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The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatre-of-the-hindus
The Public Domain Review's Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched!
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser
Some thoughts in light of the Black Lives Matter protests about how the PDR can do better.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/06/black-lives-matter
Stunning set of images from a 16th-century treatise on comets.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book
The second of our free colouring books, including works by Walter Crane, Jessie M. King, and Arthur Rackham.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/free-colouring-book-2
Julian Chehirian goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/last-pole
A surprising and vividly written late Victorian compendium of local British lore and traditions.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-english-customs
Weighing in at a colossal 18,000 lines, Herman Melville's Clarel (1876), which centres on the theological musings of a group of pilgrims touring the Holy Land, is not for the faint-hearted. Jeff Wheelwright explores the knot of spiritual dilemmas played out in the poem and its roots in Melville's trip to the Middle East two decades earlier.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-skeptical-pilgrim-melvilles-clarel
Our postcard sets sent to Friends of the PDR in summer will be themed on "touch"
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/next-postcard-theme-touch
Stylised herbal including plants with faces and dragon-like roots, in addition to more naturalistic depictions.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal