Stories by pepy

Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain

Marin Mersenne on the Consolation of Sad Music

Playing cards that taught 17th-century cooks to carve meat (2019)

Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850

Tackling congestion in 18th-century London

Behind Closed Doors: Women and the Inquisition

The Leg (1982)

The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance

Waiting for the Lights: The life of an Iranian exile

Spinoza: Life and Legacy

Isn’t London Hell?

The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History

The history of spaghetti squash in America

Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (2017)

Showing Elizabeth I in a new light

Defenestration of Prague Window (2019)

The aloha shirt has many possible inventors

Was Richard III a Bad King?

Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center

Mapping the Materials of the Human Body: The Evelyn Tables (2013)

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