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem

The LRB Podcast

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The Antiquarian Approach to the History of the World in a Hundred Objects

In africa, things which are expressive of national identity. The loss of that object and the possibility of its return was more powerful than the knowledge about its original making. And i think that's what you're talking about in the the construction of a norman identity. That e, the thing s of the past are explored as historical artifats but then their real power comes from what we decide they mean to us now because they've been destroyed or removed.

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