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The September Issue

Submitted by Kathryn Hadley on September 2, 2010 - 12:16

Sheila Corr reveals some of the challenges that she faced when researching pictures for the September 2010 issue of the magazine. 

We have rather a good scanner at the office which gives us the option of receiving material digitally or of originating scans ourselves - transparencies, items in private collections, our own archives and out of print books were all scanned for September. This printed issue looks good, but was challenging and difficult to put together, with pictures from around thirty different sources, including several foreign museums. Paintings were specially photographed across the world. Is this unusual? To such an extent it is; so how come?

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Russian views of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Submitted by Kathryn Hadley on September 2, 2010 - 11:23

The Kyiv Post reported on Tuesday August 31st 2010, on the results of a survey carried out by sociologists from the Levada-Center, a Russian public opinion and market research company, about Russian views of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

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A Viking Hadrian's Wall?

Submitted by Kathryn Hadley on September 1, 2010 - 10:56

On August 27th 2010, a team of archaeologists announced the discovery of the only gate leading through the Danevirke, a 30-kilometre Viking wall which runs across the entire state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. 

The Danevirke (‘work of the Danes’), a 30-kilometre (19-mile) wall which runs across the entire state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, is considered the largest earthwork in northern Europe. A team of archaeologists led by Astrid Tummuscheit from the state archaeology office of Schleswig-Holstein has recently studied a three-metre thick part of the wall from the eighth century near Hedeby (also known as Haithabu in German).

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September 2
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