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These manuscript illustrations from the 1400s raise a historically vexing question: did men and women really duel to settle judicial disputes?
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These manuscript illustrations from the 1400s raise a historically vexing question: did men and women really duel to settle judicial disputes?
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A mechanical device, designed to keep foxes away from pheasants, which opens onto a story about American gamekeeping in the early twentieth century.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/scare-fox
Like fast food and snacks, the short story has been derided as minor cuisine, ephemeral and insubstantial, light fare compared to the novel’s sustenance. For Katherine Mansfield, a great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her fiction — stories, in turn, that are filled with scenes of alimentary pleasure. On the centenary of the New Zealand writer’s death, Aimée Gasston samples her appetites.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eating-and-reading-with-katherine-mansfield
This reference manual for commercial bakeries includes striking pasted-in silver bromide prints and dazzling chromolithographs of bread.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-bread
Created sometime around 1889 by Beatrice and Walter Crane, this illustrated series of poems personifies the months of the year as women.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/crane-months
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, where a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-day-2023
From a 1904 study of queer Berlin to the mysteries of a hole-punched archive, a rundown of the ten most read pieces we published this year.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2022
We've made an index for the site, to track chance resonances, collect accidental symmetries, and chart themes that only become visible on an indexical scale.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/12/introducing-the-pdr-index
Working as an astronomy teacher in Lone Tree, Iowa, Ellen Harding Baker quilted this magnificent representation of the cosmos for her students.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solar-system-quilt
Archived amid Prokudin-Gorsky’s vast photographic survey of the Russian Empire, we find images shot through with starshatter cracks, blebbed with mildew, and blurred by motion. Within such moments of unmaking, Erica X Eisen uncovers the overlapping forces at play behind these pioneering efforts in colour photography.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color