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Marie Benoit's Diary: Punditry in the Pandemic

Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 11:27 Last update: about 5 years ago Marie Benoît

January and February 2020 were hectic months. They seemed to be one interminable cycle of meetings, engagements, deadlines, committees, conferences, dinners, lectures and public talks - and then some....

Second World War propaganda material

Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 11:24 Last update: about 5 years ago Anthony Zarb Dimech

Development of progaganda The first large-scale organised exercise in government propaganda came as a result of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Propaganda material was greatly...

A family that contributed to art and culture in Malta

Sunday, 24 January 2021, 14:37 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

This publication is the first to delve in depth into the artistic and cultural achievements of different members of the Bellanti family. Michele Bellanti (1807-1883) was a major Maltese artist,...

Stories of restorations

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 12:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

On 4 March 1859, Archbishop of Malta Gaetano Pace Forno wrote to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and explained that the (British colonial) government wanted to restore Mattia Preti's paintings on...

Big time sensuality

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 09:34 Last update: about 5 years ago

Love it or hate it, many of us just don't 'get' it. More than a century since this enigmatic outlaw stormed the castle and claimed the throne, abstract art still manages to cause a stir. As three of...

Professor Albert V. Bernard and wartime health in Malta

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 09:26 Last update: about 5 years ago Anthony Zarb Dimech

Throughout the annals of history, Malta has been visited by many dreaded diseases and wars.  Perhaps never in its 7,000-year-old history was Malta besieged in such a ferocious manner as during...

The Illustrious Blitz

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago

Eighty years ago, Malta was going through one of the darkest chapters in its history. 16 January 1941 would mark the start of the first air raids on the Maltese Islands by the German air force, the...

Marie Benoit's Diary: A life filled with words

Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 10:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Marie Benoît

"I remember that during my undergraduate university course Professor Godfrey Wettinger had delivered to us a couple of lectures about how the Black Death had affected Europe and the rest of the world....

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