An admiring account of Jean-Baptiste Godin’s factory, social housing, and workers’ co-operative in the French town of Guise.
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An admiring account of Jean-Baptiste Godin’s factory, social housing, and workers’ co-operative in the French town of Guise.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/twenty-eight-years-of-co-partnership-at-guise
With characteristic skill and wit, Hogarth’s frontispiece for Joshua Kirby’s Method of Perspective shows the pitfalls of getting it wrong.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-hogarth-satire-on-false-perspective
Its our big birthday! We celebrate with a year-by-year glance back over the last decade of the project.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/01/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-public-domain-review
Rundown of our Top 10 most read pieces of the year.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-of-2020
As the French Revolution entered its most radical years, there emerged in print a recurring figure, the collective power of the people expressed as a single gigantic body — a king-eating Colossus. Samantha Wesner traces the lineage of this nouveau Hercules, from Erasmus Darwin’s Bastille-breaking giant to a latter incarnation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/revolutionary-colossus
Colorful chromolithograph postcards depicting Don Quixote in twentieth-century scenes.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pedro-de-rojas-don-quixote-in-the-20th-century
Mushroom babies, heroic tortoises, death, burial, power struggles: folk tales from southern Nigeria as filtered through the sensibility of a colonial administrator.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/folk-stories-from-southern-nigeria
Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Communication.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/12/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser
Images from colour pencil drawings made while the artist was submerged in a diving bell.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez
When we think of early New England, we tend to picture stern-faced Puritans and black-hatted Pilgrims, but in the same decade that these more famous settlers arrived, a man called Thomas Morton founded a very different kind of colony — a neo-pagan experiment he named Merrymount. Ed Simon explores the colony’s brief existence and the alternate vision of America it represents.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions