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In this month's Issue

A Uniquely Japanese Take on Nostalgia
January 27, 2020
Erika Hobart | BBC

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The Art of Flattery: Painting Faces
January 27, 2020
Dr Caroline Palmer | Ashmolean

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Seeing the UK on Public Transport
September 24, 2019
The Guardian | Staff

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The Death-Defying Science of the Aeronauts
January 27, 2020
Tim Wingard | Wellcome Collection

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Bali and its Begpackers
September 25, 2019
9GAG | Detik News

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No.103 Down Home on the Farm in Japan’s Lush Green Countryside

Picture in your mind your next trip to Japan. What do you see? Is it Tokyo, the buzzing metropolis with packed subway cars, expensive shops, fish markets …

No.104 Alisal, Yippee Ki-yay

Stories of cowboys-and-girls drift through our imaginations from the time of our earliest daydreams. Youngsters in America hear tales of the …

No.105 Hop In for a Swim at London’s Royal Docks on the Thames

In 1726, a young Benjamin Franklin spent time working as an apprentice in London. One day, while out with his friends, walking along the banks of the …