Stories by pepy

‘Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise’

What’s a Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery

Enlightenment Scholarship by the Numbers (2014) [pdf]

When Tomatoes Were Blamed for Witchcraft and Werewolves

Resisting the Urge to Profess

A Parent’s Life Experiences Can Alter Their Offspring’s Genes

Double Solitude

A Harmony in Living: Happy families are indeed all alike (2011)

The Hidden Music of Words

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

The Other Folio: On the Legacy of Ben Jonson

The Dream of Enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb review

The Return of the Utopians

Is Cheese Rational? (2012)

Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' (2008)

A Theory of Creepiness

Better than a Gallon of Gall: Abe Lincoln addresses a temperance society (1842)

The Political Power of Marie Antoinette's Hair

Shakespeare's language not as original as dictionaries think

George Orwell and the whiff of genius

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