Friday's Links the Past 8 March '13

Happy Friday!

BBC's weekly podcast:

To mark the upcoming papal election, historian Stella Fletcher explores the long tradition of conclaves

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This week's Met Museum Video:

82nd & Fifth: "Enamored" by Sean Hemingway

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The famous Cyrus Cylinder will be on tour in the United States!

For more information on the Cylinder and the US Tour including Dates. 

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The Price of Slavery is an article by HistoryToday that looks at a project that examines the British slave trade, who profited and by how much.. 

''While this can throw up evidence of famous Britons’ links with slavery (then or now), the database reveals larger truths about our country’s intimate entanglement with slave money.''

"To the Friends of Negro Emancipation", an engraving in the West Indies, celebrating the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833.
From HistoryToday.com