BBC History Podcast:
Lesley Adkins discusses the realities of marriage in Georgian Britain, while Sarah Pennell explores changing attitudes to food in the early modern period.[Great podcast!]
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What is the American Historical Association reading this week?
Today’s What We’re Reading features a roundup of links in remembrance of historian Edmund Morgan, a “filthy history of New York,” an outsider’s perspective on looking for a history job, reviving history instruction, a useful guide to #hashtags and much more.
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Check out this documentary on the Secrets of the Ancient Empires - The First Cities
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In New York? Check out the famous Cyrus Cylinder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
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| The Cyrus Cylinder. Baked clay. Achaemenid, 539–538 B.C. Excavated in Babylon, Iraq, in 1879. British Museum 90920. © Trustees of the British Museum |
The Met also has some great online information on the exhibit!
[Can't wait to go in and see it!]
