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The Museum of Curiosity: Gallery
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Images from the Museum of Curiosity, 12 March. |
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Below you can see images from the fourth edition of the Museum of Curiosity, featuring Kevin Day, Alastair Fothergill and Victoria Finlay. As John Lloyd explains this isn’t a place for desiccated medieval shoes or rows of moth-eaten stuffed squirrels. We don’t care whether something is old or rare or priceless or “important” or not … as long as it makes you rub your eyes, scratch your head or stroke your chin. Or, as the Museum’s curator Bill Bailey likes to put it: “The Museum Of Curiosity is a great big, hungry baby suckling on the teat of Knowledge.”
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The Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), as every schoolboy knows, took place in the Belgian village of the same name, and was the final battle between the English under Wellington and the French under Napoleon. However on many points, every schoolboy would be wrong: the battle took place miles away from the village, it was not a purely “English” victory, and far from being a noble, English genius of the battlefield, the Duke of Wellington was a philandering Irishman who at times struggled to keep his men under control. Kevin Day uses the battle as a starting point to debunk a number of misconceptions of the British identity. |
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