I believe it was Deborah who said, “history is thrust upon us and we’re expected to know it.” We learn in baby steps. We weren’t taught calculus at 13, we were taught linear algebra first. I wasn’t an immigrant six-year-old in...
Read MoreOn our museum trip, the exhibition that had the most impact on me was also the smallest: that between the Pou Kanohi gallery and the Spitfire, focusing on the lives of three men involved in airstrikes on German cities. These men...
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Classical mythology has been consistently inspiring art and entertainment over the years for a...
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For centuries, the whimsy of fairy tales has been ingrained into childhoods. They are...
Read MoreIn too many ways, the Conservative label has been polarised to suit the unfolding narrative of political unrest in the Trump era. A combination of Politics 106 lectures and a video article by the former Canadian Prime Minister...
Read MoreReading the article on the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay exhibition and visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum, there was a clear theme. Both acknowledged the tension between commemoration and scholarship in relation to conflict....
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Set in the four walls of the museum lies the material evidence of worlds long gone. It is a temple...
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Women in ancient Greece were purely domestic beings. Cloistered and confined to the Oikos (home), each woman was trapped in her Odyssean hellscape …
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The Australian outback: unexplored, uninhabited, dangerous. You’re an explorer setting out for the first time across the new frontier.
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When we walked into the World War I memorial in the museum my feeling was one of disconnect and...
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