Wednesday 2 September 2015 at 16:49
Abigail Walthausen explores the life and work of Arthur Heming, the Canadian painter who -- having been diagnosed with colourblindness as a child -- worked for most of his life in a distinctive pallete of black, yellow, and white.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/02/tribal-life-in-old-lyme-canadas-colorblind-chronicler-and-his-connecticut-exile/
Tuesday 1 September 2015 at 14:35
US NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE - Miriam Posner on what led a 1920s Brooklyn surgeon to remove the veins from a day-old infant, mount them on a board, and film them being pumped with air.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/jacob-sarnoff-and-the-strange-world-of-anatomical-filmmaking/
Thursday 27 August 2015 at 18:50
Maria Monk's revelations of her time at the Hôtel-Dieu convent in Montreal, describing nuns forced to engage in sexual acts with priests and being locked in the cellar as a punishment for disobeying.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk-1836/
Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 18:14
A medieval pattern book for scribes composed of two parts and dating from around 1510 and hailing from Swabia, Germany - including lots of wonderful calligraphy.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/16th-century-pattern-book-for-scribes/
Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 13:49
The Public Domain Review was founded in 2011 by Adam Green and Jonathan Gray, and is a project of Open Knowledge. It is based wherever the Editor-in-Chief may lay his hat/MacBook, though this is mainly London, UK.
Editorial Team
Although mostly the product of the Editor-in-Chief’s many hours of lonely toil, there’s a key group of volunteers instrumental to the project: Lauren (who casts a careful eye over most ofâ�¦
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/about/masthead/
Tuesday 25 August 2015 at 17:57
A song naming some of the great silent era actors of the time, the lyrics describing a party where all the actors mingle and dance together, with familiar names such as Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks counted among the celebrities.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/at-the-moving-picture-ball-1920/
Thursday 20 August 2015 at 18:15
Excerpts from the teenage diaries of Queen Victoria , spanning from 1832, when Victoria was 13-years-old, to 1840, the same year that she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the age of 20.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/queen-victorias-teenage-diaries-1912/
Wednesday 19 August 2015 at 17:42
Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual - first published in 17th-century London and reprinted in hundreds of subsequent editions - both taught and titilated through the early modern period and beyond.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/08/19/when-the-birds-and-the-bees-were-not-enough-aristotles-masterpiece/
Tuesday 18 August 2015 at 18:22
A nineteenth-century Taoist ink drawing by an unknown Chinese artist, showing the circulation of ch'i (or qì) through the human body.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/circulation-of-chi-1886/
Wednesday 5 August 2015 at 16:44
Most familiar today as the godfather of Realpolitik and as the eponym for all things cunning and devious, the Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli also had a lighter side, writing as he did a number of comedies. Christopher S. Celenza looks at perhaps the best known of these plays, Mandragola, and explores what it can teach us about the man and his world.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/08/05/machiavelli-comedian/