Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
The LRB Podcast
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The Great Tapestry of Scotland
It sums up the kind of object that made antiquaries a laughing stock, from the middle ages onwards. And then i think it's very interesting that when it is no longer lost or seen to be held prisoner,. Thisis exactly what scott did with e regalia. He insisted that they'd been lost, and then he insisted he'd rediscovered them. They were just exactly where everyone knew they'd been left.
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