Skeletons on the Beach: Fascist Holiday Houses as ‘Difficult Heritage’
ByGaia Baldi MSc Digital Anthropology The ruins of Colonia Varese behind a bathing establishment, photo by author. I cannot remember the first time the abandoned beh…
ByGaia Baldi MSc Digital Anthropology The ruins of Colonia Varese behind a bathing establishment, photo by author. I cannot remember the first time the abandoned beh…
ByJeehwan Cha MSc Digital Anthropology My first visit to the UCL campus was on a cloudy day in early September 2025. When I asked whether there was a…
BySam WilkinsBASc Arts and Sciences 15th November 2025 Today, Knighton Woods is alight with orange and yellow leaves, raining down from the trees and carpeting the paths. …
By Sagarika Raje WadiyarMA Material and Visual Culture every day, everywhere we stand in a house of loss residing under a shelter of pain of grief of heartbreak of shame…
ByLara Scott-Rule BSc Anthropology with Year Abroad I’ve always said, if you don’t look in the mirror, you don’t feel any different. It’s just, you look at yourself and you think, who are yo…
ByZichen YinMA Material and Visual Culture Instructions for Becoming Modern is a visual essay in the form of a fictional manual built from late Qing and early Republican image…
ByRie KimotoMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice “Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees! For how can it be believed that cherry blossoms bloom so brilliantly otherwise?R…
ByHayley SohBSc Anthropology with Year Abroad When I visited the British Museum, I happened to chance upon a display of Javanese puppets and models tucked away in one of…
ByDr Gabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology “Interdisciplinary research is the key to addressing global challenges”, they say. So why did I feel like I was swimming against the curr…
ByDamian SabatiniPhD Anthropology I used to visit a coffee shop a few streets away from Hackney Central Station in London back in March 2025. There were film posters and…
ByLily WellsBSc Human Science Time does not move cleanly through a city. It accumulates unevenly, settling into buildings, street names, and the habits of everyday life. In Bristol, the…
ByJoe PainterAnthropology PhD student, NERC London DPT Taken by the author Deprived these days of loose changeand splurged gossip, no longer fat on 20psor strictly necessary calls, her…
By Yuting FuMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology MOTHERS This piece is a response to Temporalities, the theme of our 2026 print issue, which you can read here.
ByAlessandro PatelBSc Anthropology This poem grew out of fieldwork around the Brunswick Centre, where I was exploring how residents experience a building that places domestic life above comme…
ByHyden (Ke Shi)MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film Memory Murmur Memory Murmur is a multimodal zine exploring temporality through two veteran oak trees on Sandy Heath, England. The oaks…
ByApril (Junhan) HuangBA Media On Arrival Detergent, and a mixture of brewed coffee. As I inhale the air in the corridor, I know I am back again, and…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…
ByYuije Wang We are used to measuring time by clocks and calendars, letting days and years slip away along a straight, linear path. Yet from an anthropological perspective,…
ByDanielle GalwayMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice The photograph shows two young women, on a summer evening, a night out in Cornwall. Similar but so different, they are sisters…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…