{"id":587,"date":"2015-04-30T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/april-2015-in-review\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:59:00","slug":"april-2015-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/april-2015-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2015 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an index and summary of the things I&#8217;ve talked about over the last month.  Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it&#8217;s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.<\/p>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<h4>Non-Fiction<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/plantagenet-england-1225-1360-michael-prestwich-part-1a\">&#8220;Plantagenet England 1225-1360&#8221; Michael Prestwich<\/a>.  Part of the New Oxford History of England.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Museums<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/cairo-constantinople-early-photographs-middle-east\">From Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East<\/a>.  Exhibition at the Queen&#8217;s Gallery of photos from the then Prince of Wales&#8217;s trip to the Middle East in 1862.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Radio<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/20\/our-time-ashoka\">Ashoka<\/a> &#8211; In Our Time episode about Ashoka who ruled a vast empire including much of India in the 4th Century BC.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Talks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/cuneiform-worlds-oldest-and-most-marvellous-writing-system-irving-finkel-part-1-bss\">&#8220;Cuneiform: The World&#8217;s Oldest and Most Marvellous Writing System&#8221; Irving Finkel<\/a> &#8211; the first part of the BSS Study Day on cuneiform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/cyrus-cylinder-unexpected-discoveries-and-rediscovery-meaning-irving-finkel-part-2\">&#8220;The Cyrus Cylinder: Unexpected Discoveries and the Rediscovery of Meaning&#8221; Irving Finkel<\/a> &#8211; the second part of the BSS Study Day on cuneiform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/king-ancestor-transition-napatan-royal-afterlife-glimpse-funerary-ritual-birgitte\">&#8220;From King to Ancestor: Transition to Napatan Royal Afterlife (A Glimpse of a Funerary Ritual)&#8221; Birgitte Balanda<\/a> &#8211; April EEG meeting talk.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 3<\/p>\n<h3>Television<\/h3>\n<h4>Non-Fiction<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/art-china\">Art of China<\/a> &#8211; Andrew Graham Dixon talking about the history of art in China.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Trip<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/egypt-holiday-2014-petrified-forest-and-desert\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Petrified Forest and the Desert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/egypt-holiday-2014-qasr-el-sagha\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Qasr el Sagha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/egypt-holiday-2014-karanis\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Karanis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/22\/egypt-holiday-2014-luxor-temple\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Luxor Temple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an index and summary of the things I&#8217;ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it&#8217;s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there. Books Non-Fiction &#8220;Plantagenet England 1225-1360&#8221; Michael Prestwich. Part of the New Oxford History of England. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/april-2015-in-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;April 2015 in Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}