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This strange volume puts the lie to Ditchfield’s title: tyrants, not books, kill authors.
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This strange volume puts the lie to Ditchfield’s title: tyrants, not books, kill authors.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/books-fatal-to-their-authors
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2024.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024
From gin-drinking to cities plunging over clifftops, a rundown of the ten most read pieces we published this year.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2023
The story of how a homemade, anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game
In an era when the Enlightenment’s orderly vision of the natural world began to unravel, Anna Atkins produced the world’s first photography book: a collection of cyanotypes, created across a decade beginning in 1843, that captured algal forms in startling blue-and-white silhouettes. Paige Hirschey situates Atkins’ efforts among her naturalist peers, discovering a form of illustration that, rather than exhibit an artist’s mastery over nature, allowed specimens to “illustrate” themselves.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-atkins-cyanotypes
Desprez’s 121 engravings illustrate garbs supposedly found the world over in 1562, worn by humans and monsters alike.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/recueil-de-la-diversite-des-habits
A festive collection of literary parody by the “incomparable” Max Beerbohm.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/christmas-garland
Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be The Heavens.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/11/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2023
Photographs of nuuttipukit: Finns who dressed as goats in order to procure beer and leftovers after Christmas.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nuuttipukki
Edison Studios film showing the lights of Luna Park and Dreamland during the peak of the famed New York amusement district.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/coney-island-at-night