The Public Domain Review

Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.

A bone-chilling book of woodblock prints, depicting a parade of demons, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, the bad boy of 19th-century Japanese art.

The Italian poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch lived through the most deadly pandemic in recorded history, the Black Death of the 14th century, which saw up to 200 million die from plague across Eurasia and North Africa. Through the unique record of letters and other writings Petrarch left us, Paula Findlen explores how he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed, and what he might be able to teach us today.

The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love.

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Some thoughts in light of the Black Lives Matter protests about how the PDR can do better.

Stunning set of images from a 16th-century treatise on comets.

The second of our free colouring books, including works by Walter Crane, Jessie M. King, and Arthur Rackham.

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.

A surprising and vividly written late Victorian compendium of local British lore and traditions.