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    Luca Zan

    Luca Zan Professor of Management Luca Zan is Professor of Management at GIOCA, University of Bologna, and teaches at MAM, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He has published extensively in international journals on strategic management and change, management and accounting history, and the management of museums and cutural organisations. Luca Zan’s research deals with: Management and accounting history, both in terms of theories, and practices (especially in pre-industrial settings, such the Venice Arsenal 16th century). Strategic change processes, looked at through the lenses of strategic management, management accounting and organization theory traditions. The diffusion of economic and managerial discourse in non profit…

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    The Eagle of the Ninth

    by Rosemary Sutcliff OUP Oxford (2004) 6/10 The Eagle of the Ninth has been called a modern classic of children’s fiction. Originally published in 1954, interest has been rekindled in it by a new film of the story being shot. The movie will be directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), and star Channing Tatum (G.I Joe: Rise of the Cobra) and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot). The big names guarantee maximum publicity for the film and, as a result, renewed interest in the book. In the foreword of the book, Sutcliff cites inspiration for the plot from two…

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    Stonehenge Spring Equinox 2011

    The exact time for the Spring (or Vernal) equinox 2011 is March 20th, 23.21 UCT. The sunset on the 20th is at 6.13pm and the sunrise on the 21th of March at 6.02am. English Heritage did not confirm the date for Open Access for Stonehenge for the Spring Equinox 2011 yet, but most likely this will be dawn on the 21th of March. Expect a short period of access, from approximately 5.45am to 8.00am. Event Details Event Dates: Monday 21 March 2011 to Monday 21 February 2011 – ended ERROR – end date before start date Event Start Time: 5am Event Length:…

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    Jon Cannon

    Jon Cannon Expert and writer on British heritage Jon Cannon writes about old places in general and teaches medieval architectural history in particular. He teaches at the University of Bristol and frequently gives talks and leads tours on the subject. He has also published several articles on Avebury, and contributes a regular profile of a historic area – from ancient prehistory to 20th century heritage – to British Archaeology magazine. He has worked in the heritage industry for nearly 15 years, including working for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and English Heritage. He went freelance in…

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    Roman Roads in Britain

    by Hugh Davies Shire Publications (2008) 8/10 This is superb introduction to Roman roads in Britain. It is 72 pages long (including indices) and has plenty of colour photographs, diagrams and several aerial shots to illustrate Hugh Davies’ concise discussion of our Roman roads. Hugh Davies spent his working life as a highway engineer with the Transport Research Laboratory. He retired in 1994 and gained a PhD in 2001 from the Archaeology and Classics Departments of Reading University. He has since written extensively on Roman roads using his expert knowledge of road building and design. He is also the author…

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    A Sumerian Library Catalogue

    A clay tablet dating from the start of the second millennium BC is actually a list of literary texts from a Sumerian library. It originates from Nippur (in ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day lower Iraq), which was one of the most important Sumerian cities. It is on display at the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the Louvre. Origin & Collection On display at: The Louvre Reference Number: AO 5393 Physical properties Materials: Clay

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    The Past from Above

    by Charlotte Trümpler, Georg Gerster Frances Lincoln (2006) 10/10 The first thing that strikes you when you click on to Georg Gerster’s website is the following quote: “Height provides an overview. And an overview facilitates insight, while insight generates consideration – perhaps.” Georg Gerster says this conviction is “both the premise and the result of” his work as a journalist and aerial photographer. And he should know. By following this line of reasoning, Gerster took aerial photography and progressed it, transformed it, challenged it, pushed it to its limits. He took a scientific and artistic pursuit and combined the two…

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    David Silverman

    Curator specializing in King Tut Dr. David P. Silverman serves as the curator, advisor and academic content creator for the exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. This exhibit truly completes a full circle for him; in 1977, he was in charge of curatorial content for the exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun at Chicago’s Field Museum. He also co-authored the text panels and labels that traveled around the United States with the exhibition, which attracted an unprecedented 1.8 million visitors in its run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979 and inspired the phenomenon known as ‘Tutmania’. A…

  • britain

    William the Conqueror

    1027 – 9 Sep 1087 King of England William the Conqueror otherwise known as William I, was the King of England  from 1066 until his death in 1087. His reign largely impacted the course of England in the Middle Ages. William was already a successful figure, and was known as ‘the Conqueror’ before 1066 due to his military success in Brittany. William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemish people and Frenchmen, he rose to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings. He further suppressed all other English revolts…

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    Mask of Agamemnon

    Key Dates 1500 BC The Mask of Agamemnon is an artifact discovered at Mycenae. The mask is one of ten discovered in the shaft graves at Mycenae, three in Grave V and two in Grave V. It is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Key People The mask was discovered in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann a German archaeologist, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Troy and of the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. Schliemann believed that he had discovered the body of the legendary…