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All the Dirt Podcast: Gardening, Sustainability and Food 

Deryn Thorpe and Steve Wood combine decades of gardening, sustainability and environmental knowledge to create Australia’s most popular gardening podcast. …

  • Podcasts & Videos
on 4 August 2017
Pepysian Library. Magdalene College, Cambridge

Samuel Pepys and his Library

Samuel Pepys (1633 –1703) is best remembered for his diary, a gossipy account of the personalities and intrigues of London …

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on 21 April 2017
Bingling-Si-Caves-China-Chris-Wood

Buddhism along the Silk Road

The ‘Silk Road’, coined by 19th century German explorer Ferdinand von Richthofen (uncle of famed WWI fighter Ace ‘The Red Baron’) is something …

  • Archaeology
  • History
on 1 March 2017

ASA Updates

Waddesdon-Manor-England - Waddesdon Manor, one of the most extraordinary houses in England. Over 125 years ago, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild transformed a barren hill in the countryside outside London into the setting for this breathtaking estate, where he entertained family and friends, politicians and artists, royalty and writers.

A Rothschild Pleasure Palace: Waddesdon Manor

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on 21 April 2017
Pont-des-Arts-Paris-France

Paris is still Paris

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on 31 March 2017
Image: Christopher de Hamel with the frontispiece to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Troilus and Criseyde”, early 15th century. Source: 1843 Magazine, Photographer Brian Harris

‘Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts’ by Christopher de Hamel

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on 16 November 2016
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