The Public Domain Review

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More than just a favourite of Victorian home entertainment, the stereoscope and the 3D images it created were also used in the field of science. Lydia Pyne explores how the French palaeontologist Marcellin Boule utilised the device in his groundbreaking monograph analysing one of the early-20th-century's most significant archaeological discoveries - the Neanderthal skeleton of La Chapelle.

Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food. Christine Jones traces the history and literature of its reception.

IMAGE: Advert for Perry Davis’ Pain Killer by F. Archer, ca. 1899. Davis’ “PAIN KILLER” was originally patented in 1845 and is believed to be the first nationally advertised remedy specifically for pain, as distinct from a particular disorder. From the collection of Wellcome Library, London. SIZE: A wide variety of sizes possible including the recommended 20″ x 28″ PAPER: Available on a variety of different papers from normal posterâ�¦

IMAGE: Advert for a Farini exhibition in London starring Captain Costentenus, a “Greek Albanian! Tattooed from head to foot in Chinese Tartary, as punishment for engaging in rebellion against the King”. From the collection of Wellcome Library, London. SIZE: A wide variety of sizes possible including the recommended 20″ x 28″ PAPER: Available on a variety of different papers from normal poster paper, through to heavyweight archival and premium canvas.â�¦

IMAGE: Advert for Hall’s Coca Wine: The Elixir of Life, a tonic wine of the early twentieth century that used cocaine as an ingredient. From the collection of Wellcome Library, London. SIZE: A wide variety of sizes possible including the recommended 20″ x 28″ PAPER: Available on a variety of different papers from normal poster paper, through to heavyweight archival and premium canvas. PRICE: Varies depending on size and paperâ�¦

Julia Pastrana, a woman from Mexico born with hypertrichosis, became one of the most famous human curiosities of the 19th century, exhibited as a "bearded lady" while both alive and dead. Bess Lovejoy explores her story and how it was only in 2013, 153 years after her passing, that she was finally laid to rest.

Email not displaying properly? View web version Announcing the launch of our very first book! The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, 2011-2013Paperback / 216mm x 140mm346 pages / 70lb paper / full colour34 essays / 146 illustrations We are very pleased to announce our very first foray into printed matter: a selection of essays from our first three years. Spread across six themed chapters – Animals, Bodies, Words, Worlds, Encountersâ�¦