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Exploring the destruction of the Stari Most and its impact on Bosnians, the neighbouring regions and the wider world.
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Affiliate Members - Join us for an introductory tour of Burlington House to learn more about the Society and its Collections.
Col.(later General Sir) George Whitmore's contribution with the Royal Engineers to the civil architecture of British Malta and the Ionian Islands in the early 19th. century
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ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE Out of London Meeting: York Boynton Hall Simply Told by Dr Adrian Green FSA Boynton Hall, near Bridlington, was occupied by the Strickland family […]
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Explore the research potential of their archives, library and museum collections at Burlington House, and discover how their digitisation and cataloguing is progressing, and how this is enhancing their research potential.
Introductory Tour for Fellows
The modern books that we hold in our hands today – and the visual texture of the pages within them – took their current form during the middle decades of the eighteenth century. In this illustrated lecture, Richard Wendorf examines the changes in capitalization, italicization, quotation marks, and title-pages that have produced the texts and volumes with which we are familiar today, while also considering the larger cultural developments that made these changes possible.