Stories by benbreen

Secrets of the London Library

How a Portuguese-To-English Phrasebook Became a Cult Comedy Sensation

The Whole Rigmarole: Ben Johnson Bares All

Shakespeare: Actor, Playwright, Social Climber

Help Me to Die, O Lord

How to Interpret an Eighteenth-Century Manuscript (2012)

Raw and Cooked

The Strange History of Microfilm

Making and Knowing (Fake) Coral

How DNA Traced the Ashkenazic Jews to Northeastern Turkey

A Scribal and Illuminated Rebus?

Dancers and Diplomats: NYC Ballet in Moscow, October 1962 (2014)

The City of Lost Things: Rediscovering Pessoa’s ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (2015)

Printing Cliches

Making an 18th-Century Potato Pudding

A 17th Century Spreadsheet of Deaths in London (2014)

Why Farsi is actually easier than the major European languages (2011)

Derek Yu’s “Spelunky”

King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms

Dedicated followers of fashion

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