cultural-heritage

Zohran Mamdani’s suggestion King Charles should return diamond to India has reopened old wounds It may not be the biggest or most precious jewel ensconced in the Tower of London, but few diamonds have a legacy to rival that of the Koh-i-noor. Likely to have originated in southern India, the diamond’s history is that of a great disruptor across the subcontinent, exchanging hands over centuries thr…

Die Zeit’s online database of individuals’ Nazi membership is prompting a reckoning as people uncover ties to regime Olaf Köndgen is 64 years old, a German citizen and a senior European human rights expert who has lived and worked in France for several years. Last month, Köndgen learned that he is also the son of a Nazi. Despite a strong interest in history and its lessons, Köndgen is typical of …

The elaborately decorated Book of Kells takes its name from the eponymous abbey in Co. Meath where it was kept for centuries, but it has been previously suggested that the early medieval

Ana Viladomiu has been a ‘privileged’ resident of the once derided, now revered Barcelona apartment building for almost 40 years Imagine that you live in an enormous, beautiful apartment designed by one of the world’s most admired architects in the most expensive street in Spain and for which you pay a derisory rent, with the right to live there until you die. Meet the writer Ana Viladomiu, 70, t…

Shudha Nankani, Presidency University, Bangalore ABSTRACT The folklore intellectual property interface has taken on significant relevance in the modern globalization age where cultural expressions are becoming more and more susceptible to commercialization and transatlantic distribution. Folklore, also known as traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), is the shared cultural heritage of indigenous…

_Journal of Development Communication and Applied Theatre_ 2 (5):121-128. 2025The gradual neglect of important cultural symbols of communication that have significant impact on cultural identity in the contemporary era informed the problem of this study. Consequently, the study examined the Igbe- Umuada dance costume to evaluate how the dance costume communicates and reflects the identity of the …

In the transition from a monarchical to a democratic governance system in Hawaiʻi, Indigenous perspectives have not been fully integrated into land-use decision-making, resulting in mistrust, cultural marginalization, and inequitable policy outcomes. While prior researchers have examined colonization in Hawaiʻi, there is limited understanding of how Hawaiian cultural protocols may impact modern s…

When I visited the Harold C. Deutsch World War II History Round Table in the Twin Cites back in March, one of the members introduced me to a women’s military auxiliary unit. I had never heard of the Women’s Air Raid Defense of the Hawaiian Islands (WARD). It was rabbit hole time! WARD was formed…

A retired chartered surveyor has returned three medieval floor tiles to Wenlock Priory nearly six decades after stealing them as a child during a family outing. Simon White was just nine years old when he took the ornate clay artefacts from the Shropshire site in July 1967, with his father acting as lookout and encouraging the theft. The 68-year-old rediscovered the tiles months ago whilst search…

The 75th anniversary of this landmark event is a timely reminder of how art can bring people together Launched by King George VI on 3 May 1951, the Festival of Britain was conceived as a “tonic” for a nation battered by war, debt and rationing. At a time of ongoing global conflicts and austerity, there are parallels with today. Its impact in 1951 is hard to overstate. What buildings remained were…

The German artist lived through Nazism and communism – and his horrific, shaming works, including a masturbating Hitler, forced his country to face its past. Yet in later life, he beautifully captured human frailty, portraying himself and his wife nude Georg Baselitz was a living thread of history and his death robs us of the truth he knew when we need it more than ever. He was one of the only tw…

In World War II, Amsterdam’s large Jewish population and notable Jewish institutions were particularly hard hit by the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.  The Jewish people were stripped of their rights and of their possessions, over 100,000 Jewish people were killed, and over 100,000 other Jewish people were deported from the country. One of the many locations in Amsterdam affected by the Holocau…

Ink that seeped invisibly between the pages of a dismembered 6th-century manuscript just revealed 42 lost pages of the New Testament.

It showcased the biggest stars of the day, including Stan Laurel, Harry Houdini, Morecambe and Wise and Shirley Bassey, before becoming a bingo hall, a church and a squat. It was almost turned into flats. What next for Manchester’s forgotten music hall? It doesn’t look like much from the outside. An inelegant, industrial redbrick block; if you didn’t know, you might guess it’s a biscuit factory. …

Jochen Hellbeck wants the West to acknowledge the Soviet role in stopping Hitler

The Venus figurines are among the most captivating and debated objects in human history. These small, portable sculptures of the female form date primarily to the Gravettian period (c. 26,000–21,000 years ago) of the Upper Paleolithic. Found across a vast geographic range—from France to the Ural Mountains in Russia—they share a striking "shorthand" for the female body: exaggerated breasts, bellie…

The Cascajal Block is one of the most controversial and exciting discoveries in Mesoamerican archaeology. Found in the late 1990s in a gravel pit in Veracruz, Mexico—the heartland of the Olmec civilization—it potentially pushes the dawn of writing in the Americas back to approximately 900 BCE . If authentic, it suggests the Olmecs, often called the "Mother Culture" of Mesoamerica, were the first …

Hastière is a town located an hour and a half’s drive south of Brussels. It is best known for its Saint-Pierre Abbey, a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture. This famous building stands directly on the banks of the Meuse, demonstrating that the river has been a major transport route for centuries. Consequently, the fledgling nation of Belgium, which gained its independence in 1830, quickly emba…

Hidden inside a cafe, in what was originally a theater, is a detailed collection of socialist era Bulgarian cars. Everything from the Lada to the Trebant can be found in the museum along with other socialist friendly car brands and models. Alongside the main attraction of the cars the museum also contains a complete history of life in Socialist Bulgaria in the form of toys, hoovers, cigarettes, a…

Tees Transporter Bridge and a former working men’s club in Barrow-in-Furness among sites at risk of decay or neglect Teesside’s Transporter Bridge, a disinfecting station in Hackney and a former working men’s club in Barrow-in-Furness have been included on a list ringing alarm bells for Victorian and Edwardian heritage. The Victorian Society has published its annual top 10 endangered buildings li…