Stories by Petiver

A Dinosaur That Started a Craze

The Ice Cream: A Recipe from 1687

Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)

The explosions, reenactments, and animals that made Vauxhall Gardens a hot spot

From witchcraft to cheese theft: archive sheds light on 200 years of crime

The Most Choice Books

This Place Is Pryson

Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult

On Oliver Sacks and His Obsession with Weightlifting

Psychedelic Art of the 1930s: Mescaline and Psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum

The digressive, prescient brilliance of DH Lawrence’s essays

Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)

The Concrete Jungle

Sooty Feathers Tell the History of Pollution in American Cities

The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014)

Diary of a Concussion (2017)

Recipes for Honey-Drinks in the First Published English Beekeeping Manual

Why is history always about humans?

What Knitting Can Teach You About Math

Patterson's Cipher for Jefferson – Challenge Solved After 200 Years (2009)

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