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/
Wednesday 15 July 2015 at 18:17
Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson, curators of the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, explore the wonderful history of made-up musical contraptions, including a piano comprised of yelping cats and Francis Bacon's 17th-century vision of experimental sound manipulation.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/15/cat-pianos-sound-houses-and-other-imaginary-musical-instruments/
Wednesday 1 July 2015 at 17:40
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which sees its 150th anniversary this year, remains to this day an enigmatic figure. Jenny Woolf explores the joys and struggles of this brilliant, secretive, and complex man, creator of one of the world's best-loved stories.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/01/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll/
Wednesday 24 June 2015 at 11:11
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Wednesday 17 June 2015 at 17:03
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/06/17/a-bestiary-of-sir-thomas-browne/