Stories by pepy

Feeling Sheepish: Where did the phrase black sheep come from, anyway?

'It's not in books, it's in the world': Lawrence Ferlinghetti's shining legacy

The English Style: On the fashion trends of seventeenth-century London

How a secret European language ‘made a rabbit’ and survived

Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and people named Muhammad in medieval England

Hiding in plain sight: The early-twentieth-century beginnings of queer media

Pinhookers and Pets: Review of 'The Cigarette: A Political History'

My Mum and Mister Rogers (2020)

Attention Shoppers! (1997)

Medieval Minims: The hidden meaning of a medieval pen-twister

The Artist Disappears: Helen Frankenthaler’s Earthbound Genius

Mary, Quite Contrary

Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual labourers

Salt Fat Acid Defeat: The restaurant before and after Covid

Mind the Pennies: Money and Its Use in Early Medieval Europe (2014)

The unknown female body in early modern Italy

How Should We Read?

The Central Problem: The World of Late Antiquity from Its Persian Centre

Samuel G. Szábo’s Rogues, a Study of Characters (1857)

The Hitler Conspiracies – why are Nazi myths flourishing?

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