Archaeologists always hope for a mosaic. Roman-British sites have yielded some remarkable treasures, from writing tablets at Vindolanda near Hadrian’s Wall to curse tablets at Bath, but there is something magical about seeing tesserae – the little coloured tiles of a mosaic – emerge from beneath the soil. And few have been more remarkable than […]
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Why Turkey hasn’t forgotten about the First World War
Turkey would be a different entity today, had it not been for the First World War. Co-author of the British Council report, Remember the World as well as the War , Anne Bostanci, highlights the effects of the war on Turkey and why especially the younger generation ‘remembers’. Remembering a world war, by definition, must be about […]