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Saying Goodbye to Oxford’s Norham Gardens
After a long plane flight from California, I reached the house in Norham Gardens on a cold January day, dragging two suitcases containing enough clothing for my five-month stay as an academic visitor at Oxford University. The Victorian Gothic house was forbidding and strange – with closed doors between all the rooms. It had sat…
Read MoreIntrepid Women at the Pitt-Rivers Museum
On the eve of International Women’s Day, a standing-room only crowd of a hundred or so people squeezed into an upper gallery of Oxford University’s Pitt-Rivers Museum, a place known to generations of British school children as where they saw shrunken heads. The tsantsa, or shrunken heads, were removed from their display cases in 2020…
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