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Free ThinkingEnglish Civil War, Indigenous AustraliaIndigenous Australia: enduring civilisation

Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation is on at the British Museum, London from Thursday 23 April until Sunday 2 August 2015

  • Bark painting of a barramundi
  • ‘Pukara’, Roy Underwood, Lennard Walker, Simon Hogan and Ian Rictor
  • Shield believed to have been collected during Captain Cook's visit to Botany Bay, 1770
  • Kungkarangkalpa’; Kunmanara Hogan, Tjaruwa Woods, Yarangka Thomas, Estelle Hogan, Ngalpingka Simms and Myrtle Pennington, 2013
  • We Want land rights. When. Right now. Land rights placard frm the aboriginal Tent embassy, erected as a site of protest in 1972
  • Basket, Yuwali (Janice Nixon, b. c. 1947), Plant fibre, wool, Manyjilyjarra/Mangala, Parnngurr, Western Australia, c. 2010

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  • Free Thinking—English Civil War, Indigenous Australia

    Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape.

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  • Street Furniture Design—Hisham Matar, Street Furniture, Easternisation, Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson

  • Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

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