This week there have been many stories about the Japanese maintaining their civility and dignity as they struggle with the aftermath of the earthquake : “Emergency centers, where more than 450,000 evacuees are being housed in stadiums or schools, are neatly organized, with people constructing origami boxes made of newspaper in which to nestle their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’
Things to ponder : 18 March 2011
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, Alain de Botton, Japan, Neil MacGregor on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
True Grit
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, Coen brothers, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, movies, True Grit on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“We know that in the early Bronze Age very few people would get older than about 25 years. Most children would not get older than 5. Many, many women would die in childbirth, and a few would get very old, and these very old people might have had a very special status in the society. [...]
Ozymandias
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, Egypt, poetry, Ramesses II, sculpture, Shelley on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By complete coincidence I got to number 20 of A History of the World in 100 Objects – the British Museum’s statue of Ramesses II – as protests erupted in Egypt (incredible eyewitness photo). The giant statue inspired poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create Ozymandias in 1818 – but it seems startlingly relevant to current [...]
A history of the world in my pestle
Posted in What I'm listening to, What I'm reading, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, Neil MacGregor, Radio 4 on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“When people come to the museum, they choose their own objects and make their own journey round the world and through time, I think what they will find, is that their own histories quickly intersect with everybody else’s – and when that happens, you no longer have a history of a particular people or nation, [...]
