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  I’ve found myself feeling a bit like Cameron Frye in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) this week. Watching my follower count on Bl...

Dr Ralph Jackson (1950-2024)   Very sadly my friend and former colleague at the British Museum, Ralph Jackson, passed away on 16 September 2...

  Aomori, at the northernmost end of Japan’s island of Honshu, is renowned for its annual ‘Nebuta Matsuri’ or Nebuta Festival. ‘Nebuta’ are ...

Or, A Conradian Reflection Upon the Phenomena of Modern Travel.   A View of Enoshima, by Yuichi Takahashi (c.1876-1877) In his ‘Preface’...