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The birth of the public museum
| Elissavet Ntoulia
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
| Mark Honigsbaum
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.