Stories by benbreen

On Edward Hopper

Academic publishers reap huge profits as libraries go broke

The General Crisis of the 17th Century

Doing Early Modern Drugs (2011)

Writers Choose Their Favorite Words

Writers Choose Their Favorite Words

The world of 19th century patent medicine

A Literary Tour de France

Robert Darnton defended the digital, while still savoring the printed

How humanists are using computers to understand text

The Concept of Scientific History, by Isaiah Berlin (1960) [pdf]

When did men stop wearing high heels?

The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque: Street Lighting in 1600s London

OPenn: high-res images of manuscripts from Penn's Libraries

Dear Librarian: New York Public Library's Quirkiest Inquiries

Life on the Quarantine Islands

The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell (2012)

Letters from Beckett (2009)

Conan Doyle’s Poison Pen and “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”

This Might Hurt: Archaic Instruments from the Attic of a Montreal Hospital

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