Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 18:03
Ellen J. Stockstill on how William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, placed the ideas and language of colonialism at the very heart of his vision for improving the lives of Victorian England's poor.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/16/rescuing-england-the-rhetoric-of-imperialism-and-the-salvation-army/
Tuesday 15 August 2017 at 20:47
Photographs depicting everyday scenes in 19th-century Japan by Kusakabe Kimbei.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/kusakabe-kimbeis-photographs-of-late-19th-century-japan/
Wednesday 2 August 2017 at 17:14
Six magnificent images of Victoria amazonica, believed to be the very first colour-printed lithographs produced in America.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/william-sharps-chromolithographs-of-the-great-water-lily-1854/
Tuesday 1 August 2017 at 17:57
The great Italian writer uses the macabre creations of the seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch to reflect upon the mysteries of death.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/dialogue-of-frederick-ruysch-and-his-mummies-by-giacomo-leopardi-1827/
Thursday 27 July 2017 at 17:16
A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids — D. Graham Burnett on meditations conjured by a visit to the death masks of the Laurence Hutton Collection.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/07/27/out-from-behind-this-mask/
Wednesday 26 July 2017 at 18:26
Great little promotional cartoon from the height of the Cold War championing not only the wonders of oil but also free-market capitalism. Features the overthrow of the suspiciously Stalin-like leader of Mars named Ogg.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/destination-earth-1956/
Tuesday 25 July 2017 at 17:10
Ten illustrations which, in a wonderful marriage of word and image, plot out the life of the Christian soul.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-heart-of-man-1851/
Wednesday 19 July 2017 at 18:54
Delightful little book from Thaddeus Davids and co, one of the largest ink manufacturers of their time: a wonderful example of form matching content.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860/
Thursday 13 July 2017 at 18:21
A motley crew of anthropomorphic animals found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated book of hours produced in late thirteenth-century England.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/music-in-the-margins-the-funeral-of-reynard-the-fox-13th-century/
Wednesday 12 July 2017 at 18:09
Eva Moreda Rodríguez on the formative years of the recording industry, focusing on the culture surrounding the gabinetes fonográficos of fin-de-siècle Spain.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/07/12/inventing-the-recording/